What? The Lion of Venice, an ancient bronze statue of a winged lion which can be seen by countless tourists on a massive plinth of Egyptian granite in the Piazza San Marco. Why is it in the news? A ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (BCN) — San Francisco residents will start seeing five wooden dragon statues across the city today, the first day of a Chinese ...

You know what won’t diffuse tension in Northeast Asia: building a tribute to one of the region’s more divisive historical figures. But Seoul and Beijing last week confirmed plans to do just that, ...

HONG KONG — A set of 1,400-year-old Buddha statues in southwest China was damaged by villagers who painted them with bright colors to “redeem a wish to the god,” officials said. Located in rural ...

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PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Crews removed two out of eight sculptures in Old Town on Wednesday morning that have been called culturally offensive to the Chinese community. The statues were designed in ...

A Catholic diocese in China has unveiled a statue of an Italian Jesuit missionary to mark the 400th anniversary of his arrival and honor his legacy in the region. The Diocese of Fuzhou unveiled the ...

(BCN) — San Francisco residents will start seeing five wooden dragon statues across the city today, the first day of a Chinese Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco public art project. The statues– ...

When Marco Polo returned to Venice from a place he called Catai in 1295, he brought back sublime tales of another world. Polo’s Book of the Marvels of the World told of paper money, a burning black ...