• Chinese model and actress Jennifer showcases designs by Zhang Zhifeng on the runway at 2015 NE-TIGER Haute Couture Collection show during Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2015 at Beijing Hotel on October 25, 2014 in Beijing, China. Feng Li / Getty Images
    Chinese model and actress Jennifer showcases designs by Zhang Zhifeng on the runway at 2015 NE-TIGER Haute Couture Collection show during Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2015 at Beijing Hotel on October 25, 2014 in Beijing, China. Feng Li / Getty Images
  • Shahid Kapoor attends the Haider Red Carpet during the 9th Rome Film Festival on October 24, 2014 in Rome, Italy. Getty Images
    Shahid Kapoor attends the Haider Red Carpet during the 9th Rome Film Festival on October 24, 2014 in Rome, Italy. Getty Images
  • People photograph a piece of street art attributed to Banksy titled The Girl with the Pierced Eardrum after it was defaced in an alleyway in Bristol, western England, October 22, 2014. Reuters
    People photograph a piece of street art attributed to Banksy titled The Girl with the Pierced Eardrum after it was defaced in an alleyway in Bristol, western England, October 22, 2014. Reuters
  • A model prepares for Russian designer Yasya Minochkina’s show, during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Moscow, Russia. AP
    A model prepares for Russian designer Yasya Minochkina’s show, during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Moscow, Russia. AP
  • Karina Noelle (C), who is celebrating her Quinceanera, poses at a press reception ahead of the 15th annual Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, festival at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, California October 24, 2014. The Day of the Dead festival has its origins in a pre-Hispanic Aztec belief that the dead return to Earth one day each year to visit their loved ones. The festival will be held on November 1. Reuters
    Karina Noelle (C), who is celebrating her Quinceanera, poses at a press reception ahead of the 15th annual Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, festival at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, California October 24, 2014. The Day of the Dead festival has its origins in a pre-Hispanic Aztec belief that the dead return to Earth one day each year to visit their loved ones. The festival will be held on November 1. Reuters
  • Fans gather around the new wax figure of Benedict Cumberbatch as it is unveiled at Madame Tussauds in central London, Tuesday, October 21, 2014. AP
    Fans gather around the new wax figure of Benedict Cumberbatch as it is unveiled at Madame Tussauds in central London, Tuesday, October 21, 2014. AP
  • Sia performs on stage at CBS Radio’s second annual We Can Survive concert at the Hollywood Bowl on Friday, October 24, 2014, in Los Angeles. AP
    Sia performs on stage at CBS Radio’s second annual We Can Survive concert at the Hollywood Bowl on Friday, October 24, 2014, in Los Angeles. AP
  • A character from Attack on Titan - the first part walks during the opening event of the Tokyo International Film Festival in Tokyo October 23, 2014. Reuters
    A character from Attack on Titan - the first part walks during the opening event of the Tokyo International Film Festival in Tokyo October 23, 2014. Reuters
  • Passersby stop to look at an installation entitled ‘A pound of flesh for 50p (The Melting House)’ by British artist and designer Alex Chinneck, a slowly melting life-sized house built from 8,000 wax bricks, in London on October 24, 2014. The installation, part of the Bankside Transformed art festival, will slowly melt away over 30 days leaving just a roof on a pile of melted wax and is in homage of a candle making factory that was in the area a few hundred years ago. AFP
    Passersby stop to look at an installation entitled ‘A pound of flesh for 50p (The Melting House)’ by British artist and designer Alex Chinneck, a slowly melting life-sized house built from 8,000 wax bricks, in London on October 24, 2014. The installation, part of the Bankside Transformed art festival, will slowly melt away over 30 days leaving just a roof on a pile of melted wax and is in homage of a candle making factory that was in the area a few hundred years ago. AFP
  • A box with a traditional wooden Christmas figure lies on a table in one of the factory rooms at the Erzgebirgische Holzkunst Gahlenz company in Gahlenz, southeastern Germany. The traditional wooden Christmas figures manufactured in the Erzgebirge mountain region are being sold all over the world. AP
    A box with a traditional wooden Christmas figure lies on a table in one of the factory rooms at the Erzgebirgische Holzkunst Gahlenz company in Gahlenz, southeastern Germany. The traditional wooden Christmas figures manufactured in the Erzgebirge mountain region are being sold all over the world. AP
  • A woman looks at artwork by British artist Anish Kapoor during the press opening of the Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain (FIAC, International Contemporary Art Fair) at the Grand Palais on October 22, 2014 in Paris. AFP
    A woman looks at artwork by British artist Anish Kapoor during the press opening of the Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain (FIAC, International Contemporary Art Fair) at the Grand Palais on October 22, 2014 in Paris. AFP

The week that was in Arts&Life ending October 27: in pictures

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October 27, 2014

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Our selection of the best pictures from the week that was in the world of Arts and Life.

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