At the beginning of planning for each issue, we are always looking forward to see what it will eventually look like. Indeed, each issue of Art Exchange has different topics, focusing on different kinds of art – from brilliant stage performance to traditional heritage of Chinese calligraphy and painting, and to contemporary design with full of fantasy. It’s all about outstanding artists around the world, microscopic thinking for life, and a pleasure for boating in life.

A perfect literary works will reflect a grand theme in details like a floating boat in the sea of ordinary life, which you can find in the programmes at the China Today Arts Week—the spiritual intuition in the core highlighting self-definition and various sentimental elements in life. As Alain de Botton put in his comments, the advantage of art is, beyond the complication of life, to express what you bear in emotions but hard to utter in words in an accurate way. Art, such a floating boat in the sea of life, will carry you to the nirvana of ideal.