"I am poor in time" and "I don't have much left in my account of the bank of life" were what ink-brush master Li Keran (1907-89) was often heard saying during the last decade of his life.
In 2001, a show of works by Chinese painter, writer and poet Mu Xin (1927-2011), who was born Sun Pu, was held at the Yale University Art Gallery in the United States, the only one in his lifetime, displaying 33 pieces of landscape paintings - all were donated to the gallery - along with manuscripts produced when he was incarcerated in the 1970s.
They were made to stand naked in the bitter cold outside a guardhouse. They were tormented with scarce food and water. And they were coerced into making armaments to be used against their own side.
PARIS - Their heroic quest to bring down fugitive Nazis such as the "butcher of Lyon" is widely known. But there's a lot more to the steely, yet unassuming, married duo of Nazi hunters Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, and a new exhibition in Paris is looking to tell that tale.
In 1998, one of the nation's most renowned theater directors, Lin Zhaohua, premiered his play, Three Sisters Waiting for Godot, in which he combined Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters with Irish playwright Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot.
NEW YORK - She made history of sorts at age 20 by becoming the youngest singer ever to win the Metropolitan Opera's vocal competition. Now, at the age of 29, Nadine Sierra is on the brink of stardom.
Their lenses record a country full of wonders - from the giant statue of Christ the Redeemer to Iguazu Falls, the world's widest waterfall; and from the mysterious Amazon forests to the simple but marvelous architecture of the Cathedral of Brasilia.
About 15 years ago, the German theater company Familie Floez was touring Italy. And one day, while its members were sitting in a theater, a new show was born.
The work, Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains, which was painted nearly 700 years ago by acclaimed painter of the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) Huang Gongwang (1269-1354), is regarded as one of the 10 top masterpieces in Chinese art history.
There is an old saying in China: "No matter how high the mountain is, its name will spread far and wide if there is a fairy." Xiqiao Mountain on the outskirts of Foshan, a city in southern Guangdong province, is perhaps one such example.
An ongoing show at the Guardian Art Center in Beijing provides a rare chance to see the history of Chinese calligraphy through the eyes of Qi Gong (1912-2005), who was best known as a calligrapher, connoisseur and scholar of Chinese art, especially calligraphy.
With winter, the reds and yellows of fall fade away. But a group of artists have brought back the hues with Vivid Colors, a show in a hutong (alley) in Shichahai, an area that has lots of traditional courtyards.
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