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  • Molding dreams

    2009-10-22 11:14

    In 1995, Jingdezhen's kilns started shifting from coal to gas. In two years, the city dismantled and reconstructed more than 190 coal kilns and demolished most of the chimneys.

  • Amid recession, a new arts center rises in Dallas

    2009-10-22 10:14

    Amid the worst recession in decades, this city of oil and commerce has opened a new performing arts center which comes with a price tag of around $350 million.

  • Fossils of tiny dinosaur on first public display

    2009-10-22 08:50

    Fossils from the smallest dinosaur found in North America, a fleet-footed species only 28 inches long and weighing less than a rabbit, have gone on public display for the first time at a Los Angeles museum.

  • Christie's offers Raphael work worth up to $26 million

    2009-10-20 18:30

    Christie's will offer for sale a drawing by Renaissance master Raphael which he used as a study for a figure in a Vatican fresco, and expects it to break the record for an old master drawing sold at auction.

  • "Memphis" a top-notch Broadway destination

    2009-10-20 13:26

    I've never been to Memphis, but I've seen "Memphis," the new Broadway musical, and can only hope that the city isn't a disappointment by comparison.

  • Amazing Grace takes on city

    2009-10-20 10:47

    When Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Wit, directed by Kris Chung, opens at Beijing's Penghao theater on Thursday, a shriveled, shaven-headed terminally-ill patient with huge lanceolate eyes will take center stage.

  • Middle Kingdom's majesty plays Carnegie

    2009-10-19 10:50

    Celebrating China's diverse and vibrant culture, a storied concert hall will hold a 21-day citywide festival.

  • Coming up

    2009-10-17 10:16

    This 90-minute live show presents highlights from 40 Broadway musicals and Hollywood movies. It's an original production of a Chinese performance, but the show is completely in English, featuring a cast and directors from the United States.

  • China's beauty queen diplomat to light up arts fest

    2009-10-17 10:00

    A new dance drama about Wang Zhaojun, a former ambassador between Han Chinese and the kingdom of Xiongnu

  • Art mart

    2009-10-17 09:49

    Traditional Chinese art is replacing contemporary art as the new investment of choice among financially astute collectors, according to local art fair organizers and gallery owners.

  • "Bye Bye Birdie" returns to Broadway with a thud

    2009-10-16 18:33

    You can't say that the producers of the Broadway revival of "Bye Bye Birdie" didn't offer theatergoers bang for their buck at a recent preview. Besides the show proper, there was stand-up comedy by Bob Saget and sarcastic jibes thrown by Don Rickles from his seat in the audience.

  • Various views of the world

    2009-10-16 14:08

    Three artists from the United States - Trenton Doyle Hancock, Erick Swenson and Alison Elizabeth Taylor - are marking their debut exhibition, Young Americans, at the James Cohan Gallery Shanghai.

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