Visitors view art at the exhibition Art & Life: Lifestyles in the Festive Seasonstaged by the Manet Grassland Art Center and A-Lab Media Productions in Beijing. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

While Beijing's major parks are busy preparing temple fairs for the Chinese New Year holiday as usual, an art center has stolen the show by kicking off ‘a new kind of temple fair’ on Jan 18 to greet the festive season.