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  • Tormented Caravaggio and Bacon connect in Rome show

    2009-11-13 09:29

    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

    2009-11-12 11:37

    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

    2009-11-12 11:28

    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

    2009-11-12 10:46

    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

    2009-11-11 18:23

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

  • Good vs evil

    2009-11-11 11:03

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

  • Ni Hao, Blinky Bill!

    2009-11-10 14:48

    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

    2009-11-10 14:36

    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

    2009-11-10 14:09

    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

    2009-11-09 16:46

    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

    2009-11-09 10:57

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

  • Caught on camera

    2009-11-09 10:22

    The annual visual feast of the Lianzhou International Photo Festival, Presence and Presentation, will zero in on news photography this year.

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