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They’re not sculpture, but real delicated cakes!
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Leopold Museum buys rare painting “Portrait of Wally” for $19 mln
Elisabeth Leopold, widow of late art collector Rudolf Leopold, poses next to the oil painting “Portrait of Wally” by Egon Schiele in Austria’s Leopold Museum after she unveiled the painting in Vienna August 23, 2010. The painting was seized by U.S. officials in 1999 during an exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Arts [...]
In the mood for Kunqu
Yang Nannan, a master’s student of law at Peking University, is a fan of Kunqu Opera and has been learning from several famous Kunqu performers for the past three months.(Source: China Daily) BEIJING, Aug. 24 (Xinhuanet) — An old opera tradition, struggling to survive, finds new fans in young university students. Shi Xi reports [...]
Iranian play “Macondo” performed in Tehran
Iranian puppeteer Farzaneh Agheli controls a puppet, portrayed as writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, during a performance of the play “Macondo” at the Iranshahr Hall in central Tehran August 23, 2010. The play is an adaptation of “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”, written by Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Iranian puppeteers (L to [...]
Fashion magazine anchors success with originality and youthful spirit
Photo taken on Aug. 19, 2010 shows the office of YOHO in Beijing, capital of China. Cute toys, computer monitor decorated by colorful pasters, special-shaped clocks, stylish young working staffs etc.(Xinhua/Wang Ying) NANJING, Aug. 24, 2010 (Xinhua)When you walk into the office of YOHO in Beijing, you will feel the place is unlike an [...]
Fine Wood carving work made in Suzhou, China’s Jiangsu Province
A foreign tourist demostrates a wood carving work in Suzhou, east China’s Jiangsu Province, Aug. 25, 2010. Folk artists made wood caving works with leftover wood pieces in Suzhou, the wood carving works attracted lot of tourists. (Xinhua/Wang Jiankang) A woman makes wood carving works in Suzhou, east China’s Jiangsu Province, Aug. 25, [...]
Smoke and mirrors
Li Shaohong (right) directs the shooting of A Dream of Red Mansions.(Source: China Daily) by Liu Wei BEIJING, Aug. 26 (Xinhuanet) — The director of the much-maligned TV adaptation of a Chinese classic says she has tried to capture the essence of the novel and is confident audiences will slowly take to it, Liu [...]
Fifth China Folk Artwork Exhibition kicks off
People visit the Fifth China Folk Artwork Exhibition in Yantai, east China’s Shandong Province. The five days’ exhibition attracted exhibitors and visitors from both home and abroad. (Xinhua/Chu Yang) A girl shows a dough modelling work at the Fifth China Folk Artwork Exhibition in Yantai, east China’s Shandong Province. The five days’ exhibition [...]
20th anniversary of Writer Sanmao’s death marked in Taipei
A visitor tours during an exhibition marking the 20th anniversary of Sanmao’s death in Taipei, southeast China’s Taiwan, Jan. 4, 2011. The commemorative exhibition, titled “the Echo Legacy”, was launched here Tuesday. Sanmao was the pseudonym of popular Taiwanese writer Chen Ping, or Echo Chan, who committed suicide in 1991. The Taiwanese literary lion [...]
Nine marvellous art museums in world
1. Salvador Dali Museum in Florida, the United States Salvador Dali Museum, Florida, the United States (Photo Source: CRIonline) 2. MAXXI National Museum of the XXI Century Arts in Rome, Italy MAXXI National Museum of the XXI Century Arts, Rome, Italy (Photo Source: CRIonline) 3. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the United States [...]