Bloodline Series: Comrade No. 120 (1998)

An anonymous bidder paid $979,200 for "Bloodline Series: Comrade No. 120" (1998), one of Zhang Xiaogang's first large-scale single portraits, setting a record for the artist at Sotheby's auction in March. Zhang's other work can be found here and here.

Yue Minjun’s Lions, 1998

Yue Minjun’s painting Lions, 1998, identical or similar to the above, sold to an anonymous bidder for $564,800 at Sotheby’s in New York in April. Some of his other work can be seen here and here. An article, by Monica Dematte, describing the artist and his art can be found here.

Wang Qingsong won award at Rencontres d'Arles photography festival

Chinese photographer Wang Qingsong won the Outreach Award for "Glorious Life," a series of surreal, Photoshopped fantasies exploring the physical and psychological spaces occupied by the people of his rapidly changing country. Wang's images can also be found on artnet.

Fleshbot images on China Daily

More and more people are noticing that there are a great number of explicit images showing up on official Chinese media websites. The latest example reported by danwei.org is that the state-owned China Daily carrying images from Fleshbot, the porn-watching blog of the New York based Gawker Media. Go figure.