Performance hopes to be Beijing’s new name card

Dozens of performers met on May 6 for the first full performance of Tian’anmen, a new high-tech walk through the history of the capital at the Beijing Performance & Arts Center.

Film the next export? – Festival drives discussion of soft power

China will need a lot of soft power if it hopes to disassociate itself from being identified with cheap, Made-in-China goods. Officials are hoping that power can come from film.

Spanish exhibition hopes to inspire photographers

Connecting great art – especially photography – with its target market is often a challenge for artists. This week, the new exhibition Capturing ARCOmadrid at the Institute Cervantes Beijing is giving local photographers new ideas about how to succeed.

Retrospective illuminates 20 years of a woman’s soul

The collection showed more than 100 of her installations made during the last 20 years, especially those related to her activity in the feminist movement of the 1990s.

Art of destruction – Aritist carves faces into Shanghai homes and walls

Can concrete, steel, brick and stone be turned into art? If you are Alexandre Farte, it can.

Son of Wagner signer takes the helm of NCPA’s Dutchman

Tuesday’s performance of The Flying Dutchman marked the opening of the 2012 Opera Festival at the National Center for the Performing Arts.

Fashion, style and business – Capital’s fashion week rocks with a taste of business

Londoners and New Yorkers may not have the mood for a Fashion Week thanks to the debt crisis, recession and high rate of job loss.

Pathlight headed to England

More than a year ago, Li Jingze, editor-in-chief of People’s Literature, China’s oldest and most venerable literary magazine, approached writer and translator Eric Abrahamsen with a proposition to launch an English-language publication of translated poetry and prose to highlight China’s contemporary writers. When it finally hapened, its success was astounding.

Nation’s first Pritzker winner sows seeds for the future

On February 27, Wang Shu became the first Chinese of the Pritzker Architecture Prize – the world’s most prestigious award for achievements in architectural design.

Art is a family tradition

Tradition & Frontline – The Xiao Family will bring together the works of four family members that reflect art’s development from revolutionary painting to contemporary performance.