IKEA Besta is a whole storage collection in various configurations that must be secured to the wall. The drawers and doors close silently and softly, thanks to the integrated soft-closing function. The simplicity of these drawers allows ...
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Black and White, a painting by Mu Xun. [Photo provided to China Daily] New Zealand-based Chinese painter Mu Xun recently held an exhibition at the National Museum of Modern Chinese Literature, showcasing dozens of his oil paintings from ...
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Building Built in Map, Anonymous. Chinese art collectors have been flocking to Japan since October particularly seeking Chinese antiques. The rise in auction prices in China has forced collectors to look overseas. Chinese collectors are ...
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Beauty in North, an oil painting by Wang Qijun. Huang Zhiling/China Daily Beauty in North, an oil painting by Wang Qijun, was sold for 1.1 million yuan ($171,880) at the Beijing Hanhai 2015 Autumn Auctions on Friday. Wang, professor of ...
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Dancer-choreographer Hou Ying instructs young dancers at a rehearsal of her production Tu Tu in Beijing. [Photo by Feng Yongbin/China Daily] At a late-afternoon rehearsal in a vast studio at Hou Ying Dance Theater on Beijing's outskirts, ...
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Niubi Village ensconces among mountains in the Mount Danxia hinterland. [File photo] Scenery along the world's longest high-speed railway from Beijing, on the vast North China Plain, southward to Guangzhou, over the Yellow River and ...
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A Huidong Beauty. 68 × 68 cm Lin Feng was born in Indonesia in 1938, and returned with his family 10 years later to their ancestral home of Fuqing, Fujian Province. When, during the 1960s, the government called on young ...
The Tree by Domenico Monteforte. [Photo provided to China Daily] Artists from Tuscany in Italy have used brushes, colors and even a shuttlecock to portray their impressions of China. The exhibition, New Ways of Seeing, at the Shaw Hall ...
Ming-style furnitures. With its fabulous shapes, unique historical value, and impeccable craftsmanship, Ming-style furniture enchants domestic and overseas collectors alike. Western collectors even hail it as furniture in its most perfect ...
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Luo Erchun. [Photo provided to China Daily] Six months after his first solo exhibition, Luo Erchun, a respected oil painter and professor with the Central Academy of Fine Arts, died in his Beijing home in late October. He was 85. Unlike ...
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Yoko Ono poses with her work, To See the Sky, at her solo show in Beijing. [Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily] The 82-year-old conceptual artist and singer Yoko Ono was in Beijing late last week for her exhibition Golden Ladders, which is ...
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The Ritual by Sun Zhensheng is one of the gongbi paintings on display at the show Subtlety Transcend. [Photo provided to China Daily] The highly detailed gongbi technique, with a history of 2,000 years, is still held dear by Chinese ...
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Admonitions Scroll (detail). [Screenshot of Google Cultural Institute site] Fans of the British Museum are now able to avoid the crowds to enjoy some 5,000 high-resolution images of the museum's collection online, including the ...
Museums around the world are swapping conventional lights in favor of LEDs to protect famous paintings from being damaged by light exposure, according to a Wired report. Light can cause pigments in paintings to darken over a period of ...
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With a mission to train the next generation of theatre artists in all disciplines, The Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago had lighting design students illuminate St. Vincent de Paul Parish church in storytelling visuals and used ...
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