• 2021

    May

    CAFA launches art therapy project

    The Central Academy of Fine Arts has developed courses and educational programs on art therapy for some 20 years. [Photo provided to China Daily] Art therapy is gaining wider acceptance these days as a way to ease urbanities' stress and depression.
    2021.05.25

    April

    Appreciate China-Cuba Friendship: The Cuban Ambassador Visiting the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA)

    On the afternoon of April 28, 2021, close to the May Fourth Youth Day of China, the Communist Youth League Committee of Beijing, the Central Academy of Fine Arts and the Embassy of Cuba in China jointly held an exchange activity: Appreciate China-Cuba Friendship and Remember Youth Mission. Gao Hong, Secretary of CPC of CAFA, Li Jian, Deputy Secretary of CYLC, Wang Xiaolin, Deputy Secretary of CPC of CAFA, Carlos Miguel Pereira Hernández, Ambassador of Cuba to China, and youth representatives of China and Cuba attended the event.
    2021.04.30

    VAII Global Connect|CAFA Visual Art Innovation Institute Expert interview Series--Ken Rinaldo

    Ken Rinaldo is internationally recognized for interactive art installations developing hybrid ecologies with animals, algorithms, plants, and bacterial cultures. His art/science practice serves as a platform for hacking complex social, biological, and machine symbionts.
    2021.04.29

    Celebrating the 52nd World Earth Day:the Central Academy of Fine Arts Completed the Mural Project of the Israeli Embassy in China

    April 22, 2021 is the 52nd World Earth Day. At the invitation of the Israeli Embassy in China, the World Earth Day mural project organized by the International Office of CAFA was completed by the teachers and students from CAFA’s mural painting department in the Israeli Embassy in China on April 19.
    2021.04.20

    Exhibition captures the long and difficult march of Red Army soldiers

    A part of Recipe of Red Army [Photo provided to China Daily] Edible wild herbs, leather pieces, tree barks and grass, these were some of the "food" which once helped Red Army soldiers survive the Long March. They are also the subjects of depiction in a collection of 100 oil paintings, titled Recipe of Red Army, by students of the Central Academy of Fine Arts inspired by a journey in 2016 to Sichuan province that Red Army troops passed through during the Long March.
    2021.04.16

    March

    What “Art in Kung Fu” Is and What It Can Achieve: Honoring the Twentieth Anniversary of the Foundation Program at the School of Fine Art, CAFA officially commenced

    On 25th March, 2021, “Art in Kung Fu: Honoring the Twentieth Anniversary of the Foundation Program at the School of Fine Art, CAFA” was unveiled at CAFA Art Museum. This exhibition focuses on the six sections of De (Virtue), Su (Sketching), Cai (Color), Xing (Fieldwork), Yan (Extension) and Pu (History), revealing the historical structure of the Foundation Program since its establishment in 2002.
    2021.03.30

    Arts even more key after poverty victory

    2021.03.4

    January

    Seal of approval for 2022 pictograms

    Beijing capped a busy year of preparations for the 2022 Winter Olympics on Thursday with the release of the Games' official sports pictograms, which have been inspired by the traditional Chinese art of seal engraving. With some of the country's top sports and entertainment celebrities in attendance, the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games unveiled the pictograms during a televised countdown party on New Year's Eve-a major milestone in preparations with co-host city Zhangjiakou, Hebei province for the winter sports gala.
    2021.01.1