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.
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.
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.
The Rockettes dance during a dress rehearsal of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular show in New York November 11, 2009.
Despite major casualties, Christie's managed to meet expectations on Tuesday at its uneven auction of post-war and contemporary art.
In the eyes of Professor Hans Kueng, Chinese culture is the "longest surviving high culture in the world".
Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, the cutesy gumnut babies, imagined in the form of tender Eucalyptus (gum tree) kernels, will soon invade Chinese nurseries.
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.
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.
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."
China's first art project aimed at encouraging research into traditional heavy-colored ink paintings and oil paintings, was launched recently in Beijing.
The annual visual feast of the Lianzhou International Photo Festival, Presence and Presentation, will zero in on news photography this year.