On paper wings

2012-05-15 14:00:29

Lei Xiangsheng - aka, Siberian Butterfly - blazes new territory with his homoerotic paper-cutting.

Tuning in, sounding out

2012-05-11 11:11:37

China might not have the world's best symphony orchestras, but it has the world's fastest growing symphonic scene.

Stuck on psychocandy

2012-05-11 09:36:47

The Jesus and Mary Chain explored the essence of rock and roll with its first album, Psychocandy, in 1985.

Festival on a high note

2012-05-11 09:19:07

The upcoming China Music Valley International Music Festival is set to be bigger and better, and more international than the highly rated 2011 event.

Standing tall

2012-05-10 14:52:09

The Four Gates Pagoda, a stupa built about 1,400 years ago, is undergoing restoration after suffering from leaks. Zhang Zixuan reports in Jinan.

23rd Macao Arts Festival kicks off

2012-05-09 09:31:25

The Beijing Opera show Su Wu of the Han Dynasty was staged on Macao Cultural Centre Grand Auditorium Tuesday night, lifting the curtains of the 23rd Macao Arts Festival.

Hip-hop meets the classics

2012-05-08 17:56:27

As part of the ongoing Croisements Festival, Metamorphoz Company brought modern dance Street Ballet, choreographed by French award-winning artist Mohamed Rouabah, to Beijing.

A gigantic talent

2012-05-08 10:15:31

Zhang Wei's writings reflect an amazing stamina. The author who prefers solitude shares the secret of his vigor with Chitralekha Basu and Zhao Ruixue.

Past perfect

2012-05-04 11:11:44

A series of films focusing on both Beijing and London, made from 1896 to 1939, reveal what's gone and what's come.

String things

2012-05-04 10:49:17

As one of the oldest Chinese musical instruments, the guqin represents more than just music - it is a symbol of culture and part of an intellectual's learning.

Art brings Chinese and Americans closer

2012-05-04 10:03:53

An ongoing exhibition, The Dramatic Journey for 110 Years - 2012 Cadillac Design and Art Show, have big names of modern art in the lineup.

A real story forgotten

2012-05-04 09:56:46

Wang Xiaoshuai recalls how his father taught him to paint in Guiyang, where his family had been sent as the government moved its military production to C and W China.