Houston: China in oil

From left: Chinese Consul for Cultural Aff airs Yang Song, artists Vicky Gooch, Mary Frankel and Willy Wang attend the opening night of the exhibition China Minorities: American Perceptions on March 6 in Houston. The exhibition features 30 original oil paintings created by Gooch and Frankel based on their impressions of the minority regions during their journey through southern China. May Zhou / China Daily