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An art exhibition showcasing changes through the eyes of Hong
Kong’s artists since its return to the motherland a decade ago
opened on Sunday at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai.
Over 40 works, ranging from sculptures to installation art, from
30 or so top Hong Kong artists will be on display until August
8.
Called “Reversing Horizons,” it demonstrates [...]

Shanghai’s Art Deco past, its unique nongtangs, and the
neighborhoods to which it owes its global reputation as “the Paris
of the East”, are being bulldozed as old buildings in parts of the
city are replaced with modern high-rise. Locals and architects
around the world are still weighing the impact of the drastic urban
development and can’t agree on whether [...]

Picasso masterpieces probably will exhibit in China during the
Olympic Games as part of its global tour, according to the Picasso
Museum Wednesday.
Museum director Anne Baldassari said talks are under way with
China for the exhibition to be shown in Beijing during the Olympic
Games in August 2008.
About 350 masterpieces from the museum in Paris are going on
world tour [...]

Liu Tiejian, a farmer from Pingdingshang city in central China’s
Henan province, has succeeded in painting with natural seeds.
Local newspaper the Henan Daily, reports that the
41-year-old has been an art-lover since his childhood. Along with
teaching himself how to do pencil sketches, water colors and
traditional Chinese paintings, he also developed his own methods
for doing pyrography and egg-carving.
Inspired [...]

The bright silver arch, with a mirror positioned underneath, and
a uniquely designed wooden bench are out of the ordinary. Welcome
to the world of Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926), Spain’s most eccentric
architect. The exhibition, Cosmos Gaudi: Architecture, Geometry and
Design, is now running at the Capital Museum in Beijing until
August 2. 
Jointly organized by Spain’s State Corporation for Overseas
Cultural Action [...]

Illusionist 3D street art by US artist Kurt Wenner draws you in.
The vivid “anamorphic” scenes depict “Fishing in Old Shanghai” and
“Interrupted Tea Party” in chalk that rains will wash away, says Xu
Wei.
This is marvelous illusionist 3D “street art” that seems to
belong in a museum, instead of in Xintiandi where summer rains will
wash the brilliant chalk [...]

An art exhibition aimed at testing Chinese artists born in the
1980s began on Monday in the Shanghai Art Museum.
The one month exhibition is called Infantization or
Jelly’s Times, as organizers say these young artists were
just like the jelly imported from western countries in the
1980s.
After a few years’ development, the taste of jelly changed,
whereas the 1980s artists [...]

Visitors to the China exhibition hall at the Zaragoza World Expo
in Spain next year will be treated to a display of Chinese water
culture.
The winning design proposal for the China exhibition hall at the
2008 Zaragoza World Expo was unveiled yesterday morning in
Beijing.
The proposal, co-designed by the Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences and Beijing Zhongjian Architect Ltd, beat [...]

Visitors touch an interactive work of
facial makeups in Chinese Peking Opera during the 2007 Shanghai
International Science and Art Exposition in Shanghai, east China,
May 10, 2007. The exposition, attracting over 70 works from 11
countries and regions, opened on Thursday. 
Shanghai citizens are invited to experience the charisma
involved in the blending of science and art, at the Shanghai
International [...]