TAIYUAN, May 13 (Xinhua) A stele dating back to more than 1,000 years ago has been discovered in north China Shanxi Province, according to local authorities.
Though Shanghai restaurants have been around the city since at least 1970, they really grabbed the spotlight when Joe’s Shanghai introduced soup dumplings in the ’90s, squirting dense, wonderfully oily broth onto innumerable shirtfronts. Other delectable Shanghai classics became readily available around the same time, including soy-braised pork shoulder, vinegar-drenched drunken crab, lion’s mane meatballs, elliptical rice cakes with pickled mustard greens and shredded pork, and vegetarian mock duck.
CheLi’s entrance up a metal stairway on the second floor.
One of CheLi’s objets d’art
But in fact, the menus of the many new Shanghai restaurants that sprang up only scratched the surface. It turned out the cuisine of China’s most populous and futuristic of cities is every bit as rich and multifaceted as New York’s, filled with historic references and geographic borrowings. And now CheLi, a wonderful new restaurant that opened in November on the busiest block of St. Ma
5 Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now
From a lavish armory in Florence to a tiny gallery near the Arctic Circle, here are five far-flung museums that deserve more followers.
Gustav Vigeland’s “The Monolith” (detail), 1924-25, at the Vigeland Museum in Oslo, a Norwegian institution devoted to one of Europe’s strangest and most compelling modernist sculptors.Credit.Marte Grette/The Vigeland Museum
Published Feb. 3, 2021Updated Feb. 4, 2021
In the years B.C. Before Covid-19 I was convinced that museums and Instagram were fundamentally opponents. Both are storehouses of images, classified, displayed and valorized according to certain governing rules. But whereas museums locate the importance of pictures in their artistic value or their historical lineage, Instagram ascribes value through a simpler, tougher logic: the tyranny of likes.