More than 1,600 aluminum sculptures of sunflowers, as high as 6 meters, stand in a square near the entrance to the National Museum of China.
Perusing a collection of unpublished works by the artist Wang Guangyi in a place like Ravello, the most peaceful and charming resort on Italy's Amalfi coast, is a fascinating experience.
While on an electric-car ride through the alleys of ancient Qingzhou city in eastern China's Shandong province, I became a time-traveler - enjoying folk music, dance shows and traditional handicraft.
When the mysterious people of China's Sanxingdui packed up and moved away 3,000 years ago, they left behind no written language and no indication of who they were, where they were going or why.
Art professor Sheryl Oring sits at a desk outside the Berlin Wall Memorial, clacking away at a typewriter like a secretary, with thick-rimmed glasses perched on the end of her nose.
Many artists create dozens of works a year, but conceptual artist Liang Shaoji takes his time to make his pieces. That's because he first has to spend time raising silkworms and watching them spin threads - a medium that runs throughout his art life.
How do you make an exhibition about a man who never existed?
Aconcert hall is like an instrument for an orchestra, Gustavo Dudamel said after leading the debut performance at the new music hall of the Shanghai Symphony last month with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
The Beijing Music Festival presents quality operas that are rarely seen in the capital. This year, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Richard Strauss, two of the composer's major operas, Ariadne auf Naxos (1916) and Elektra (1909), will premiere in China.
Singer-songwriter Wu Hongjin, better known as Zuoxiao Zuzhou, recently released his latest album, We Need a Troubadour, in Beijing. Wu's lyrics are obscure, and his music is considered non-mainstream.
With age, the anguish has lost its sharp edges, become less acute. Now there is only a dull ache.
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