
Suzhou’s Humble Administrator’s Garden set against Monet’s garden—two landscape ideals in one juxtaposition.

Jiaxing’s Tianlai Pavilion and Xiang Yuanbian—“half the history of Chinese calligraphy and painting.”

At the 47th World Heritage Conference held at the UNESCO headquarters at 16:23 Paris local time on July 11, 2025 (22:23 Beijing time on J...

Shanghai Museum’s bat-peach bottle magnet—cute merch meeting the hard history of a Qing object.

Ningxia Guyuan finds at Shanghai Museum—Western Zhou oracle bones and Sui–Tang tomb murals.

Reservation culture vs open entry—can galleries welcome unbooked visitors and still stay safe?

Small statues of Cycladic culture, pottery statues of women with raised arms from Minoan culture, statues of the goddess of wisdom Athena, heads of Alexander th...

Open doors again—what dropping mandatory bookings changes for crowds, access, and collection care.

Ancient books, bamboo shadow, inkstone, and clear tea—how Ming literati lived through objects.

In response to the huge academic controversy caused by the article "The Stone Carving of Qin Shihuang's Envoys Collecting Herbs from Kunlun Found at th...

Northern Song equine mastery on view again—why Li Gonglin’s Five Horses still stops the room.

As lights went out on “Grand View of Heaven and Earth,” the collector walked the galleries himself.