Concerts in five cities to feature Chinese and European works, Chen Nan reports.
Titled A Shorn Root, an exhibition of more than 25 new works by British artist Rachel Jones will kick off at the Long Museum in Shanghai on March 18.
Full River Red, the highest-grossing blockbuster during Spring Festival, was once planned to be filmed in one continuous shot throughout its 150-minute duration, revealed scriptwriter Chen Yu during a recent seminar held at Beijing's China Film Archive.
Among those who taught at the Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University, Zhu Danian (1916-95) and Wu Guanzhong (1919-2010) were two prominent artists themselves who formed distinctive styles, and who contributed greatly to the development of the 20th-century Chinese art.
Award-winning composer Tan Dun's latest music work, Five Souls, was released on March 3. With five movements written for a small ensemble, featuring water percussion, harp, brass, strings and didgeridoo, the music work offers listeners a glimpse of the composer's interpretation of the metaverse.
China's No 1 Central Document, which is the first policy statement released by the country's central authorities each year, puts an emphasis on agricultural and rural development for 2023. This is also the 20th No 1 Central Document of this century to focus on agricultural and rural affairs.
The Shanghai Oriental Art Center announced its spring and summer offerings. Starting March 3 and running through Aug 8, 91 performances will be staged, including a number of international projects.
The 38th Shanghai Spring International Musical Festival will take place from March 18 to April 2. It will consist of 32 concerts, 10 dance shows and a series of exhibitions, competitions and other events.
Audiences in Shanghai will be in for a treat when not one but two Phantoms take to the stage. A dance theater production of The Phantom of the Opera will be premiered at the Shanghai International Dance Center Grand Theater on May 11. It will be performed by the Shanghai Ballet.
A seventh-generation inheritor of Xiang embroidery is dedicated to the craft, report Wang Ru and Feng Zhiwei in Changsha.
In many ways, national highways are the arteries of a nation, as they form a network of interconnected routes that facilitate the flow of resources and people that keep the country moving.
Long queues of visitors formed outside the National Art Museum of China on a Sunday afternoon, despite Beijing being engulfed in the chills of early February, and people having to hold umbrellas to shelter from falling sleet. They all came for the same exhibition, Beauty in Greatness Through Details, which occupies all of the museum's halls and comprises 1,000 paintings, prints, watercolors and sculptures of smaller sizes. Some are from the collection of National Art Museum of China and are representative works of preeminent figures of the 20th-century Chinese art.