Paramount's frightening A Quiet Place: Part II returned to first place in North American theaters this weekend, as the much-ballyhooed film version of Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical In the Heights fell short of expectations, industry analysts said Sunday.

A new exhibition featuring the works of eight architects and three artists kicked off at the Taoxichuan Art Museum of The Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA).

Wang Junkai, also known as Karry Wang, a young top-level super star who has more than 80 million followers on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo, recently got the cold shoulder from netizens after starring in an episode of a patriotic TV drama Faith Makes Great (2021) on Monday. Many netizens said they found the singer-turned-actor's performance wanting and called for idols to undergo more cultural and historical preparation before taking on roles in these types of patriotic series.

One of China's most high pressure nation-wide exams, the gaokao, or national college entrance exams, kicked off on Monday. Every year around this time, parts of the test, particularly the gaokao essay portion, inevitably become hot topics of discussion on Chinese social media. The year 2021 has not been an exception, and it seems that at least one star is taking advantage of this to promote a new release. After Journey, a rapper from Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, has captured netizens' attention by writing an "essay" hinting that he has a new song on the way.

The MTV Video Music Awards will take place on September 12 in New York, the channel announced Tuesday - the latest news that live entertainment is coming back in the city as it emerges from the pandemic.

The INK Studio at Beijing's Caochangdi art zone is hosting an exhibition featuring works from Japanese calligrapher Inoue Yuichi and Chinese painter Li Huasheng. A selection of Li's landscape paintings are on display together with Inoue Yuichi's calligraphy works.

An exhibition in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu Province sets up a dialogue between artist Chen Shuailang's landscape paper artwork and Mei An's poetry, with academic support from Xu Zhenglong, a professor at Tsinghua University.

The first episode of the art film series Art to Art produced by Italian fashion house GIADA was screened in Beijing on Monday. The Becoming of a Virtuoso reveals the philosophy behind designer Claudio Silvestrin and four of his most well-known masterpieces.

The 24th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) will rescreen Days and Nights in Wuhan, China's first anti-pandemic documentary, on June 12 along with other 11 classic films highlighting the monumental achievements of the Communist Party of China (CPC) since its foundation.

An art exhibition featuring Dunhuang murals kicked off at the Zhejiang Conservatory of Music on Sunday to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC) as well as to bring the distinctive artworks closer to university students.

Long before his mega smash-hit Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda dazzled Broadway with In The Heights, a Latin pop and salsa-inspired musical celebrating the New York immigrant community that raised him.

Hordes of beaming tourists were flying into the sun-soaked resort of Malaga on Monday after Spain opened its borders to all vaccinated travelers from all over the world.

A new TV series adapted from Chinese sci-fi writer Liu Cixin's award-winning novel The Three-Body Problem has been listed in Chinese streaming giant Tencent Video's 2021 slate of shows, marking the first time the story has been adapted for TV. This was a great news for fans of the novel, many of whom have been waiting for the release of a movie adaptation that was filmed more than five years ago but has still not been released.

There have been no new episodes in China's first documentary themed on Chinese women's fertility problems, Impressive Egg's Birth, since mid May, and netizens suspect it might be connected to the implementation of the third-child policy.

Centuries-old umbrella-shaped dragon's blood trees line the rugged peaks of Yemen's Socotra - a flagship symbol of the Indian Ocean archipelago's extraordinary biodiversity, but also a bleak warning of environmental crisis.

Wang Enxi, a teen girl who is zealously into the traditional Chinese comedic performance known as xiangsheng, or crosstalk, has recently become the first female apprentice of the country's most popular crosstalk group Deyunshe. Hailed by netizens as a "true Deyun girl," the 14-year-old Wang is not only a talent that stood out from around 2.6 million applicants across the country, she is also the first person to change the group's controversial "no woman" applicants rule.

A milk tea shop that opened in East China's Fujian Province has recently become a hot topic on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo, earning more than 300 million views. Many netizens have asked: "Is postage included in delivery?" since the shop looks to be a crossover business launched by the China Post.

An international culture event dedicated to multi-cultural children's communications was launched at the Pakistan Embassy College in Beijing on Saturday.

Exquisite clothing made with the Chinese silk tapestry technique known as kesi, which was once used to make clothing for royalty since the Song Dynasty (960-1279), has been appearing in Chinese costume dramas. Not only domestic audiences are applauding the sharp increase in quality of the costumes appearing in such dramas, once upon a time criticized as "mass produced" and "plastic," audiences overseas are also getting a taste of traditional Chinese culture from film and TV dramas that are following the hot trend.

Once, Abraham Barberi was known as the "pastor of rappers," host of Christian hip-hop concerts targeting young drug dealers in Mexico in hopes of putting them on a different path.

They are technology enthusiasts on the hunt for opportunities in the Wild West market surrounding NFTs: the popular certified digital objects that have spawned a new generation of collectors convinced of their huge potential.

Over 4,900 events will be held across China to celebrate 2021's Cultural and Natural Heritage Day, China's National Cultural Heritage Administration (NCHA) announced on Thursday.

For the first time, Hollywood has turned its attention to the Chinese comic book market for inspiration.

US actor-director Jodie Foster will be guest of honor at the Cannes Film Festival in July where she will be given an honorary Palme d'Or, the organizers said Wednesday.

Turkey will roll back coronavirus disease restrictions to allow indoor dining and end weekend lockdowns, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said earlier this week.

Kuwaiti businessman Jassem Buabbas has spent years breeding "superworms" for animal feed and now hopes the creatures will find their way into the diets of Gulf citizens.

Princess Diana's wedding dress for her 1981 marriage to Prince Charles was one of the best-kept secrets in fashion history.

A new children musical will kick off the first leg of its national tour at the Beijing Poly Theater at the upcoming weekend.

Chinese veteran rockers like Cui Jian, Miserable Faith, Tang Dynasty and Secondhand Rose will gather at Taihu Lake in Li Yang, East China's Jiangsu Province for one of China's most loved music festivals, MIDI, from June 12-14.

Thirteen days after premiering in the Chinese mainland, Fast & Furious 9 (F9) finally beat Godzilla vs. Kong on Wednesday to become the highest-grossing Hollywood film in China since the outbreak of COVID-19.

A 400-million-year old fossil of the ancient creature Sanqiaspis - a type of ancient fish with a distinctive trident look - was recently discovered in China's "ancient fish kingdom" of Qujing in Southwest China's Yunnan Province.

A French heiress who spent years trying to win back a priceless impressionist painting that was stolen by the Nazis renounced her claim to the artwork on Tuesday to end a legal feud with a US university.

Be it in the popular Night At the Museum movie series, where the exhibits come alive at night, or Karen LeFrak's Sleepover at the Museum books, which follows the story of Mason and his friends on their adventures at the Museum of Natural History, staying overnight at a museum has always been seen as something cool and wonderful by children. On Tuesday, International Children's Day, musicians from the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra (SSO) helped a group of children experience this for themselves through a 45-minute-long performance.

In the country of salsa and rumba, a troupe of sneaker-wearing Cuban youngsters have burst onto the dance scene with a style until recently all but unheard of on the isolated island nation: hip-hop.

A new exhibition featuring calligraphy and landscape paintings from Xukou town, East China's Jiangsu Province kicked off on Tuesday in Beijing to present the beauty of the town sitting near Taihu Lake.

A cultural event commemorating the 10-year anniversary of the reunion of the two halves of the ancient painting Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains on the island of Taiwan was held in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province on Tuesday. The event was seen as the first major cross-Straits cultural exchange event of 2021.

The national opera Yimeng Mountain Range was performed on Sunday at a newly launched theater in Beijing's Shunyi district to mark the theater's opening as well as the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC).

Chinese paleontologists discovered the fossil remains of a Jurassic period dinosaur in Lufeng, Southwest China's Yunnan Province, in late May, according to a report from a local provincial media outlet.

With the introduction of new regulations from China's General Administration of Sport, breakdancing, a form of dance with deep roots in street culture, has been listed as an official competitive sport for the 14th National Games of the People's Republic of China, the country's biggest national sport gala.

Some 183 million people tuned in to watch 2021's Eurovision Song Contest, organizers said Monday, with young online fans driving up viewing figures for the pop extravaganza.

An exhibition from Chinese artist Shu Yong in Beijing aims to offer visitors in the capital city an opportunity to see China's stories through an artistic lens.

The five-star palace hotels are in full swing, the sound of music drifts across the beach and after a "horrible" year blighted by the coronavirus crisis, the French resort of Cannes is finally buzzing again as it gears up for its film festival.

A documentary film focusing on the youth of Chinese scholars from China's National Southwest Associated University, such as Nobel winner for physics Yang Zhengning, has been getting high praise from moviegoers since it hit cinemas in the Chinese mainland on Friday. The stories of these national treasures, all of whom are now over 90 years old, have moved audiences.

Zhao Liying, a Chinese actress who was born in poverty but experienced a meteoric rise, has recently impressed netizens with her excellent performance in a main-themed short TV drama episode. Depicting a young woman who has devoted herself to China's poverty alleviation efforts, Zhao has shown how the appearance of famous young stars in patriotic cultural productions can deliver positivity while enhancing their social image.

A total of 42 Chinese writers and 14 TV and film works were awarded at the Golden Screenwriters' Night hosted by Chinese streaming giant iQIYI on Sunday as part of its efforts to pay tribute to these creatives.

Melissa Paul described it as a "beautiful gift" when she became Croatia's first official digital nomad earlier in 2021, benefiting from a visa scheme that the country hopes will help promote its pandemic-hit travel industry.

A film produced in Hong Kong and a TV series from the Chinese mainland were given the "2020 Dirty Ashtray Award" for having too many smoking scenes by the Chinese Association on Cigarette Control on Friday, just days ahead of Monday's 34th World No Tobacco Day, as part of measures to strengthen supervision of smoking content in TV and film works in China.

The recently released sequel A Quiet Place Part II has not been as well received by moviegoers in the Chinese mainland as the first film, according to audience ratings on Chinese media review site Douban. Chinese movie critic says that the innovativeness of the original film has set a high bar for the sequel to pass.

The latest film by US director Wes Anderson, The French Dispatch, will premiere at the Cannes film festival in the official competition, organizers said Friday.

Filmmaker Zack Obid trembles with excitement: He has just found a miniature work of art during a treasure hunt that a US artist organizes every week in his Brooklyn neighborhood.

Chinese government institutions have launched nine international projects to promote the culture of the Sanxingdui Ruins around the world on Friday night.

A large line dancing event kicked off in Hong Kong on Saturday to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC).

An idol fan's self-developed app that allowed users to batch forward and artificially promote posts on Sina Weibo was found guilty of criminal charges by the Fengtai District Procuratorate in Beijing. The case exposed the phenomenon in China known as lunbo, a method to "hype posts" in which fans take turns mass forwarding posts on Sina Weibo to increase the popularity of their favorite stars.

Classical musicians in Vienna are preparing to return to live performances after long months without audiences which have severely tested their motivation and, for some, even thrown their careers into question.

Despite the institutional status bestowed by her double Michelin star, Vicky Lau says the battle to improve gender parity in the male-dominated culinary world is a long way from won -- but small victories bring her hope.

Cena's timely apology reveals his willingness to uphold the values of China and actually sets a good example for all Westerners to follow when it comes to respecting and learning more about China's national situation, especially its inviolable territorial integrity.

A music show for the orchestra trilogy Sound Puzzle was recently launched in Beijing at the Central Conservatory of Music.

Jin Xing, China's most famous transgender star, recently became the new face of Dior. This new collaboration was praised by netizens, who called it a "great marketing maneuver" as the famed luxury fashion house sees Jin's unique sassy charm go with the brand's spirit.

An artificial intelligence (AI) project has been developed to help identify ancient Chinese books overseas.

Marvel Studios released a Chinese-subtitled trailer for The Eternals, directed by Oscar winner Chloe Zhao, on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo on Monday, indicating that the studio is confident that the film will get a release date in China, the world's largest film market.

Horse master Joel Proust hopes his stallions will soon return to the movie sets in Morocco that made his name, ranging from Hollywood epics to HBO hit series Game of Thrones.

The Getty Center museum, one of the top art museums in the US and one of the iconic visitor destinations in Los Angeles, reopened Tuesday at limited capacity after being closed for more than a year amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The stars of Friends never really left us - they were simply on a break.

A new documentary exploring the various choices women in China have made concerning their "fertility" debuted online recently, igniting hot discussion among netizens, many of whom have pointed out that the issue is far more complex than deciding whether or not to have children.

With the graduation season approaching, millions of young college students are preparing to walk out of their schools and start their careers. But how will they take those first steps to transition from students to workers in today's fast-paced society?

A new exhibition from young Chinese artist Li Jing looks back at her past six years of art creation at Today Art Museum.

France's Europe minister called Monday for "total transparency" over speculation that one of Italy's victorious Eurovision contestants used cocaine during the song contest, saying it should be grounds for disqualification if confirmed.

The task of playing China's well-known historical figures has always been a big but honorable challenge for actors. Actor Bao Jianfeng, who plays the role of the great leader Mao Zedong in the Chinese historical TV drama The Great Waves, also holds this belief.

Following Youth With You 3's milk wasting scandal, another bomb dropped in the Chinese entertainment industry when it was revealed that stars are paid an average daily meal allowance of 1,500 to 2,000 yuan ($234-312) while filming variety shows. This lavish compensation has outraged many Chinese netizens, who said that "stars do not deserve to be treated better than hard-working scientists."

The Chinese entertainment industry has leap into action to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Over the weekend, hundreds of Chinese stars, including young actor Jackson Yee and actress Dilraba from Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, posted video messages to promote and introduce revolutionary spirits of the Party to Chinese netizens.

Italian rock foursome Maneskin won the Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam on Saturday in a glammed-up message of hope for a world emerging from the coronavirus pandemic.

The latest work from the National Ballet of China (NBC), Inspiration and Glory, debuted at the Beijing Tianqiao Theater on Sunday night.

A dance drama from the China National Opera & Dance Theater, one of the country's top troupes, will be released online using the latest technology from Chinese tech giant Huawei, according to a new agreement the two signed on Saturday.

For decades, it was the place to go for books in the blockaded Gaza Strip, from school texts to the Koran to Arabic translations of European literary classics.

The national tour for Apologue, a series of stage dramas directed by famous Chinese film director Zhang Yimou, kicked off on Friday in Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan Province. The series features eight stage performances that combine traditional Chinese culture with advanced technology.

While Universal Pictures' action film Fast and Furious 9, which premiered in the Chinese mainland on Friday, enjoyed the highest-grossing opening weekend for a Hollywood movie in China since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, the film only managed to score a low 5.6/10 on Chinese review site Douban, where Chinese moviegoers are calling it "the worst in the franchise" for its "outrageous plot."

"Elf's ear," a name given to a newly emerging beauty trend introduced by beauty-obsessed gurus on Chinese online platforms such as Sina Weibo, has recently become the target of criticism for promoting unhealthy standards of beauty and increasing women's anxiety about their appearance. It seems that netizens have finally had enough of these types of "beauty" trends as they are calling for an end to it, and other extreme methods.

Original Chinese dance drama Follow The Mother River debuted at Beijing's Tianqiao Performing Arts Center on Saturday.

A new art exhibition that focuses on European artists' screen printing works has been launched in Beijing on Friday to explore the topic of the “cycle of life”.

"English is not my first language," writes Nakia Smith on her TikTok account, although the 22-year-old grew up in Texas. The young African-American woman has been deaf since birth, and uses her large online following to promote her little-known dialect: Black American Sign Language.

Several Chinese TV stations and online platforms preempted the broadcast of their ordinary Saturday night lineup of entertainment shows to mourn the death of China's 91-year-old “Father of Hybrid Rice” Yuan Longping, who passed away Saturday afternoon. The decision earned numerous thumbs- up from many Chinese netizens.

Alain Ducasse, the French chef with the most Michelin stars in the world, is leaving the restaurant of luxury Paris hotel Plaza Athenee that has been his base for more than two decades and where he developed his "naturalness" approach to cuisine.

With COVID-19 certificates in hand, Austrians on Wednesday could once again file into restaurants and cafes after more than six months of restrictions.

The Taihu Jazz music festival, a five-day music event featuring international jazz musicians, will be launched on Wednesday in Beijing.

Her taste, a mini variety show, in which popular Chinese actress Yuan Shanshan shares her lifestyle tips and favorite everyday objects with audiences debuted its first live broadcast on Wednesday on Sohu TV.

New Chinese movie Zhou Enlai in His Childhood will hit the big screen on June 1, International Children's Day, the film's official Sina Weibo account announced on Thursday.

Friends, one of the most-watched iconic US sitcoms, has long had a huge following in China, so it is no surprise that the show began trending on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo after the trailer for its 2021 reunion special was recently released.

The French on Wednesday joyfully made their way back to cafes, cinemas and museums as the country loosened restrictions in a return to semi-normality after more than six months of COVID-19 curbs.

A technology-powered 3D design competition launched in 2020 to mark the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the diplomatic relations between Switzerland and China revealed its winners at the Embassy of Switzerland in China in Beijing on Wednesday.

Chinese paleontologists have discovered seven fossils of ammonoids, a group of marine mollusks that lived 182 million years ago, in South China's Guangdong Province, China News reported on Wednesday.

Chinese tourism website ctrip.com revealed the 10 most popular Chinese museums on its site in the first half of the year 2021 on Tuesday, adding that the number of museum tickets booked through the platform increased by 75 percent from the same period of 2019.

During the lockdown, British chef Clare Smyth won the ultimate accolade of three Michelin stars for her London restaurant and she is optimistic for the sector despite the current challenges.

Archaeologists theorize that a brick building that was recently discovered in the center of the city of Yangzhou, East China's Jiangsu Province, is likely to have been a bathroom dating back to the Song Dynasty (960-1279), in particular, the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279).

Art galleries across Italy marked International Museum Day on Tuesday in a low-key manner, overshadowed by the COVID-19 pandemic and yet confident about the future.

The number of users on livestreaming platforms in China reached 617 million in 2020, accounting for 62.4 percent of the total number of internet users in China, while the number of livestreamers exceeded 130 million, according to a report released by a branch under the China Association of Performing Arts on Tuesday.

A set of leg irons that once chained slaves by the ankles for punishment. A pair of Rembrandt portraits of a rich Dutch couple dressed in slavery-funded finery.

Posting shopping experiences in thrift shops has recently become a new trend on China's lifestyle-oriented online platforms such as Little Red Book and Dazhong Dianping. This growing "thrift culture" in China has not been limited to those who like a bargain, it has also turned into a lifestyle choice by an increasing number of young Chinese consumers who value personal style and saving money over the extravagance of the consumer controversy.

An art exhibition that explores the development potential between public art and the marine economy was launched on Sunday in Aotou village, Xiamen, East China's Fujian Province.

The curtain went up again in Britain's theaters this week, after a year of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, bringing hopes of recovery for the beleaguered cultural sector.

An exhibition featuring artworks inspired by China's ink paintings at Beijing's Today Art Museum has offered a chance to walk into the artist Yang Peilin's art world.