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-	Art Goes to Shopping Mall
	Recent years have seen a surge in the appearance of sculptures in parks, streets and squares in Chinese cities. Of varying levels, those sculptures are the first impression of public art in a lot of people's minds, yet the word "public art" is still puzzling for ordinary people.
-	Chinese and German Artists Join Hands in Artistic Venture
	With great excitement, Hartwig Ebersbach, a veteran abstract oil painter from Berlin-Brandenburg, Germany, talked about his 10-day-long intimate encounter with Chinese artists last November in picturesque Mt Wuyi in East China's Fujian Province.
-	Funny Folks Join at Comedy Central
	Hu Yanting, a 60-year-old farmer, has a funny side to him. He belongs to the Frog Comic Art Society, a 23-year-old local club in Qiuxian County of North China's Hebei Province. The club consists of some 200 comic and cartoon artists, mostly amateurs like Hu who make their living as farmers.
-	Italian Design Publication to Be Distributed in China
	The world's top design-and-architecture publication, Domus, is to be distributed in China with a new Chinese edition, according to Italian News Agency on Sunday.
-	Exhibition of Mexican Ancient Civilization to Open in Beijing
	A Mexican ancient religious culture exhibition is due to open on Saturday at the Capital Museum in Beijing.
-	Luxurious Gallery Street in Beijing
	The first gallery street in Beijing opened for business last month in Culture Road of Guanyintang. There are nearly 50 galleries on the 1-km-long street, all of them looking like art museums, exhibiting many oil painting masterpieces of famous modern artists.
-	Sunken Porcelain Treasures Go on Show
	Experts from Sweden and China are carefully adding the final touches to a unique exhibition of Chinese porcelain due to open in Guangzhou later this month.
-	Museum Stages Historic Show of Ceramics
	Zhang Shouzhi, the senior ceramist made a remark at the opening ceremony for the Exhibition of Modern Chinese Ceramic and Pottery Art 2006 at the National Art Museum of China in downtown Beijing on June 30.
-	China Popularizes Cultural Heritage Among Youngsters Through Cartoons
	China is attempting to popularize cultural heritage protection and traditional culture among young people through the medium of cartoons.
-	Cross-cultural Bridge Emerges from Counter-offensive
	Young Chinese and French photographers, filmmakers, and designers joined hands in a collective show titled "Signs of Existence," which will soon set to travel to France.
-	Beijing Sculpture Exhibition Highlights Olympic Spirit
	The Olympic spirit is taking shape in Wangfujing with the installment of 290 landscape sculptures celebrating the ethos of the games. Droves of enthusiastic, camera-toting spectators are descending on Beijing's high-end shopping strip to ooh and aah over the works, pose for snapshots and cast votes for the work they believe deserves the gold medal.
-	Landscapes of the Northwest on Canvas
	The works of Shi Hong and Wu Yiying, depicting Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, will be shown at the National Art Museum of China till Sunday.
-	Clothes That Make a Community
	Behind each authentic ethnic costume is an individual who made it by hand, using techniques passed down by older generations. An exhibition at the Museum of Ethnic Costumes at Beijing University of Clothing Technology highlights this fading craft. The exhibition, highlighting a selection of 600 costumes of Chinese ethnic minorities, is on show till July 8.
-	Contrasting Photographers Record Planet's Agonies
	Photographers Daniel Beltra and Robert Knoth are very contrasting figures Beltra looks brawny and communicative, while lanky Knoth is somewhat reticent and withdrawn. The former prefers colourful pictures about scenery, while the latter focuses more on people, preferably in black and white.
-	Artist Takes Return Journey to Reclaim Cultural Roots
	Xu Jiang believes that artists should look themselves in retrospect from time to time while venturing into new territories. Xu's own retrospective show entitled "Vistas" is being held at the National Art Museum of China in downtown Beijing until Thursday.

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