In conjunction with Wang Guangyi’s Cold War Aesthetics exhibition at the Louise Blouin Institute

A discussion with; Katie Hill, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Chinese Art and Asian Studies at the University of Westminster, Dr Kerry Brown, Senior Fellow at Chatham House on the Asia Programme and Mary Ginsberg, Curator at the British Museum . Chaired by {...}

With its £2 trillion surplus, China’s economic might dominates the world. Now its painters and sculptors are developing, collectively, into a contemporary arts superpower. Asian artists, and in particular those from China, dominate a new list of the world’s best-selling contemporary artists of last year. Among the world’s most sought-after artists are the unfamiliar names of Zhang Xiaogang, Yue Minjun and Zeng Fanzhi.
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