An international theater festival has opened in the town of Wuzhen in East China's Zhejiang province.
This year's World Music Shanghai was held from April 29 to May 5 at seven venues across the city and presented 11 acts.
"The Rising Men," an interactive art installation, is on display in Beijing and will run through May 12.
The third Xinjiang International Dance Festival will take place July 20 to Aug 5, the organizing committee said on May 8.
Items are displayed during the preview of China Guardian 2013 Spring Auctions in Beijing, capital of China, May 7, 2013.
About 300 pieces of authentic artworks from the National Archaeological Museum of Florence in Italy will be displayed in the exhibition in Taipei from May 11 to Aug 18.
China's Disabled Art Troupe performed in Latvia on May 6, 2013. During the visit, the members of the troupe performed many kinds of plays at the Social Theatre in the city of Riga.
Auction house Sotheby's is to put on sale on May 14 a collection of photos on Beijing taken by Italian-British photographer Felice Beato in 1860.
There's no shortage of work by international artists on view in Beijing, but they tend to be grouped in galleries by their country of origin.
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Portrait of a portraitist
Two ongoing exhibitions at the National Art Museum of China look at art history from the perspective of looking back, and looking forward.
A solo exhibition by Xin Dongwang, Images Generated from the Mind, is presented by the Art Gallery of the Chinese Academy of Oil Painting.
The green workplace