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  • Art Basel Miami Beach galleries expect collectors

    2009-12-02 10:24

    The collectors are back. That's what Art Basel Miami Beach organizers and galleries are expecting.

  • A year later in New York, it's Madoff as cabaret

    2009-12-02 10:24

    A 73-year-old New York cabaret singer and one of Bernard Madoff's jilted investors is finding catharsis -- and some pay-back -- in her one-woman show, "John Denver, Bernie Madoff & Me," which opened in New York on Monday.

  • "Vivid pink" diamond sells for record $10.8 million

    2009-12-02 10:23

    A rare, 5-carat pink diamond was auctioned off for a record $10.8 million in Hong Kong on Tuesday, putting some shine back into the world's rare and large stones market which was badly hit by the financial crisis.

  • Paris evolution sale: from dinosaurs to space diapers

    2009-11-30 10:59

    From entire dinosaur skeletons and fossilised bugs alive more than 400 million years ago, to modern space paraphernalia, there is something for every pocket in a Paris evolution-themed auction next month.

  • Assembling the leading edge

    2009-11-28 10:46

    Eight Chinese contemporary artists have gathered at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) for a group exhibition titled A History of the Future with Breaking Forecast: 8 Key Figures of China's New Generation Artists.

  • Fame gonna learn how to wing it

    2009-11-28 10:45

    With a team of "translators" watching every performance of Fame - The Musical to tailor-make it for the Chinese market, the version that local audiences see on Dec 23 is going to be quite different from the final show 10 days later.

  • Drawing on calligraphy

    2009-11-28 10:45

    A perfect combination of Chinese calligraphy, dance movements and theatrical elements, Cursive is performed by the renowned Taiwan contemporary dance company Cloud Gate and is a must-see.

  • Carmen pours it on

    2009-11-28 10:44

    It's time for Carmen and the flamenco once again! But this weekend at Poly Theater, the new show by Ballet Teatres Generalitat from Valencia, Spain, offers something new and also features Cristina Hoyos, arguably Spain's most renowned flamenco dancer.

  • A taste for the classics

    2009-11-27 10:57

    Three blockbuster works of Chinese painting and calligraphy set new records at Beijing's two major autumn auctions, heralding the arrival of the 100-million-yuan ($15 million) era in the classical Chinese art market.

  • A festival program for change

    2009-11-27 10:13

    I was fully booked last week. Four different performance companies invited me to their shows and they all said: "This is the highlight program in the on-going Seventh Beijing International Theater and Dance Festival".

  • French strikers shut down Pompidou Centre

    2009-11-27 09:02

    The Pompidou Center in Paris has been closed since Monday because of a strike by workers angered by proposed job cuts at one of the most visited attractions in France, an official said on Thursday.

  • Exhibition of horse paintings

    2009-11-26 11:34

    Lei Xiaoning, dubbed "China's No 1 painter of horses" south of the Yangtze, will hold his three-day solo exhibition in Beijing from tomorrow at the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution.

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