As technology enriches forms of individual expression, there are worries that it will gain even more control of people's lives.
For thousands of years, thangka paintings - a traditional Tibetan Buddhist art - have been placed at temples.
For the second year in a row, a midsummer swarm of Italy-based chefs from Michelin-starred restaurants will descend on Chinese cities for a week-long cooking frenzy with local Italian chefs.
Chef Yuji Haraguchi serves and stands by "Mottainai" - the Japanese concept of avoiding waste - and makes it known at his restaurant in New York by throwing away as little as possible.
The ice-cream scene in Shanghai this summer is anything but chilly. There is the locally inspired salty egg-yolk flavor, which doesn't taste as entrancing as it sounds, especially after more than one hour of lining up for it. Then there's the very We-Chat-Momentable return of the Magnum pop-up store, which allows sweet tooths to create their own ice-cream bars. But the quiet sensation of summer desserts is the refreshing new offering from Asian bistro Ginger: pandan ice cream. By infusing the ice-cream base with the aromatic leaf overnight, Singaporean chef Jet Lo manages to give the not so strongly flavored pandan leaves some oomph, recreating the summer treat so loved by many Southeast Asians.
Wei Li's peers consider him to be a top collector of ancient Chinese books.
In 1988, dancer-choreographer Ku Ming-shen, then a teacher at the Chinese Culture University in Taiwan, visited the University of Illinois in the United States. There, one evening, she and a group of students broke into a dance that continued well into the night. Ku describes the experience as magical and says she just could not stop dancing.
More than 60 rubbings of ancient bronze ware and other relics by Jia Wenzhong, an expert on bronze ware identification and relic repairs, are on display at Prince Kung's Mansion in Beijing.
BERN - A Swiss museum director preparing for a Naziera art collection's long-awaited public unveiling later this year said Friday that her goal remains finding heirs to any works that may have been looted from Jewish owners.
Ma Mingze's oil paintings remind you of works by French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004). Though both work with different mediums, they both depict day-to-day scenes in a way that give viewers an unreal feeling.
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