China will meet Latin America in a musical extravaganza at the closing ceremony of the 14th Meet in Beijing Arts Festival at the National Center for the Performing Arts.
The major movie franchise returns with retro style and a stellar cast promising a geek field day for film fans and comic book aficionados alike. The Associated Press reports in Los Angeles.
It takes more than a squeaky toy and a camera to capture memorable pet portraits.
Actress Fan Bingbing is thrilled to have worked in one of the highest-grossing movie franchises in the world. Her experience is a rare feat for an Asian. In the newest superhero X-Men movie Days of the Future Past, Fan plays Blink, a mutant with special powers.
Shan Jixiang, 60, may have done something never achieved by any of the Forbidden City's former royal residents. After taking the position of director of the Palace Museum in 2012, he has been to all 9,000 temples, halls and rooms in the world's biggest palace complex and wooden architectural complex.
So, a lady walks into a bar... Wait, scratch that. A lady takes out her phone. With a left swipe of her finger she dismisses Alex,25, and Robert, 48.She swipes right when a photo of James,24, pops up. James had swiped right, too. It's a match! They chat, and make plans to meet. After all, they're only 4 kilometers apart.
Mysterious British graffiti superstar Banksy - who has never been publicly identified - was predictably a no-show at the annual Webby awards, despite being named "person of the year".
Very few people have had the luxury of riding a bicycle inside Beijing's Palace Museum. Claude Faubert is one of them. The director-general of the Canada Science and Technology Museum, based in Ottawa, is also a coordinator for international training at the Palace Museum.
It was a cool autumn evening on Sept 14, 1973, but Eugene Ormandy was working up a sweat on the stage of the Cultural Palace of Nationalities.
The latest remake of the classic monster flick Godzilla stormed to the top of the North American box office in its opening weekend with a killer $93.2million, industry figures showed on May 19.
Xing Danwen captures drama, emotions and dreams, all through a camera. She mixes fact and fiction to reveal a larger reality. In China, she was one of the first artists to explore the boundaries of photography, transcending its limits. "I have been taking photographs for 25 years now," says Xing. She is a soft-spoken Chinese woman who has achieved enormous success in Europe with her innovative art.
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