Now 28, and alternately based in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, Tan is starring in Singapore Repertory Theatre’s Forbidden City: Portrait ... show is about Empress Dowager CiXi, of the Manchu ...

That was Empress Dowager Cixi’s life story; the woman who ruled China in the 19th century and arguably the most important Chinese woman in history. Born in 1835, Cixi was brought in as a ...

the episode will likely provide more clarity on his origins and his potential ties to the imperial family Titled ‘The Empress Dowager,’ The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 Episode 8 will premiere ...

The 52-year-old royal dazzled in an all-red suit for her and her husband's trip to the Bank of Spain to receive their official portraits by American photographer, Annie Leibovitz, in the Spanish ...

Portraits of Winston Churchill have been removed from the walls of Parliament following Labour’s general election victory last June. Several paintings, prints and drawings of the heroic wartime ...

Joseph’s children followed behind the new heir presumptive. 23 years later, in 1743, Maria Theresa would be crowned Empress; an event where she was noted by a British diplomat as ‘most attractive’ ...

Please believe me?'" Which is why Laub has been taking photos of as many Holocaust survivors as she can – more than 300 portraits so far, and she's far from done. Of her subjects she said ...

In the past month alone, shadowy portraits have been found hidden in longstanding masterpieces by Titian and Picasso. What can they and other such discoveries tell us? Something's stirring.

The colonial powers that had been in China since the Opium War of 1840 responded swiftly, prompting the departure of Empress Dowager Cixi from the capital. When the Boxer Rebellion broke out, the ...

That most scorned of decades is suddenly everywhere in art. And if Tate Britain’s exhibition The 80s: Photographing Britain wants to rub our noses in the grim and gritty side of the Thatcher era ...