Arts and culture

XS Nightclub

XS Nightclub is an indoor-outdoor nightclub at Encore Las Vegas on the Las Vegas Strip, opened on New Year's Eve 2008 and operated by Wynn Resorts, and became a defining EDM superclub.

Xscape: second posthumous Michael Jackson album of unreleased material (also styled XSCAPE), released May 13, 2014 on Epic Records; eight 1983-1999 vocals contemporized by Timbaland, Jerkins, Stargate; UK number 1, deluxe with originals.

Xscape (group)

Xscape: Atlanta R&B girl group formed 1990 (LaTocha, Tamika Scott, Kandi Burruss, Tiny Cottle), discovered by Jermaine Dupri; three platinum 1990s albums, 2017 reunion, Bravo series, later trio Xscap3.

XTC

XTC were an English new wave band from Swindon led by Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding, formed mid-1970s, known for Drums and Wires, Skylarking, Dear God, and ceasing touring in 1982.

Xterminator

Xterminator Records is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall label founded by producer Philip 'Fatis' Burrell, whose stable of Sizzla, Luciano, and Capleton drove the mid-1990s roots revival.

Xtreme

Xtreme is a New York bachata duo of Danny Mejia and Steven Tejada, formed in 2003, whose 2006 album Haciendo Historia went platinum on the strength of "Shorty, Shorty".

Xu Bing (徐冰)

Xu Bing (徐冰), Chinese contemporary conceptual artist born 1955 in Chongqing, known for Book from the Sky (4,000+ false characters), Square Word Calligraphy, Book from the Ground, Phoenix, and Dragonfly Eyes; MacArthur Fellow 1999, former CAFA vice president.

Xu Can

Xu Can (徐灿, courtesy name Xiangpin, ca. 1610–1678) was a Chinese woman ci poet and painter of the late Ming and early Qing often compared with Li Qingzhao.

Xu Dishan

Xu Dishan (许地山), pen name Luohuasheng, was a Chinese novelist, essayist, and religious scholar who co-founded the Literary Research Association and became the first Chinese professor at the University of Hong Kong.

Xu Gan

Xu Gan (徐幹), courtesy name Weichang, was a Chinese writer and thinker of the late Eastern Han dynasty, one of the Seven Masters of Jian'an named by Cao Pi.

Xu Huaizhong

Xu Huaizhong (徐怀中, 1929–2023) was a Chinese military writer and major general whose novel Qianfeng Ji won the Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2019, when he was about ninety.

Xu Hun

Xu Hun (courtesy name Yonghui) was a late Tang dynasty poet and official from Danyang, Jiangsu, best known for his seven-character regulated verse and its water imagery.

Xu Jinglei

Xu Jinglei (徐静蕾, born 1974, Beijing) is a Chinese actress, director, and screenwriter, one of the 'Four Little Flower Actresses'; Silver Seashell winner for Letter from an Unknown Woman and first mainland female director with a 100-million-yuan film.

Xu Kai

Xu Kai (许凯, Soso), born 1995 in Shenzhen, is a Chinese actor and former model signed to Huanyu Entertainment, known for Fucha Fuheng in Story of Yanxi Palace and later leads in Ancient Love Poetry and Moonlit Reunion.

Xu Ruohan (徐若晗)

Xu Ruohan (徐若晗), also romanized Xu Ruo Han, is a Chinese actress born 1998 in Xi'an, a Beijing Film Academy animation graduate discovered by Jackie Chan for My Diary (2018), known for The Forbidden Flower (2023) and The Best Thing (2025).

Xu Wei

Xu Wei (徐渭), courtesy name Wenchang, was a Chinese writer, painter, calligrapher, and dramatist of the Ming dynasty, known for pioneering the ink large-freehand style of painting.

Xu Wei's splashed-ink grapes style

Xu Wei's splashed-ink grapes style is a great-freehand manner of painting grapes in water-ink developed by the late Ming painter Xu Wei (1521–1593), whose signature work is the scroll Ink Grapes in the Palace Museum, Beijing.

Xu Xiaobin

Xu Xiaobin (徐小斌) is a Chinese novelist and screenwriter best known for her 1998 novel Yushe, Feathered Serpent, which follows five generations of women from the late Qing onward.

Xu Yiyang (徐艺洋)

Xu Yiyang (徐艺洋), born 1997 in Nanchong, Sichuan, is a Chinese pop singer and actress, former SM trainee, LEGAL HIGH member, eighth-place Chuang 2020 finalist, L.Tao Entertainment artist, and wife of Huang Zitao.

Xuân Diệu

Xuân Diệu (1916–1985), real name Ngô Xuân Diệu, was a Vietnamese poet and literary critic known as the "king of love poetry" and a leading figure of the Thơ Mới movement.

Xuan paper

Xuan paper (宣纸) is a handmade Chinese paper from Jing County, Anhui, made of blue sandalwood bark and rice straw and prized for calligraphy and ink painting.

Xuanhe Yishi

Xuanhe Yishi (宣和遺事), also Da Song Xuanhe Yishi, is a Chinese vernacular history-telling text from the Song-Yuan transition covering the Jurchen capture of the Northern Song imperial family.

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Xue Luo Ren Jian Dai Jun Gui

雪落人间待君归 is a 2025 Chinese historical romance short drama released on Douyin in 65 episodes, starring Han Lujin and Liu Ning as a general and an assassin.

Xun Yue

Xun Yue (荀悦, 148–209) was an Eastern Han historian and politician who wrote the Hanji, a chronicle of the Western Han, and the treatise Shenjian.

Xunami Muse

Xunami Muse is the drag persona of Michael Alexander White, a Panamanian drag performer who placed ninth on season 16 of RuPaul's Drag Race in 2024.

Xutos & Pontapés

Xutos & Pontapés, also known as Xutos e Pontapés, are a Portuguese rock band formed in Lisbon in 1978, known for songs like "A Minha Casinha".

Xuxa

Xuxa (Maria da Graça Meneghel, born 1963), Brazilian TV host, singer, and actress known as Rainha dos Baixinhos; hosted Xou da Xuxa on Globo 1986-1992, sold 45 albums, and starred in 20 films.

XVIII International Chopin Piano Competition

The XVIII International Chopin Piano Competition (18th, Warsaw, 2–23 October 2021, postponed from 2020) was won by Canada's Bruce (Xiaoyu) Liu, with Gadjiev and Sorita second ex aequo; 87 pianists competed, and the livestream drew 37.5 million YouTube views.

XX (film)

XX (2017) is a horror anthology film of four shorts written and directed by women: Jovanka Vuckovic, St. Vincent (Annie Clark), Roxanne Benjamin, and Karyn Kusama, linked by Sofia Carrillo stop-motion interstitials; Magnet Releasing released it February 17, 2017 after a Sundance Midnight premiere.