House of Tibet’s Treasures – Tibetan Culture Museum opens after three years of preparation

Tibetan Buddhist scroll paintings and statues and traditional Tibetan medicine are among the treasures housed in Beijing’s Tibetan Culture Museum that opened March 28, Tibet’s Serf Emancipation Day.

The Philadelphia Orchestra’s new leader

After three fruitless years of searching for a leader, The Philadelphia Orchestra’s hunt ended last September with the appointment of Charles Dutoit as its music director and chief conductor.

Friday, April 30

Fat Art 2010
Where: Building 6, Sanlitun North Area, Sanlitun Village, 19 Sanlitun Lu, Chaoyang District
When: Until May 16, daily, 10 am – 6 pm
Admission: Free
Tel: 5978 9781

Saturday, May 1

Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Where: Star Gallery, 798 Art District, 2 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District
When: Until May 31, daily except Monday, 10 am – 6 pm
Admission: Free
Tel: 5978 9224

Sunday, May 2

Araki’s World
Where: ShanghART Gallery Beijing, 261 Caochangdi Village, Chaoyang District
When: Until June 13, daily except Monday, 10 am – 6 pm
Admission: Free
Tel: 6432 3202

The strangest, yet purist physicist

Graham Farmelo, a senior research fellow at the Science Museum in London, takes readers through the life of one such man in The Strangest Man, his wonderfully written biography of Paul Dirac, the father of modern quantum theory and the 1933 Nobel laureate for physics.

Fall of the Pagoda records Eileen Chang’s childhood

Following the best-selling work Little Reunion, another of Eileen Chang’s semi-autobiographical novels, The Fall of the Pagoda is being published to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Chang’s birth and the 15th anniversary of her death.

Bookworm booklisting

Drawing upon a unique and untapped reservoir of newspapers, magazines, novels, government documents, photographs and illustrations, this book traces the origin, pinnacle and ultimate demise of a commercial dance industry in Shanghai between the end of World War I and the early years of the People’s Republic of China.

Trapped – Viewers yearn for what cinema won’t show

One would be hard-pressed to spot a Chinese art house movie in China. Despite a legion of foreign critics singing their praise, only an international award can bring one to a Chinese theater – sometimes.

Apr 30,2010

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