British Museum secures record £1bn donation of Chinese ceramics A 1,700-piece private collection of Chinese ceramics with an estimated value of £1 billion ($1.27 billion) has been donated to the ...

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The 1,700 pieces of world-renowned Chinese ceramics constitute the largest donation in the British Museum’s nearly 300-year ...

Since its premiere in Vienna in 1874, it has become a classic, often performed as a New Year's spectacle by famous opera houses around the ... Song grew up learning another traditional Chinese art ...

The British Museum is to receive what is believed to be the highest-value gift ever received by a UK museum with the ...

Once a colonial trading post for the British, Singapore is an incredible city-state in southeast Asia where remnants of the ...

Ma, the Met curator, was introduced to the artist in 2010, but she had admired her calligraphy since childhood. “I grew up in Taipei, and I remember that we had a catalog of hers,” Ma recalled. “At ...

A new “Paths of Ink” exhibition celebrating the art of calligraphy will open in the Maui Arts & Cultural Center’s Schaefer International Gallery on Nov. 12, with works by eight Japanese and Korean ...

India has had relations with cultures around the subcontinent by both land and sea. In what ways did trade influence cultural exchange between India and other civilisations during ancient times?

List of undiscovered gems in Thailand that is not on the radar of most tourist. What to do and each city's attraction is also ...

He was deeply inspired by the techniques used by Western painters but his work remained rooted in Asian philosophy ... he joined Mumbai’s famous JJ School of Arts for training in 1946. Despite his ...

Along with pieces by Europe's great painters (Picasso, Gauguin and van Gogh, to name a few), the Honolulu Museum of Art showcases one of the world's best Asian art collections. The museum is also ...