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 categorization. Pioneering in scope and exhilaratingly ambitious, the journey of the Long Museum has found Liu and Wang at the center of a particular moment in history, their encyclopedic collection affording a truly global artistic education whilst strengthening local cultural roots as one of the most significant public institutions in China.

Dedicated to a diversity of visual arts, 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.

Figurative Masterworks from The Long Museum

Absorbing the viewer at an expansive scale, the works of Mark Bradford, Julie Mehretu, and Mohammed Sami record personal and shared memories across illustrative landscapes. Through countless layers, these compositions reveal significant histories of time and place.

Absorbing the viewer at an expansive scale, the works of Mark Bradford, Julie Mehretu, and Mohammed Sami record personal and shared memories across illustrative landscapes. 

Mapping Memory

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Elizabeth Peyton, and Oscar yi Hou reference the time-honored tradition of portraiture with intimate representations of identity. Rendering each individual with deft specificity and alluring detail, these works transform the very essence of likeness.

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Elizabeth Peyton, and Oscar yi Hou reference the time-honored tradition of portraiture with intimate representations of identity. 

Picturing Personhood

Marina Perez Simão and Emma Webster offer new approaches to landscape painting, while Stefanie Heinze and Loie Hollowell expand the genre to visions of the body and mind.&nbsp;

Marina Perez Simão and Emma Webster offer new approaches to landscape painting, while Stefanie Heinze and Loie Hollowell expand the landscape to visions of the body and mind.

New Frontiers of Landscape

Recontextualizing American symbols of struggle and freedom, Kerry James Marshall’s Plunge and David Hammons’ African American Flag uncover and reclaim Black narratives in American history.

Protest and Patriotism

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The Now Evening Auction focuses on the art of our time, offering the most exciting, cutting-edge works on the market and providing a masterpiece context for well-established and newly canonized artists. Titans of contemporary figurative painting including Marlene Dumas, Jenny Saville and Kerry James Marshall are presented alongside emerging talents such as Mohammed Sami and Oscar yi Hou, while abstract masterpieces by Julie Mehretu, Mark Bradford and Mark Grotjahn find their counterpart in Marina Perez Simão and Jadé Fadojutimi. Taken together, the auction serves as a platform for the very best works made in this century, establishing the masters of today and tomorrow.