Script tease: Fung Ming-chip makes new play on Chinese characters

Edit South China Morning Post 15 Oct 2015
If Fung Ming-chip hadn’t become a successful artist, he could easily have become a designer of dingbats, those logos you get when you type in Microsoft Word’s Wingdings font, for example. The artist has spent nearly three decades inventing new ways to write Chinese characters using traditional calligraphy brushes - and he hasn’t run out of ideas yet ... His piece was a 5.5-metre horizontal handscroll inspired by Song dynasty artist Mi Fu....

Blwyddyn brysur i Beryl Vaughan

Edit BBC News 29 Jul 2015
Mae 'na gydweithio arbennig wedi bod 'efo'r swyddogion Eisteddfod i gyd a 'da ni wedi cael llwyddiant ysgubol, mi gredaf, fel tîm yn yr arlwy sydd i bawb a ddaw i Feifod.Her y cerdded. Fe wnes i benderfynu rhoi sialens i mi fy hunan drwy 'Gerdded Llwybr yr Arfordir', a chael hwyl arbennig 'efo ffrindiau a chyfeillion newydd yn ymuno ... Mi fu cerdded y llwybr yn brofiad amhrisiadwy a'r golygfeydd yn eithriadol....

Newidiadau trwydded deledu: 'Sylfaen gadarn i'r BBC'

Edit BBC News 07 Jul 2015
7 Gorffennaf 2015. Rhannu. 'Mae 'na gyfnod cyffrous a chyfnod o newid o'n blaenau,' medd Rhodri Talfan Davies ... Ar Raglen Dylan Jones bore 'ma, mi fu Rhodri Talfan Davies, Cyfarwyddwr BBC Cymru, yn ymateb i'r datblygiad, gan ddweud ei fod yn rhoi "sylfaen gadarn i'r BBC lunio'i gwasanaeth am y cyfnod nesa' 'ma.". Ychwanegodd. "Mae'n mynd i fod yn heriol ... Wrth fanylu am y berthynas rhwng y BBC ac S4C, meddai ... Meddai Rhodri Talfan Davies ... ....

Capturing a monk's vision

Edit China Daily 30 Jun 2015
Shi says he has been enormously influenced by Mi Fu, the renowned Song Dynasty (960-1279) painter, whose highly personal style of misty landscapes gained him prominence in art history. Shi adds that he came to truly understand Mi's art philosophy on one rainy night years ago ... "I said to myself. Isn't this what the Mi style is all about?" he says ... "I felt the same respect for truth in Bach's compositions and in Mi's paintings....

Autonomous in Zurich (Freie Universität Berlin)

Edit noodls 19 May 2015
(Source ... № 131/2015 from May 12, 2015 ... Daniel Göhring emphasized ... Prof. Dr ... rojas@inf.fu-berlin.de Links to More Information. www.mi.fu-berlin.de/inf/groups/ag-ki/index.html www.autonomos-labs.com www.autonomos.berlin www.uvek.admin.ch/dokumentation/00474/00492/index.html?lang=de&msg-id=57035 Last Update. May 19, 2015 ... This content was issued by Freie Universität Berlin on the 2015-05-12 and was initially posted on www.fu-berlin.de....

Ancient treasures on display

Edit China Daily 12 May 2015
The Hall of Martial Valor (Wuyingdian) in Beijing's Palace Museum is re-opening after months of winter-season rest. The re-opening not only indicates the beginning of the peak tourist season, but also lifts the curtain on a new round of exhibitions ... More than 200 seals and comments from later dynasties' collectors, including a poem from 11th-century painting and calligraphy master Mi Fu, are inscribed on the work ... If you go ... ....

Placido Domingo’s Operalia: Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Mario Chang win top awards

Edit LA Daily News 02 Sep 2014
Woodbury was voted the women’s audience favorite ... Chang’s gripping rendition of “Ella mi fu rapita!” from Verdi’s “Rigoletto” elicited one of the biggest audience ovations of the evening and he backed it up with a heartfelt offering of “No puede ser” from Pablo Sorozabal’s “La tabernera del puerto” in the zarzuela portion ... Robert D....

Operalia 2014 winners announced (Los Angeles Opera)

Edit noodls 31 Aug 2014
(Source. Los Angeles Opera). Winners Announced for. Plácido Domingo's Operalia,. The World Opera Competition. Rachel Willis-Sørensen and Mario Chang. are the top winners of the. 2014 contest hosted by LA Opera ... Hosted by LA Opera at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, the weeklong contest culminated tonight in a Gala Finals Concert-featuring the LA Opera Orchestra conducted by Mr ... "Ella mi fu rapita" from Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto....

Taoyuan cultural site saved from demolition

Edit Taipei Times 01 Aug 2014
... and Urban Design lecturer Sung Jui-hsuan (宋蕊璇), National Taipei University of Arts (NTUA) Graduate Institute of Architecture and Cultural Heritage assistant professor Huang Shih-chuan (黃士娟) and Tamkang University Department of Architecture associate professor Mi Fu-kuo (米復國) — visited the building in person on Tuesday to make a final decision....

Hamid Ansari visited the Great Mosque in China

Edit The Siasat Daily 28 Jun 2014
June 28.. The Great Mosque in Xian is one of the oldest, largest and best-preserved Islamic mosques in China and its location is northwest of the Drum Tower (Gu Lou) on Huajue Lane ... Their descendants became Muslim of today ... Hence, other mosques were also built to honor them ... On one stele is the script of a famous calligrapher named Mi Fu of the Song Dynasty; the other is from Dong Qichang, a calligrapher of the Ming Dynasty ... to 7.30 p.m ... ....

Sotheby's Chinese Art Saes Total $43.7 Million (Sotheby's Inc)

Edit noodls 21 Mar 2014
(Source ... New York ... Dr ... the ever-growing appeal of Archaic Bronzes such as those in our special auction, and the distinguished Tian Mian Fu Yi Jiao which fetched $2.4 million." ... Top calligraphy pieces included Wang Da's Calligraphy In Regular Script which fetched $509,000, dwarfing the $8/12,000 estimate, and Copy Of Mi Fu's Colophon To Ouyang Xun's Calligraphy by Wang Duo which also exceeded the estimate to sell for $509,000....

Sale Results (Sotheby's Inc)

Edit noodls 21 Mar 2014
(Source. Sotheby's Inc). (212) 606 7000 F (212) 606 7107 WWW.SOTHEBYS.COM. Sale Results New York Sale N09117 Fine Classical Chinese Paintings 20 MAR 14. Grand Total.. $18,884,875 (£11,413,559). Exch Rate.. 0.60. Sold by Lot.. 83.4%. Lots Offered.. 259. Sold by Value.. 83.9%. Lots Sold/Unsold.. 216 / 43. Lot. Price. Estimate (USD). Buyer ... Wang Duo, COPY OF MI FU'S "COLOPHON TO OUYANG XUN'S CALLIGRAPHY", ink on satin, hanging scroll....

Icy Death (Freie Universität Berlin)

Edit noodls 22 Feb 2014
(Source. Freie Universität Berlin) Mathematician at Freie Universität Berlin and Glaciologist at ETH Zurich Reconstruct Historical Death in the Snow with Glacier Simulation. № 050/2014 from Feb 13, 2014 ... The body of the fourth man remains missing ... http.//page.mi.fu-berlin.de/jouvet/#simulations Further Information ... guillaume.jouvet@fu-berlin.de ... This noodl was issued by Freie Universität Berlin and was initially posted at www.fu-berlin.de....
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