Video. Artists at the Venice Biennale used striking performances and immersive installations to explore themes including war, ...

It was the poet Shelley who compared Venice’s beauty to ‘fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven’. Milky-green, lagoon-fed canals are lined by churches and palaces plastered in an inimitable palette of ...

A Shandong music teacher is mixing traditional compositions with modern techniques to popularize the folk art of clapper talk among youngsters, Zhang Lei reports. A classroom packed with chatty ...