Bruce J. Graham, designer of the former world's tallest building and the existing tallest building in the United States, has died at the age of 84. Chicago-based public relations firm SCC Grossman said Monday that the designer died on Saturday of com

For those of us who believe the balance of power is shifting to the East, and an era of Chinese power is coming, it might be worthwhile to look back a lengthy trip 400 years ago. Matteo Ricci, an Italian missionary, first set foot on the Chinese main

U.S .President Barack Obama is never far from international news headlines and now a biography of his personal life and ascendancy to the presidency is due to hit the shelves in early April, offering a fresh new perspective and multi-dimensional look

Two representative works of Caravaggio, one of Italy's most eminent Renaissance painters, will debut in China for the first time in the Italian pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo. The paintings, Boy with a Basket of Fruit and Basket of Fruit, would

The 2010 China National Quintessence Oil Painting Art Exhibition has sparked a renewed interest in Chinese traditional culture in Hong Kong and Taiwan due in no small part to the most famous painting, Drunken Beauty. The exhibition got under way at t

A series of special stamps with the panoramic image of Chinese classic landscape painting Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains was released Saturday in the city of Fuyang in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, celebrating the first step in a possible reunion of

The Italian military police unveiled a vast forged paintings trafficking network in the northern city of Bergamo led by a group of white-collar professionals. The discovery brought to the seizure of various fake masterpieces created and sold by eight

He Xiangning Art Museum in Shenzhen is preparing to open a new large-scale exhibition Saturday, presenting a wide range of contemporary works by artists from the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao. Entitled The Butterfly Effect, the exhibi