December 26, 2007

The Year of Chinese Art

With major museum shows and record-breaking auction sales, Chinese artists enthralled the international art world this year. We look back at the year's best Chinese art exhibitions, in venues from Oslo to Istanbul, and interview Yue Minjun, whose smiling self-portraits are currently on view at New York's Queens Museum of Art. Suling Wang's abstract-expressionist take on traditional Chinese painting catches our fancy, and we recommend the new comprehensive compilation Artists in China . Exploring other regions of the world, we check out Russian collective AES+F's new animations in New York and Ken Lum's revamped Rorschach tests in Frankfurt.