Under the baton of conductor Zhang Lie, Nanjing Chinese Orchestra staged its orchestral work, Liberation: 1949, on June 24 at the National Center for the Performing Arts to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China.
According to a report by Chinese consulting agency iiMedia Research, the number of hanfu enthusiasts in the country will have surged from 2.04 million in 2018 to 6.89 million by the end of this year, with over 70 percent of the fans being Generation Z-ers aged between 16 and 24.
Working with chief director Yang Le, architect Zhang Jiyuan and artist Qiu Yu, Gao, serving as the executive director, spent four years to create the experimental drama, Spectacle, which recently debuted during the 2021 Overseas Chinese Town Culture and Tourism Festival.
Writer Zhang Wei, better known as Tangjiasanshao online, has recently released his latest novel Medial Axis of Beijing.
For those who have wanted to get an overall view of the legendary artist's life, Becoming Andy Warhol, an exhibition to open on July 3 in Beijing, will unfold a panoramic scroll to begin with his youth in a working-class neighborhood, and chronicle his career from a commercial illustrator to an artist experimenting in painting, sculpture, illustration, photography, filmmaking, fashion and theater.
A selection of nearly 250 works by Matisse, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, ink works on paper, paper-cuttings and illustrations from the museum, will be shown in Beijing and Shanghai in 2022.
Marking the 100th birthday of the Communist Party of China, 12 classic Chinese dance pieces were performed by students of Beijing Dance Academy of the middle school affiliated to the academy in the capital on June 23.
Farmers were photographed collecting lilies at a plantation in Rongcheng, Weihai, East China's Shandong province, on June 18, as the flowers are currently in full blossom.
An exhibition featuring creative works based on traditional tiger-themed paper-cuts is being held at the Yantai Cultural Center in East China's Shandong province on June 20.
A new book, Reflections on the Ming Dynasty Costumes, was launched in Beijing by China Textile & Apparel Press and the Capital Library of China on Saturday.
Midi Music Festival was held in E China's Jiangsu province from June 12 to 14.
A group of foreign diplomats were invited by the State Council Information Office to visit the Palace Museum in Beijing on June 21, while also seeking further cultural cooperation between their countries and this key Chinese cultural venue.