Culture

: Lantern Festival more than tangyuan and riddles

If you spent your Lantern Festival doing traditional activities like eating tangyuan (glutinous rice balls), solving riddles or watching lion dance performances over the past weekend, next year try something different.

: HK celebrates Arts Month

Hong Kong's flourishing arts scene will come to the forefront during the month of March, when Hong Kong Arts Month ushers in an inspirational spectrum of arts and culture events, further cementing the city as the cultural hub of Asia.

: Documentary, album on kirin dance premiered

After 10 months of shooting, editing and post-production, a documentary and a picture album by the name of “Dreams of Kirin Dance” premiered Sunday in Luohu District.

: New china on show at J Space art center

Viewers at an ongoing ceramic art show at J Space can witness the crossover of Chinese ceramics into the realm of sculpture, installation and even painting, a new twist on their traditional forms as containers or vessels.

: Contemporary art museum added to SZ's map of art

The Museum of Contemporary Art & Planning Exhibition (MOCAPE), the latest cultural landmark of Shenzhen, opened to the public Dec. 28, 2017 with the “Forty Years of Sculpture” exhibition.

: ‘Science fiction helps us cope with the future:’ award-winning writer

Wu, a science fiction writer, researcher and professor at Beijing Normal University, has been hired by Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen to teach sci-fi courses at its Humanities Center starting this year.

: Global artists visualize tech-ruling future at OCT-loft

Long before the age of the smart phone, Albert Einstein, one of the most brilliant minds of the 20th century, was said to have predicted: “I fear the day technology will surpass our human interaction.

: Dazzling Italian ceramics reveal Majolica history

A selection of 150 ceramic pieces from Italy’s International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza are on display at the newly opened “Majolica: An Exhibition of the Legacies of 1,000 years of Italian Ceramics” at Shenzhen Museum, portraying Italian ceramic history from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.