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Charm of ancient Chinese poems inspires new concert Ji Yuqiao Published: Apr 19, 2021 11:18 PM Photo: Courtesy of the Xi’an Symphony Orchestra Photo: Courtesy of the Xi’an Symphony Orchestra    As a part of China’s Orchestra Festival 2021, the Xi’an Symphony Orchestra held a concert based on Chinese poems of the Tang Dynasty (618-907) accompanied by Western and traditional Chinese musical instruments on Saturday in Beijing. Xi’an, capital of Northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, ...

Exhibition explores the creative expression seen in Meiji-era prints Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-1915), Night Patrol in the Snow near Niu-chuang, 1894, woodblock printed triptych 14 1/8 by 27 5/8 in., 35.8 by 70.3 cm. NEW YORK, NY .-Scholten Japanese Art is presenting, On The Vanguard: Meiji Period Woodblock Prints, a two-part exhibition, with thirty prints in each section, exploring the creative expression seen in Meiji-era prints and the acceptance of new cultural ideas in the Japanese populace...

With a bounty of treasures from the East, Asia Week New York opens Egami Etsu (b. 1994), Face, 2020. Oil on canvas, 66 1/8 x 46 1⁄2 in (168 x 118 cm). Photo: Courtesy Chambers Fine Art. NEW YORK, NY .- With its spectacular trove of Asian works of art–both ancient and contemporary– spanning the Far East and South Asia–the 12th annual Asia Week New York continues to delight collectors and connoisseurs of all persuasions. Opening on March 11th through March 20th, the 29 international galleri...

NORMAN – The nonprofit Norman Cultural Connection on Feb. 19 presented a virtual screening of “Spirit Flute: Healing of the Heart,” a documentary featuring Oklahoma flute players and artists, including Cherokee Nation citizen Tommy Wildcat. 
The 56-minute documentary narrated by Cherokee actor Wes Studi showcases different generations talking about the art of creating the flute, creating music, concerns in keeping the art form alive as well as exploring gender roles and its ...

The Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain. Photo: Patricia J. Garcinuno/Getty Images. Critics are blasting the Prado Museum in Madrid for acquiring a 20th-century Cubist painting which they say actually belongs in the city’s contemporary art museum, the Reina Sofia. The Prado paid €70,000 (around $85,000) for  La Boulonnaise, a 1929 work by the Spanish painter María Blanchard, according to the Spanish outlet ABC. But the move has riled some commentators, who point to a 1995 law dictating that ...

Eternel Printemps, premier état, taille originale-variante type C, 1884-94. Bronze with dark brown patina. Sold for $2,770,500 on 4 May 2011 at Christie’s in New York Claudel, however, met a tragic fate. They parted ways because of Rodin’s refusal to leave his long-time partner, Rose Beuret, and Claudel descended into madness. In 1913 she was committed to an asylum, where she remained until her death in 1943.  ‘It is terrible to be so abandoned,’ she wrote in 1915. ‘I can’t help b...

Craig Varjabedian on Why Nikon Serves Him Well for His Powerful Project “I believe everyone has a good story, and those who choose to share it tend to inform the picture I make,” says photographer Craig Varjabedian. He adds, “I want the resulting image to reveal a deeper sense of the person in front of the camera.” Varjabedian has worked on several projects throughout his long, successful career. In this interview, we focus on his ongoing series, Native Light. The focus is simple: turn...

Courtesy of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston The oeuvre of Titian was subject to a number of shifts in import and sensibility over the course of his career. Whereas the bacchanals, painted for the duke of Alfonso d’Este’s studio in Ferrara, were for the most part joyous and inflected with a certain youthful fervor, during the 1550s Titian worked under the patronage of King Philip II. From 1553 he produced seven mythological paintings, all of which were rather more complex in thei...

Artemisia Gentileschi, HEIC ARTEMISIA the tombstone of Artemisia Gentileschi is said to have read. Clear and simple, forgoing the usual embellishments, such as names of father, husband, and children, dates of birth and death. HEIC ARTEMISIA, or HERE LIES ARTEMISIA. Artemisia: now commonly referred to by her first name only (Madonna! Cher! Beyoncé!), in order to avoid confusion with that other famous Baroque Gentileschi pittore, her father, Orazio. In life, she also went by the surname Lomi, ...

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