CULTURE

Audience members in Portland, Oregon, said they were blown away by Shen Yun’s live performance. Some have waited years, while others try to come every year. “Oh my goodness, it was…

“Temptation of Sir Percival,” 1894, by Arthur Hacker. Oil on canvas, 52 inches by 62 inches. Leeds Art Gallery, England. (Public Domain) By Eric Bess Achieving great things often means passing…

What ‘beauty’ means to an artist whose mission is to revive 5,000 years of civilization  By Catherine Yang  Evangeline Zhu was at Lincoln Center in New York, hours away from…

Paula Finecey and her daughter Adelyn Finecey came from Arizona to Oregon to watch Shen Yun with her family. “It was incredible. I didn’t really know what to expect. And my mom actually was…

BILLINGS, Mont.—David Lewis is a minister as well as a composer. He came to Billings from Livingston, Montana, to see Shen Yun Performing Arts after having it recommended to him by multiple…

Shen Yun Performing Arts, a classical Chinese dance company from New York, gave 10 performances that touched hearts in four states throughout the weekend of Oct. 9. After a long pause…

KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Pamela Skarda is someone who believes that faith does not have to create borders. After attending Shen Yun Performing Arts on her birthday, she was able to share the deep emotions…

                  Reaching Within: What traditional art offers the heart By Eric Bess With the advent of mass media, more and more of us…

By Elizabeth Lev In the halcyon days before the pandemic, every day tens of thousands of visitors piled into the Vatican Museums to admire the extraordinary Renaissance art contained therein. Their…

An Italian artist who spent his summers as a child building sandcastles at the seaside has turned his passion into a profession creating incredible sand sculptures around the world. Leonardo Ugolini, 52,…