Wang Junyi is sharing his artwork to show that the greenstone is more than just a mark of nobility. Deng Zhangyu reports.
A top-level firing, harsh words from the artist's son, delays and a huge budget overrun - Paris' Picasso museum reopened its doors on Oct 25 amid the fallout from a fraught $71-million renovation.
People attending the ongoing show Encore Wutai Mountain can get lost as soon as they enter the theater. They don't walk into the auditorium - they walk into a winding space that evokes the bedroom of your childhood, the classroom of high school and the dormitory at college, with the repeated recordings of parents' reminders, teachers' words and conversations between first-time lovers.
A Chinese director pulls together a cast of Australian actors to perform a German play in English. It would attract theatergoers in any of their home countries, and soon audiences in Beijing and Shanghai will get their turn to see it.
Wang Liang clearly remembers a story that his late oboe teacher, John de Lancie, the former principal oboist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, told him years ago.
The first chill of fall signals that one of nature's annual delicacies, hairy crabs, are back in season. The roe now becomes rich and reddish-orange, the meat tender and firm. Food-loving Chinese are so fond of hairy crabs that a popular folk adage goes, "When the autumn wind blows, the legs of crab itch. Smell the chrysanthemums, and savor the crabs."
The first time Annie Kathryn Lowdermilk performed at a Chinese TV singing competition, she almost passed out on the stage.
Defying picketers and audience disruptions, New York's Metropolitan Opera has opened The Death of Klinghoffer, which explores the psyche of Palestinian hijackers who killed a wheelchair-bound American Jew.
Louis Armstrong sometimes referred to Jack Bradley as his "white son", inviting him to private rehearsals, recording sessions, on the road, his dressing room and home.
The Stalker star hopes the new series will shine a light on the trauma of being stalked, and show people how to keep themselves safe. Associated Press reports in New York.
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