The phrase “Chinese Bronze” is, for most, synonymous with the austere vessels used in ancient state rituals or ancestor ...

Four thousand years ago, the Bronze Age in China began. Over the next centuries, as the region around the Yellow River became the seat of military and political power, bronze sculptures were created ...

The exhibition Eternal Offerings: Chinese Ritual Bronzes from the Minneapolis Institute of Art at Manhattan’s China Institute Gallery showcases one of the world’s greatest collections of ancient ...

NEW YORK, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- A comprehensive collection of Chinese bronzes from the 12th to 19th centuries will be on display in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) starting Friday for a period ...

Lent by the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the bronzes range from a wine vessel depicting a double owl to a celestial horse sculpture, all illustrating how early humans honored ancestors and deities.

The exhibition Recasting the Past: The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 1100-1900, jointly curated by the Shanghai Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (The Met), officially opened to the ...

“Indulging in things destroys the will,” a Chinese proverb says. That this is cited in the catalog to an exhibition of scores of ancient Chinese bronzeworks now on display at the Art Institute is an ...

WILLIAMSTOWN -- It began as a conversation between people who love books. It has grown to touch hundreds of conversations, and to gather in performances, theater, dance and art from 3,000-year-old ...

A visitor looks at a bronze artifact at an exhibition titled Eternal Offerings in New York, on March 5. LIAO PAN/CHINA NEWS SERVICE Collectors in the US and China share a curiosity about Chinese ...