Song Dong, who just opened a two-gallery show at Pace here in New York, last night staged an ambitious work in Hong Kong pegged to his first exhibition there, at ArtisTree in TaiKoo Place. Read More

The BBC reports today that Sotheby’s has withdrawn a lot from a Hong Kong auction after a Buddhist nun claimed ownership of it. Read More

In her Financial Times column this week, Georgina Adam reports that the recent arrest of two art handlers in Beijing has spooked Chinese collectors into not buying art. Read More

Nils Jennrich, a German art shipper in Chinese custody since March 30, was released earlier this month, according to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Read More

The Wall Street Journal‘s Kelly Crow has just posted a fascinating piece that looks at the career of popular artist Zhang Xiaogang as a case study in the Chinese art boom. It’s great stuff! Read it here! Read More

Just in time for the start of the Art HK fair in Hong Kong, which will soon be rechristened under the Art Basel name, Bloomberg has details on the arrest of German art shipper Nils Jennrich in China on allegations that he helped underreport the price of artworks being imported to help their owners avoid some $1.6 million in taxes. Read More

China has replaced the U.S. as the world’s top seller of antiques, according to the European Fine Art Foundation. China now has a 30 percent share of the market. Read More