Modern architects are largely trying to mingle the traditional form with not only the contemporary designs but also carrying it further to add a futuristic element to their designs that surpass realism and travel to the territory of the surreal....

Artist Cai Guo-Qiang has broken all records for Chinese contemporary art, as his set of 14 gunpowder paintings sold for $9.5 million at an auction in Hong Kong to an anonymous bidder on Nov. 25 as part of a mammoth auction of contemporary South...