A cross centuries, the desire to reenact the human body has linked the learned, the mystical and the creative. From the idealised representations exemplified by the marble statuary of the classical tradition, to the modernist preoccupation with the fragmented and disintegrated body typical of Auguste Rodin and Alberto Giacometti, and the postmodern expansion of sculpture into a range of environmental and futuristic forms, the body is the space through which we come to see and understand our own...

Plumes of stone, sand and rock bloom and coalesce into
abstract forms, a communion between the deafening force of nature, and the whisper-soft tones of the earth. Embodying the dynamic, transformational processes of nature, the sublime visual poetry of Scholar’s Rocks have inspired artists across cultures and epochs. Abstract shapes and expressive lines form billowing clouds, whilst gently sloping recesses give way to caverns and peaks of stone whose every line is infused with vibrant energy, spirituality, and meaning.

Zao Wou-Ki and Mark Rothko, 20th century masters who radically shaped and redefined the artistic landscape of the last century, throughout their careers found themselves in a foreign country, exposed to new ideas and influences away from home. Despite their disparate origins, Zao being born in Beijing in 1920, and Rothko in Latvia in 1903, both artists find a kinship across time in their deeply philosophical practices, wherein each staged some of the most moving, transcendent, and simply breath...

Dedicated to a diversity of visual arts – Western and Eastern, ancient and contemporary – Liu Yiqian and Wang Wei first began collecting over thirty years ago with a singular vision to build a museum that would leave no part of art and cultural history untouched. Established in 2012, the Long Museum has since become a source of inspiration throughout Asia with a legacy that resists categorisation. The cumulative endeavours of a life lived in pursuit of artistic excellence, the collection is exceptionally diverse and entirely eclectic in style, provenance, genre and content. Pioneering in scope and exhilaratingly ambitious, the journey of the Long Museum has found Liu and Wang at the centre of a particular moment in history, their encyclopaedic collection affording a truly global artistic education whilst strengthening local cultural roots as one of the most significant public institutions in China. Creating a passage between visionaries and innovators that transcends temporal and spatial boundaries, Liu and Wang’s collection has connected the lives and works of history’s most iconic artists.