Wang Jiayuan cannot be described as beautiful by any stretch of imagination. But he is portrayed in an ink painting as "one of the most beautiful faces of China" at an ongoing exhibition in Beijing.
When asked where is the most common place to see images of Chinese dragons, most people would probably guess it was the Palace Museum in Beijing.
Countless animals, including some already extinct, emerge from painter Shen Shubin's canvas, in starkly humanized poses, hugging each other, holding parties or simply struggling to survive.
Francesca Bellini was seen strolling around a large hall in Shanghai in late September with a towel in hand to wipe 16th-century tables and cabinets kept there as part of an exhibition.
Lino Tagliapietra's ongoing solo exhibition in China started in late August.
ATLANTA - A new exhibition opening in Atlanta encourages visitors to abandon their preconceived notions about Africa and explore the creative efforts of people using design to bring about change on the vast continent.
In 1617, the Amatis, a celebrated Italian family of violin makers, crafted a violin, which was later owned by the noble Lobkowicz family.
NEW YORK - Some young singers make their Metropolitan Opera debuts in low-profile fashion, perhaps joining the company in a minor role or slipping into the second cast of a routine revival. Not Golda Schultz.
WASHINGTON - Galleries revitalized, exhibitions re-imagined and infrastructure upgraded.
Alina Salionova joined a six-day trip jointly hosted by Chinese online travel giant Ctrip and a subsidiary of the Confucius Institute to visit some of China's top tourist attractions ahead of the busy National Day holiday week.
Travel fever may have subsided with the end of the National Day holiday week, but for those who have saved up their paid vacation, the best is yet to come.
The string of active volcanoes around the Pacific Ocean has lived up to its Ring of Fire name lately, sparking mass evacuations in Indonesia and Vanuatu and unsettling parts of southwestern Japan. The 450 or so volcanoes that make up the ring outline where the massive Pacific Plate grinds against other plates that form the Earth's crust, creating a 40,000-kilometer-long zone prone to earthquakes and other seismic upheaval.
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