The exhibition “Painting With Words: Gentleman Artists of The Ming Dynasty” celebrates the relationship between imagery, brushstrokes and words as mastered by artists of the Wu School in China in the ...

Prologue. Chinese calligraphy as presenting the self / Wen C. Fong -- Introduction / Ouyang Zhongshi -- 1. The evolution and artistry of Chinese characters / Wang Shizheng -- 2. An ancient art shines ...

What is Ming Dynasty's most expensive decorative art? Since 2001 the record price for this artist at auction is 1,326,084 USD for AN EXTREMELY RARE HUANGHUALI FOUR-POSTER CANOPY BED,, sold at ...

Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, a legendary collector and dealer of Asian art, including Ming dynasty furniture, modern Chinese painting, Chinese mirrors, and neolithic jades died in New York on Sunday, ...

These are but a sampling of the hundreds of artefacts in one of those exhibitions that shows you all kinds of things you didn’t even know you didn’t know. It is immensely more than the blue and white ...