It slipped a little, from No 20 to No 24, but Hong Kong's Amber restaurant remains firmly ensconced on the World's 50 Best Restaurants last week. It is the only Hong Kong restaurant on the 2017 list and, like last year, joins Shanghai's Ultraviolet by Paul Pariet (No 41) as the only two restaurants in China to be so lauded.
Since its official opening in September, Tsinghua University Art Museum is presenting its first solo exhibition of a living artist.
The nomination of three young female artists for the Yishu 8 Prize, a project funded by philanthropists from China and France, is reflective of changes in Chinese society and art circles, according to the award jury.
Compared with their predecessors from the 1990s, young artists in China today enjoy much greater exposure. They exhibit more, at museums, galleries and art fairs both at home and abroad. Many of them even start to make money from their work while still in college.
A woman is seen walking toward a spotlight onstage under which a circle is drawn in sand.
PARIS - Ryuichi Sakamoto, the pioneering Japanese electronic composer, has announced his first studio albumin eight years that is inspired by Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky.
A desire to make travel experiences truly personal journeys is propelling more Chinese to take customized tours.
PALM BEACH, United States - An emerald-green 1970 Mercedes-Benz enters a red-brick driveway lined with swaying palm trees, a gentleman in white pants gets out, puts on his hat, softly flips his blazer, and walks into a hall of splendor. This is a common scene at the Breakers, a top-notch luxury hotel at Palm Beach, Florida. If we call Downton Abbey a period drama, then Palm Beach is a "period island" of the Gilded Age.
In 2008, Hong Kong playwright Anthony Chan had just taken the position of artistic director of Hong Kong Repertory Theater. That year, he met Vincent Heywood, a Chinese culture researcher from the UK, who told him a story.
Blanca Li could not be busier: she is a dancer, film director and actress, and does choreography for stars like Beyonce and Daft Punk, and lots, lots more.
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