大象传媒

Your daily journey into global arts, culture and entertainment, with Harriett Gilbert and Mark Coles.

Night At the Museum 2
Comedian Ben Stiller is back playing Larry in Night at the Museum 2. In the original Stiller played a Night Watchman encountering historical exhibits come to life after dark in New York's Museum of Natural History. Well Larry's moved on from the old job but heading back one day he discovers that his exhibit friends have been packed into crates and sent to The Smithsonian museum in Washington DC. On arrival the old exhibits are not made welcome by Napoleon Bonaparte and Ivan the Terrible, amongst others. Entertainment Weekly's Owen Gleiberman reviews the film from New York.

Vietnam's copied artwork
The National Museum of Fine Arts in Hanoi has been hanging works of art that are in fact copies of very famous Vietnamese paintings. The originals were taken down during the Vietnam war to protect them from being destroyed, and the fakes have remained in place ever since. No-one can be quite sure what has happened to the originals, but some seem to have ended up in other galleries round the world. The situation is damaging the reputation of Vietnam's art market abroad and there's growing pressure that the museum sort out the genuine works from the copies by calling in experts to help examine the paintings.

JR - Rio Street Faces
French Street Artist JR has been turning heads in the Brazilain city of Rio recently, for pasting huge posters of local residents faces and eyeballs across some of the city's most well-known landmarks. Helen Clegg reports on an eye-catching exhibition that is bringing art into the streets of Rio.

Twitter
As the micro-blogging site Twitter becomes fastest growing social networking tool... we find out which of the world's great novels can be condensed into 140 characters or less.