Exhibitions

The Iberia Center for Contemporary Art is holding two solo exhibitions.

Han Lei's Image Tricks, featuring seemingly authentic photo portraits, offer viewers a "realistic illusion".

Daniel Garcia Andujar's Postcapital: Archive 1989 -2001 revolves around social, political, economic, and cultural changes over the last two decades in the world, their watershed moments emblematized in the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall and the terrorist attacks on Sept 11, 2001.

10 am-5 pm, until Sept 6

Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, 798 Art Zone, 4 Jiuxianqiao Road

5978-9530

Records of Famous Paintings in History are on display at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, featuring more than 200Chinese paintingscollected by the museum since the 1960s.

Dating back to the Tang Dynasty, exhibits are shown in six sections: Figures, Spiritual Beings, Landscape, Flowers and Birds, Women and Treasured Paintings, which is according to the classification system used by an ancient Tang Dynasty book regarding Chinese art history, Records of Famous Paintings in History.

9:30 am-5:30 pm, daily except Monday, until Sept 16

Art Museum, Central Academy of Fine Arts, 8 Huajiadi Nan Jie, Chaoyang district

6477-1575

An exhibition is being held in memory of world-renowned Polish journalist and writerRyszard Kapuscinski(1932-2007).

On display are more than 100 photos, books and posters to illustrate the legendary man who spent over 40 years working overseas as a journalist in more than 60 countries and regions, witnessing 27 revolutions and military coups.

Kapuscinski's dispatches in book form earned him a global reputation. Much of his work is considered to ascend to the heights of literature.

9 am-5 pm, until Aug 15

Library Cafe, Northern Section, National Library of China, 33 Zhongguancun Nan Dajie, Haidian district

8854-4114

(China Daily August 4, 2009)