"In the modern game, to compete at the highest level in Europe and the world requires investment and resources a single family can no longer support."
Liu Xun (1929-2007) had a productive art career that lasted some six decades, covering lithography, traditional Chinese New Year paintings, comics, ink-brush and oil paintings. But he also collected art extensively. Two years before he died, Liu donated 1,783 artworks to the National Art Museum of China in Beijing.
The Huizhou area has contributed handsomely to Chinese culture throughout Chinese history. Huizhou culture flourished in the southern Anhui region and influenced a wide range of fields - philosophy, literature, medicine, architecture, fine art, handicrafts and folk customs.
It looks like a conventional kitchen. There are big square pans of mountain yams, ready for a 70-minute roasting. Thirty kilos of broomcorn millet are in line for half an hour of steaming. A food processor growls like a chainsaw as it chops up Job's tears, the pearly dried kernels also known as coixseed.
The Sunrise Kempinski's latest menu offering is a challenge for big eaters: a coil of top-quality sausage that measures 9 meters in length. (For comparison, basketball superstar Yao Ming is 2.26 meters tall.) The sharable ground pork feast comes with sides of mashed potatoes and the inevitable but delicious German sauerkraut and fresh Paulaner beer for 688 yuan ($99). The dish was created in honor of the hotel chain's global celebration of its 120th birthday, marked on April 11. Try it this month and you'll also get a taste of the hotel's caramel-and-pretzel birthday cake.
The 2017 Hotelier Awards will open for applications on April 24, a process that culminates with a black-tie gala to honor professionals in every category of hotel service. For the second consecutive year, the awards ceremony and dinner will be held in Macao, at a hotel venue yet to be announced.
Designer Wang Xin's works are full of creativity: A spider on a wall becomes an exquisite watch; a rocket ready for launch is actually a pen; and a Star Wars spaceship is a music box.
British artist Julian Opie is holding his first major solo show in China, with more than 50 works displayed at the Fosun Foundation in Shanghai's Bund area, overlooking the Huangpu River.
NEW YORK - On one of the highest floors of a Lower Manhattan office tower, New York street artists have spent the past year spray-painting and splashing their graffiti, murals and other wild creations across pristine walls, windows, floors and ceilings.
ITAPEVI, Brazil - Many painters struggle to get their work viewed but Brazilian street artist Eduardo Kobra won't have a problem - his most recent work is billed as the biggest in the world.
John Neumeier has created more than 150 ballets since he took the position as Hamburg Ballet's director in 1973.
After wrapping up its performances in Beijing on April 2, the play Bai Lu Yuan (White Deer Plain), will tour other Chinese cities, including Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Nanjing, Shanghai and Suzhou of eastern Jiangsu province, through June.
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