Art & Culture: News about Chinese culture, artists, as well as art and cultural events in Shanghai and China

Old town sketches capture a way of life fast disappearing

Tõnis Kimmel, an Estonian architect who has been working in Shanghai since 2010, has spent eight years sketching the urban old town of Shanghai with his "Drawing Shanghai" members.

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A restaurant's food on canvas looking good enough to eat

"Family Feast@" at Meilongzhen Restaurant captures its "legend of taste" through the brushstrokes of local artist Wang Yuhong and her depiction of 26 dishes that make it famous.

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New Year's festivities begin at Liuhe Pagoda

Hangzhou's New Year's festivities begin at the Liuhe Pagoda, where visitors pray for a good crop and luck by striking the big bell six times on January 1.

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China's Sanxingdui and France's Rodin collide in Shanghai

You can experience what happens when two worlds in art come together as pieces separated by over 3000 years go on display at Shanghai University Museum in a special exhibition.

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'Local lingo: Express yourself!' Episode 44: 一箭双雕 (Yi Jian Shuang Diao)

In today's video, we meet 10-year-old Zachary Varghese, who lives in New York. He shares with us how to use the idiom which means to kill two birds with one stone.

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Exhibition celebrates Qing Dynasty's great artist

Around 300 artworks on loan from 18 museums and galleries on display at Zhejiang Art Museum, including seven national top-notch treasures that are rarely shown in public.