Our Chinese contemporary art newsletter goes out roughly every 1–2 months, whenever we have enough worth sharing. No fixed schedule, no filler content just to hit a date — just artists and exhibitions actually worth your inbox space.
We built this newsletter because most Western coverage of Chinese contemporary art either fixates on the same handful of blue-chip names or drowns you in exhibition listings with no context. This is the middle ground: enough curation to actually be useful, not so much volume that it becomes another unread newsletter sitting in your inbox.
Each issue features artists who’ve caught our attention — the kind of names you won’t find in every gallery newsletter — alongside a curated selection of exhibitions worth knowing about across Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong, whether they’re already open, coming up soon, or simply worth putting on your radar for later.
Recent issues of this Chinese contemporary art newsletter have featured artists like Qi Lei, Sun Xun, Zhang Enli and Duan Jianyu — painters, animators and sculptors we thought deserved more attention than they were getting. Alongside their profiles, we round up a handful of exhibitions worth planning a visit around, from major museum shows to smaller gallery openings that rarely make it onto bigger art-world radars.
If you’re already following contemporary Chinese art closely, this newsletter won’t repeat what you’ve seen elsewhere — we specifically look for artists and shows that haven’t been covered everywhere else first. And if you’re just getting into it, each issue works as a quick, curated way in without having to sift through the wider art press yourself.
Curious what that actually looks like in your inbox? Browse our Newsletter Archive before you sign up — every past issue is there, so you can see exactly what you’re signing up for, before you hand over your email address.