Great art often inspires further creativity, sometimes in a surprising form.
Italy unveiled the restored crown jewel of the ancient city of Pompeii last Friday, showing off a rare success story as it races to shore up the site marred by such mismanagement and neglect that it risked losing European Union funding and its UNESCO World Heritage site listing.
Huang Yongyu's paintings command huge prices, but at 91, the artist's true passion is writing. Wang Chao reports.
A series featuring 12 mountain-and-water paintings by the artist Qi Baishi (1864-1957) are looking for potential buyers. They are on show in Beijing and are expected to fetch a record-breaking price for the artist.
The latest evidence of Malaysian food's strengthening presence in China: the arrival of the new PappaRich restaurant at the Ikea store in Beijing's Daxing district.
Jordi Villegas can't wait for his mama to visit China's capital.
Restaurateur and music-man-about-town Badr Benjelloun has just opened his second food venue, where a late but unlamented Brazilian eatery slid in a long decline before vaporizing. Like at his sports bar and Moroccan cafe Cuju, the menu at Caravan - which he describes as a bridge between Moroccan and Cajun food - gives olives pride of place, including this savory, garlicky appetizer served with crisp-edged bread fingers. The plate is a starter option on the set menus for lunch and dinner - look for more olives in the lamb and chicken dishes that follow.
A new play explores how Germans and Chinese are looking at individuals in the collective. Chen Nan reports.
The National Theater of China is hosting the first China Original Drama Invitational Exhibition and will stage productions from theaters across the country through June 7.
The Basel Symphony Orchestra of Switzerland will tour China with two concerts in Beijing and Shanghai this week. Under the baton of its chief conductor Dennis Russell Davies, the orchestra will perform Mozart, Beethoven and Stravinsky classics plus Chinese composer Chen Yi's Ge Xu Antiphony.
Sri Lanka is fast emerging as a destination for Chinese tourists, Satarupa Bhattacharjya reports. Satarupa Bhattacharjya
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