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[email protected]Chang’an by Xing Qingren Photo: Courtesy of
National Art Museum of ChinaChinese artist Xing Qingren is expressing his
love of his hometown of Xi’an in Northwest
China’s Shaanxi Province (once known as
Chang’an) with an exhibition of paintings featur-
ing the landscape and people there at National
Art Museum of China.
I Come from Chang’an is not just the name of
the exhibition, but also represents the mindset
of people like Xing who spent decades in the
place and have formed their own unique culture.
Xing and his peers have talked with locals and
recorded their lives in paintings such as Yellow
River, Dialogue over the Moon and People Sitting
Together. It is set to run until Sunday.Global TimesArtist Xing Qingren displays unique
culture of Xi’an in new exhibition‘Old Town Road’ finally dethroned
from US top singles chart
Lil Nas X has finally been dethroned after
19 weeks atop the US charts, Billboard
announced on Monday, with pop star Billie
Eilish besting his viral hit “Old Town Road.”
Eilish’s song “Bad Guy” spent nine non-
consecutive weeks in second place before
finally unseating overnight sensation Lil Nas
X’s infectious country-trap smash.
Like Lil Nas X, Eilish soared to fame
over the past few months after releasing an
acclaimed debut album When We All Fall
Asleep, Where Do We Go? in March.
Prior to its release, Eilish, a goth-inspired
17-year-old who is the first musician born in
the 2000s to top the Billboard Hot 100, had
already won a fervent online fanbase for her
bold pop style that features heavy bass and
tinges of trap and EDM.
“Congratulations @billieeilish Well
deserved. Your persistence paid off. Thanks
everybody. It was a hell of a ride,” tweeted
country star Billy Rae Cyrus, whose remix
with Lil Nas X had ushered along the mete-
oric success of “Old Town Road.”
A previously unknown Atlanta rapper,
Lil Nas X last month broke the record of 16
weeks on the singles chart.
That was set by 1995’s “One Sweet
Day” by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men
and matched by the 2017 Latin juggernaut
“Despacito” by Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee
and Justin Bieber.AFPTV drama series Sacred Hoh Xil was
announced at the ongoing National
Park Forum in Xining, capital of
Northwest China’s Qinghai Province,
on Monday.
Executive producer Fan Bingxin,
director Li Shu and actors Gao Ziqi
and Xu Baihui attended the an-
nouncement ceremony. A poster for
the series was also revealed at the
ceremony.
Sacred Hoh Xil begins with a
group of foreign poachers who are
being pursued by the police in Hoh
Xil in Qinghai.
At the beginning of the 20th
century, the high price of Tibetan
antelope fur on the international
market lured large number of poach-
ers to Hoh Xil. At the time, several
local clans in Hoh Xil protected these
Tibetan antelopes from these poach-
ers, leaving behind many warm-
hearted stories.
Sacred Hoh Xil is China’s first
TV series focused on ecological and
wildlife protection. It will also be
the first TV series shot in a national
park.
For nature lovers, the series will
show many beautiful scenic spots
throughout the Hoh Xil National
Nature Reserve.
The series will also have typical
features of other TV dramas includ-
ing romance, action and suspense.
Shooting on the show is sched-
uled to begin later this year.Global TimesEnvironmental protection drama series ‘Sacred Hoh Xil’ announced at National Park Forum
N
ine years after their last
showcase of a giant
phoenix installation work,
Chinese artist Xu Bing and the To-
day Art Museum kicked off their
second collaboration World Picture:
Dragonfly Eyes at the museum on
Sunday.
The core part of the exhibi-
tion is the 81-minute-long video
Dragonfly Eyes. According to the
artist, the video tells the story of
two young people on a journey of
self-discovery. Unlike other films,
all the footage came from 11,
hours of footage captured by pub-
lic surveillance cameras. Accord-
ing to Xu, it took four years to edit
the film together.
Xu said that he was inspired by
a TV program about images cap-
tured from public CCTV cameras.
“I was told that the idea didn’t
make a sense for a film telling
a story because it had no main
characters,” he recalled.
In 2015, staff at his studio
discovered public surveillance
cameras that could be accessed
online. It was then that Xu knew
it was time to start the project.
“It is a new art form to
express ideas and thinking.Imitating a movie, the video aims
to inspire people to think about
themselves and what is real
and what is virtual,” he said.
In addition to art from
Xu, the museum
will also launch a
series of lectures,
seminars and
workshops
alongside the
exhibition, which
is scheduled to
come to an end on
October 24.Global Times‘Dragonfly Eyes’
Top: Poster for World Picture:
Dragonfly Eyes
Artist Xu Bing
Photos: Courtesy of Today Art MuseumPoster for Sacred Hoh Xil Photo:
Courtesy of Kai Xuan