Anation, a workplace, an ethnicity, a passion, an outsized personality. The people who comprise these things, who fawn or rail against them, are behind Merriam-Webster's 2014 word of the year: culture.
So a new photo book is the closest fans will ever get to seeing the band again.
Although deals in the Chinese mainland art market shrank a little in 2014 compared to last year, the continuing strong demand for masterpieces of antique paintings and scrolls, Chinese collectors' rise on the international stage and diversified auctions are all sustaining hope in the growth of the art market.
When visitors walk into Chinese folk artist Zhan Dongsheng's house, in Xinyang, Central China's Henan province, they see animals such as tigers and dogs emerge vividly on pieces of 2-meter-long silk.
Sotheby's auction house is selling art, books, furniture and a humidor owned by a well-known Briton who traveled the world on high-level diplomatic missions during World War II, met Roosevelt and Stalin and loved a good cigar.
The new One World Trade Center opened to great fanfare last month as the first tenants moved into the 541-meter tower through a vast lobby dominated by a monumental abstract mural. The color-splashed, 27.5-by-4.5-meter painting is among more than a dozen works selected or commissioned for the skyscraper.
Recently, President Xi Jinping said: "Culture is the soul of a nation."
Flowers and birds are common subjects under the brush of Chinese painters. Fuzhou-based artist Zhu Weixin is trying to inject new life into his own paintings of this genre, and his efforts were well-presented in his just-concluded solo show in Beijing.
Miss South Africa, 22-year-old Rolene Strauss, was crowned Miss World 2014 at the pageant's final in London on Sunday, with an estimated billion viewers watching on television around the globe.
Sayan Bapa, 52, grew up listening to an old, beautiful folk song called Camel Caravan Drivers, popular for generations in his home state of Tuva Republic, which is a Russian Federation subject in southern Siberia, bordering Mongolia.
Tibetan composer Zahi Dorje, 50, still recalls the days of his youth, when sitting underneath the blue skies of his hometown, Yushu in the Tibetan autonomous prefecture of Qinghai province, he often read poems written by Tsangyang Gyatso (1683-1706), the sixth Dalai Lama.
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