Modern Kazakhstan is built upon a foundation of different cultures, khanates, and empires across history. A routine fire patrol, operating some 200 miles northwest of the country's capital, Astana, ...

With great patience and focus controlling the heated tool on his hand, Keram Razak, a pokerwork artist from Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, draws the beauty of his hometown on ...

Martin Puryear talks about the process of conceiving, designing, and installing his large stone sculptures. ART21: What was the process like, for the stone piece in Japan? PURYEAR: I think the big ...

Niu Chengguo introduces his gourd pyrography works at a culture museum in Shunyi district, northeastern Beijing.[Photo provided to China Daily] He found electric irons can be used to brand patterns on ...

One of the more mysterious symbols that has been found in carvings from the ancient world is an image that looks uncannily like a modern-day handbag. The shape appears in depictions made by the ...