Artists from both home and abroad yesterday started a series of weekly lessons for Expo visitors at the Baosteel Stage on the Pudong Expo site. Some officials from Expo pavilions will be invited to give lectures.

Information about the talks will be publicized on www.expo2010.cn, the official Expo website. Vincenzo Sanfo, Cultural Center of Italy president, and Chinese painter Liu Zhong gave the first lecture on Eastern and Western aesthetics.