Art & Design
September-25-2017
- Palace Museum limits those viewing famous painting
- The Palace Museum in Beijing, also known as the Forbidden City, has set a quota for the number of visitors to its ongoing popular exhibition of landscape paintings to avoid long queues.
September-22-2017
- World's biggest silver painted thangka unveiled
- The world's biggest silver painted thangka was unveiled in Dunhuang, Gansu province, on Wednesday.
September-22-2017
- Exhibition of ancient Chinese sci & tech opens in Athens
- An exhibition of ancient Chinese science and technology which is hosted in Greece for the first time was inaugurated at Herakleidon museum opposite the Acropolis hill in Athens on Thursday.
September-21-2017
- Sotheby's HK presents painting with estimated price of US$15 mln
- Sotheby's Hong Kong presented Thursday an oil painting named "Wheels: Industrial New York" from Chinese-American artist Yun Gee, with the estimated price of up to 120 million HK dollars (about 15 million U.S. dollars) in its autumn sale, 2017.
September-21-2017
- Scenes from the memory of a native Beijinger
- Liao Zengbao, 72, was born in a hutong in Xinjiekou, Beijing's Xicheng District. He has been witness to many of the city's vicissitudes. For him, these transitions are not historical tableaus, but rather memories of his everyday life. An amateur painter, Liao has used his brush to recreate scenes from his life over the past few decades.
September-21-2017
- Old market turns into cultural park in Beijing
- A brand-new cultural park built on the site of a handicraft market in Shijingshan district in Beijing opened to the public on Sept 19.
September-20-2017
- Decorative clay potteries still appeal to Bangladeshis
- While in many parts of the world clay potteries are becoming less popular due to low-cost and metal-based alternatives, people in Bangladesh still have a fondness for the items and are keeping the tradition alive.
September-20-2017
- Tata Naka creations presented at London Fashion Week
- Models presented Tata Naka creations of Spring/Summer Collection 2018 during London Fashion Week at National Portrait Gallery in London, Britain, on Sept. 19, 2017.
September-20-2017
- 17th Pingyao Int'l Photography Festival opens
- More than 2,000 photographers from 23 countries and regions gathered at Pingyao, one of China's best preserved ancient towns, in the northern province of Shanxi.
September-19-2017
- Connecting with art
- Two major works on the Belt and Road Initiative will be on display at the upcoming Beijing International Art Biennale.
