The Palace Museum, Beijing, the Shanghai Museum, and the Macau Museum of Art have collaborated again to produce a compelling exhibition. The present show follows earlier exhibits on Ba Da Shan Ren with Shi Tao (2004) and one dedicated solely to Dong Qichang (2005). The Macau Museum of Art is one of the premiere locations for exhibitions of art in south China and is the only museum devoted to art in Macau. The present show is under the direction of Chan Hou Seng, the museum’s curator of Chinese paintings and calligraphy. The magnificent artwork of Ming dynasty artists Xu Wei and Chen Chun has been brought together to display comprehensively the virtuosic painting and calligraphy of two highly regarded masters whose oeuvre had been missing from the exhibition circuit. Unlike many artists of the period whose work passed during the Nationalist years to the Palace Museum in Taipei, and whose legacies were promoted subsequently by the Taiwanese state and by Western historians of art, work by Xu and Chen all but nearly disappeared in the tumult of 1949 and the later Cultural Revolution. The paintings have returned triumphantly to this exhibit from the excellent permanent collections of the Beijing Palace...