Li Xianting is an independent art critic and curator of contemporary Chinese art. He was actively involved with introducing avant-garde art forms to China in the 1970s and 80s and is frequently ...

Almost everyone who has been keeping an eye on the Chinese art scene might have heard about Li Xianting. He is called the godfather of Chinese contemporary art. He is a curator and art critic who has ...

The 11th Beijing Independent Film Festival was not held last weekend as planned. The modest but increasingly vital festival, a rare incubator for a burgeoning Chinese independent film scene, was shut ...

Beijing’s Li Xianting Film School, which offered training programs for independent film makers, was abruptly closed down by authorities last week without official explanation. From Radio Netherlands ...

Books depicting singing legend Liu Sanjie on display at the Museum of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in Nanning. [Photo by Lu Xianting / xinhuanet] An exhibition commemorating the work of ...

Li Xianting is a Chinese artist who was born in 1949. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Qualia Contemporary Art have featured Li Xianting's work in the past.

Authorities in China have shut down the Beijing Independent Film Festival, yet again. Scheduled to take place in an eastern suburb of Beijing in the artist town of Songzhuang, the event is intended to ...

Chinese authorities have shut down the country's most prominent independent film festival for the first time in its 11-year history, raising concerns about a wide-ranging government crackdown on ...