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Placido Domingo has graced the Chinese stage a few times before. But May 22 marked his debut in a fully costumed production in the Middle Kingdom.
Yang Hua demonstrates the 22-meter-long cross-stitch work of "Riverside Scene at the Qingming Festival" in Yiyuan county, East China's Shandong province, May 22, 2013.
Visitors talk during the exhibition Art Basel in Hong Kong, in South China's Hong Kong, May 22, 2013. Art Basel in Hong Kong, the latest leg of the international circuit, will kick off here on Thursday.
The Thangka Festival was held in Tibet, attracting many believers to the monastery to pray, get blessed and appreciate the big and vividly woven thangka.
Artists perform Peking opera at the Lucent Danstheater in Hague, the Netherlands, May 21, 2013.
China Artists Association has brought 40 of its best paintings to Cote d’Ivoire in its bid to "Step into West Africa".
The Phoenix Arts Group, in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, is the world's second-largest art materials supplier in terms of production capacity, after the United Kingdom-based Winsor & Newton.
His music appeals to only certain listeners as it is angry, sad and abstract. But Wang Xilin will not stop composing as he cannot stop the fire in his belly.
Students from Chongqing University built 14 houses with paper boards in four weeks.
A foreign student snapped a shot of a group of students and teachers on a boat trip 30 years ago. Now he is back to find out what had happened to them.
The preview of the Est-Ouest Auctions' 2013 spring season auction opened in Hong Kong, May 20, 2013.
Marcel Duchamp's Boite-en-valise, a portable museum, literally translated "box in a suitcase", consists of miniature reproductions of his key works.