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Exhibition in Shanghai Shows Hong Kong’s Changes

An art exhibition showcasing changes through the eyes of Hong Kong's artists since its return to the motherland a decade ago opened on Sunday at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai. Over 40 works, ranging from sculptures to installation art, from 30 or so top Hong Kong artists will be on display until August 8. Called "Reversing Horizons," it demonstrates shifts of ideologies and creative inspiration as the Chinese mainland becomes an increasing importance in the lives of Hong Kong...

Shot in the Dark

Shanghai's Art Deco past, its unique nongtangs, and the neighborhoods to which it owes its global reputation as "the Paris of the East", are being bulldozed as old buildings in parts of the city are replaced with modern high-rise. Locals and architects around the world are still weighing the impact of the drastic urban development and can't agree on whether it is for the better or the worse. Yet while everybody else is talking, Canadian photographer Greg Girard has documented the change...

Picasso Works May Exhibit in China During Olympic Games

Picasso masterpieces probably will exhibit in China during the Olympic Games as part of its global tour, according to the Picasso Museum Wednesday. Museum director Anne Baldassari said talks are under way with China for the exhibition to be shown in Beijing during the Olympic Games in August 2008. About 350 masterpieces from the museum in Paris are going on world tour early next year. The first destination is Madrid and then Japan. The Picasso Retrospective is also planned to travel to Abu...

Natural Seeds Come to Life in Henan

Liu Tiejian, a farmer from Pingdingshang city in central China's Henan province, has succeeded in painting with natural seeds. Local newspaper the Henan Daily, reports that the 41-year-old has been an art-lover since his childhood. Along with teaching himself how to do pencil sketches, water colors and traditional Chinese paintings, he also developed his own methods for doing pyrography and egg-carving. Inspired by a TV show, Liu Tiejian started painting with natural seeds in 2005. The...

Importance of Getting Gaudi and Gorgeous

The bright silver arch, with a mirror positioned underneath, and a uniquely designed wooden bench are out of the ordinary. Welcome to the world of Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926), Spain's most eccentric architect. The exhibition, Cosmos Gaudi: Architecture, Geometry and Design, is now running at the Capital Museum in Beijing until August 2.  Jointly organized by Spain's State Corporation for Overseas Cultural Action (SEACEX), the Capital Museum of Beijing, and the Museum of Contemporary Art...

Chalk One Up for 3D Street Art

Illusionist 3D street art by US artist Kurt Wenner draws you in. The vivid "anamorphic" scenes depict "Fishing in Old Shanghai" and "Interrupted Tea Party" in chalk that rains will wash away, says Xu Wei. This is marvelous illusionist 3D "street art" that seems to belong in a museum, instead of in Xintiandi where summer rains will wash the brilliant chalk away. The captivating creations that draw us in, "Fishing in Old Shanghai" and "Interrupted Tea Party," will remain on film and in our...

Art Exhibition for 80s Generation Starts

An art exhibition aimed at testing Chinese artists born in the 1980s began on Monday in the Shanghai Art Museum. The one month exhibition is called Infantization or Jelly's Times, as organizers say these young artists were just like the jelly imported from western countries in the 1980s. After a few years' development, the taste of jelly changed, whereas the 1980s artists were affected by a mixture of culture from the east and west. Exhibition organizers say the artists are independent and...

Watery Theme for Exhibition

Visitors to the China exhibition hall at the Zaragoza World Expo in Spain next year will be treated to a display of Chinese water culture. The winning design proposal for the China exhibition hall at the 2008 Zaragoza World Expo was unveiled yesterday morning in Beijing. The proposal, co-designed by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Beijing Zhongjian Architect Ltd, beat out 12 other plans from well-known architects. "China has a long history of water control and a vivacious...

Shanghai: Science as Art at Exhibition

Visitors touch an interactive work of facial makeups in Chinese Peking Opera during the 2007 Shanghai International Science and Art Exposition in Shanghai, east China, May 10, 2007. The exposition, attracting over 70 works from 11 countries and regions, opened on Thursday.  Shanghai citizens are invited to experience the charisma involved in the blending of science and art, at the Shanghai International Science and Art Exhibition, in the Pudong Exhibition Center on Thursday. With...

Shanghai many places supposes calorie Zha Fanhu passenger train eight provinces and cities to guarantee jointly the spring festival transportation receives the official safely

The Year of the Tiger spring festival transportation welcomes after the holiday last wave return trip passenger flow. Shanghai and other provinces and cities transportation law-enforcing departments launch the fourth pan-long wedge-shaped land district highway spring festival transportation major inspection today jointly. Last night this morning, the Shanghai aspect in various roads road junction, the interprovincial key communication line and important street intersection strictly observes the...