Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger in Escape Plan.

Stephane Deneve and Yo-Yo Ma with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on Oct. 3.

Jessica Huot ’06 (left) and Elisa Angeli (right) perform in Falling Leaves, choreographed by Douglas Webster, for Ice Theatre of New York.

Chris Thile performing at the Sanders Theater on Oct. 20, as part of the Celebrity Series of Boston.

Chris Thile, a mandolinist who was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship earlier this year.

Salmon on blue cheese polenta at The Elephant Walk, a French-Cambodian restaurant with locations in Cambridge and Boston.

Kim Navarro and Brent Bommentre of the Ice Dance Theatre of New York performing a duet in Reveries, a piece about an artist finding his muse.

Pianist Yuja Wang performed her Boston recital debut at NEC’s Jordan Hall on Oct. 18.

Eliasson creating light graphite with one of his inventions, “Little Sun,” a solar-powered lamp for developing countries.

Janelle Monáe, for whom Boston’s City Council declared Oct. 16, 2013 “Janelle Monáe Day.”

2014 Eugene McDermott Award winner, Olafur Eliasson. The award, presented by the Council for the Arts at MIT, includes artist residency, pop-up exhibitions, public lectures, and a $100,000 prize. Eliasson’s work encompasses a broad range of practices, from philosophical investigations of light, color, and atmosphere to devices for developing countries.

Actress Barbara Schulz stars in the one-woman show Marie-Antoinette, In Her Own Words presented by Suffolk University and the French Theatrical Foundation last weekend.