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The Chinese people will soon have a taste of chivalric art and
culture in Beijing when weaponry from the Royal Armoury Museum in
Madrid goes on display from Oct. 29 as part of the \”Year of Spanish
Culture\”, the Palace Museum announced on Thursday.

\”This results from significant dialogues and cooperative efforts
between the Imperial Palace, the late Chinese royal palace, and the
Spanish palace,\” said a spokesman of the Palace Museum, in the
Forbidden City, home of royal families of the Ming and Qing
Dynasties (1368-1912).

A total of 150 items will be on display, depicting the historic
development of chivalric culture and the role it played in the
Spanish history.

The show will also present 22 Chinese works of art collected and
stored by the Spanish royal family, the spokesman said, adding that
Chinese artworks were favored by European aristocrats for
centuries, ever since China and Spain began conducting frequent
exchanges after the 16th Century.

The exhibition, held in the hall of the Meridian Gate of the
Forbidden City, will run through Jan. 6, 2008.

(Xinhua News Agency September 28, 2007)

Chinese Ambassador to Cameroon Huang Changqing presided Monday
over the official opening of a photo exhibition entitled \”Beijing
welcomes you,\” within the framework of marking the 58th anniversary
since the founding of the People\’s Republic of China.

Cameroonian ministers for culture, women advancement and family,
and youth affairs, Ama Tutu Muna, Bombak Suzanne and Adoum Garoua
respectively, as well as representatives of international
organizations attended the ceremony.

Huang took the opportunity to warmly invite all friends of the
world \”to discover Chinese history and culture, and to feel the
passion of the Chinese people and their commitment\” during the
Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.\”

Consisting of 60 photos in four sections entitled \”a unique
charming welcome,\” \”magnificence welcome,\” \”welcome in vigor and
dynamism\” and \”a welcome by disarming smiles,\” the exhibition shows
the city of Beijing in full preparations for the forthcoming
Olympic Games.

The People\’s Republic of China proclaimed its foundation on Oct.
1, 1949.

(Xinhua News Agency September 25, 2007)

Britain has chosen a fascinating cube design with space-age
lighting for its national pavilion at the World Expo 2010 Shanghai,
British Consul-General in Shanghai Carma Elliot announced
yesterday.

The Pavilion of Ideas, designed by Heatherwich Studio, beat five
other short-listed designs, including plans put forward by the
creators of the London Eye – the largest Ferris wheel in the
world.

The design was also voted the favorite by Shanghai residents who
visited an exhibition of the six finalists\’ designs in the city
last month, said Elliot.

The pavilion looks like a box with thousands of spines that
hover without visible support above a public square.

All the spines, which sway in the breeze, are tipped with tiny
colored lights that can display a variety of images.

\”The image can be changed every day or every week. If people
love to see David Beckham, we will show Beckham\’s picture. If Louis
Hamilton wins the F1 Championship, maybe we will show Hamilton,\”
said Elliot.

Inside the pavilion, visitors will see an enormous digital
screen showing various images. Outside the pavilion will be an
exhibition space and auditorium, with a cafe and shops surrounded
by two ramparts of grass.

The pavilion will be as ecological as possible, and the
designers are trying to make all the aspects recyclable and
carbon-neutral. It is light, without heavy concrete foundations,
and will \”touch the ground softly,\” according to the introduction
by Heatherwich.

Elliot said the pavilion will have unique effects in the
daytime, although it will become much more exciting at night.

(Shanghai Daily September 22, 2007)

Vincent van Gogh is working on one of his famous paintings,
Sunflower, when, to his astonishment, the flowers he is painting
begin to spin. The puzzled painter sits back in disbelief until the
whirring blossoms stop moving.

This scene takes place on a cylindrical music box in the display
Van Gogh Automation. The work (pictured) is part of From Musical
Clock to Street Organ exhibition, which showcases antiquated
mechanical musical devices in the Netherlands, now running at the
Guangdong Museum of Art.

The exhibition was shipped in from the Netherlands-based
National Museum, which warehouses the world\’s largest collection of
automatic musical instruments in a central mediaeval parish church
in the inner city of Utrecht.

The exhibition features 50 pieces dating from 1480 to 1930. All
of these mechanical pieces will operate during the exhibition so
that visitors could see how they work. One of the highlights among
these pieces is Jaquemarts Clock, which was made in 1480.

\”Like tulips, wooden shoes, windmills and cheese, automatic
music, and especially street organs, are an essential part of the
rich Dutch culture,\” says Dirkjan Haspels, public relations
director of the National Museum of from Musical Clock to Street
Organ.

\”Having Guangzhou host the exhibition for the first time is not
coincidental,\” he says, explaining that the city became one of the
musical clock-production centers in China in the 18th century.

\”Guangdong and Utrecht share a bond of friendship. And this
makes Guangzhou the obvious location for this first exhibition of
its kind in China,\” Haspels says.

Among the musical automata, street organs, which were popular in
the first half of the 20th century, are most representatives of
Dutch culture, Haspels adds.

\”When people hear the music of a street organ, they would come
out of their houses cheerfully to dance and sing in the streets,\”
he says.

Time: 9 am- 5 pm, daily except Monday, until November 11

Place: Lobby and Exhibition No 7, Ersha Island

Tel: 020-8735-1468

(China Daily September 22, 2007)

A dress made by metal and plastic materials and landscape
paintings by plywood, and all of these \”strange\” art works will be
shown in Beijing next month.

The \”Hybricity Singapore\”, an art designing exhibition, will be
held in Beijing from 13 to 21 October as the first program of The
2007 Singapore Season in China.

Seven groups of art works, including paintings, jewellery,
potteries and fashionable dressing, will be exhibited to show the
cross-cultural viewpoints of Singapore designers.

Sauhoong Lim, a famous advertisement designer in Singapore, said
\”all what we learned in the past are our sources of creation, no
matter which country or which culture they stemmed from.\”

Tan KAY Ngee, a celebrated architect of Singapore, \”I use most
popular architectural material plywood to re-explain the
traditional Chinese art of paper cutting and paper folding. It\’s
another kind of Chinese landscape painting.\”

Works of other famous artists, such as fashionable dressing
designer Ashley Isham, Jessie Lim, the first woman takes an
individual pottery exhibition in Singapore, are particularly
created for this exhibition.

\”Most of these works are initially designed for this show, and
part of them are classic ones, but all are unique,\” Tan said.

The 2007 Singapore Season in China, containing exhibitions of
Singaporean music, opera, dancing, films, photo shows will be
staged in Beijing from Oct. 12 and move to Shanghai on Oct. 21.

(Xinhua News Agency September 22, 2007)

A performing pottery figure
of Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220 AD) is shown in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, September 20, 2007. An
exhibition of 54 pieces of national treasures given by the National
Museum of China opened to the public on that day.
(photo:People\’s Daily)

Visitors look at a bronze
rectangular zun of Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 BC) in Fuzhou, Fujian
Province, September 20, 2007. An exhibition of 54 pieces of
national treasures given by the National Museum of China opened to
the public on that day. (photo:People\’s Daily)

Visitors look at the jade
suit sewn with gold thread of Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-25 AD) in
Fuzhou, Fujian Province, September 20, 2007. An exhibition of 54
pieces of national treasures given by the National Museum of China
opened to the public on that day. (photo:People\’s
Daily)

Venue: Fujian Museum

Address: No.96 Hutou Street, Fuzhou City

Date: September 20-November 20, 2007

TEL: 0591-83758310 

(People\’s Daily September 21, 2007)

Britain has chosen a fascinating cube design with space-age
lighting for its national pavilion at the World Expo 2010 Shanghai,
British Consul-General in Shanghai Carma Elliot announced
yesterday.

The Pavilion of Ideas, designed by Heatherwich Studio, beat five
other short-listed designs, including plans put forward by the
creators of the London Eye – the largest Ferris wheel in the
world.

The design was also voted the favorite by Shanghai residents who
visited an exhibition of the six finalists\’ designs in the city
last month, said Elliot.

The pavilion looks like a box with thousands of spines that
hover without visible support above a public square.

All the spines, which sway in the breeze, are tipped with tiny
colored lights that can display a variety of images.

\”The image can be changed every day or every week. If people
love to see David Beckham, we will show Beckham\’s picture. If Louis
Hamilton wins the F1 Championship, maybe we will show Hamilton,\”
said Elliot.

Inside the pavilion, visitors will see an enormous digital
screen showing various images. Outside the pavilion will be an
exhibition space and auditorium, with a cafe and shops surrounded
by two ramparts of grass.

The pavilion will be as ecological as possible, and the
designers are trying to make all the aspects recyclable and
carbon-neutral. It is light, without heavy concrete foundations,
and will \”touch the ground softly,\” according to the introduction
by Heatherwich.

Elliot said the pavilion will have unique effects in the
daytime, although it will become much more exciting at night.

(Shanghai Daily September 22, 2007)

Vincent van Gogh is working on one of his famous paintings,
Sunflower, when, to his astonishment, the flowers he is painting
begin to spin. The puzzled painter sits back in disbelief until the
whirring blossoms stop moving.

This scene takes place on a cylindrical music box in the display
Van Gogh Automation. The work (pictured) is part of From Musical
Clock to Street Organ exhibition, which showcases antiquated
mechanical musical devices in the Netherlands, now running at the
Guangdong Museum of Art.

The exhibition was shipped in from the Netherlands-based
National Museum, which warehouses the world\’s largest collection of
automatic musical instruments in a central mediaeval parish church
in the inner city of Utrecht.

The exhibition features 50 pieces dating from 1480 to 1930. All
of these mechanical pieces will operate during the exhibition so
that visitors could see how they work. One of the highlights among
these pieces is Jaquemarts Clock, which was made in 1480.

\”Like tulips, wooden shoes, windmills and cheese, automatic
music, and especially street organs, are an essential part of the
rich Dutch culture,\” says Dirkjan Haspels, public relations
director of the National Museum of from Musical Clock to Street
Organ.

\”Having Guangzhou host the exhibition for the first time is not
coincidental,\” he says, explaining that the city became one of the
musical clock-production centers in China in the 18th century.

\”Guangdong and Utrecht share a bond of friendship. And this
makes Guangzhou the obvious location for this first exhibition of
its kind in China,\” Haspels says.

Among the musical automata, street organs, which were popular in
the first half of the 20th century, are most representatives of
Dutch culture, Haspels adds.

\”When people hear the music of a street organ, they would come
out of their houses cheerfully to dance and sing in the streets,\”
he says.

Time: 9 am- 5 pm, daily except Monday, until November 11

Place: Lobby and Exhibition No 7, Ersha Island

Tel: 020-8735-1468

(China Daily September 22, 2007)

A performing pottery figure
of Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220 AD) is shown in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, September 20, 2007. An
exhibition of 54 pieces of national treasures given by the National
Museum of China opened to the public on that day.
(photo:People\’s Daily)

Visitors look at a bronze
rectangular zun of Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 BC) in Fuzhou, Fujian
Province, September 20, 2007. An exhibition of 54 pieces of
national treasures given by the National Museum of China opened to
the public on that day. (photo:People\’s Daily)

Visitors look at the jade
suit sewn with gold thread of Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-25 AD) in
Fuzhou, Fujian Province, September 20, 2007. An exhibition of 54
pieces of national treasures given by the National Museum of China
opened to the public on that day. (photo:People\’s
Daily)

Venue: Fujian Museum

Address: No.96 Hutou Street, Fuzhou City

Date: September 20-November 20, 2007

TEL: 0591-83758310 

(People\’s Daily September 21, 2007)

A dress made by metal and plastic materials and landscape
paintings by plywood, and all of these \”strange\” art works will be
shown in Beijing next month.

The \”Hybricity Singapore\”, an art designing exhibition, will be
held in Beijing from 13 to 21 October as the first program of The
2007 Singapore Season in China.

Seven groups of art works, including paintings, jewellery,
potteries and fashionable dressing, will be exhibited to show the
cross-cultural viewpoints of Singapore designers.

Sauhoong Lim, a famous advertisement designer in Singapore, said
\”all what we learned in the past are our sources of creation, no
matter which country or which culture they stemmed from.\”

Tan KAY Ngee, a celebrated architect of Singapore, \”I use most
popular architectural material plywood to re-explain the
traditional Chinese art of paper cutting and paper folding. It\’s
another kind of Chinese landscape painting.\”

Works of other famous artists, such as fashionable dressing
designer Ashley Isham, Jessie Lim, the first woman takes an
individual pottery exhibition in Singapore, are particularly
created for this exhibition.

\”Most of these works are initially designed for this show, and
part of them are classic ones, but all are unique,\” Tan said.

The 2007 Singapore Season in China, containing exhibitions of
Singaporean music, opera, dancing, films, photo shows will be
staged in Beijing from Oct. 12 and move to Shanghai on Oct. 21.

(Xinhua News Agency September 22, 2007)