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Spring show

After seeing the 1961 Spring Exhibition of Painting, held at the Beijing Fine Arts Academy, noted novelist and dramatist Lao She said that the works on show presented "a new air and new glow" and "passionately, the painters depicted the unprecedented achievements the country has achieved in socialist construction".The latest installment of the annual exhibition, now underway at the academy's art museum and set to run through April 24, offers a review of the progress of Chinese art, to which the academy has stayed committed over the past six decades. On show are classical Chinese paintings from the mountain-and-water and flower-and-bird genres, ink figure paintings and oil works by 31 resident artists. The exhibition was first organized in 1959 to carry on Chinese cultural traditions and open up new paths to make Chinese art even more diverse.

9:30 am-5 pm, Tuesday-Sunday. 12 Chaoyang Gongyuan Nan Lu, Chaoyang district, Beijing. 010-6502-5171.