The annual Yuyuan Garden Lantern Festival will light up Shanghai on New Year's Day to mark the upcoming Year of the Snake, celebrating its 30th anniversary with a special exhibition, according to the organizers.
As the New Year approaches, a slate of films is gearing up to compete at the box office for the lucrative festival season.
The ongoing exhibition at the China Art Museum, Shanghai presents the art and educational career of Xin Dongwang, an important artist of Chinese realistic oil painting.
Ai Xuan, Yang Feiyun and Wang Yidong, three painters known for their distinctive figurative approach, initiated the founding of the Figurative Painting School in Beijing in 2004, when the group of 13 members' first exhibition was held.
The exhibition "Flowers Bloom in Streets" shows artist Wu Shuang's love of nature and flowers.
The most popular motifs in the work of Qi Baishi are small, everyday creatures like shrimp, baby chicks, and little fishes, which he rendered using minimal strokes, capturing on paper their carefree lives.
A video featuring six young men rehearsing a dance for their company's annual meeting has gone viral online, drawing widespread praise for their smooth moves and impressive teamwork.
The National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing celebrated the 17th anniversary of its inauguration with an Open Day Festival on Dec 22 by hosting 15 performances and more than 50 cultural activities at its three sites — the NCPA, the Beijing Performing Arts Centre and the NCPA Taihu Stage Art Centre.
A street dance show and a competition initiated by the China Oriental Street Dance Group were held in Beijing on Dec 21.
Chinese fans of the fantastic world of Middle-earth, created by English writer J.R.R. Tolkien, recently had their enthusiasm re-ignited by the release of the new animated film The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim.
The book, titled Zhu Lin, the Queen of Drama, chronicles how she, a poor girl with a fighting spirit, strove to be a shining star under the spotlight of theater, and later hailed as "queen of Chinese drama". Pu wrote the book's preface.