Technology is being used to bring works by Western masters to smaller Chinese cities. Deng Zhangyu reports.
The show at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Botticelli Re-imagined, opened in London on Saturday, displaying some of the works that artists inspired by early Renaissance Italian painter Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) have produced in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Large-than-life installations of Terracotta Warriors and their horses will light up a public park and a square in Colombia's capital Bogota every night from March 11-27, the seventh time these colorful lanterns will go abroad, and mark the opening of the 2016 China-Latin America and Caribbean Year of Culture Exchanges.
A team of pop-up pros has launched an incubator for wannabe chefs and restaurant owners who have ideas to put on Beijing plates, Mike Peters reports.
During the recent Chinese New Year celebrations, many Chinese had the same dinner menu, as they followed a recipe and cooking direction from a video that taught them how to prepare a delicious celebration feast for their families, leisurely and just by themselves.
Chinese art buyers are less impulsive today than they were a few years ago, Lin Qi reports.
Abbot Hsing Yun's recent visit to Beijing is probably among his most significant cross-Straits trips.
The modernism movement nurtured a number of Chinese artists who studied and lived in France in the early 20th century, such as Lin Fengmian and Xu Beihong. Many of them, after returning home, spearheaded the modernization of Chinese art and education and the influence endures to date.
The mystery of a foreign star's appeal in China deserves more than tabloid coverage. Its unraveling may help shape the face of future global blockbusters and advertising campaigns.
One of four daughters of a civil servant and a teacher, she grew up in 1960s Liverpool. Her grandmother, who left school at age 12 and subsequently raised 14 children, had little social life or time for cultural activities. But unlike women from the older generations, Jude Kelly's passion as a little girl was to gather children in her neighborhood and tell them stories or perform plays with them.
Chinese travelers are warming up to winter. Domestic destinations where ice and snow take center stage hosted record visitor numbers following the first frost since the country won the Winter Olympics bid. Yang Feiyue reports.
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