The Museum of Modern Art in New York has bought 23 photographs by eight Chinese contemporary artists.
MoMA’s purchase includes some of the most influential artists to emerge in the 1990s, including Rong Rong, Huang Yan and Ai Weiwei. China’s rapid industrialization is one of their topics.
While prices for Chinese contemporary art have soared in the past five years, U.S. museums have been slow to add the works. Last year the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York purchased Hai Bo’s “Bicycle Riders From the Series The North” a 2005 group of eight wall-size images of men riding bicycles. (Bloomberg)