The
Longest & Tallest Cable Bridge
in
the World
8 October 2006,
Sunday
The
world’s tallest bridge tower, measuring
300.4m, was complete on Saturday in
Nantong, Jiangsu province. Traversing the
Yangtze River, it is also the longest
cable-stayed bridge in the world with the
longest cable stretches 557 m. The total
length of the bridge and approaches reach
32.4 kilometres.
The bridge
Bald
Artist’s
Bold Exhibition
The
first private art gallery in China called
Arts Today (今日美术馆)
welcomed its first visitor on Saturday.
Situated in Beijing, the main structure
of the gallery was conveyed from an
abandoned beer factory.
The
artworks of an artist famous for his both
bald and bold approach to life and art
opened the exhibition. Mr Fang Lijun (方力钧)
is one of the most celebrated Beijing
artists, and his work has been shown at
galleries in Australia, France, Germany,
Netherlands and Japan. With his
distinctive shaven head and his passion
over portraying contemporary artists who
are also bald – such as the
"father of Chinese rock ‘n’
roll" Cui Jian - he makes the
baldness his trademark, and earns himself
a nickname "Bald Rascal"
("光头泼皮").
While he’s bald on head, he’s bold in
heart – the lines and colours of his
artworks are forever confidant,
flamboyant and sometimes audacious, and
they are constantly shouting and
thundering, commanding your attention.
Bald 'n' Bold
This
latest exhibition catalogue includes
traditional Chinese ink paintings, oil
paintings, wood-carved drawings and
sculptures, covering the period from 1988
onwards. The highlight of the exhibition
is one of his oil paintings that measures
35-metre long and 4 mitres high.
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