Twenty-four film companies from Taiwan will attend this year's Cannes Film Festival in France to promote Taiwanese films, the Taipei Film Commission said Friday.

Hollywood star Will Smith said yesterday at an international news conference in Taipei that he is ready to work with Oscar-winning Taiwanese director Ang Lee.

Taiwan's National Palace Museum (NPM) and its Beijing counterpart will celebrate their anniversaries together next year with a series of exhibitions and events, according to the NPM.

Renowned sculptor Ju Ming's (朱銘) latest exhibition, Living World Series — The Urban Silhouette, opened yesterday at the Farglory Financial Center (遠雄金融中心).

An exhibition will kick off in May in Taipei featuring the paintings of French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir and other leading artists of the 20th century, the organizers said yesterday.

Music fans and Audi car owners in Taipei area enjoyed a feast at the “Audi Night-Hayley Westenra Concert” held yesterday at the National Concert Hall. Westenra, the world-renowned soprano and classical crossover artist, will head to Southern Taiwan for two more performances in Tainan and Kaohsiung on April 13 and 14.

Tickets went on sale yesterday for Taiwan's first large-scale exhibition on the heritage of imperial Rome, which will kick off in Taipei on May 11.

Soprano Violet Chang (張縵) will perform German, French, Italian, Spanish and Chinese songs at the Taipei National Recital Hall on April 8 at 7:30 p.m.

Members of the all-female Japanese musical theater troupe Takarazuka Revue said Wednesday that they are looking forward to performing in Taiwan for the first time in the troupe's 99-year history.

Mainland singer Demon Lee (李代沫) on the weekend visited an exhibition honoring legendary Taiwanese singer Teresa Teng (鄧麗君) to pay tribute to his first childhood idol.