"If you can negotiate the threshold between modernity and history, then something is really beginning to connect and speak between the two centuries."
Some 40 years ago, the late Chen Wenzeng became an artisan at a porcelain-making factory in his native Hebei province.
Age prohibits Gillian Ayres, the British abstract artist, from doing as much work as she would love to with regard to painting and gardening.
With vivid images and descriptions of color, taste and smells, Tzu-i Chuang's book of recipes Simple, Sumptuous, Sublime is an enjoyable read.
PARIS - For three weeks, as the Tour de France riders did their thing, a team of journalists who followed them valiantly ate and drank their way through the gastronomic offerings along the 3,540-kilometer route.
Chongqing has built more than 4,500 bridges in recent years, the largest number in China.
Nanjing-based artist Zhang Lei has been described by his friends and art collectors as a "watcher" of Jiangxinzhou, an island on the Yangtze River in East China's Jiangsu province.
LONDON - The City of London Corporation and major arts organizations in the Square Mile announced on Friday ambitious plans to create a new art quarter for the historic city. The northern border of the city of London will be the home to a new Culture Mile, according to CLC, the local municipal authority.
NEW YORK - A new exhibit featuring the work of Muppets creator Jim Henson is now on permanent display in New York to celebrate the career of the American puppeteer who brought to life such characters as Miss Piggy and Big Bird.
One day in 2011, while on a tour of China with four other international composers, the American composer Michael Gordon walked into a small music store filled with televisions, all playing different music videos.
Sven Romberg narrated a personal story in public for the first time as a freshman at American University in Washington in 2005.
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