Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Gallery.
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World apart
 A major exhibition of about one hundred Chinese landscape paintings on special loan from museums in China and France at the Galerie nationale du Grand Palais chronicles the central place that mountains and rivers occupy in this artistic genre in China...
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Kaleidoscopic images
 When Farhan Mujib returned to Aligarh in 1980 after completing his PhD in a science discipline from the UK, he found that in the three years that he was away from home his paints had dried up and his brushes had become unusable...
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Summer treat
 Artists, famous and unknown, are given the opportunity to show their work in every form of art discipline and usually about 1000 pieces are chosen from ten times that number for display. Many of the world’s best loved artists have contributed to the event...
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Form-fillers need not apply
 Scandalous mismanagement of lottery-funded capital projects; senior arts positions unfilled for months on end; an increasing number of top cultural jobs filled by candidates from overseas: it all adds up to a crisis in the way arts are run in the UK...
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Working realism
 Art belongs to the world of thoughts, hopes, wants, love, hate, oppression, protest, investigation, growth and much else that is not material. Yet, at the end of the day, those who...
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Unesco leads the way
 My column today is essentially about some Unesco publications on the heritage, for the beauty of which and the labour that has gone into them, no praise would be enough. In...
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