Asia News
Xinhua News - May 9, 2008
Internationally acclaimed Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi and Hong Kong actress and singer Kelly Chan will vie for Best Actress at this year's Changchun Film Festival awards. Nominations for the seven main awards were announced yesterday. There is no Best Foreign Film Award this year and all the films in the competition are Chinese...
(source: xinhuanet.com)
Korea Herald - May 7, 2008
There is no better chance to get a feel for contemporary theater trends than by checking out the Seoul Theater Festival, the country's oldest drama extravaganza that's currently underway in Daehangno in central Seoul...
(source: koreaherald.co.kr)
Japan Times - April 29, 2008
British fashion designer Paul Smith is in his element. Working the room at the opening of the latest exhibition in his Tokyo flagship store, he is posing for photos, chatting with anyone who approaches and ensuring everyone is at ease...
(source: japantimes.co.jp)
Korea Herald - September 19, 2007
As part of an increasing number Korean art galleries expanding into China, doART Gallery opens a Beijing branch on Thursday...
(source: koreaherald.co.kr)
Xinhua News - September 18, 2007
Chinese audiences are to be given world renowned musicals, including Les Miserables, Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, from next year, in Mandarin by a new Sino-British joint venture China Musical Theatre Company...
(source: xinhuanet.com)
Japan Times - April 5, 2007
An art market in the making. When Fukusaburo Maeda and his wife Sohaku Yamashita founded the Nihon Internation Contemporary Art Festival (NICAF) in 1992, they were hoping to invigorate Japan's contemporary art scene.
(source: japantimes.co.jp)
Xinhua News - Feb 19, 2007
London marks Chinese New Year in style... Pigs, dragons in the form of balloons, paper arts inundated central London...
(source: xinhuanet.com)
Japan Times - Feb 15, 2007
The Photographer Nobuyoshi Araki is both so prolific and so ubiquitous that he has in a sense become Tokyo, especially for many Westerners. Moriyama's photography is less about it subjects and more about creating texture in two-dimensions.
(source: japantimes.co.jp)
Korea Herald - Feb 20, 2007
New performances at Seongnam Arts Center... Total audiences at Seongnam Arts Center exceeded 1 million at the end of January, a significant milestone for the performing arts complex. With fresh and unique performances such as publisher-turned-Mahler-conductor Gilbert Kaplan's riveting performance with the KBS Symphony Orchestra and baritone Matthias Goerne's recital, as well as the local premiere of the musical "Miss Saigon" and the center's own production of opera "Faust".
(source: koreaherald.co.kr)
South China
Morning Post		 - Feb 19, 2007
Kung Hei Fat Choi... in Hong Kong, a $4 million display of pyrotechnics lit up a cloudy and drizzling sky last night as about 330,000 people converged on Victoria Harbour to celebrate the start of the Year of the Pig...
(source: scmp.com)
Xinhua News - Jan 26, 2007
In Beijing, students compete for Places of Arts Collect, chaos unsued after more than 3,000 aspiring young actors turned up to register for the entrance exam at the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts... The National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts is one of the arts colleges that hold entrance exams before the universities.
(source: xinhuanet.com)
Japan Times - Feb 8, 2007
Rejecting kawaii culture, New York-based Momoyo Torimitsu refuses to lump herself in with artists inspired by anime... She has created art that comments on a wide range of issues, from escalating globalism to Japan's obsession with cuteness.
(source: japantimes.co.jp)
Korea Herald - Feb 5, 2007
The art of viewing fine photographs. Now that many amateur photographers are toting their DSLR cameras down the street, taking pictures of whatever they fancy, one might wonder what sets fine photography apart from the rest.
(source: koreaherald.co.kr)
South China
Morning Post		 - Feb 6, 2007
The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra will hold three free concerts at the Hong Kong Museum of Art this week... The collaboration is the first of its kind between the two arts bodies and is in line with their commitment to bring classical music to the community...
(source: scmp.com)