Broad brush

Autumn art

A man walks past a pile of autumn leaves in the shape of a pyramid at China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang province on December 2, 2014. The pyramid sculpture was made by students who wanted to make use of fallen leaves to create an art piece. AFP PHOTO

Sigmar 20082 

A woman viewing a video installation by Irish-born artist Duncan Campbell entitled "Sigmar 20082 during a press preview for the 2014 Turner Prize at the Tate Britain in central London. Campbell won the prestigious Turner Prize on December 1, 2014 for a complex film spanning African art, dance choreography and images of Irish Republican Army fighters. AFP PHOTO/CARL COURT

Gifts from america

A visitor looks at the bas-relief "Charger" a work of US artist Viola Frey displayed as part of the exhibition "Gifts from America: 1948–2013. Modern and contemporary applied arts from the Hermitage Museum Foundation (USA)" in the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, on December 2, 2014. AFP