When contemporary arts practitioners from neighboring Asian countries, such as China, Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan, met at a recent international symposium, they found they hardly knew anything about contemporary arts in one another's countries.
A foreign artist works at the Shanghai Exhibition Center to complete his exhibit for the third ShContemporary.
Despite the fragile economy, prices of classical Chinese art have appreciated, according to Sotheby's Auction House, which made the judgment based on its preview show in Hong Kong last week.
By the end of the year, the band had lost their bassist, who was replaced by Li Yu. They entered a local music contest and won the best song of the year award, beating dozens of other young bands.The band is now ready to release their debut album of nine songs, all written in English.
With Spain chosen country of honor for the recently-concluded 16th Beijing International Book Fair 2009, Beijing is seeing a rash of Spain-related events.
Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center will perform the famous English playwright Ray Cooney's comedy Out of Order at Beijing's Capital Theater until Sunday.
The opera Sunny Snow is centered on the more than 1,100 women who comprised the first troupe of the People's Liberation Army to enter Tibet in 1950.It portrays such women soldiers as the charming Bai Xuemei, the innocent Liu Yurong and the bold Su Yingyu.
For the first time, Beijingers can feast their eyes on the prize-winning works of the British Wildlife Photography Awards, the world's most prestigious wildlife photography competition, at Beijing Zoo.
The quartet has won numerous awards and distinctions, including first prize at the "Premio Vittorio Gui" Competition in Florence and "In Memoriam Dimitri Schostakowitsch" in Hanover.
Jinan Qianwei Performing Arts Company of the People's Liberation Army will present a gala show featuring traditional Chinese orchestra music,
It will present a program that includes Mozart's Oboe Quartet in F Major K370 and Flute Quartet No 1 in D Major K285, Widmann's Quartet for Strings No 3 Jagdquartett and Mendelssohn's String Quartet in A Minor Op 13.
The Shanghai Symphony kicks off its first music season with the concert led by cellist Wang Jian, who is the group's first residential artist.The symphony will play Concerto for Cello in B Minor by Dvorak and Symphony No 5 by Tchaikovsky under the baton of Yu Long, the symphony's new artistic director.