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Source: Global Times Published: February 21, 2012 20:23
Privately owned museums have been popping up throughout China in recent years, a development that has been widely applauded as part of the cultural prosperity measures that the government has spared no effort to promote. These museums offer people more opportunities to enjoy private collections and ...
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Source: Global Times Published: February 21, 2012 20:20
On February 28, the classic Peking Opera Farewell My Concubine will be presented on the stage of the Baroque-style Reignwood Theatre, located on Chang’an Avenue in Beijing. But while this story has been told countless times, this production brings a fresh update to the classic tale with its in...
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Source: Global Times Published: February 16, 2012 20:48
Classic Chinese comic style sparks debate
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Source: Reuters Published: February 13, 2012 20:58
In the middle of New York Fashion Week, typically filled with skinny models in slender garments, it was a celebration of the full figured and fabulous when lingerie maker Bare Necessities launched Bare Plus, a new line catering to the rising numbers of plus-size women.
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Source: Global Times Published: February 13, 2012 20:43
Despite the negative impact that the worldwide economic crisis had on China's auction houses in late 2008, the domestic auction industry made a quick recovery by the autumn season in 2009.
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Source: Reuters Published: February 09, 2012 19:58
Britain’s National Portrait Gallery launched a major show of the late figurative painter Lucian Freud’s work Wednesday, showcasing the fleshy portraits which made him one of the world’s most revered artists in his lifetime.
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Source: Reuters Published: February 08, 2012 20:20
Works by Damien Hirst, Ed Ruscha and Roy Lichtenstein are among post-war and contemporary art that will be sold by Christie’s at an auction next month that will also feature 45 works from the collection of Silicon Valley pioneer Peter Norton.
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Source: Reuters Published: February 07, 2012 20:18
The St. Louis Art Museum is rearranging galleries by theme rather than time period, seeking to make them more accessible to visitors as part of a $162 million expansion.
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Source: Reuters Published: February 02, 2012 20:35
Christie’s shrugged off the eurozone crisis and slowing economic growth in 2011 to post record revenues, selling art worth 3.6 billion pounds ($5.71 billion), or 9 percent more than in 2010.
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Source: Global Times Published: February 01, 2012 21:38
Rare ancient Chinese painting exhibition held
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