In his text Symposium, ancient Greek philosopher Plato proposed "ladder of love" as a metaphor of the ascent to propel one's attraction to and desire of physical beauty, then beautiful mind and soul, the extensiveness of knowledge and ultimately, the form of beauty itself.
The 10th edition of Hebi's annual cherry blossom festival opened on Monday in Central China's Henan province, promising an enhanced floral spectacle and a rich tapestry of cultural and tourism activities for visitors.
Memories of home, the smell of the sea lingering in the town he was born and raised in Zanzibar, and the sea horizon as seen from there, remain with Abdulrazak Gurnah, the 2021 Nobel literature laureate.
Standing in front of a canvas in an art gallery in the heart of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital, 50-year-old artist Dawit Muluneh is fully absorbed in the painting of ancient Chinese characters.
In 1979, Thomas Keller was just another cook working for a French chef, not yet dreaming of becoming a professional chef himself. That changed one day when his boss asked him a simple question: "Why do cooks cook?"
Xue Tingzhe can still recall his first piano lesson with his Japanese teacher when he was 6, after he had moved to Japan with his parents, who were pursuing medical degrees. The teacher, Osmi Emi, in Tokyo, had Xue listen to three pieces of music and asked him to choose his favorite. Then, she gave him a piece of paper and a pencil, and asked him to draw the pictures he saw after listening to it.
The Orchestra de Opera Royal du Chateau de Versailles (Royal Opera of the Chateau de Versailles) will make its debut performance in Shanghai, featuring countertenor singers and their signature interpretation of Baroque music.
The second round of Chinese play Night, Mother is being staged at the small theater of Beijing People's Art Theater until April 15.
In his analysis of Paul Cezanne's work, French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty said that impressionists made the objects themselves the sources of light, not a thing covered by reflective light; they were lightened up, vaguely, from inside, and thereafter presented an impression of substance.
Furniture, paintings, gilt bronzes, tapestries and textiles and other kinds of crafts dated to the 19th-century France are on show at Meet Napoleon: The Disappeared Palaces, running through June 20 at the Meet You Museum in the capital's bustling 798 art zone.
During a seminar in Beijing, experts emphasized that the emergence of new quality productive forces will play a crucial role in driving further socio-economic development in China.
Watercolorist Xu Minghui says she was enthralled at the moment she entered the prosperous garden at Claude Monet's villa in Giverny, in France, known for its blooming flowers which were planted to the planning of the impressionist himself and became a recurring motif in his creation.
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