Tian Shiguang, an artist of the bird-and-flower painting genre and former professor at CAFA. [Photo provided to China Daily] In 1937, he became the first of 35 researchers at the Chinese painting ...

A look at the China Institute Gallery's exhibition "Flowers on a River." China Institute Gallery has reopened to the public with their landmark exhibition of Chinese flower-and-bird paintings. This is ...

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An exhibition of Chinese flower-and-bird paintings was open to the public at China Institute Gallery in New York City on Thursday, according to China Institute, a U.S. non-profit organization ...

A total of 86 artworks by painter Zhang Shuqi have been on display at the National Museum of China in Beijing since mid-October to commemorate the 120th anniversary of the late artist's birth. The ...

Four years ago when Harsha Dass, a senior executive with the Indian Railways had to shift to Taiwan with her diplomat husband, she routed her understanding of the local culture through art classes. “I ...

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Kho said the peony holds symbolic importance in East Asia. "The origin goes back to China's 618―907 Tang Dynasty when the Tang court discovered the beauty of the peony and the flower came to symbolize ...

Feather and Light is an exhibition currently at the art museum of Beijing's Central Academy of Fine Arts, which marks the 100th anniversary of Tian Shiguang's birth (1916-1999), an artist of the ...