VENICE, Italy - Chinese movie Angels wear white premiered at the Venice Film Festival last Thursday.
TORONTO - Aaron Sorkin was sitting in a restaurant with producers Amy Pascal and Mark Gordon, ticking off the names of top Hollywood directors who might be a good fit for the script Sorkin had just finished: Molly's Game, a drama about the so-called "poker princess" Molly Bloom.
A new Chinese edition of a book on contemporary art is set to help more readers understand the genre, amid its rapid development in the country in recent decades.
Technology has often got a bum rap for ushering humans into their own private microcosms.
Rebel super-hacker Lisbeth Salander is back in the fifth book in the Millennium series, this time battling neo-Nazi prison gangs and honor killings as well as trying to uncover the secrets about her troubled childhood.
NEW DELHI - The Hindi edition of My Tryst with China by sinologist B. R. Deepak was released on Tuesday at the Jawaharlal Nehru University.
New York Fashion Week wrapped up on Wednesday in an explosion of glowing colors, greater inroads into diversity, designers still pondering the point of the runway and younger talent given a chance to shine.
Roughly one year ago, Denise Wallace, the executive co-director of the Miss Minnesota USA pageant, received a phone call from 19-year-old Halima Aden asking if she could compete in the contest wearing her hijab.
Jay Siegel's daily tasks are manifold - from the smallest details to the grandest projects. The scientist from the United States has worked on molecular design, chemical synthesis and structural analysis, the three main components of modern stereochemistry.
LONDON - A late Picasso portrait of his paramour Jacqueline Roque is going up for auction for the first time, with an estimated price of up to $30 million, Christie's auction house said on Wednesday. Christie's will offer Femme accroupie (Jacqueline) - Crouching Woman (Jacqueline) - at a Nov 13 sale in New York.
Nearly two decades ago, Zhang Jiming was still a farmer in a village in Jinan, East China's Shandong province. He never thought he would do anything else except tend to his crops, or travel anywhere too far from his fields.
An 18-year-old genius left the world with a work that has had resonance for the past nine centuries. Indisputably, A Panorama of Rivers and Mountains, the only surviving work from Song Dynasty (960-1279) painter Wang Ximeng, is one of the most important in China's fine art history.
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