As American art museums are accepting copies of paintings made in China on glass, people are debating whether that is okay. Specifically, portraits of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart are causing this debate. 200 years ago, when Stuart's original painting was created, Chinese artists were using a process of making reverse painting on glass to recreate that piece. This was an issue that Stuart attempted to fight but was not very successful at, since today there are still a number of these copies floating around. The quality of these pieces are debated, as well as the idea that each piece has different "nuances" other than those intended in the original. Some portray him more accurately, as a middle aged man, while others tend to edge on a more idealized version of Washington (fewer wrinkles, ect.) A copy of a Stuart painting has recently been donated to the New Britain Museum of American Art (the oldest museum of American art in the U.S.), which they have accepted. This also raises the question, if a foreign copy of an American painting is created, does that copy belong in an American art museum? Join discussion...

The Yi School is showing thirty years of abstract Chinese art that has never been seen before. There are forty eight chinese artists included in the show of eighty two pieces that begin from the mid sixities (during the Cultural Revolution) to the late ninties (Maximilism). There are three stages represented through this timeline of artwork, starting with Yi xiang (meaning "mental image") to Yi li ("mental principle") and finally Yi change ("mental environment"). Join discussion...

The Museum of Modern Art in New York recently bought 28 Chinese Contemporary photographs from 11 different artists. This collection was worth over 200,000 dollars. Larry Warsh, the buyer of the photographs from the artists, sold 28 of them to MoMA out of his collection of over 500 at a 30 to 40 percent discount. However, MoMA is not the first to board the Chinese Art train. Recently, the Guggenheim purchased two spectacular works of Chinese Contemporary photography. Join discussion...

In New York's Asia society, there was going to be an art exhibition about art from and about the Cultural Revolution. Unfortunately, the Chinese government decided to censor the works. They would not let the museum borrow the paintings to be shown in New York. This sparked a lot of controversy about art censorship, and made the art show a little more sparing on the art, as they only had 250 paintings. Join discussion...

this article is about Cai Guo-Qiang, one of the most prominent living Chinese artists, who was trained in theatre design and in 1999 won the International Prize at the 48th Venice Biennale. he is mostly known for his firework-based set-piece installations and for drawings made using ink and gunpowder. his last drawings were sold at a price of $19.1 million, which is the record for a chinese contemporary artist at an auction. in this article he talks about his exhibition in NewYork which is called "i want to believe", describing his intentions and inspirations for his work. Join discussion...

On Sunday, November 25, a Chinese art auction in Hong Kong broke the record for highest selling when the buyer paid the equivalent of $9.4 million. The buyer got a set of 14 interesting paintings done in gunpowder and ink, a strange combination. The artist has become internationally famous because of his experimentation with this gunpowder art. The pieces are a combination of traditional and contemporary that appeals to people all over the world. There were bidders from Asia, Europe, and America. The paintings by artist Cai Guo-Qiang ended up selling for double their marked value. Guo-Qiang currently lives in the U.S. and at one time won the Venice Biennale Golden Lion Award for works of his that had explosions of gunpowder creating carbon residue images on a piece of canvas. The previous record for Chinese contemporary sales was $5.9 million and this new set of paintings smashed that with almost double the price paid. Join discussion...