Sydney and Auckland were among the world's first major cities to ring in 2024, with revellers cheering spectacular fireworks displays that lit up the skies over Australia's Sydney Harbour and New Zealand's tallest structure, Sky Tower.
Artist turns work into life-saving equipment chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-07-30 16:05 Share CLOSE Artist Kong Ning presents her installation art Floating , which is composed of 15 canoes, in Zhengzhou city, Henan province on July 28, 2021. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
A Beijing-based artist has visited a flood-stricken city to turn her artwork into life-saving equipment for donation.
Zhengzhou city in Central China s Henan province suffered from a serious flood last week, which caught the whole nation s attention. Artist and environmentalist Kong Ning went to Zhengzhou on Wednesday to present her installation artwork entitled Floating , which is composed of 15 canoes and calls on people to fight together against flooding.
By BO LEUNG | China Daily Global | Updated: 2021-04-23 09:38 Share CLOSE Chinese artist and environmental activist Kong Ning unveils her latest gown collection, themed Kiss the Earth, on a Beijing street on Thursday street in support of Earth Day. ANDY WONG/AP
Chinese basketball star Yao Ming and other well-known personalities including actress Cate Blanchett and singer Shakira have signed an open letter calling on people across the world to unite in tackling the climate crisis before it is too late.
They are part of the Earthshot Prize Council, an annual environmental award launched in 2020 by Prince William and naturalist David Attenborough who are also on the list of signatories.
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Updated: 22/04/2021
Chinese performance artist Kong Ning dressed in a gown made of red balloon lips on Thursday to draw attention to environmental causes on Earth Day.
The 64-year-old Kong has displayed her iconic wearable art pieces on each Earth Day for over a decade to increase public awareness of world peace and protecting the environment.
This year her work is titled: Kissing the Earth.
Standing in a grey-brick alley in central Beijing, Kong wears a crown in the shape of a globe, with 40 inflatable red lips fitted on a wire structure that trails behind her like a wedding gown train.