With brushes and a paint-splotched palette, Chinese artist Yang Feiyun adds the finishing strokes to his latest work - a portrait of the moustached 17th century Spanish King Felipe IV.
The rich detailing on China's ancient architecture is becoming a lost art.
Museums reach across the Straits
Tiger-head shoes popular in new year
Palestinian artist Salwa Sbakhi paints using coffee at her studio in Gaza city.
Chinese artists formed the second largest contingent after Singapore in this year's just-ended Art Stage Singapore, one of the leading contemporary art fairs in the Asia-Pacific region.
43-year-old singer-actress Karen Mok is back on the scene, a year after she married her first love Johannes at a church near Florence, Italy.
Dozens of historians, scholars and government officials gathered in Beijing recently to attend the second Mindu Culture Forum.
It has become a tradition for the National Art Museum of China to celebrate Spring Festival, or the Lunar New Year, by exhibiting part of its immense collection.
Adam Lambert will be the first American Idol star to hold a solo concert in China, making his debut on March 3.
Plenty of confidence
A lost people
A group of young contemporary Chinese artists present a show that looks at fairytales.
Unknown horizons
Ancient words blossom into modern art
Former journalist Carrie Hare made the transition from writing about design to doing it.
Tailored for tots
Time is money
Dream factory