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ART
Young guns all fired up
Seventy artists aged younger than 30, have been named the 2007 Chinese New Generation.
In the woods by Wang Kai (pictured) and other award-winning works, ranging from oils, acrylics to woodblock prints, silkscreen and casein paintings, are now on show at the Yanhuang Art Museum, located northern Beijing and sponsor of the awards.
Initiated in 1999, the art awards are aimed to promote contemporary Chinese art, according to Wu Jin, a key organizer of the event.
Previous years have witnessed the rise of some of the award-winning artists on the China's artistic arena.
The best known among them are Mao Yan, Xia Junna, He Sen, Ji Dachun, and Yin Chaoyang, Wu noted. The exhibition will end on June 30.
Zhu Linyong
Spanish photos
Institute Cervantes (Beijing) is holding an exhibition of photos by a group of Spanish artists.
Jointly organized by Andalusian Centre of Contemporary Art and the Instituto Cervantes Beijing, the exhibition entitled "Photographic Repertories of the Andalusia" presents about 30 photos intended to convey the urban attributes of the Andalusian area and the surrounding areas.
The photographers portray all of those "other places" in the streets that are almost never shown and their latent traumas, hopes, fears, wishes, ambiguities and contradictions.
The exhibition runs until August 26.
ZLY
Music
Praises of friendship
From Chinese folk songs to Peking Opera - and from Mozart's arias to Gershwin's Summer Time - Chinese soprano Zhu Jiali (pictured) displayed her versatile vocal prowess at her recital Redwood, for the Friendship between the US and China at Beijing's Poly Theater Monday night.
Zhu started the concert with Redwood - a song composed by Shen Chuanxin in 1972 to mark the establishment of the diplomatic relationship between the two countries. Composer Shen accompanied Zhu on piano.
Under the baton of Hong Xia and accompanied by the orchestra of China Opera and Ballet Theater, Zhu sang the Chinese songs A Night Mooring by Maple Bridge, Wedding Ring, Mulan Joins the Army and Goodbye New York, which was written by former Minister of Foreign Affairs Li Zhaoxing.
Under the baton of the Italian conductor Gianluca Marciano, Zhu sang arias from Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, Bellini's La Son Nambula and Gershwin's Summer Time.
The famous mezzo-soprano Liang Ning, Zhu's vocal teacher and guest performer at the recital, sang Brahms' Wiegenlied and Habanera from the opera Carmen.
Zhu studied singing at the Shenyang Conservatory of Music and the China Conservatory of Music. She was also appointed artistic director of the United States and China Foundation.
Chen Jie
(China Daily 06/26/2007 page20)
