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Wiping the tombstone, reading out a letter of prayers and offering a bouquet and a cup of tea, a man is performing a ritual typical to a Chinese traditional festival - Tomb-sweeping Day in front of a tombstone in Fushouyuan cemetery park in Shanghai.
Some 28 museums, including the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Palace Museum, the National Museum, and the Summer Palace, have opened on Tmall, with Russia's State Hermitage Museum being the latest to join on Sunday.
A Vincent van Gogh painting was stolen overnight from the Singer Laren Museum in Dutch province of North Holland, which has been closed due to the coronavirus epidemic, the museum announced on Monday
The cultural relics department of northwest China's Gansu Province said they have found an ancient tomb with delicate brick carvings.
The Chinese Cultural Center in Cairo has launched an online competition to raise awareness among Egyptians to combat the novel coronavirus, which has posed a major challenge to the entire world.
The Danxia Mountain Scenic area will again open to the public from March 28, with a maximum visitor limit of 5,000 per day, its management committee announced Thursday.
The coronavirus pandemic has led to quite a lot of changes, especially in China. The internet has seen another boom, as people watch movies and do their shopping online. Even fashion shows are taking advantage of livestreaming. The 2020 Shanghai Fashion Week takes place as scheduled, but online.
Two world-renown cultural sites, the Mausoleum of Qinshihuang and Pingyao ancient city, reopened on Wednesday after they a two month closure due to the novel coronavirus outbreak.
Qi Zai, the world's only captive brown giant panda, has succeeded in natural mating with a female panda for the first time, according to the Qinling research center of giant panda breeding in northwest China's Shaanxi Province.
Eight provincial museums, including Hunan Museum, China Three Gorges Museum in Chongqing , Anhui Museum, Heilongjiang Museum, Liaoning Museum, Henan Museum, Shanxi Museum and Hainan Museum, reopened on March 24.
France's famed Centre Pompidou, the largest institution for modern and contemporary art in Europe, has closed its doors due to the rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic on the continent, while its Shanghai branch is now welcoming back limited numbers of visitors.
The 2020 Festival de Cannes cannot be held on the scheduled dates from May 12 to 23 and several options are considered in order to preserve its running, its board said on Thursday evening.
Creative Artists Agency (CAA), the top talent agency in the world, is exploring a palace coup that could be a game changer for the entertainment industry, business insiders said.
A large number of carved cliff paintings have recently been found on a hill in southwest China's Sichuan Province, according to local authorities.
On March 16, Wuhan University invited people to enjoy cherry blossoms online.
The debut of Marvel's "Black Widow" and other Disney films were delayed as big theater chains close in the U.S. due to the rapid domestic spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
The novel coronavirus has made an indirect impact on captive pandas, especially those of mating age, according to the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Sichuan Province.
Disney and Pixar's fantasy film "Onward" stayed atop the chart in its second weekend with 10.53 million U.S. dollars as the North American box office has dropped sharply over COVID-19 concerns.
The Walt Disney Co. has postponed the release of its upcoming China-set live-action movie "Mulan" amid a global spread of the COVID-19 epidemic.
An owl-shaped wine vessel more than 3,000 years old has attained star status in an exhibition of ancient Chinese bronze items in Houston.
Archaeologists have excavated a noble tomb that is believed to be the largest tomb of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty (770-256 BC) so far unearthed in northern China's Shanxi province.
Niki Caro, director of Disney's China-based female hero film "Mulan," voiced her hope that the heroine's "fighting spirit" would inspire the world at "this difficult time" marked by the spread of COVID-19 during the film's world premiere in Los Angeles Monday evening.
However, during the current epidemic, the scene in the painting is almost nowhere to be found. A painting among the series titled Weby Wang Yifeng.A painting among the series titled Weby Wang Yifeng. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
A talk show about the Chinese people "entertaining themselves" during the novel coronavirus epidemic has become popular on social media, bringing Chinese people's humor and optimism to the world.
The 10th Beijing International Film Festival will be postponed until further notice, the festival's organizing committee announced on Sunday.
The "Four Treasures of Study"－a high-quality writing brush, ink stick, paper and ink slab－have been sought after by ancient scholars and today's enthusiasts of calligraphy and Chinese painting.
The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Awakening of Insects (Chinese: 惊蛰) falls on March 5 and ends on March 19 this year.
A total of 172 ancient rock paintings were found in a relic in Alxa League, northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, according to the local cultural heritage administration.
For most people, music has the power to communicate joy and sorrow in ways unmatched by words.
Faced with the public health challenge, many art and cultural institutions are ramping up their online and virtual offerings so that viewers can still access them from home.
