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Gallerist brings Uruguayan art to Beijing
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Gallerist brings Uruguayan art to Beijing

China Daily  

Uruguayan curator and gallerist Diana Saravia introduces Carlos Presto’s art to guests at the opening of Games of Illusion at the Uruguayan Art Space in Beijing’s 798 art district on Aug 20, 2024. Presto's paintings are on display at his solo exhibition Games of Illusion at the Uruguayan Art Space in Beijing's 798 art district until Sept 20, offering Chinese …

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Beijing Dangdai showcases vibrant contemporary art scene
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Beijing Dangdai showcases vibrant contemporary art scene

China Daily  

Beijing Dangdai returns to the National Agricultural Exhibition Center this year to show art and hold forums. Despite the capricious weather that marked the weekend with pouring rains and a sudden temperature drop, art enthusiasts remained undeterred, flocking to this year's Beijing Dangdai art fair hosted at the National Agricultural Exhibition Center. Since its inception in 2018, Beijing Dangdai has …

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Events start in honor of Peking Opera key stars
8 months, 1 week ago

Events start in honor of Peking Opera key stars

China Daily  

Peking Opera actor Hu Wenge plays the role of Yuji in Farewell My Concubine, one of the most popular pieces by the late Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang, in Beijing in March. The legendary master of Peking Opera, Mei Lanfang is a household name in China, thanks to his contribution to the 200-year-old art form. According to Zhu Jia, deputy …

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A play that turns into a comedy of errors
8 months, 1 week ago

A play that turns into a comedy of errors

China Daily  

The creative team of the play at the news conference at the Beijing People's Art Theatre. When the Beijing People's Art Theatre's director Lin Cong was trying to make a Chinese stage adaptation of The Miser, a five-act comedy by Moliere — the greatest of French comedy writers — she decided to find out what the actor and playwright had …

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Presenting plays for the people
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Presenting plays for the people

China Daily  

During this year's Spring Festival, Beijing People's Art Theatre will stage Beneath the Red Banner, adapted from Lao She's novel with the same title, which is directed by Feng Yuanzheng and Yan Rui, and features actor Pu Cunxin as the leading role. Catching a performance by the Beijing People's Art Theatre is on the list for theatergoers in the capital …

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The bones of a good story
11 months, 3 weeks ago

The bones of a good story

China Daily  

Tenor Shen Jiayu plays the leading role, Zhuangzi, in the opera. As the closing production of the First Beijing Chamber Opera Festival, which was initiated by Yi, a veteran director, lighting and set designer, the opera features a 14-member orchestra playing under the baton of conductor Dong Chao. "I am 65 years old and it's an age to consider life …

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Head over heels for Peking Opera
1 year, 2 months ago

Head over heels for Peking Opera

China Daily  

Wang Wenduan helps her student Guo Xiaolei with Peking Opera facial mask painting. A popular Chinese saying sums up the rigorous training required for Peking Opera thus: "One minute of performance requires 10 years of practice". But the students at the Beijing Opera Art's College, such as Guo, practice the ancient art form every day and will grow into professional …

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International youths gather in Beijing to build bridges through art
1 year, 4 months ago

International youths gather in Beijing to build bridges through art

China Daily  

The 9th edition of the Joy Dancing Beijing Culture and Art Exchange Week of International Youth hosts its opening ceremony in Beijing on Tuesday. CHINA DAILY The 9th edition of the Joy Dancing Beijing Culture and Art Exchange Week of International Youth opened in Beijing on Tuesday. The exchange week, which concluded Thursday, was overseen by the China Soong Ching …

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International youths gather in Beijing to build bridges through art
1 year, 4 months ago

International youths gather in Beijing to build bridges through art

China Daily  

The 9th edition of the Joy Dancing Beijing Culture and Art Exchange Week of International Youth hosts its opening ceremony in Beijing on Tuesday. CHINA DAILY The 9th edition of the Joy Dancing Beijing Culture and Art Exchange Week of International Youth opened in Beijing on Tuesday. The exchange week, which concluded Thursday, was overseen by the China Soong Ching …

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International youths gather in Beijing to build bridges through art
1 year, 4 months ago

International youths gather in Beijing to build bridges through art

China Daily  

Young participants display a scroll painting they completed together on the theme of world heritage sites. CHINA DAILY Guo Xinbao, director of the China Soong Ching Ling Science and Culture Center for Young People, says that the Joy Dancing Beijing program has been embracing the spirit of the ancient Silk Road since 2012, inviting young people from countries along the …

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Acting master class
1 year, 7 months ago

Acting master class

China Daily  

Artists of Beijing People's Art Theatre and young actors and actresses of the company's latest training program in Beijing on April 19. For more than 70 years, Beijing People's Art Theatre has been considered the flag bearer of Chinese drama. The three venues are the Capital Theatre, the home of Beijing People's Art Theatre; Juyin Theatre, also located in the …

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First Beijing Art and Technology Biennale opens
2 years, 1 month ago

First Beijing Art and Technology Biennale opens

China Daily  

The first Beijing Art and Technology Biennale opened in Beijing on Oct 28, 2022, aiming to discuss issues related to coexistence between human and nature. The first Beijing Art and Technology Biennale featuring 50 artists, scientists and ecologists from across the world opened in Beijing last Friday, aiming to discuss issues related to coexistence between human and nature. Titled Synthetic …

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First Beijing Art and Technology Biennale opens
2 years, 1 month ago

First Beijing Art and Technology Biennale opens

China Daily  

The first Beijing Art and Technology Biennale opened in Beijing on Oct 28, 2022, aiming to discuss issues related to coexistence between human and nature. The first Beijing Art and Technology Biennale featuring 50 artists, scientists and ecologists from across the world opened in Beijing last Friday, aiming to discuss issues related to coexistence between human and nature. Titled Synthetic …

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Dance drama festival kicks off in Beijing
2 years, 2 months ago

Dance drama festival kicks off in Beijing

China Daily  

A scene from the Chinese dance drama, Sing A Song for the Party. An original Chinese dance drama, Sing A Song for the Party, by Beijing Dance Academy, will be staged at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing on Oct 7 and 8. The dance drama will open the NCPA's annual program, Spring Flowers and Autumn Fruits …

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Beijing Art Museum reopens after a face-lift
2 years, 3 months ago

Beijing Art Museum reopens after a face-lift

China Daily  

Beijing Art Museum of Wanshou Temple has reopened after five years of repair. After five years of repairs, Beijing Art Museum, located inside Wanshou Temple in Haidian district, reopened to the public on Friday. Wang Dan, director of the Beijing Art Museum, said that during the repair they have sorted out the museum's 133,300 pieces of collection again and have …

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Beijing Art Museum reopens after a face-lift
2 years, 3 months ago

Beijing Art Museum reopens after a face-lift

China Daily  

Beijing Art Museum of Wanshou Temple has reopened after five years of repair. After five years of repairs, Beijing Art Museum, located inside Wanshou Temple in Haidian district, reopened to the public on Friday. Wang Dan, director of the Beijing Art Museum, said that during the repair they have sorted out the museum's 133,300 pieces of collection again and have …

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Centuries-old temple poised to show its new face
2 years, 3 months ago

Centuries-old temple poised to show its new face

China Daily  

Wanshou Temple, situated close to the Grand Canal beside the West Third Ring Road in Haidian district, Beijing, is more than 400 years old. In stark contrast to bustling scenes during the Qing Dynasty, when Emperor Qianlong went to the temple to celebrate his mother's birthdays, and Empress Dowager Cixi visited it 52 times in four years, the temple is …

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New Beijing museum sets a gold standard for craftsmanship
2 years, 3 months ago

New Beijing museum sets a gold standard for craftsmanship

China Daily  

Over 300 works by modern masters are on show in the newly opened Beijing Gold Lacquer Inlay Art Museum. With millennia's development and a glorious past, Beijing's gold lacquer inlay art has been favored by ancient rulers and become a symbol of craftsmanship, patience and a pursuit of the exquisite. Perhaps, Beijing Gold Lacquer Inlay Art Museum will be the …

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Remembering Lao She
2 years, 3 months ago

Remembering Lao She

China Daily  

The Jingju Theater Company of Beijing will stage the Peking Opera, Ma Qian Po Shui, which premiered in 2000. In 1952, Lao She wrote a play, The Willow Well, in an art form that he invented, based on Beijing's local Quyi art, and named it Quju Opera. "Like Lao She's work, Quju Opera pieces are known for their depictions of …

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Chinese dancer explores art by reading
2 years, 8 months ago

Chinese dancer explores art by reading

China Daily  

Despite her busy schedule of taking classes, training and doing rehearsals, Liu Yan has kept the habit of reading. When my father came to Beijing, he would take me to the National Library of China near the Beijing Dance Academy," says Liu. The stories feature various people like emperors and generals, as well as animals, mythical creatures, adventures, love stories …

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Chinese dancer explores art by reading
2 years, 8 months ago

Chinese dancer explores art by reading

China Daily  

Despite her busy schedule of taking classes, training and doing rehearsals, Liu Yan has kept the habit of reading. When my father came to Beijing, he would take me to the National Library of China near the Beijing Dance Academy," says Liu. The stories feature various people like emperors and generals, as well as animals, mythical creatures, adventures, love stories …

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Attachment to Jiangnan at the heart of painter’s solo exhibition in Beijing
2 years, 8 months ago

Attachment to Jiangnan at the heart of painter’s solo exhibition in Beijing

China Daily  

Bridge, by Yang Mingyi. "Painting Jiangnan and painting it well is my lifetime commitment," says Yang Mingyi, an ink-color painter who hails from Suzhou, Jiangsu province, one of those sparkling towns in Jiangnan. Yang, now 79, has created a body of works praising Jiangnan's ever-changing beauty, poetic atmosphere and cultural depth which have cultivated generations of intellectuals, artists and luminaries …

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Thematic art exhibition opens 798 Art Festival in Beijing
3 years, 2 months ago

Thematic art exhibition opens 798 Art Festival in Beijing

China Daily  

The Magnificent Song of the Times, the Stage of Forging Ahead, an exhibition to show thematic paintings and sculptures created in recent years, opened this year's 798 Art Festival. The Magnificent Song of the Times, the Stage of Forging Ahead, an exhibition showing thematic paintings and sculptures created in recent years, opened this year's 798 Art Festival which teams up …

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Qingdao watercolor works exhibited at National Art Museum
3 years, 2 months ago

Qingdao watercolor works exhibited at National Art Museum

China Daily  

More than 200 watercolor works created by Qingdao painters are on exhibition at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing. Watercolor works created by Qingdao artists are on display at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing. A visitor appreciates a painting at the exhibition at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing. The exhibition attracts many …

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