Since opening on Sept 27, the grand Mystery of Red Sandalwood exhibition in Taiwan's financial center Taipei 101 has attracted throngs.
Britain's Tate Modern museum has replaced a nude image of 10-year-old Brooke Shields (pictured) with a photograph of the actress as an adult.
An imam describes being locked in a small cage by U.S. soldiers at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, forced to listen to deafening music that mocked Islam.
Actress Anna Deavere Smith portrays cyclist Lance Armstrong, a bull rider and doctors in a one-woman play that looks at how people deal with death.
When photographer Chen Haiwen tried to take pictures of the Jingpo ethnic group in Yunnan province for his ambitious photo album featuring all of China's 56 ethnic groups, he ran into a problem.
The Frieze Art Fair is feeling the chill of recession this year, with market turmoil still fresh in the minds of ultra-wealthy collectors and investors who descend on London each year for the contemporary art showcase.
A young acrobatic actress from Shanghai performs during the dress rehearsal in Taipei, Taiwan province, Oct. 13, 2009.
Five hundred signature Chinese books donated by Chinese people from all walks of life are ready to be exhibited and given out to German readers at the five-day 2009 Frankfurt International Book Fair (FIBF) beginning today.
The National Academy of Chinese Theater Arts will put up four shows at the Chang'an Grand Theater this week to celebrate the 60th anniversary of New China's founding.
Hailed by Chairman Mao Zedong as "a great revolutionary", "the commander of China's cultural revolution" and "the saint of China", Lu Xun (1881-1936) and his legacy continue to resonate in Chinese intellectual life.
Herta Muller (pictured), winner of the 2009 Nobel prize for literature, has caught publishing houses in the Chinese mainland unawares - none of the books of the new Nobel laureate have yet been translated and published.
More than 1,000 Buddhist monks and nuns, and 100 selected veteran calligraphers from across the country attended a recent gathering at Pushou Monastery in Mt Wutai, a newly designated UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site.