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As Sotheby's, Christie's, and Chinese auction houses aim to attract Chinese buyers across the globe, digital platforms may play an increasingly important role. Read More

Mainland Chinese auction houses are hoping to compete with international rivals like Sotheby's and Christie's in Hong Kong by targeting the most sensitive place for regional collectors: their pocketbooks. Read More

This year, amid a more selective buyer market, the name of the game remains quality, not only in terms of the artist but in terms of the artwork itself. Read More

If there's one major distinguishing factor that sets the art market in China apart from the rest of the world, it's the near impossibility of easy classification. Read More

Along with its status as the world's largest wine auction market, recent years have seen Hong Kong become a key art market as new mainland Chinese collectors and skittish local investors have turned to art as a relative safe haven. Read More

Following a showing in Shanghai, where it attracted huge crowds, Sotheby's decided to pull back a planned public showing this weekend in Beijing, instead opening the bowl up for view only to potential buyers. Read More

According to Sotheby's, the choice to expand its traveling exhibitions to Chengdu is a natural response to growing connoisseurship and demand for art in China. Read More

Unlike other collector markets like the US, Europe has so far been without a Chinese contemporary art gallery displaying works hand-picked from a native collector, until now. Read More

Fans of the blue-chip Chinese contemporary artist Zhang Xiaogang will have their shot to bid on some of the artist's best works this weekend at Christie's Hong Kong. Read More

Chinese collectors may be pushing prices for top Bordeaux and Burgundy vintages up on the global auction market, but in China, their appetite for new investments has caused prices for traditional Chinese distilled spirits to skyrocket. Read More