Hebei to host acrobatic festival

2013-10-12 10:58:37

The China Wuqiao International Acrobatic Festival will be held from Oct 26 to Nov 10 in Hebei province.

China Art Festival opens

2013-10-12 10:57:54

The 10th China Art Festival, which features quality arts from around the country, opened on Friday in Jinan, Shandong province.

Shanghai opens interactive robot exhibition

2013-10-12 10:46:22

The country's first exhibition hall of robot technology and culture, which will work to educate the public on robots, opened in Shanghai on Friday.

Shaolin kung fu diplomacy

2013-10-12 09:41:42

Shi Yongxin, the 30th-generation abbot of the legendary Shaolin Temple, led a cultural delegation to perform kung fu at the United Nations headquarters.

Genius of Da Vinci on display

2013-10-11 11:15:03

An exhibition at the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, features 80 replicas of Leonardo da Vinci's mechanical and robotic inventions, 14 anatomical models based on his drawings, 16 reproductions of his well-known paintings and four copies of his manuscripts.

AO Vertical Art Space

2013-10-11 10:50:50

AO Vertical Art Space

Lighting the sky with love

2013-10-11 10:46:56

Artist Cai Guoqiang created a conceptual pyrotechnic art display, titled One Night Stand, on the first weekend of October in Paris.

Musician keeps Nanyin opera alive

2013-10-11 07:48:06

For young people, Nanyin music is slow and boring. The lyrics are about sad love stories and whining women. But Wang Xinxin became obsessed with it.

Chinese arts travel the world

2013-10-11 07:48:06

Istanbul, former capital of the Ottoman Empire and a glorious city straddling Europe and Asia, is again hosting one of the world's most prestigious art exhibitions, the 13th Istanbul Biennial.

Photographer focuses on relationships

2013-10-11 07:48:06

Don't ask your models to pose. That is one of Jock Sturges' secrets to good photography.

Calligraphic characters

2013-10-09 16:52:50

Cui Xianji's latest installation The Great Kuangcao at his solo exhibition continues his decade-long experiment with kuangcao, or the wild cursive style of Chinese calligraphy.

Beijing Design Week's gift: making ideas a reality

2013-10-09 07:45:33

Zhang Chen received five orders for the black walnut desk she created as her graduation work, an exciting moment for the young designer. However, when the five desks came out of the factory none of them looked the same as the prototype she created.