Before Hugh Jackman could appear in his current Broadway play, The River, he had to learn his lines, dig deep into his character and do something he's never done before: gut a fish.
To commemorate the Chinese victims of the Nanjing Massacre of 1937, Chinese artist Wu Weishan unveiled a series of sculptures at the Na tional Museum of China on Tuesday - four days ahead of the first national public memorial day for the massacre on Saturday.
The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, revamped, restored and expanded after a three-year closure, is reopening at last, all decked out for the 21st century in its historic Carnegie Mansion home just a few blocks up Fifth Avenue from the Guggenheim and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Like a mirage in the middle of Beirut's high-rise seafront, the exquisite mansion is a lonely reminder of this city's romantic past.
China has staged a strong showing in best foreign language film nominations at the Golden Globes - which are widely considered a vetting for the Oscars - but insiders say it's unlikely any Chinese films will take this year's Academy Awards.
German Oscar winner Christoph Waltz and Italian actress Monica Bellucci will star alongside Britain's Daniel Craig in the next James Bond film Spectre, in a new outing promising a strong dose of 007 nostalgia.
Based on the movies set to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, the coming year of cinema is about comedians and coming of age.
Love stories set in urban China have become a popular genre in modern Chinese movies. Over the past five years, other than the country's changing box-office scenario, the genre also owes its success to South Korean moviemakers.
Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman has described 2014 as her toughest ever year, saying the sudden death of her father in Singapore had left her family in "so much pain".
Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit director Peter Jackson received a star on Monday on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, joined by key cast members from his blockbuster J.R.R. Tolkien films.
Bob Dylan's new album, which will come out in February, will feature interpretations of classics sung by Frank Sinatra, all stripped down and recorded with minimal studio production.
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