We are living in Andy Warhol's future, "when everyone will be world famous for 15 minutes". For the pop artist himself, though, his 15 minutes will never end.
Placido Domingo has graced the Chinese stage a few times before. But May 22 marked his debut in a fully costumed production in the Middle Kingdom.
Thangka Festival
Yang Hua demonstrates the 22-meter-long cross-stitch work of "Riverside Scene at the Qingming Festival" in Yiyuan county, East China's Shandong province, May 22, 2013.
Visitors talk during the exhibition Art Basel in Hong Kong, in South China's Hong Kong, May 22, 2013. Art Basel in Hong Kong, the latest leg of the international circuit, will kick off here on Thursday.
The Thangka Festival was held in Tibet, attracting many believers to the monastery to pray, get blessed and appreciate the big and vividly woven thangka.
Artists perform Peking opera at the Lucent Danstheater in Hague, the Netherlands, May 21, 2013.
China Artists Association has brought 40 of its best paintings to Cote d’Ivoire in its bid to "Step into West Africa".
The Phoenix Arts Group, in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, is the world's second-largest art materials supplier in terms of production capacity, after the United Kingdom-based Winsor & Newton.
His music appeals to only certain listeners because it is angry, sad and abstract. But Wang Xilin says that he will not stop composing because he cannot stop the fire in his belly.
Students from Chongqing University built 14 houses with paper boards in four weeks.
A young foreign student snapped a shot of a group of students on a boat trip 30 years ago. Now he is back to find out what had happened to the lives of these students and their teachers.
The preview of the Est-Ouest Auctions' 2013 spring season auction opened in Hong Kong, May 20, 2013.