They say necessity is the mother of invention. But perhaps that should be grandmother.
When Italian sculptor Dionisio Cimarelli arrived in Beijing via the trans-Siberian train at the age of 21, he might have been one of the first foreign artists to visit China after it was opened to the outside world in the mid-1970s.
Artist Chen Dongfan's mission in life is to let more Asian voices be heard through art, so he spent eight days painting an asphalt mural directly onto 445 square meters of Doyers Street in Manhattan's Chinatown.
China launched its reform and opening-up policy in 1978. Fundamental changes have occurred across the country since then. These photos are from an exhibition at the National Museum of China in Beijing held from Aug 30 to Sept 12, co-hosted by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the China Photographers Association to commemorate the 40th anniversary of reform and opening-up.
WASHINGTON - A hearing for US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh devolved into a partisan fistfight on Thursday as Democrats and Republicans and Kavanaugh himself sparred over explosive allegations that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted an acquaintance while both were teenagers.
WELLINGTON - All 47 passengers and crew survived a plane's crash landing on a Pacific lagoon on Friday morning, wading through waist-deep water to the emergency exits and escaping on local boats that came to the rescue in the Micronesia archipelago.
UNITED NATIONS - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas criticized the US government Thursday, refusing to accept the United States as the sole mediator in the Middle East conflict, a day after US President Donald Trump promised a "very fair" peace plan.
BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel was scheduled to hosts Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Berlin on Friday to try to repair badly frayed ties.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday charged Tesla CEO Elon Musk with securities fraud, alleging he misled investors last month in tweets about taking the company private. Musk tweeted on Aug 7 that he had "funding secured" to privatize the electric automaker at $420 a share, causing a brief spike in Tesla's share price. The SEC said Musk's statements on Twitter were "false and misleading" and that he had never discussed the plans with company officials or potential funders.
SYDNEY - A row is raging over Australia's warming-damaged Great Barrier Reef, with firms worried that scientists' apocalyptic warnings are scaring visitors out of the water.
PARIS - It may have been a long time coming, but eco-fashion is no longer a hippie pipe dream.
NEW DELHI - Hit hard by steep hike in fuel prices, urban residents in India are trying all cost-effective measures to tackle commuting. The most popular among them has been to shun the use of private cars and resort to public transport or carpooling.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263 Registration Number: 20100000002731 
Raymond Zhou
Op Rana
Berlin Fang
Zhu Yuan
Huang Xiangyang
Chen Weihua
