According to Ai Weiwei's Twitter feed, Sina's Art and Finance section recently put up a vote for Most Powerful Contemporary Artists of the Year. By far the most high-profile artist in the country, Ai Weiwei unsurprisingly sprung to the top of the list (as seen above, where Ai Weiwei is second from the left on the bottom row.) The voting option was quickly taken down by Sina and Ai Weiwei removed from the list, seen in its present form here. Voting was then allowed on a selection of art studios instead. Ai Weiwei's Three Shadows gallery, despite being listed almost last, again quickly rose to the top. Observers then watched as another studio suspiciously jumped a thousand votes up while Three Shadows dropped a few hundred right before voting ended (compare screen grabs here and here.) Scandalous, to say the least. Here's a summary from his English Twitter feed: more ›

Photographer Ouyang Xingkai treats us to this stunning series of photographs showing the remnants of an anachronistic lifestyle in increasingly modern China. Ouyang, a Hunanese himself took most of these pictures in the town of Hongjiang, Hunan. more ›

Du was raised in a small town in Jiangsu Province before he went to the prestigious China Academy of Fine Arts. Last year, his "City impression: Window series" was awarded top marks at the Ministry of Culture-sponsored "National Youth Art Exhibition." Recently, I got the chance to talk to Du about his work, why he moved to Shanghai, and what he thinks about the new generation of Chinese artists. more ›

We were sad to see National Day celebrations come and go in the blink of an eye, after months of ridiculous and awesome preparation. But now we've found an outlet for our grief - The Leo Gallery is in the process of showing a new exhibit, "1949-2009: 60 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art." more ›