Theater & Arts

LA art museum relaunches after recession-era rescue

Brought back from the brink of financial ruin by a philanthropist's $30 million gift, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles celebrates its turnaround this weekend with the most ambitious exhibition of its own iconic collection.

Africa in focus

An exhibition, Friends, Partners and Brothers, has 182 photos of natural landscapes, people's lives, arts and culture, and the latest developments in Africa, as seen through the lens of nine renowned Chinese photographers.

Taiwan sculptor

Kang Muxiang, a veteran sculptor from Taiwan, is holding his first solo exhibition of wood sculptures on the mainland at Today Art Museum.

Love finds conflict in Schiller masterpiece

Germany's Meininiger Theater is celebrating the 250th birth anniversary of German playwright Friedrich Schiller with his masterpiece Intrigue and Love.

Tormented Caravaggio and Bacon connect in Rome show

Portraits by Italian master Caravaggio and Irish-born 20th-century painter Francis Bacon stand side-by-side in new exhibition connecting their tormented views of humanity despite contrasting approaches to realism.

Ethnic clothing exhibition

The Exhibition of China's Ethnic Clothing Culture, that opens today at the Cultural Palace of Nationalities, will display the costumes of all of the nation's 56 ethnic groups, besides featuring music and dance performances by minority troupes from Xinjiang, Yunnan and Jilin.

Air force history

An on-going art exhibition, celebrating the 60th founding anniversary of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) air force, has more than 170 Chinese paintings, calligraphy scrolls, oil and ink paintings and posters.

Radio City Christmas Spectacular Show

The Rockettes dance during a dress rehearsal of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular show in New York November 11, 2009.

Top works fail at Christie's contemporary auction

Despite major casualties, Christie's managed to meet expectations on Tuesday at its uneven auction of post-war and contemporary art.

Good vs evil

In the eyes of Professor Hans Kueng, Chinese culture is the "longest surviving high culture in the world".

Ni Hao, Blinky Bill!

Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, the cutesy gumnut babies, imagined in the form of tender Eucalyptus (gum tree) kernels, will soon invade Chinese nurseries.

A comic dynamo who draws outside the lines

The two-volume graphic novel Abi-Sword, a martial arts epic infused with exceptional calligraphic brush skills, is being re-released 18 years after its creation to appeal to a more international audience.

New Orleans' exhibit offers sights, sounds of WWII

A new film theater at the National World War II museum is hoping to lure visitors with a film produced by actor Tom Hanks that features the sights and sounds of battle.

Kenny Chesney concert to hit theaters in 3D

Feeling a little bit country, Sony Pictures said Sunday that it will bring Kenny Chesney to movie theaters in April in a limited-engagement concert film, "Kenny Chesney: Summer in 3D."

Boost for 'heavy-color' art

China's first art project aimed at encouraging research into traditional heavy-colored ink paintings and oil paintings, was launched recently in Beijing.

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Rolling Stones’ Wood arrested for assault

Aging rocker Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones was released on bail Thursday after being arrested for possible domestic assault.