Hong Kong's Apple Daily welcomes Fu Ying's "firm and graceful, noble and elegant image", but says she disappointed the outside world with "shadow boxing" or stonewalling on political reform.

BBC: China media: NPC spokeswoman praised

The importance of frames (there are several newly framed works here) is especially evident when we see the difference between two monumental Rembrandts the elegant and restrained wooden frame that surrounds the so-called Noble Slav (1632) makes the gilded 19th-century frame on "Aristotle With the Bust of Homer" (1653) seem needlessly gaudy.

WSJ: The Met's European Reunion

Beauty rolls in waves and seethes in eddies throughout the installations of dazzling ceramics, noble architectural fragments and statuary, fabulous carpets, enchanting miniatures from manuscripts and albums, and the extraordinarily varied and elegant calligraphy of handmade Korans, along with choice fabrics, metalwork, jewelry, and weapons.

NEWYORKER: Old and New