Li Qinghua's only giveaway is his snotty nose.
Down a small, dusty side street next to a couple of convenience stores and several new highrise apartment buildings in Haidian district sits a bamboo shack that appears anachronistically out of place.
Woman artist Ji Xiaofeng's exhibition, Purity, is underway. Women are the ultimate inspiration for Ji's watercolor art.
Young designer Zhang Xiaochuan is holding an exhibition tour of her latest works of jewelry and other accessories in Shanghai, Guangzhou and Beijing.
Beijing's Lao She teahouse is holding an exhibition of photographs of all world leaders who have visited the teahouse and of the gifts exchanged.
An on-going media art show at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing offers viewers some food for thought about time.
Most performers of Peking Opera begin training at 7. Iranian Ghaffar Pourazar began at nearly five times that age.
Swiss artist Not Vital displays his latest sculptures, made in China since 2008, from materials ranging from plaster to painted stainless steel and bronze, at his solo exhibition Not Why.
Eight Chinese contemporary artists have gathered at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) for a group exhibition titled A History of the Future with Breaking Forecast: 8 Key Figures of China's New Generation Artists.
A rare, classical scroll by a Ming dynasty artist fetched $24.8 million at a Beijing sale, the highest price ever paid for a Chinese painting at auction, in a positive sign for the downturn-stricken Chinese art market.
Thirty-four works of animation and comics, picked from 4,382 submissions, have won the final awards of the Youth Competition of Original Animation and Comics Works.
A group show of paintings and calligraphy inspired by Taoist art is slated to run from Dec 24 to 30 at Hong Kong Visual Arts Center.