Art beat in March

Singer makes comeback

After a five-year hiatus, award-winning Taiwan singer-songwriter Faith Yang returns to the limelight. Yang, 40, will perform at the upcoming concert, Her, with two other female singer-songwriters, Tanya Chua and Lala Hsu. Yang, who is known for her powerful rock tunes, will perform her hit songs. The concert will see the three women's classical love ballads dedicated to girls with and without love.

7:30 pm, March 14. ThinkPad Space, inside MasterCard Center, 69, Fuxing Lu (Road), Haidian district, Beijing. 400-610-3721.

Author lecture

Dany Laferriere, a Haitian and Canadian novelist who writes in French, will deliver a lecture on his award-winning work L'enigme du Retour in Guangzhou. The novel won him the prestigious Prix Medicis in 2009 and details his heavy anxiety upon his return to his hometown in Haiti after a separation of 33 years. The writing style blurs the line between prose and poetry.

7:30 pm-9:30 pm, March 14. Fang Suo Commune, MU 35, TaiKoo Hui shopping mall, 383 Tianhe Lu (Road), Guangzhou.

Buddhist paintings

A distinctive genre of art history, Buddhist paintings are largely of the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties. The Capital Museum is displaying its collection of Buddhist paintings that were used on the "Shui Lu Fa Hui (Land and Water Dharma Ritual)". In addition to the Buddhas, the paintings also portray Taoist figures and folk tale fairies, and normally used emperors, chancellors and generals as prototypes. They feature meticulous gongbi brushwork and thick layers of magnificent colors.

9 am-5 pm, closed on Mondays, until April 6. Capital Museum, 16 Fuxingmenwai Dajie (Street), Xicheng district, Beijing. 010-6337-0491/2.

-Lin Qi

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