CULTURE \>\> IN EUROPE

On Top of Two Empires, Rome

First landscape painting exhibition tour of Xu Longsen in Europe traveling through Italy, England and France. His art works are famous for the combination of huge size and fine technique of ink and pen (see above story).

Venue: Museum of Roman Civilization

Date: June 22 Till July 24

Contact: [email protected]

China New Design exhibition,

Milan and Turin

The show, which is part of the 2011 Year of China in Italy, displays 134 works by 29 of China's most dynamic new generation designers.

Date: Till September 11

Venue: Milan Triennale Design Museum, and the Turin Palace Museum (Palazzo Chiablese)

Website: http://milan.wantedineurope.com/events

Poster Power: Images from Mao's China, London

An exhibition of posters from Mao-era China that explores the ways in which imagery supports a revolutionary ideology half a century ago. Show sets up a visual dialogue between posters produced between the 1950s and the 1970s and their echoes in recent years.

Date: Till July 13

Venue: University of Westminster, 309 Regent St, London, W1B 2UW

Website: http://www.westminster.ac.uk/posterpower

Events can be submitted by e-mail to:

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