A Buddhism-themed ink painting of master Zhang Daqian, which was among dozens of his copies of Dunhuang murals, fetched 63.8 million yuan ($9.7 million) at a Beijing auction on Saturday night.
Li Jin goes back to the origins of Chinese ink-and-water painting with a Beijing show, Deng Zhangyu reports.
The wild brushwork and bright colors give an unreal feeling to Xu Shendong's paintings. The expressiveness of his oil and ink works remind one of such Western master artists as Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, whose styles influence the creations of the 44-year-old painter from Shenyang, capital of Northeast China's Liaoning province.
After being shown in London's Victoria and Albert Museum and in Chatsworth House in England, Xu Bing's installation of utopia is now in Beijing.
Shadow puppet artist Zhang Kui makes shadow puppets at home in Tianjin, North China, June 5, 2016. Zhang Kui, who was born in 1937, is now an inheritor of shadow puppets.
Dragon boat teams compete on the Fairy Lake in Xinyu city, East China's Jiangxi province, June 5, 2016.
Among Pablo Picass's many mistresses, Fernande Olivier is believed to be the only one who knew him before he achieved fame and fortune.
Ru porcelain is one of the top five porcelains in China, joining Guan, Jun, Ge and Ding variants. It gets its name from the location in which it's made: Ruzhou, Henan province.
Sun Hao's current exhibition, titled Running into the Night, expresses a collective pursuit of his generation's ink artists to rejuvenate the literati spirit of classical Chinese ink painting.
Photo taken on June 5, 2016, shows local Chinese participating in the Zongzi (rice dumplings) eating competition at the scene of Dragon Boat Festival celebrations in Banda Seri Begawan, Brunei's capital.
In an "unprecedented" clinical trial, US researchers have successfully reversed the long-term debilitating effects in some of the stroke patients by injecting stem cells directly into their brains.
A special graduation ceremony was held at the Yufo Temple in Shanghai by a traditional Chinese culture school on Sunday, June 5, 2016.
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