An exhibition titled "The Brazil of Portinari" opened at the National Museum of China in Beijing on June 9, 2026, featuring 56 paintings by renowned Brazilian artist Candido Portinari. The show was documented by Xinhua photographer Zhang Chenlin, with images showing visitors and the opening ceremony.
The Hong Kong Palace Museum (HKPM) and the Palace Museum in Beijing have jointly opened a major exhibition titled "The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: The Forbidden City and the World - Cultural Encounters" in Hong Kong. Featuring over 130 rare artifacts from the Palace Museum in Beijing, the HKPM, and the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, the exhibition explores more than six centuries of global exchanges through the lens of the Forbidden City, spanning the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties. It includes 18 grade-one national treasures and is organized into four thematic sections covering trade, diplomacy, science, technology, philosophy, and the arts.
An international youth painting exhibition was held at an art museum in Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province, China, on May 30, 2026. The event featured works by young artists from multiple countries, with visitors and a photographer capturing the exhibits on display.
An open-air art exhibition featuring photography and oil paintings was unveiled on May 16, 2026, in Zhijiang Village, Xiaya Town, Jiande City, Zhejiang Province, China. The exhibition breaks from traditional gallery settings by displaying 90 works in fields, forests, and village paths, with most of the artists being local villagers. The artworks highlight rural customs and landscapes of the region.
The Italian Cultural Institute in Beijing hosted a lecture on May 12, 2026, featuring Zhou Zhiwei, a Chinese painter based in Italy, who shared his four-decade artistic journey. Zhou, born in Shanghai in 1954, studied under renowned oil painters Yu Yunjie and Liu Kemin before entering the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice in 1980, where he learned from masters like Bruno Saetti and Emilio Vedova. He also trained with Pietro Annigoni and Riccardo Tommasi Ferroni, mastering fresco and tempera grassa techniques. The event was chaired by Federico Antonelli, cultural counselor of the Italian Embassy in China, who recalled Zhou's first exhibition at the institute in 1984. Zhou discussed his solo exhibition 'Notes along the Way,' which explores the Mediterranean through an Eastern lens, blending classical Italian painting with Chinese tradition.
An exhibition titled "Homage to the Virtuosos: From Leonardo da Vinci to Caravaggio -- Masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance" opened at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing on May 5, 2026. The show features 36 masterpieces by more than 20 renowned Italian artists from the 15th to the 17th centuries, spanning the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
An exhibition titled 'Homage to the Virtuosos: From Leonardo da Vinci to Caravaggio - Masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance' has opened at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing, featuring 36 Renaissance masterpieces from Italy's Uffizi Galleries. The show includes works by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Caravaggio, with many pieces traveling to China for the first time. The exhibition is jointly curated by the National Art Museum of China and the Uffizi Galleries, and is divided into three thematic sections tracing the evolution of Renaissance painting, from early Florentine masters through Mannerism to Venetian and Caravaggio's revolutionary works.