The wreckage of this ship, about 30-meters long and 9-meter wide, from the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279) that sank near Yangjiang in Guangdong province was first found in 1987. But archeological investigations into one of the country's biggest ancient shipwrecks only began in 2007.
Vincent van Gogh's Sun-flowers are losing their yellow cheer and the unsettling apricot horizon in Edvard Munch's The Scream is turning a dull ivory.
Matthew Slotover couldn't conceal his weariness due to jet lag on an evening in August. The founder of the London-based art magazine Frieze was attending a party hosted by Zhang Rui, a Beijing businessman and art collector, at his villa in northern Beijing.
Based in London, Frieze was first published in 1991, and it publishes eight issues a year, introducing developments in the world of contemporary art and culture. Following the magazine's success, Frieze Art Fair in London was launched in 2003, focusing on contemporary art and living artists. It is held in October at the Regent's Park.
Contemporary art exhibition Synaesthesia is teaming up with some 27 young artists from across the Straits. Curators said the theme reveals the experimental spirit and seriousness about art among artists from different cultural and social backgrounds. The works draw attention to social realities and artistic languages.
In some parts of the world, the competition for "the right way to do things" is reflected in economic policies, and in other places through religious views and politics. More often, it is varying combinations of all three. Almost anywhere in the world, some group is trying to prove its superiority in thought and action.
"One dress for a woman will need to be multipurpose" because she won't be buying as many clothes and might not have time to change from one event to the next, Trepte says in an exclusive China Daily preview a week before the dress debuted in Beijing in August. "The question is how to create a dress that transforms radically."
When French designer Nicolas Ghesquiere presented his first ready-to-wear collection Series 1 for Louis Vuitton at the Cour Carree du Louvre in Paris in March, each of the 1,200 guests at the show were given a letter from the designer.
Americans'obsession with jeans is beginning to wear thin.
But she has often been asked if she'd like to do a movie or TV role or even cut her own music album. The attractive 29-year-old, with a clean image and ample talent, has the potential to become a star.
As one of Malaysia's leading pianists, Claudia Yang has spent two decades touring the world and working with top international musicians. Even as she was getting used to this way of life, an idea has lingered in her mind: to re-interpret the classic Chinese tale, A Dream of Red Mansions, as a piano concerto.
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