The Palace Museum received the painting Silk Road Landscape Map, which was donated by Xu Rongmao, founder and chairman of Hong Kong Shimao Group, during a ceremony in the Palace Museum Nov 30. Xu bought the painting for $20 million from a Japanese collector.
Guardian Education Center has launched an international-education platform to offer short- and long-term courses on art history, collecting, archaeology and business in Beijing.
Zhao Wangyun (1906-77) co-founded the Chang'an School of Painting in the 1960s with two other ink-brush artists based in Xi'an in Northwestern China. They sought to revive the tradition of Chinese ink art through the depiction of the everyday lives of common people.
In recent years, restaurants like Po Ba Tsang, which are featured with ethnic and cultural elements, become popular in Lhasa.
Students at Guangraolu Primary School in Qingdao city of Shandong province have fallen in love with a Peking Opera learning activity held once a week.
Chen Guotao, born in a Miao ethnic family in the mountains of Yaoyang, Southwest China's Chongqing, successfully made her way to the big cities. But the love for the Miao embroidery made her quit the highly paid job at a State-owned bank and returned home to promote the folk art.
Powerlong Museum, among the latest additions to Shanghai's private art destinations, stands alone in the metropolis' far southwestern Minhang district. Many other such institutions, such as the Long Museum, Yuz Museum and Shanghai Center of Photography, are found in the well-known West Bund area, closer to the city center.
Two years ago, Chinese painter Zhang Yanzi traveled to the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, and found the local brew ayahuasca, which is made from plants and is said to have hallucinogenic properties. The drink is used in spiritual medicine there.
In one of Beijing-based ink painter Kang Chunhui's works, titled Respect, she depicts in the middle of the paper a nest above which rests a mother bird and below which, there are three of her children who are wide opening their mouths.
The oil painting 29.01.64, created by Chinese-French painter Zao Wou-ki incorporating the kuangcao (wild cursive) style of Chinese calligraphy, fetched HK$ 202.6 million ($26 million) at a Christie's auction Saturday night.
The beauty of the area along the Fuchun River, in central Zhejiang province of East China, has been the subject of many artists, the best known of them being the 14th-century ink painting Dwelling on the Fuchun Mountain.
Chinese paper cutting is one of the oldest handicrafts in China. It varies from animals and plants to the vivid scenes of our everyday lives.
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