Chanel’s Spring Couture show transformed Paris’ Grand Palais Ephemere into a stage of fashion fantasy
January 23, 2024
“Anora,” Sean Baker’s odyssey of a New York stripper, and Jane Schoenbrun’s psychological horror “I Saw the TV Glow” dominated nominations for the Film Independent Spirit Awards with six nods each, including best feature and best director
December 04, 2024
'Empty Bowls' for hunger relief: An 'intersection of service... social justice... art practice'
December 04, 2024
One of Venezuela’s most popular bands has canceled its homecoming tour after President Nicolas Maduro criticized the group for what he said were sexist lyrics
December 04, 2024
Jaguar's Bold Leap Into the Future: A Controversial Reimagination That Dares to "Copy Nothing"
December 03, 2024’Tis the season to unpack Spotify Wrapped
December 04, 2024
Break out your “Dune” popcorn bucket: It's time for the best movies of the year
December 04, 2024
The 102-year-old luxury brand unveiled a new electric car concept during Miami Art Week. Social media users are divided, with many critizing the new aesthetic.
December 03, 2024
The birth of Lauren Mayberry as a solo artist should be marked by something like a wolf cry
December 04, 2024
Rockefeller Center tree lighting is happening tonight in NYC. Here's what to know.
December 04, 2024UK band Sports Team robbed at gunpoint in California
December 04, 2024
“Oppenheimer” and “Poor Things” are the leading contenders for Sunday's British Academy Film Awards
February 17, 2024
The Black pastor of a multiethnic congregation in Anaheim, California, has started a string orchestra for young musicians of color
November 30, 2024
Lin-Manuel Miranda felt pressure writing ‘Mufasa’ songs since original ‘Lion King’ album was ‘all bangers’
December 04, 2024
The architects and designers to have on your radar in 2025
December 04, 2024
"We had to painstakingly remove every single piece...and then put it back. What we have now...is a completely unique experiment of an underground museum."Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis describes how ancient ruins were incorporated into the design of a new metro system.
December 04, 2024
Alex Van Halen, musician and co-founding member of the rock group Van Halen, told Anderson Cooper about how he’s still able to “communicate” with his brother, Eddie, who died in 2020. For more of “All There Is with Anderson Cooper” listen and follow the show wherever you get your podcasts.
December 04, 2024
The characterization of Latter-day Saints on shows like ‘Heretic’ and ‘Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ says more about the rest of America than the church itself.
December 04, 2024
“Not Like Us,” it’s like them
December 03, 2024
Ed Sheeran will be first-ever Western artist to perform in Bhutan
December 04, 2024
Kevin Hart rose from the open mics and comedy clubs of his native Philadelphia to become one of the country’s most recognizable performers
March 24, 2024
It was minutes before the start of a concert by the popular rock band, Picnic, at a massive auditorium at Crocus City Hall, an entertainment complex on the northwestern outskirts of Moscow
March 25, 2024
The newest endangered baby gorilla at the London Zoo is more than six weeks old but doesn’t yet have a name
March 25, 2024
In the first nine months of 2023, Sean “Diddy” Combs triumphantly performed at the MTV VMAs, released an R&B album that garnered a Grammy nomination and was a suitor to buy the BET network
March 26, 2024
Hong Kong is seeking to revive its arts scene to become a regional cultural hub, but some art critics have said they were concerned that a new
April 26, 2024
Bruce Springsteen is the first international songwriter to be named a fellow of The Ivors Academy, the U
March 26, 2024
The British Museum is suing a former curator alleged to have stolen almost 2,000 artifacts from its collections and offered them for sale online
March 26, 2024
The Fair Grounds Race Course, which plays host to the 2024 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, begins its annual transformation in earnest Tuesday as organizers prepare to take over the field this spring for two weekends of music, food and fun
March 26, 2024
American artist Richard Serra, whose enormous steel sculptures coated with a fine patina of rust decorated landscapes and dominated oversized galleries in the world's
July 02, 2024
Famed American artist and sculptor Richard Serra has died at his home in Long Island, New York, at the age of 85
March 27, 2024
Donald Sutherland has a memoir coming out in November
March 27, 2024
An environmentally themed mural by elusive street artist Banksy that appeared last week on a London street has been encased in plastic and surrounded by fencing after an apparent act of vandalism
March 27, 2024
It’s a new location but the same host for the Tony Awards
March 27, 2024
He’s gone to Carolina in his mind and on tour for much of 2024
March 27, 2024
An exhibit in the French capital before this summer's Paris Olympics shows how the games have been a “mirror of society” since the beginning of the 20th century
March 27, 2024
Martin Scorsese will host, narrate and produce an eight-part docudrama for Fox Nation where he examines the evolution of eight men and women beatified as saints
March 27, 2024
Michelangelo’s David has been a towering figure in Italian culture since its completion in 1504
March 28, 2024
A British comedian has been ordered to remove a picture of a hot dog from a poster in London subway stations for his new standup show
March 28, 2024
Start handing out those groundhog-size cigars: Punxsutawney Phil is a father
March 28, 2024
First, Beyoncé arrived at the 2024 Grammy Awards in full cowboy regalia — making a statement without saying a word
March 28, 2024
The British Museum has appointed Nicholas Cullinan as its new director
March 28, 2024
Best picture winner "Oppenheimer" finally premiered in Japan on Friday, eight months after a controversial grassroots marketing push and concerns about how its
April 26, 2024
Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries “Roots,” has died
March 29, 2024
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Laurie Anderson and the president of the Harlem School of the Arts, James C
March 29, 2024
Fellow actors and famous fans are paying tribute to Louis Gossett Jr. after his death at age 87
March 29, 2024
Preparations are underway for the gardens of the Versailles Palace to welcome Olympic horse riders and tens of thousands of visitors when it hosts equestrian and modern pentathlon events during this summer’s Paris Games
March 30, 2024
A prize-winning author from Guadeloupe who was known as the ‘Grande Dame' of Caribbean literature has died
April 02, 2024
Klaus Mäkelä has been hired to succeed Riccardo Muti as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and will become the youngest head since its start in 1891
April 02, 2024
Comedian Joe Flaherty has died
April 02, 2024
Stevie Wonder, Miranda Lambert, Billie Eilish, Nicki Minaj, Peter Frampton, Katy Perry, Smokey Robinson and J Balvin are just some of the over 200 names featured on a new open letter submitted by the Artist Rights Alliance non-profit, calling on artificial intelligence tech companies, developers, platforms, digital music services and platforms to stop using AI “to infringe upon and devalue the rights of human artists."
April 02, 2024
John Sinclair, a poet, music producer and counterculture figure whose lengthy prison sentence after a series of small-time pot busts inspired a John Lennon song and a star-studded 1971 concert to free him, died Tuesday
April 02, 2024
Poet-critic Hanif Abdurraqib, fiction writers Deirdre Madden and Kathryn Scanlan and playwright Christopher Chen are among this year’s recipients of Windham-Campbell Prizes, for which winners each receive $175,000 cash awards
April 02, 2024Claire Jiménez’s “What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez,” a hard-hitting and comic novel set in New York City about a Puerto Rican family’s search for a missing girl, has won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
April 02, 2024
Pepe Aguilar says he feels like a superhero when he puts on his charro suit
April 02, 2024
Author Don Winslow has announced that his new novel, “City in Ruins,” will be his last
April 02, 2024
Robin Walter’s “Little Mercy" has won the 2024 Academy of American Poets’ First Book Award
April 03, 2024To truly appreciate the track, it’s important to go beyond the long shadow of the Beatles’ version.
April 03, 2024
Tony Award-winning playwright Christopher Durang has died
April 03, 2024
Tilman Michael will become chorus director of the Metropolitan Opera next season following the retirement of Donald Palumbo after 17 years as chorus master
April 03, 2024
It’s never really the end of the road for Kiss
April 03, 2024
Bestselling author Eoin Colfer has a new set of adventures ready for young Juniper Lane
April 04, 2024
Oscar-nominated actor Dev Patel is making his feature directorial and screenwriting debut with the action thriller, “Monkey Man.”
April 04, 2024
Aligning with Monday's total solar eclipse, Missy Elliott announced her first ever headlining arena tour
April 07, 2024
Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir “Gender Queer” continues its troubled run as the country’s most controversial book, topping the American Library Association’s “challenged books” list for a third straight year
April 05, 2024
Kevin Costner’s multi-episode epic “Horizon, An American Saga” will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival next month, festival organizers announced Monday
April 08, 2024
Beyoncé has made history once again
April 09, 2024
Novels that depict human struggles in settings that range from rural Argentina to Communist East Germany are among six finalists for the International Booker Prize for translated fiction
April 09, 2024George Lucas will receive an honorary Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival next month, festival organizers announced Tuesday
April 09, 2024
The new film “Civil War” is an ominous attempt to turn widely held American anxieties into a violent, unsettling big-screen reality
April 09, 2024
Paul Simon will sing for guests at Wednesday's White House state dinner for Japan
April 09, 2024
The final curtain will come down this summer on Cirque du Soleil’s long-running Las Vegas show “The Beatles Love.”
April 09, 2024
Nearly half a century after Francis Ford Coppola won the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or for “Apocalypse Now,” he will return to the French Riviera festival to premiere his self-financed epic “Megalopolis.”
April 09, 2024
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April 10, 2024
Marisha Pessl’s first adult novel in more than a decade is a psychological thriller with the kinds of intricate clues and connections she has been known for since her acclaimed debut, “Special Topics in Calamity Physics.”
April 10, 2024
Ahead of elections in India, a series of films that promote the ruling party’s right-wing ideology are seeking to influence voters. An art historian explains how the trend started.
April 10, 2024
Voters in a New Hampshire town have passed an ordinance addressing what local officials call “a path forward” for the installation of murals and other public artwork
April 10, 2024
The 97th Academy Awards will be held March 2
April 10, 2024
Fiction writer and National Book Award finalist Aaliyah Bilal is among 10 winners of the Whiting Award for emerging authors
April 10, 2024Imprisoned Vietnamese author-blogger-journalist Pham Doan Trang will be this year’s recipient of PEN America’s Barbey Freedom to Write Award, given by the free expression organization to a “jailed writer of conscience.”
April 11, 2024Archaeologists excavating new sites in Pompeii have uncovered a sumptuous banquet hall decorated with intricately frescoed mythological characters inspired by the Trojan War
April 11, 2024
Organizers announced that tew films from Yorgos Lanthimos, Andrea Arnold and Francis Ford Coppola, as well as a portrait of 1980s Donald Trump, will compete for the Palme d’Or at the 77th Cannes Film Festival
April 11, 2024
The New York Philharmonic will give five concerts in China this summer in what it says will be first visit to the mainland by a U.S. orchestra since 2019
April 11, 2024As PEN America begins its annual spring tradition of high-profile events, the organization faces criticisms from numerous writers who are unhappy with its stance on the war in Gaza
April 12, 2024
Berlin’s zoo is celebrating the 67th birthday of Fatou the gorilla, its oldest resident, who it believes is also the oldest gorilla in the world
April 12, 2024
Veteran newsman Robert MacNeil, who was the creator and first anchor of PBS' “NewsHour” in the 1970s, has died
April 12, 2024
Artist and award-winning children’s book author Faith Ringgold has died
April 13, 2024
Sarah Jessica Parker, Andrew Scott and Sarah Snook are among the stars battling for accolades at the Olivier Awards
April 14, 2024
Alex Garland’s provocative “Civil War” didn’t only ignite the discourse
April 14, 2024
Winners of the 2024 Olivier Awards, handed out Sunday for achievement in London theater, opera and dance include “Sunset Boulevard,” which won seven prizes including best musical revival
April 14, 2024
Joe Russo, co-director of "Avengers: Endgame," found a memorable setting to approach the latest hire for the independent studio he founded with his brother.
April 26, 2024
The star of the 1920s silver screen who appears on Taylor Swift’s new album abruptly left Hollywood at the height of her success – a middle finger to the men whom she had made rich and powerful.
April 15, 2024
For the artistic and cultural elites of the West African nation of Senegal, the monthlong Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Arts is a celebratory moment
December 04, 2024
For decades, Vietnamese people often been relegated to the background in popular cinematic depictions of the Vietnam War
April 15, 2024
Thanks to a strong oral Urdu literary tradition in South Asia, poems from the past linger in the popular imagination.
April 16, 2024
Salman Rushdie's first book since the 2022 stabbing he thought might end his life is both explicit in the violence Rushdie sustains and heroic in the will to live that Rushdie retains
April 16, 2024
Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse have recently entered the public domain, making it possible for artists to use them freely
April 16, 2024
Albums from ABBA, Blondie and the Notorious B
April 16, 2024
Participant, the activist film and television studio that has financed Oscar winners and socially conscious documentaries, is closing its doors after 20 years
April 16, 2024
Performing in the U.S. for international musicians just got a lot more complicated
April 16, 2024
A portrait of Winston Churchill by an artist whose work the British leader loathed is going up for auction
April 16, 2024
The artist and curators representing Israel at this year’s Venice Biennale have announced they won’t open the Israeli exhibition until there's a cease-fire in Gaza and an agreement to release hostages
April 16, 2024
On May 17, lifelong music obsessive Kate Hudson will release her debut album, “Glorious.”
April 16, 2024
A major show of Caspar David Friedrich’s iconic landscapes that marks the 250th anniversary of his birth is opening in Berlin, where he made his breakthrough and where a 1906 exhibition kicked off an enduring revival of interest in the German Romantic master
April 17, 2024
Milan’s La Scala, one of the world’s most prestigious and historic opera houses, has named Fortunato Ortombina as its new director
April 17, 2024
Let no one say “Suffs” lacks timing
April 17, 2024
Hundreds of young dancers in white tutus and tightly coiffed hair gathered in New York’s Plaza Hotel to break the world record for dancing on pointe in one place
April 17, 2024
The Sundance Film Festival may not always call Park City, Utah, home
April 17, 2024
Jeffrey Gibson’s takeover of the U.S. pavilion for this year’s Venice Biennale contemporary art show is a celebration of color, pattern and craft
April 18, 2024
Guitar legend Dickey Betts, who co-founded the Allman Brothers Band and wrote their biggest hit, “Ramblin’ Man,” has died
April 18, 2024
Fady Joudah, an acclaimed Palestinian-American poet who has said he writes for the future because “the present is demolished,” has received a $100,000 award from Poets & Writers
April 18, 2024T Bone Burnett is best known for production work like the `O Brother, Where Art Thou?'
April 18, 2024
Composer John Adams’ work is returning to the Metropolitan Opera for the first time in a decade in a new staging of his Nativity oratorio “El Nino.”
April 18, 2024
Fellow musicians are paying tribute to Allman Brothers guitarist, singer and songwriter Dickey Betts after his death at 80
April 18, 2024
They may look like little monsters
April 19, 2024
A pair of nude feet — dirty, wounded and vulnerable — are painted on the façade of the Venice women’s prison chapel
April 19, 2024
On Friday, Taylor Swift released her 11th studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department.”
April 19, 2024
Jonathan Tetelman transformed from nightclub DJ to international opera star
April 19, 2024
Outsider, queer and Indigenous artists are getting an overdue platform at the 60th Venice Biennale contemporary art exhibition
April 20, 2024
An artisan roastery based in the Finnish capital has introduced a coffee blend that has been developed by artificial intelligence in a trial in which it’s hoped that technology can ease the workload in a sector that traditionally prides itself on manual work
April 20, 2024
Romeo Castellucci has dropped out of his production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle at Belgium’s La Monnaie theater halfway through because of what the company says is a lack of money and time
April 20, 2024Lama Rod Owens describes himself as a Black Buddhist Southern Queen
April 21, 2024
Andrew Davis, an acclaimed British conductor who was music director of the Lyric Opera of Chicago and orchestras on three continents, has died at age 80
April 21, 2024
“Civil War,” Alex Garland’s ominous American dystopia, remained the top film in theaters in its second week of release
April 21, 2024
One of the country’s leading artist residency programs, MacDowell, has awarded a lifetime achievement prize to Yoko Ono
April 22, 2024
True love’s kiss or an invite to the Met Gala
April 22, 2024
The ambiguity of Imagine Dragons’ next album starts from the cover
April 22, 2024
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July 02, 2024
Cuban writer Leonardo Padura has managed to turn his series of detective novels into a social and political chronicle of Cuba, especially his native Havana
April 23, 2024
The 68th Eurovision Song Contest is taking place in May in Malmö, Sweden
April 23, 2024
Bon Jovi is marking its 40th anniversary
April 23, 2024
Opera singer Asmik Grigorian is at the peak of her career, but there’s one major opera venue she hasn’t yet performed at — New York’s Metropolitan Opera
April 23, 2024
Novels that tell complex and surprising stories of migration are among six finalists for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction
April 24, 2024
Besides being an accomplished actor, John Lithgow is a Harvard graduate who was a Fulbright Scholar at the London School of the Arts
April 24, 2024
Italy’s Ministry of Culture has banned art loans to the Minneapolis Institute of Art in the United States following a long-running dispute over an ancient marble statue believed to have been looted from Italy almost a half-century ago
April 24, 2024
Cristian Măcelaru has been hired as music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra starting in the 2025-26 season
April 24, 2024It looks like the third time will be the charm as the 2024 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage festival prepares for The Rolling Stones
April 25, 2024
A rapper in Iran who came to fame over his lyrics about the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini and criticizing the Islamic Republic has been reportedly sentenced to death
April 25, 2024
The iconic windmill sails of the Moulin Rouge, a vibrant emblem of Paris’s bohemian lifestyle, has collapsed after a show
April 25, 2024
Anthony Roth Costanzo was hired Thursday as general director and president of Opera Philadelphia
April 25, 2024
Forty years and 50 million record sales after the Pet Shop Boys rose to fame with “West End Girls,” the iconic British duo is releasing a new album
April 25, 2024
Here’s a game: Tell a friend to give you any number and you’ll return one that’s bigger. Just add ‘1’ to whatever number they come up with and you’re sure to win.
April 15, 2024
Historians are working to shine a light on Alice Ball’s legacy and contributions to an early treatment of a dangerous and stigmatizing disease.
April 12, 2024
A Pennsylvania school district has reversed the cancellation of an appearance by actor and children’s book author Maulik Pancholy
April 25, 2024
A selection of South African artworks produced during the country’s apartheid era which ended up in foreign art collections is on display in Johannesburg
April 26, 2024
A lab in a Dutch zoo has presented special corals that bred themselves and nestled them in Europe's largest coral reef
April 26, 2024
Growing up in the Midwest, filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung developed both a healthy fear of tornadoes and a reverence for Jan de Bont’s 1996 disaster film “Twister.”
April 26, 2024
For music fans, John Oates is most recognizable as one-half of the Grammy-nominated Hall & Oates, the multi-platinum soul-pop duo behind hits like ″Private Eyes" and “Maneater.”
April 26, 2024
PEN America has canceled its annual World Voices Festival, as the literary and free expression organization continues to face widespread unhappiness with its response to the Israel-Hamas War
April 26, 2024U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrapped up his just-concluded latest visit to China with a stop at a Beijing record store where he bought albums by Taylor Swift and Chinese rocker Dou Wei in a symbolic nod to cross-cultural exchanges and understanding he had been promoting for three days
April 27, 2024
The Native Youth Olympics in Anchorage, Alaska, is a three-day celebration of Indigenous culture in the form of games that mimic hunting and survival techniques that Alaska Natives in the Arctic region have relied on for thousands of years
April 27, 2024
Pope Francis is traveling to Venice to visit the Holy See’s pavilion for this year’s Venice Biennale
April 28, 2024
Nicole Kidman won the AFI Life Achievement Award with a film career that Meryl Streep said is all about love
April 28, 2024
The historic Versailles Palace Gardens will soon host the Paris Olympics equestrian sports
April 29, 2024
The Rolling Stones are showing no signs of slowing down anytime soon
April 29, 2024
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April 29, 2024John Krasinski doesn’t usually worry about reviews
April 29, 2024
The sculptor who created the "Fearless Girl" statue that promoted gender diversity on Wall Street has settled a lawsuit by a State Street unit seeking to stop
May 14, 2024
Two Broadway shows celebrating the origins of sonic creativity — the musical “Hell’s Kitchen” fueled by Alicia Keys songs, and the play “Stereophonic” about a ’70s rock band at the edge of stardom — each earned a leading 13 Tony Award nominations Tuesday
April 30, 2024
Marjane Satrapi, the acclaimed Iranian-French filmmaker and cartoonist, has won the 2024 Princess of Asturias Foundation award for communication and humanities
April 30, 2024
A professor shows science students how humanities classes are the real stem that other disciplines sprout from. They learn that critical thinking and skepticism don’t stop when they leave the lab.
April 30, 2024
Matthew Shardlake steps out of the pages of the late C
April 30, 2024
Alicia Keys' musical "Hell's Kitchen" and 1970s rock-inspired "Stereophonic" led the nominations for the 2024 Tony awards, American theater's highest honors,
May 15, 2024
Best-selling novelist Amy Tan of “The Joy Luck Club” fame combines entries from her nature journal with astonishing illustrations thanks to lessons in bird illustration in “The Backyard Bird Chronicles,” to share a birdwatching obsession that dates back to before the COVID-19 pandemic
April 30, 2024
The world's biggest live music event, Eurovision Song Contest, will take place in Sweden in the second week of May with 37 participating countries.
May 07, 2024
Lily Gladstone, the first Native American woman to be nominated for an Oscar, will return to this year's Cannes Film Festival as a member of the nine-strong main jury, organizers
May 14, 2024
Pope Francis made his first trip out of Rome for seven months on Sunday with a packed visit to Venice that took in an art exhibition, a prison and a Mass, with the 87-
May 14, 2024
It has been almost 50 years since the U.S. government established that Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders and their accomplishments should be recognized annually across the nation
May 01, 2024
The sails of the landmark red windmill atop the Moulin Rouge, the most celebrated cabaret club in Paris, fell to the ground overnight in the early hours of Thursday
May 09, 2024
A pre-Roman necropolis characterised by rich grave artefacts was discovered in southern Italy during excavations for the construction of an electricity power station, local
April 24, 2024Author Paul Auster has died at age 77
May 01, 2024
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May 01, 2024
Italy will sign an agreement with Ukraine and the United Nations' cultural agency UNESCO to rebuild the city of Odesa and its cathedral which was badly damaged by a Russian attack,
May 09, 2024
Since its debut at the Sundance Film Festive, Jane Schoenbrun's “I Saw the TV Glow" has been hailed as an acutely intense psychodrama of self discovery
May 01, 2024
Ethan Hawke directs his daughter Maya Hawke in “Wildcat,” a movie about the Southern Catholic writer Flannery O'Connor
May 01, 2024
Duane Eddy, a pioneering guitar hero whose reverberating electric sound on instrumentals such as “Rebel Rouser,” “Forty Miles of Bad Road" and “Cannonball” helped put the twang in early rock ‘n’ roll and influenced George Harrison, Bruce Springsteen and countless other musicians, has died at age 86
May 01, 2024
The White House has a new curator and Donna Hayashi Smith is the first Asian American to hold the post
May 01, 2024
Kim Noltemy will become president of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in July, helping guide the search for music director Gustavo Dudamel's successor
May 01, 2024
U.S. novelist and screenwriter Paul Auster died of complications from lung cancer at his home in Brooklyn on Tuesday evening aged 77, the New York Times reported, citing friend and author
May 16, 2024
Ilker Yazici - stage name Miss Putka - was in secondary school when he discovered he was gay.
May 16, 2024
Former Nickelodeon producer Dan Schneider is suing the makers of the documentary “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV" for implying that he sexually abused children
May 02, 2024
The Rolling Stones made their first appearance at the 54-year-old New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
May 02, 2024
A European court has upheld Italy’s right to seize a prized Greek statue from the J
May 02, 2024
Organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest say they reserve the right to remove any Palestinian flags and pro-Palestinian symbols at the show next week in Sweden
May 02, 2024
It stands as the crowning achievement of Western classical music.
May 02, 2024
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May 02, 2024
A festival celebrating Asian American literary works that was suddenly canceled last year by the Smithsonian Institution is getting resurrected
May 02, 2024When Jessica Pratt released her debut self-titled album in 2011, the singer-songwriter was critically praised for her austere guitar and hypnotic voice
May 02, 2024
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday ruled in favour of Italy's long-standing demand that the Getty Villa Museum in the United States return an ancient Greek statue
May 17, 2024
Athletes at this year's Olympics will be eating fresh produce mostly made in France, with a focus on local and organic products and more vegetarian options.
May 03, 2024
Considered the greatest writer in English literature, William Shakespeare illustrates views on race and whiteness throughout all of his dramatic works.
May 03, 2024
Frustrated with the lack of diversity in the fantasy genre, LaDarrion Williams posted a question on Twitter in 2020
May 03, 2024
Spain scrapped an annual bullfighting award on Friday, prompting a rebuke from conservatives over a backlash against a centuries-old tradition they see as an art form but which has
July 02, 2024
Ancient statues, coins, jewels and still-intact eggs from Roman and Etruscan times have been recovered from thermal baths in southern Tuscany, Italy's culture
December 03, 2024
Roberto Carnero, an Italian literature professor at the University of Bologna, was shocked when he received a call from his Italian publisher in March about the
July 02, 2024
Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and producer PJ Morton comes home with a new album and memoir dropping soon amid a Saturday afternoon performance at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, which nears the end of an eight-day run
May 04, 2024
Kevin Spacey, the Oscar-winning actor, has denied new allegations of inappropriate behavior from men who will feature in a documentary on British television that is due to be released next week
May 04, 2024
Madonna has put on a free concert in Rio de Janeiro, turning the vast stretch of sand of Copacabana beach into an enormous dance floor teeming with a multitude of her fans
May 04, 2024
Frank Stella, a painter, sculptor and printmaker whose constantly evolving works served as landmarks of the minimalist and post-painterly abstraction art movements, has died
May 04, 2024
With artificial intelligence, country music star Randy Travis has his voice back
May 06, 2024
Spain’s Prado Museum has confirmed that a painting that was due to be auctioned in Madrid in 2021 is in fact a work by Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio that was considered lost
May 06, 2024
Mothers are smudged out and poorly cloaked beneath drapes in these 19th century portraits. But these photos are not so much relics of shoddy photography than an ode to childhood.
May 06, 2024
The summer performance lineup at the amphitheater on Manhattan's Little Island park will open June 6 with Twyla Tharp’s “How Long Blues.”
May 06, 2024
The Met Gala has inspired pajama-clad New Yorkers to fundraise for medical debt relief at an alternative benefit called the Debt Gala
May 06, 2024
In a number of stories and novels, lost limbs represent both physical and metaphorical loss.
May 06, 2024
Janet Jackson will make her fourth appearance at the 2024 Essence Festival of Culture this summer in New Orleans
May 06, 2024
Jayne Anne Phillips’ “Night Watch,” a mother-daughter saga set in a West Virginia asylum after the Civil War, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction
May 06, 2024
Many celebrities are Met Gala regulars, invited again and again
May 07, 2024
The Seoul Queer Culture Festival will take place in the capital's streets this year, organisers of South Korea's annual LGBTQ gathering said on Tuesday, after the city
May 07, 2024
The Cannes Film Festival will bring together the industry's biggest luminaries in southern France next week to celebrate cinema, with Hollywood stars including George Lucas, Meryl
May 21, 2024
Colm Tóibín’s “Long Island,” the Irish novelist’s follow-up to the acclaimed immigrant tale “Brooklyn,” is Oprah Winfrey’s latest book club pick
May 07, 2024
Long before his son Lin-Manuel's Tony Award-winning musical “Hamilton” brought his family international recognition and unexpected fortune, Luis A
May 07, 2024
A firm managing bullfights at Seville's renowned bullring is to hand out free tickets to children under eight, adding further fuel to a national debate about the traditional, and
May 22, 2024
Only four women conducted the Metropolitan Opera in its first 133 years ending in 2016, but now four women have taken the baton in a one-week span
May 07, 2024
South by Southwest, the music, technology and film festival (SXSW) held annually in Austin, Texas is coming to London next year in a new European edition.
May 22, 2024
The number of truly outstanding performance cars priced at or around $65,000 might surprise you
May 08, 2024
Ever since Giacomo Puccini died in 1924 without finishing his last opera, “Turandot,” audiences have thrilled to its soaring melodies like “Nessun Dorma,” but also perhaps lamented the lack of a proper ending
May 08, 2024
No matter whether Nemo wins the Eurovision Song Contest this weekend — which would make them the first nonbinary contestant to take home the crystal microphone — the Swiss singer is already a success
May 08, 2024
An artist whose work exploring her Scottish Sikh identity includes a vintage Ford car draped in a crocheted doily has won the U.K.’s prestigious Turner Prize
December 03, 2024
A music festival that draws tens of thousands of people to Atlanta’s Piedmont Park will not take place this year
May 08, 2024
Steve Albini, a legendary rock producer who shaped the musical landscape through his work with Nirvana, the Pixies, PJ Harvey and more, has died
May 08, 2024This December marks the centennial of Rod Serling, the late host and writer of the classic TV series “The Twilight Zone.”
May 09, 2024
Scores of musicians, hundreds of journalists and thousands of music fans are gathering in the Swedish city of Malmo for the exuberant, glitter-drenched final of the Eurovision Song Contest
May 09, 2024
Two Russian online film distributors, including a company owned by Nasdaq-listed internet giant Yandex, have been charged with offences under the country's so-called "LGBT propaganda" law,
May 24, 2024The award-winning Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has been sentenced to eight years in prison and lashings ahead of his planned trip to the Cannes film festival, his lawyer tells The Associated Press
May 09, 2024
Andy Serkis is going back to Middle-earth to play Gollum in two new Lord of the Rings films
May 09, 2024
Country star Cindy Walker was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame
May 09, 2024The Supreme Court has sided with a music producer in a copyright case, allowing him to seek more than a decade's worth of damages over a sample used in a Flo Rida song
May 09, 2024
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May 15, 2013Members of three South American indigenous communities have asked Spain and UNESCO to declare a Spanish galleon that sank 300 years ago with a bountiful cargo as "
July 02, 2024
When Bob Ross died of complications from cancer in 1995, he had completed about half of the paintings he planned to teach from in a 32 season of “The Joy of Painting.”
May 10, 2024
Artifacts held in the National Museum of American History provide personal details about the Normandy invasion.
May 10, 2024
Two climate protesters aged 82 and 85 attempted to smash the reinforced case holding an original
July 02, 2024
In an age of radical reinterpretations, conductor Gianandrea Noseda and director Andreas Homoki created a counterrevolutionary version of Wagner’s four-night, 15-hour Ring Cycle
May 10, 2024
Israel's Eden Golan has become one of the favourites among bookmakers to win this year's Eurovision Song Contest after she made it through
May 26, 2024
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced a $500 million fundraising campaign Friday to ensure long-term, global support for its Oscar prizes, museum, educational programming and screenings in view of its 100th anniversary in 2028
May 10, 2024Acts from more than two dozen countries will take the stage in Malmo, Sweden, to compete in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest
May 10, 2024
Switzerland on Saturday won the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Swedish host city Malmo, beating runner-up Croatia, after having been among
July 02, 2024
Swiss singer Nemo has won the 68th Eurovision Song Contest with “The Code,” an operatic ode to the singer’s journey toward embracing a nongender identity
May 11, 2024
Swiss artist Nemo won the grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday, beating 24 rivals with the song "The Code", while Israel's Eden Golan finished fifth despite
May 27, 2024
The Cannes Film Festival rarely passes without cacophony but this year’s edition may be more raucous and uneasy than any edition in recent memory
May 12, 2024
Swiss advocates for non-binary rights hailed local star Nemo's victory in Saturday's Eurovision Song Contest, urging the country's authorities to enable official recognition of
May 28, 2024
Low-budget cinema maestro Roger Corman, who cranked out hundreds of outrageous films over six decades and helped launch the careers of acclaimed directors Martin
May 27, 2024
Buddha's birthday is an important holiday in several countries in Asia where there are large Buddhist populations
May 12, 2024
Thousands of Malians joined the replastering of the world’s largest mud-brick building this weekend, a key ritual that maintains the integrity of the Great Mosque of Djenne in central Mali
May 13, 2024
The European Union’s executive will demand explanations from Eurovision song contest organizers why its flag was banned from the concert hall during the final
May 13, 2024
A former archivist at Mary McLeod Bethune’s last residence in Washington, DC, recounts how the experience led her to see Bethune as a global figure.
May 13, 2024
A golden-hued diamond brooch, similar to one worn by the late Queen Elizabeth, is expected to be sold for around $6 million at a Sotheby's auction in Geneva this week.
May 28, 2024
Historic building goes up in flames in Merced
December 03, 2024
The excitement that usually builds to a crescendo ahead of the Cannes Film Festival's opening night has been reined in this year by rumours of potentially explosive
July 02, 2024
The Associated Press has withdrawn its story about a theater production involving George Clooney because it moved ahead of an embargo lifting
May 13, 2024
After being sentenced to eight years in prison, the award-winning Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof says he’s fled to Europe shortly ahead of the Cannes Film Festival premiere of his latest film
May 13, 2024
Childish Gambino has returned with a reimagined album and a new tour announcement
May 13, 2024
Mohammad Rasoulof, a celebrated Iranian director whose latest film is competing in the Cannes Film Festival, has fled Iran after being sentenced to eight years in prison and
July 02, 2024
Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Fremaux lamented on Monday an increased focus in recent years on political and social issues in the movie industry, which he said came at the
May 28, 2024
Luxury Italian fashion house Gucci has brought glitz and glamor to London's Tate Moden museum with a star-studded cruise collection show
May 13, 2024
Beneath intermittent rainy skies, the Cannes Film Festival opened Tuesday with the presentation of an honorary Palme d’Or for Meryl Streep and the unveiling of Greta Gerwig’s jury, as the French Riviera spectacular kicked off a potentially volatile 77th edition
May 14, 2024
Sean Penn has blasted the organizers of the Oscars of being cowards who, in effect, limit the kind of films that can be funded and made
December 03, 2024
The Bayreuth Festival in Germany has announced it is retaining Katharina Wagner as its director for another five years
May 14, 2024
Since rap’s emergence, artists have boasted about themselves in ways that were funny and sometimes violent, vulgar and sexist. The popularity of the music and its exploitation can be dangerous.
May 14, 2024
Some viewers seem to want Abela’s voice to be a carbon copy of Winehouse’s. But the art of vocal impersonation isn’t about perfect replication.
May 14, 2024
New fiction from Jami Attenberg and books from young adult authors Kwame Mbalia and Robert Beatty and the latest book on science from best-selling writer Dava Sobel are among the upcoming works excerpted for a free e-compilation
May 14, 2024David Sanborn, the Grammy-winning saxophonist who played lively solos on such hits as David Bowie’s “Young Americans” and James Taylor’s “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)” and enjoyed his own highly successful career, has died at age 78
May 14, 2024
Nobel laureate Alice Munro has died
May 14, 2024
The first star to arrive on the red carpet at the 77th Cannes Film Festival came on four legs
May 14, 2024
Kathleen Hana's bands, Bikini Kill, the Julie Ruin and Le Tigre, have long been celebrated for their candor, and their songs which chastised abusers and celebrated women
May 14, 2024
King Charles III unveiled his first completed portrait since the coronation, a vivid image in reds depicting the monarch in the uniform of the Welsh Guards
May 14, 2024
Greta Gerwig, director of the smash hit "Barbie" movie, told journalists at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday that the #MeToo movement has led
May 30, 2024
Nobel Prize-winning Canadian writer Alice Munro, whose exquisitely crafted tales of the loves, ambitions and travails of small-town women in her
May 29, 2024
Britain's King Charles on Tuesday unveiled the first official portrait of himself since his coronation last May.
May 29, 2024
The Cannes Film Festival is hallowed ground in cinema but understanding its unique landscape can be confounding
May 14, 2024
The video screen “Portal” that lets people in New York and Dublin peer into life on opposite sides of the Atlantic in real time has been a source of whimsical delight, but also a magnet for boorish behavior that’s prompted officials to hit pause for now
May 14, 2024
The Cannes Film Festival officially kicked off on Tuesday night as celebrities walked the red carpet into the plush Grand Theatre Lumiere to honour Hollywood actor Meryl Streep
May 29, 2024
The use of a voice-cloning technology marrying old audio clips to an actor's narration is bringing an historic U.S. Supreme Court decision to life
May 15, 2024
Organizers of Spain’s Princess of Asturias Awards have awarded the prize for the social sciences to Canadian historian and writer Michael Ignatieff
May 15, 2024
“Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” rolled into the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday, returning George Miller’s dystopia-on-wheels to the French Riviera festival and lending Anya Taylor-Joy a fairy tale moment on the Cannes red carpet
May 15, 2024
The world of “Mad Max” has lived in George Miller's head for nearly half a century
May 15, 2024
Forty years ago, on Dec. 8, 1984, one of the largest manhunts in FBI history came to an explosive end on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound
December 03, 2024
Francis Ford Coppola will soon premiere at the Cannes Film Festival a film on which he has risked everything that’s arriving clouded by rumors of production turmoil
May 15, 2024
Michelin-starred chef Arturo Rivera Martinez stands over an insanely hot grill at the first Mexican taco stand to get a coveted star
May 15, 2024
It was Lainey Wilson’s night, in many ways
May 16, 2024
PEN America gathered Thursday night for its annual gala, a high-profile event raised even higher because some wondered if it would be held at all
May 16, 2024
French director Judith Godreche praised the Cannes Film Festival for welcoming her and cast members of her movie about the #MeToo movement on the red carpet on
May 31, 2024
To say Cage the Elephant’s latest album had a turbulent birth would be an understatement
May 16, 2024
Naperville 'Taylor Swift house' returns for holiday season with Travis Kelce cutout, other additions
December 03, 2024From Andy Warhol's colourful depiction of Queen Elizabeth II to Cecil Beaton's pictures of her sister Princess Margaret, a new exhibition looks at portrait photography of Britain's
June 02, 2024
Francis Ford Coppola on Thursday premiered his self-financed opus “Megalopolis” at the Cannes Film Festival, unveiling a wildly ambitious passion project the 85-year-old director has been pondering for decades
May 16, 2024
Grand National Tour: Kendrick Lamar and SZA Set to Dominate the Stage in 2024!
December 03, 2024With new photographic and video evidence, an Indian court battle over the origins of the world famous butter chicken is set to get spicier.
July 02, 2024
Paul McCartney is a billionaire Beatle
May 17, 2024
Much attention has been paid to the $120 million of his own fortune that Francis Ford Coppola put up to make the futuristic epic “Megalopolis.”
May 17, 2024
For Brits, ‘Pomp and Circumstance’ evokes nostalgia for a vanished, golden age. But Americans experience it as a stirring sendoff into a hopeful future.
May 17, 2024
Dabney Coleman, the mustachioed character actor who specialized in smarmy villains like the chauvinist boss in “9 to 5” and the nasty TV director in “Tootsie,” has died
May 17, 2024
It's every amateur photographer's nightmare: you spy a once-in-a-lifetime picture, and you forget to change your camera settings. But it can happen to a seasoned professional, too.
June 03, 2024
The World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest has crowned a grand prize winner after hundreds of dedicated pitmasters sweated through smoke to be named the best in pork
May 18, 2024
Of the many quotations and slogans that flitter through Francis Ford Coppola’s idea-stuffed, open-hearted, unabashedly optimistic “Megalopolis,” one that particularly resonates with the director is: “When we leap into the unknown, we prove that we’re free.”
May 18, 2024
A month before Kevin Costner puts the first installment of his multi-chapter Western “Horizon: An American Saga” into theaters, the actor-director came to the Cannes Film Festival to unveil his self-financed passion project
May 19, 2024
On paper, Jacques Audiard’s buzzed-about Cannes Film Festival entry “Emilia Perez” would not seem anything like a good idea for a movie
May 19, 2024
Surprising flavor combinations – think gravy-flavored Jones Soda or Sour Patch Kids Oreos -- are showing up more frequently in grocery stores and restaurants
May 20, 2024
A Russian court has started the trial of a theater director and a playwright facing charges of justifying terrorism over a play they staged, the latest step in the unrelenting crackdown on dissent in Russia that has reached unprecedented levels during Moscow's war in Ukraine
May 20, 2024
Studio Ghibli, the Japanese anime factory of surreal ecological wonders that has for 39 years spirited away moviegoers with tales of Totoros, magical jellyfish and floating castles, was celebrated Monday by the Cannes Film Festival with an honorary Palme d’Or
May 20, 2024
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June 05, 2024
Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov used his appearance at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday to launch a protest against the detention and
June 04, 2024
Deifying the composer and his work only serves to reinforce America’s white patriarchy at the expense of countless others who were no less great.
May 21, 2024
After decades in the shadows, Asian American studies has expanded on college campuses.
May 21, 2024
Fred Roos, the Oscar-winning producer of “The Godfather Part II” who helped launch the careers of numerous superstars from Jack Nicholson to Tom Cruise, has died
May 21, 2024
Polish composer Jan A
May 21, 2024
Mexico’s often violent disputes between street performers reached a new level this week when a group of guitar-toting mariachis tangled with a flame-swallower
May 21, 2024
Works by Salvador Dali and Giorgio De Chirico feature in an exhibition of more than 80 paintings and sculptures recovered by Italian authorities from money laundering and mafia
December 03, 2024
German author Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann have won the International Booker Prize for the novel “Kairos.”
May 21, 2024
Part of director Sean Baker's aim in making "Anora," a darkly funny and touching drama about a young exotic dancer who becomes involved
June 06, 2024
Sarah Pidgeon is making her Broadway debut this season in a celebrated, thoughtful show about how art is created
May 22, 2024
After the competition lineup at the Cannes Film Festival got a lackluster start last week, the festival was enlivened by a string of films both fleshy and carnal
May 22, 2024
Mississippi’s capital city has been tapped to host the National Folk Festival from 2025 through 2027
May 22, 2024Nashville councilmembers have rejected a plan to erect a glowing sign at Morgan Wallen’s new bar along a neon-lit strip of honky tonks in the city's downtown
May 22, 2024
Jack Harlow croons Sinatra and Elvis during shows with Louisville Orchestra
December 03, 2024A book presentation about neoclassical economic theory may not sound like a crowd-pleaser
May 23, 2024
Memphis barbecue is elevated to fine dining under the sun at the annual World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest
May 23, 2024
It’s been a dog’s life at this year’s Cannes Film Festival — or should that be the Canine Film Festival
May 23, 2024
A long-delayed and complex project to bring a subway line under ancient Roman ruins and through Rome’s historic center has entered a crucial phase
May 23, 2024
The Stones will roll through the Ozarks this summer
May 23, 2024
OpenAI's apparent homage to the movie "Her" featuring the voice likeness of Scarlett Johansson is fueling a backlash against artificial intelligence
June 09, 2024Spanish police said on Thursday they had recovered a painting by the late Irish-born British figurative artist Francis Bacon, worth an estimated 5 million euros ($5.42 million), and
June 08, 2024In a Pristina apartment, gay actors laugh and cry their way through rehearsals for a play lampooning homophobic politicians and advocating equal rights for the
June 07, 2024
The artist who created the Precious Moments figurines depicting angelic teardrop-eyed children has died
May 23, 2024
Detroit has a rich music tradition and is known for its role in the development of house.
May 23, 2024
A previously unknown terracotta bust of the famed early Renaissance architect who designed the Florence Cathedral dome has been unveiled in the Tuscan capital, where it will be displayed permanently following restoration
May 23, 2024
Mohammad Rasoulof was facing eight years in prison and likely more considering the uncompromising nature of his latest film, “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” when he decided to flee Iran
May 23, 2024
The independent bookstore boom continues
May 23, 2024
Louis Vuitton has unveiled its latest fashion designs at Barcelona’s Park Güell in an homage to one of Antoni Gaudí’s architectural masterpieces
May 23, 2024
Some of the biggest stars in the French Rivera for the Cannes Film Festival made appearances at the 30th annual amfAR gala to raise money for AIDS research
May 23, 2024
Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, an Oscar nominee whose most famous works skewered America’s food industry and who notably ate only at McDonald’s for a month to illustrate the dangers of a fast-food diet, has died of cancer
May 24, 2024
The Cannes Film Festival draws glamour to itself like a moth to the flame
May 24, 2024
The Beach Boys are looking back on a life of sunshine and sorrow in a new Disney+ documentary
May 24, 2024
The cross at the apse of Notre-Dame de Paris, which survived the devastating 2019 fire, has been reinstalled atop the cathedral’s framework after a meticulous restoration by artistic ironworkers from Normandy
May 24, 2024
Caleb Carr, the scarred and gifted son of founding Beat Lucien Carr who endured a traumatizing childhood and became a bestselling novelist, accomplished military historian and late-life memoirist of his devoted cat Masha, has died
May 24, 2024
Lucinda Williams isn’t easily intimidated, but it would be hard for any musician not to shudder at the task before her
December 03, 2024
Exiled Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof said on Friday that his Cannes Film Festival competition entry, about a court official's family
June 10, 2024
Metalsmiths in Colorado are remaking Jackie Robinson in bronze after the theft of a beloved Kansas statue of the civil rights baseball icon set off a national outpouring of donations
May 25, 2024
Sean Baker’s “Anora,” a comic but devastating Brooklyn odyssey about a sex worker who marries the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch, has won the Cannes Film Festival’s top award, the Palme d’Or
May 25, 2024
A first-ever theater show to explore the lives of Asian American Jews tells 14 stories of people ranging in age from 12 to 75
May 25, 2024
Hundreds of clowns have gathered in the streets of Peru’s capital to mark Clown Day, a holiday for which they have sought for years to gain official recognition
May 25, 2024
Richard Sherman, 95, a man behind famed Disney songs that delighted generations, such as "It's a Small World (After all)" and Mary Poppins' songs "
June 11, 2024
"Anora," a darkly funny and touching drama about a young exotic dancer who becomes involved with a Russian oligarch's son, won the Cannes
June 11, 2024
In the heart of Peru’s Amazon region, a poor neighborhood put aside the trials and tribulations of everyday life and celebrated an international film festival with works from countries with tropical forests
May 26, 2024
A team of researchers set out to determine if today’s Hollywood blockbusters are reflective of the current climate crisis and found out they aren't most of the time
May 28, 2024
Italy is celebrating the return of around 600 antiquities from the U.S. They were looted years ago, sold to U.S. museums and collectors and recovered as a result of criminal investigations
May 28, 2024
The general manager of Milan’s famed Teatro alla Scala has bidden a bittersweet farewell to the theater during the presentation of 2024-25 season, saying he would have been happy to continue
May 28, 2024
You don’t initially see a full elephant at the Broadway musical “Water for Elephants.”
May 28, 2024
“The Godfather” producer Albert S
May 28, 2024
The sole physical copy of Wu-Tang Clan’s unreleased “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” is headed to Australia’s Museum of Old and New Art
May 28, 2024
About 10 drag artists from around the United States are banding together to protect and promote their art form
May 29, 2024
Half a year after the nation’s capital bid an emotional farewell to its giant pandas, the National Zoo is expecting a renewed surge in panda-mania with the announcement that two more of the furry black-and-white icons will be returning to Washington
May 29, 2024
Archaeologists in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii near the city of Naples have uncovered charcoal sketches drawn by children as young as six years old, depicting possibly violent
June 14, 2024
Jay-Z’s popular exhibit “The Book of Hov” in New York is about to live up to its name by becoming an actual book sold nationwide
December 03, 2024
Jacqueline Stewart is leaving her post leading the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures to return to the University of Chicago
May 29, 2024
Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities held a ceremony to mark the completion of multi-year renovations to the grand 14th-century mosque of Altunbugha al-Maridani in Historic Cairo.
June 13, 2024
Hang up the ripped bodices, give Fabio the bad news and cue the lawyers: the Romance Writers of America, a nonprofit devoted to helping romance writers build
June 14, 2024
Jon M. Chu believes ‘the time is right’ for ‘Wicked’
December 03, 2024
Usher will add another prestigious award to his already loaded trophy case
May 30, 2024
The special Tony Award that honors educators is going to a Baltimore-based actor, educator, choreographer and Broadway veteran who has created arts opportunities for everyone from kindergartners to senior citizens
May 30, 2024
The AI train has left the station. Now, guardrails need to be hastily built to keep the technology from running the music industry off the tracks.
May 30, 2024
Andra Day gained acting acclaim after her starring role in a 2021 Billie Holiday biopic, but the soulful singer nearly lost the strength of her powerful voice during the process
May 30, 2024
Blue and pink lights lit the stage as the curtain rose at the Champs de Mars puppet theatre in Paris, with audience members welcomed to the show by a Guignol
June 14, 2024
A toddler in the West African country of Ghana has set the record as the world’s youngest male artist
May 31, 2024
The annual Seoul Queer Culture Festival was held in the South Korean capital on Saturday despite previous issues in securing a venue and protests against the LGBT community's pride
June 18, 2024
An environmental activist was detained after sticking a protest sign to a Monet painting in Paris’ famed Orsay Museum
June 01, 2024
Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press photographer Ron Edmonds has died
June 01, 2024
A Dutch tourist has defaced a frescoed wall in an ancient Roman house in Herculaneum, near Naples, damaging a building that survived the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD,
June 19, 2024
The 2024 BET Awards are fast approaching
June 03, 2024
Janis Paige, a popular actor in Hollywood and in Broadway musicals and comedies who danced with Fred Astaire, toured with Bob Hope and continued to perform into her 90s, has died
June 03, 2024
Hong Kong artist Kacey Wong is striving to keep alive the memory of China's June 4 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators from his adopted home of
June 20, 2024
In a surprise that stunned the audience of Hollywood’s first big awards-season bash, “A Different Man,” a dark comedy about doppelgängers, deformity and authenticity in acting, won best feature film at the 34th Gotham Awards on Monday night
December 03, 2024
Noam Chomsky’s notion of the human instinct for freedom ties together his many intellectual pursuits, from educating creative, independent citizens to rejecting social and economic hierarchies.
December 03, 2024
Oprah Winfrey has her next book club pick and a new platform to talk books and other topics of the day
December 03, 2024
How does it feel for Mick Jagger to be back on tour singing, dancing and strutting across stadium concert stages at 80 years old?
June 20, 2024
Romania’s minister of culture says she will ask French luxury fashion house Louis Vuitton to acknowledge that a traditional Romanian blouse directly inspired items in one of its 2024 collections
June 04, 2024
For a month now, visitors to a Manhattan gallery have been taking selfies of their reflections in artist Maurizio Cattelan's gleaming gold-plated wall, pockmarked by more than 20,000 rounds of ammunition
June 04, 2024
On opening night of the Broadway revival of “Merrily We Roll Along,” one person in the audience strangely wasn’t nervous — the director
June 04, 2024
Historical paintings rescued by fire fighters and the public during a huge blaze at Copenhagen's Old Stock Exchange can almost all be
June 21, 2024
It’s been 25 years since “Run Lola Run” was released in the United States
June 04, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump will attend the reopening celebration for Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris this weekend, his first foreign trip since the election
December 03, 2024
A former protege of The-Dream, the Grammy-winning writer and producer on some of biggest hits by Beyoncé and Rihanna, has filed a lawsuit accusing him of sexual assault and other abuse
June 04, 2024
Two-time Tony-winning actor Bebe Neuwirth has received a third nomination for her role as Fraulein Schneider in the revival of “Cabaret" on Broadway
June 04, 2024
Colson Whitehead’s “Crook Manifesto” is this year’s winner of the Gotham Book Prize for an outstanding work about New York City
June 05, 2024
Ten years ago, Meghan Trainor became a hit pop performer
June 05, 2024
Damiano Michieletto has been prominent on European stages for two decades, known for contemporary reconsiderations that at times cause controversy
June 05, 2024
Greece’s culture minister says the comments made by a Turkish official at a UNESCO meeting last week, casting doubt on the existence of proof long cited by Britain that it had legally acquired the Parthenon Marbles, have bolstered Athens' stand in the dispute
June 05, 2024
Ice Spice’s long-awaited debut album, “Y2K,” is almost here
June 05, 2024
Fallout is spreading over the impending closure of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia
June 05, 2024
Inspired by an 18th century Scottish philosopher and the modern scourge of misinformation, Suzanne Collins is returning to the ravaged, post-apocalyptic land of Panem for a new “The Hunger Games” novel
June 06, 2024
Chanel artistic director Virginie Viard is leaving the label, the luxury brand said on Thursday, kicking off speculation over who will replace her in one of the fashion
June 23, 2024
In its bankruptcy filing, the Romance Writers of America blamed ‘disputes concerning diversity, equity and inclusion’ for its membership declining by an astounding 80%.
June 06, 2024
The twists and turns of teenage years take on new meaning in these 5 books about LGBTQ+ youth.
June 06, 2024
It can sometimes be difficult for child actors to shed public conceptions of them as a kid on screen, hindering these stars from being taken seriously in Hollywood as adults
June 06, 2024
Broadway has had great success with “Hello, Dolly.”
June 06, 2024
Virginie Viard, the creative director of Chanel who replaced Karl Lagerfeld after his death, is leaving the fashion house
June 06, 2024
Every June since the 1970s, across the United States, musicians, fans and industry professionals celebrate Black Music Month
June 06, 2024
Jaap van Zweden is ending his tenure as the New York Philharmonic music director after six seasons, the orchestra’s shortest since Pierre Boulez from 1971-77
June 06, 2024
Some of Detroit’s greatest musical exports performed at a concert celebrating the historic reopening of an 18-story structure that long symbolized their hometown’s decline
June 07, 2024
Dozens of chefs and restaurants are finalists for this year's prestigious James Beard Awards
June 07, 2024
The Stockholm-based Royal Swedish Opera has been fined 3 million kronor or $300,000 after a stage technician died last year when he fell around 13 meters or more than 40 feet from a balcony as he was carrying out work inside the building
June 07, 2024
The story of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is no longer one of annihilation; it also includes the people who managed to escape the city.
June 07, 2024
Unusual spray-painted images and messages with references to Ukraine have appeared on the streets of Paris as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with U.S. President Joe Biden in the French capital
June 07, 2024
Vatican police arrested a former employee for allegedly trying to sell to the city-state a 17th-century manuscript by Italian Baroque master Gian Lorenzo Bernini that had
June 25, 2024
Dick Van Dyke has won a historic Daytime Emmy at age 98
June 07, 2024
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has joined top political and cultural figures at Verona’s ancient Arena amphitheater for an open-air celebration of Italian lyric opera’s recognition by UNESCO as a global cultural treasure
June 07, 2024
With statues of the Buddha and local gods, candles and incense sticks, Lee Kyoung-hyun's shrine looks similar to those
July 02, 2024
Pope Francis, who says he regularly prays "Lord, give me a sense of humour", will welcome comedians from around the world to a cultural event in Italy to "celebrate the beauty
June 25, 2024
More than 120 faith leaders are preparing for an Olympic challenge — how to spiritually support some 14,000 athletes and their staff who will take part in the Paris Games
June 09, 2024
This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include an album from Paul McCartney & Wings, Jake Gyllenhaal starring in his first TV role as a prosecutor accused of murder in “Presumed Innocent," and actor Andrew McCarthy sets out to reconnect with some of this fellow Brat Pack alum
June 07, 2024
The former home of the late Ursula K
June 09, 2024
Oxford University has agreed to return a 500-year-old bronze sculpture of a Hindu saint to India
June 10, 2024
A Palestinian chef using ancient cooking techniques, a Senegalese restaurant in New Orleans and an upscale Thai restaurant in Oregon have won coveted James Beard Awards
June 10, 2024
The assignment was daunting: Write a song for an onstage moment of transcendence
June 10, 2024
Sheila E
June 10, 2024
As Roger Daltrey hits the road on a short solo tour, he’s unsure if fans will ever see another tour from The Who
June 10, 2024
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organization behind the Oscars, announced 17 people elected to its board of governors Monday
June 10, 2024
The Library of Congress is unveiling an eclectic new exhibit drawing on the institution’s vast historical archives and designed to make the Library a more popular and accessible destination for visitors and tourists
June 10, 2024
A big, round, 4,000-year-old stone building discovered on a Cretan hilltop is puzzling archaeologists and threatening to disrupt a major airport project on the Greek tourist island
June 11, 2024
Animal rights activists pasted a cartoon image over a portrait of King Charles III at a London art gallery in the latest in a series of incidents at U.K. museums as campaigners use vandalism to publicize their causes
June 11, 2024
The lead singer of the Four Tops says a Detroit-area hospital restrained him and ordered a psychological exam after refusing to believe that he was part of the Motown music group
June 11, 2024
Author Ted Chiang has won a lifetime achievement prize for short stories, the PEN/Malamud Award, just the second time a science fiction writer has been honored since the award was established in 1988
June 11, 2024Animal rights activists on Tuesday targeted the first official portrait of Britain's King Charles since he became monarch, pasting a large image of the well-known animated character
June 27, 2024Martin Shkreli has been sued in New York by a digital art collective that said it paid $4.75 million for a one-of-a-kind album by the hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan
June 27, 2024
Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral has some surprising stories to tell before it reopens this weekend after five years of restoration
December 03, 2024
Actors Austin Butler, Jodie Comer and Tom Hardy immersed themselves in 1960s American motorcycle culture for their new film "The Bikeriders".
July 01, 2024
The Apollo Theater is celebrating its 90th anniversary this year
June 12, 2024
Bestselling author V
June 12, 2024Multimillion-dollar works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Yayoi Kusama and Alberto Giacometti went on the market as the Art Basel fair opened in Switzerland
June 12, 2024
A historian of gender and women’s rights explains how women’s protests focused on their rights evolved from the 1960s through the present.
June 12, 2024
The Tony Awards are Sunday with a familiar host and a new venue, Lincoln Center’s David H
June 12, 2024
Quincy Jones, casting director Juliet Taylor, filmmaker Richard Curtis and James Bond producers Michael G
June 12, 2024
A military history buff in China appears to have made an alarming discovery after picking up four books for less than $1 at a neighborhood recycling station
June 13, 2024
A family of gospel singers is releasing their first new music in nearly 50 years
June 13, 2024
Ariana DeBose promises the Tony Awards on Sunday will move “like a Broadway show.”
June 13, 2024
The Metropolitan Opera sold 72% of available tickets this season, up from 66% in 2022-23
June 13, 2024
Author-activist Naomi Klein has won the inaugural Women’s Prize for Nonfiction with “Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World.”
June 13, 2024
The judge in the trial of two leading Russian theatre figures accused of "justifying terrorism" approved a request from prosecutors on Thursday to ban journalists
June 28, 2024
He was the poetic voice of the Cuban Revolution, an inspiration for millions of Latin Americans living under dictatorships throughout the 1960s and 1970s who dreamt of the ideal Cuba that he — and his guitar — helped evoke
June 14, 2024
Zsela’s debut album ‘Big For You’ is transformational both in theme and in process
June 14, 2024
A Serbian court has ruled to extradite a Belarusian filmmaker and pro-democracy political activist to the authoritarian regime in Minsk where he could face prison and torture
June 14, 2024It's OK to make fun of God as long as the joke is not offensive, Pope Francis said on Friday in a special audience with about 100 comedians, actors and
June 28, 2024
The Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival is underway in Tennessee, bringing tens of thousands of fans to a 700-acre farm campground and concert venue for more than 150 performances this weekend
June 15, 2024
“The Outsiders” became the essence of a Broadway insider on Sunday as the gritty adaptation of the classic American young adult novel won the Tony Award for best new musical
June 14, 2024
Dozens of Ukrainian refugees from choirs around Switzerland converged in the city of Lucerne on Saturday near a global summit to sing
June 28, 2024
Hollywood’s summer movie anxieties gave way to joy this weekend with the massive debut of Disney and Pixar’s “Inside Out 2.”
June 16, 2024
Milan designers have expressed their concern over the global turbulence through their collections without making overt statements
June 16, 2024
On a stifling summer evening, the actors took to the stage: a grassy courtyard enclosed by towering prison walls, topped
June 28, 2024
The Tonys are often the most entertaining of awards shows, with Broadway performers showing their best work
June 17, 2024
It’s been creative director musical chairs at some of Italy’s top fashion houses, and the pressure is showing, at least on social media
June 17, 2024
Dozens of bottles of centuries-old, impeccably preserved cherries and berries from the cellar of George Washington's Mount Vernon estate in northern Virginia have been discovered during an archaeological dig
June 17, 2024
Jay-Z’s electrifying reunion with Alicia Keys on what appeared to be a live duet of “Empire State of Mind” at the Tony Awards was actually pre-taped, a show official who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly told The Associated Press
June 17, 2024
The Paris Olympics are getting into the groove for the historic opening ceremony on the River Seine
June 18, 2024
Post Malone and Doja Cat, two of pop music’s biggest stars, will headline this year’s Global Citizen Festival in New York’s Central Park on Sept. 28, as organizers focus on mobilizing young people to help address the world’s pressing problems
June 18, 2024
Archaeologists preserve records of their excavations, but many are never analyzed. Digital archaeology is making these records more accessible and analyzing the data in new ways.
June 18, 2024
A cruise ship starring some of Broadway’s biggest names, including Tony Award-winner Laura Benanti and Emmy-winner Wayne Brady, will sail from Miami to Mexico next spring
June 18, 2024
In “Fancy Dance,” Lily Gladstone stars as Jax, who is searching for her missing sister and caring for her young niece
June 18, 2024
Kazuko Shiraishi, a leading name in modern Japanese “beat” poetry, has died
June 19, 2024
Louis Vuitton has celebrated the beauty of humanity in a star-studded menswear showcase at UNESCO in Paris
June 19, 2024
The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker has been hailed as one of the preeminent voices of her generation, but the movies have long lingered in her mind and in her work
June 19, 2024
"The past haunts you and the future never arrives" six actors sing on stage in "The Days Out There", an Argentine musical that explores the lives of female and
July 02, 2024
For Austin Butler, getting into his role as the stoic bike rider named Benny in the Focus Features film “The Bikeriders” meant learning everything he
July 02, 2024
A mural honoring baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays has been unveiled in downtown Birmingham, Alabama
June 19, 2024
Not content with merely taking a victory lap after winning his battle last month against fellow rap superstar Drake, Kendrick Lamar turned his Juneteenth “Pop Out” concert into a celebration of Los Angeles unity
June 20, 2024
The Israel Antiquities Authority says a company drilling for natural gas off the coast of northern Israel has discovered a 3,300-year-old ship and its cargo, one of the oldest known examples of a ship sailing far from land
June 20, 2024
Herders carved names, slogans, nude silhouettes and more into the trees around them during lonely seasons in the mountains. Now, researchers rush to find and record the arborglyphs before they disappear.
June 20, 2024
Miami Beach police say rapper Travis Scott was arrested on misdemeanor charges of trespassing and public intoxication
June 20, 2024
Actress Judy Garland's hometown is raising money to recover a pair of ruby slippers she wore in “The Wizard of Oz” after it was stolen from a local museum and then turned over to an auction company
June 20, 2024
The Mexican government will welcome back 20 cultural artifacts that date to the country's storied ancient past, all found in the United States including a Mayan vase over 1,000
June 21, 2024
The way Lucy has been depicted in newspapers, textbooks and museums shows how today’s cultural norms influence perceptions of the past.
June 21, 2024
Oliver Platt has been Emmy nominated three times for his guest star appearances
June 21, 2024
Playwright Donald Rupe didn’t intend to write a musical about the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando, Florida
June 21, 2024
Iranian media say authorities have released a government critic and popular hip-hop artist who came to fame over his lyrics about the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini
December 03, 2024The Goma dance festival, the largest dance festival in Congo, has taken place each year for the past seven years, despite ongoing attacks by rebel groups
June 22, 2024
The lawyer for one of Iran's popular hip-hop artists and a critic of the regime Toomaj Salehi says the country's Supreme Court has overturned his death sentence
June 22, 2024
Ukrainians in Warsaw jumped over a bonfire and floated braids to honor the vital powers of water and fire on the Vistula River bank Saturday night, as they celebrated their solstice tradition of Ivan Kupalo Night away from war-torn home
June 23, 2024
With their Islamic headscarves and high-octane metal music, the women of the Indonesian band Voice of Baceprot have played stages from the
June 23, 2024
A Gutenberg Bible is not your ordinary book
June 24, 2024
The Amerigo Vespucci, which Italians call the world's most beautiful ship, is taking a taste of its homeland on a round-the-world tour, with temporary expositions at
July 03, 2024
Big record companies are suing artificial intelligence song-generators Suno and Udio for copyright infringement
June 24, 2024
Twelve years ago, the Memphis Music Hall of Fame inducted its inaugural class of 25 luminaries at a rousing ceremony, honoring legends spanning generations and genres, from Elvis Presley to Three 6 Mafia
June 24, 2024
Chanel’s latest couture display at the Paris Fashion Week is a finely executed collection channeling theatricality
June 25, 2024
Actors Lily Gladstone, Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Catherine O’Hara and filmmakers Cord Jefferson, Boots Riley and S
June 25, 2024
Sean Penn says he hadn’t felt joy making a movie in 15 years
June 26, 2024
Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s oeuvre defies simple categorization
June 26, 2024
Soprano Anna Netrebko and tenor Yusif Eyvazov have separated
June 26, 2024
The Los Angeles City Council unanimously voted to designate actress Marilyn Monroe's former home as a historical landmark on Wednesday, preventing the house where the Hollywood
June 26, 2024
Veteran character actor Bill Cobbs has died
June 26, 2024
Native American religious ceremonies with dancing, drumming, singing and the retelling of a sacred legend commemorated the recent birth of a rare white buffalo calf in Yellowstone National Park
June 26, 2024
A photo of Lucy’s reconstructed skeleton next to a live four-year-old girl shows how human Lucy was – and how small.
June 27, 2024
A century ago, the French writer and poet André Breton penned his ‘Manifesto of Surrealism,’ launching an art movement known for creating bizarre hybrids of words and images.
June 27, 2024
In 1993, Johnny Cash was between record contracts — and just about to embark on an iconic collaboration with producer Rick Rubin that would span the last 10 years of his life, starting with 1994’s “American Recordings.”
June 27, 2024
When Alessandra Ferri, one of the world's most celebrated dramatic ballerinas, takes the stage Friday at the Metropolitan Opera House to channel Virginia Woolf, logic dictates it will be her last dance appearance
June 27, 2024
Killer Mike is expected to avoid charges over a physical altercation that led to his arrest at the Grammys earlier this year after the rapper recently completed community service
June 27, 2024
Fans of Marilyn Monroe have won a battle to preserve her mark on Los Angeles and are a step closer to seeing a towering statue of the silver screen icon remain in Palm Springs
June 27, 2024
Competitive eater Joey “Jaws” Chestnut will take his hot dog-downing talents to an army base in Texas for America’s Independence Day
June 27, 2024
As a musician, writer, producer, actor, and activist, Steve Van Zandt has expressed himself artistically in many ways for more than 50 years and now he has his own documentary, “Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple.”
June 27, 2024
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December 03, 2024
As Mia Goth and Ti West walked the red carpet for the premiere of “MaXXXine,” the final installment of the pair’s A24 horror trilogy that hits theaters July 5, a group of hired “protesters” stood outside the TCL Chinese Theatre chanting and holding signs that broadcasted messages like “Horror is not art” and “Hollywood is Satan’s playground.”
June 28, 2024
An international film festival in the western Czech resort city of Karlovy Vary is kicking off with an honor for U.S. actor and director Viggo Mortensen
June 28, 2024
Dior men's artistic director Kim Jones showed his summer 2025 collection for the LVMH-owned label on a Paris runway decorated with giant cat sculptures on Friday.
June 21, 2024
A 74-year-old surfer and master of classical Japanese dance may seem an unlikely member of a seniors' breakdancing group, but Saruwaka Kiyoshie
June 18, 2024
Naomi Campbell brings her stylish looks and runway walk to London's V&A this week in a new exhibition that the museum says is the first of its kind
July 02, 2024
Lady Jane Grey's life story gets rewritten in the new comedy-fantasy series "My Lady Jane", which sees the English noblewoman fight back against 16th century gender
July 02, 2024At 94 years old, actor June Squibb had to convince filmmakers that she could do a lot of her own stunts in the action-packed comedy film "Thelma," about
July 02, 2024
"Rest on the Flight into Egypt", an early work by Titian that was looted by Napoleon and then stolen in the 1990s before being found at a London bus stop, will be offered for sale
July 01, 2024British actor Ian McKellen, 85, fell off a London stage mid-performance and is now recovering after being taken to hospital, a theatre statement said on Tuesday.
July 01, 2024
The idea of art and soccer may for some fans conjure amazement at a player's exquisite skill, or a lasting image of glory or bitter defeat in the aftermath of the full-
June 28, 2024
Life-sized lion and antelope puppets took their first steps at the London launch of a new public art project that will see them embarking on a 20,000-kilometre (
June 27, 2024
Brazilian Cassio Brandao walks through rooms filled with clothes racks that in April made him a Guinness World Records title holder as
June 25, 2024
A letter from Franz Kafka in which he tells a friend he can no longer write is being offered at auction 100 years after his death, with an estimate of up to $114,000.
June 26, 2024
Greece on Wednesday opened to the public an exhibition of more than 1,100 artefacts, from statues and table games to children's toys, found in an ancient Athens neighbourhood during
June 26, 2024
Dakota Johnson knew two-time Academy Winner Sean Penn was exactly who she wanted to star in the film “Daddio” as the male lead, but at first
June 26, 2024
Chanel held its haute couture show at the Paris Palais Garnier Opera house on Tuesday, displaying a lineup of sparkly evening wear that ranged from trim,
June 25, 2024
Cuban Eduardo Viciana taught himself to blow glass using the most basic of tools and raw materials, one of a handful of artisans to master the art on the Caribbean
June 25, 2024
"The
July 03, 2024
With pleated Bermuda shorts, muted pastels and cinched parkas, French label Hermes presented a breezy summer 2025 collection at Paris Men's Fashion Week that was
June 22, 2024
Jack Myers House opening as refuge for LGBTQIA+ community
June 28, 2024
Comedian and actor Martin Mull has died
June 29, 2024
All over Florida, arts groups are scrambling to plug large budget gaps after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis unexpectedly vetoed $32 million in arts funding
June 29, 2024
Unseen photos of Glastonbury from 1971 show just how much the festival has changed
June 19, 2023
Eddie Murphy is still stung by that David Spade joke on ‘Saturday Night Live’
June 29, 2024
A bookstore in San Francisco is sending boxes of LGBTQ+ books to places in the country where they are banned
June 29, 2024
Bronze Age workshop reveals precious pigment made from a recipe lost to time
June 29, 2024A Florida auctioneer was about to sell an 1800s pocket watch. He learned it was a stolen piece of US presidential history
June 29, 2024
Usher has been honored with the lifetime achievement award at the 2024 BET Awards
June 30, 2024
The monthlong celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride has reached its exuberant grand finale as multitudes of rainbow-laden revelers hit the streets for marquee parades in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and elsewhere across the globe
June 30, 2024
Elvis Presley’s actual blue suede shoes sell for $150,000 in auction
June 26, 2024
Pixar movie "Inside Out 2" has crossed the $1 billion mark at the worldwide box office in less than three weeks of release, reaching that level in the fastest time of any animated film in
June 30, 2024
BET Awards 2024: See who won
July 01, 2024
Will Smith debuts new song in fiery performance at the BET Awards
July 01, 2024
This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include an album from country music star Zach Bryan, Eddie Murphy reprising his role as Axel Foley and Discovery Channel’s annual “Shark Week” hoping to bite off a chunk of primetime viewership
June 28, 2024
Ismail Kadare, an acclaimed Albanian novelist and playwright who defied his country's longtime Communist rulers through his writing, has died in a Tirana
July 01, 2024
A new museum in northern Arizona features the fossilized feces of prehistoric animals
July 01, 2024
Thousands of giant panda sculptures will greet residents and tourists starting on Saturday in Hong Kong, where enthusiasm for the bears has grown since two cubs were born in a local theme park
December 02, 2024
Drawings by teenage Queen Victoria to go up for auction
July 01, 2024
Actor Ian McKellen is withdrawing from a U.K. tour of his latest play because he needs more time to recover after falling off the stage at a London theater last month
July 01, 2024
Top Japanese breakdancer Shigekix said on Monday his eyes will be fixed on his familiar foes from the United States and Canada when 16 B-Boys battle it out for the
July 01, 2024
‘A craft beer guy:’ Man on quest to create largest Lakefront Brewery glass collection
July 01, 2024
‘Lost’ found the path to an equation that changed the future of TV
July 01, 2024Look of the Week: An artist and her ‘peace’ dress silenced Glastonbury for 7 minutes
July 01, 2024
British actor Ian McKellen, 85, will not return to the role of John Falstaff in a tour after he fell off a London stage mid-performance last month, the play's producers said on
July 01, 2024
Opinion: Why we need to redefine the protest song
July 01, 2024Renowned Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare has died after being rushed to a hospital in the country's capital, Tirana
July 01, 2024
Playing a sex cult leader, Willem Dafoe dons a pair of bright orange Speedos in ‘Kinds of Kindness’
July 02, 2024
Pål Enger, a talented Norwegian soccer player and artist turned celebrity art thief who pulled off the sensational 1994 heist of Edvard Munch’s famed “The Scream” painting from the National Gallery in Oslo has died
July 02, 2024
Parisian drag cabaret club Chez Michou shuts its doors after 68 years
July 02, 2024
Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup helped invent rock ‘n’ roll
July 02, 2024
"Beetlejuice Beetlejuice", directed by Tim Burton, will open this year's Venice Film Festival, bringing with it a slew of Hollywood stars who were largely absent from the Lido red
July 02, 2024
Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup helped invent rock ‘n’ roll
July 02, 2024
Musician overcomes brain damage from lead poisoning, advocates for others with disabilities
July 02, 2024
Sculptures built from spoons, found objects make up new exhibit
July 02, 2024
The reopening of Notre Dame this coming weekend will be a high-security affair, with a repeat of some measures used during the Paris Olympics
December 02, 2024
A timeline of the ‘Rust’ movie set shooting and the ensuing criminal cases
June 08, 2024
Tree removal accidentally unearths centuries-old artifacts at North Carolina church
July 02, 2024
Ann Wilson, lead singer of rock band Heart, says she has cancer
July 02, 2024
Chicago's Mahalia's Mile paints neighborhood with brilliant colors and history lessons
July 02, 2024
"Do the Right Thing" block party celebrates Spike Lee classic 35 years later in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
July 02, 2024
Nine historians have been awarded Israel's prestigious Dan David Prize
July 02, 2024Costner directs and leads a huge cast, including Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Luke Wilson and Abbey Lee, in the first film in his planned four-part Western epic. David Daniel sat down with Costner and his co-stars.
June 27, 2024
Robert Towne, the Oscar-winning screenplay writer of "Shampoo," "The Last Detail" and other films whose script for "Chinatown" became a model of the art form and helped define the jaded allure of his native Los Angeles, has died
July 02, 2024
Robert Towne, Oscar-winning screenwriter of ‘Chinatown,’ dead at 89
July 03, 2024
Man accused of stabbing renowned author Salman Rushdie rejects plea deal that tied in federal terrorism-related charge
July 03, 2024
The best of Black culture’s policymakers, thought leaders, creatives, business minds, health experts and, of course, musical talent are converging in New Orleans over the Fourth of July holiday weekend as part of the Essence Festival of Culture
July 03, 2024
Critics have long debated which books qualify as a ‘Great American Novel
July 03, 2024
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July 03, 2024
‘Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F’ reloads with Eddie Murphy in his ‘encores for streaming’ phase
July 03, 2024
Roger Waters has dismissed the idea of Pink Floyd reuniting on stage again, saying he is "busy doing other things" including working on a new album and
July 03, 2024
Thousands of people have paid their last respects to Ismail Kadare in a state funeral in Tirana Wednesday, with a minute’s silence held nationwide in memory of the renowned Albanian novelist and poet who died earlier this week
July 03, 2024
Thousands of Albanians gathered in Tirana on Wednesday to pay tribute to their country's best-known novelist Ismail Kadare, who died on Monday after a heart attack.
July 03, 2024
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are doing another movie together
July 03, 2024
On the ceiling of a limestone cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, scientists have discovered artwork depicting three human-like figures interacting with a wild pig in
July 03, 2024
Tiny Titian masterpiece once found at London bus stop sells for over $22 million
July 03, 2024A performance of the Broadway musical “Suffs” was briefly disrupted Tuesday when protesters unfurled a banner with the slogan “Suffs Is a White Wash” and chants of “Cancel ‘Suffs
July 03, 2024
Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year
July 03, 2024
Fort Bend County Celebrates Unity and Heritage with Divine Nine Photo
July 03, 2024Tyler Perry and 50 Cent Join Forces: A Collaboration of Vision and Success
July 03, 2024New Jersey officials say financial concerns spurred state lawmakers to rescind $24 million in funding for a planned outpost of Paris’ acclaimed Pompidou Center in Jersey City
July 03, 2024
Are we in Italy?? Nope, we’re in Providence! Derek Van Dam explores the deep Italian-American roots of Rhode Island’s capital city via gondola, equipped with its own singing gondolier. For lunch, we visit the birthplace of the grilled pizza. For more, check out America’s Best Town’s to Visit.
July 03, 2024A scene of humans hunting a pig painted in an Indonesian cave is oldest known narrative art
July 04, 2024
12,000-year-old ritual passed down 500 generations may be world’s oldest
July 04, 2024
Cambodia’s culture minister says the return to Cambodia this week of 14 sculptures that had been looted from the country during a period of war and unrest is like welcoming home the souls of ancestors
July 04, 2024
Authorities in France say a prominent French film director accused of sexual assault and violent, controlling behavior has been handed preliminary charges of rape, sexual assault and violence by a French judge investigating the case
July 04, 2024
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April 24, 2013The City of New Orleans welcomed thousands of people descending on the Big Easy for the 30th annual celebration of the Essence Festival of Culture
July 04, 2024
Lego unveils 1,497-piece "Jaws" set designed by fan
July 04, 2024Iconic painting saved from Goodwill fetches over $100,000 at auction
July 04, 2024Even without its star on hand, the Nathan's Famous International Hot Eating Contest on Thursday at New York's Coney Island remained filled with gastrointestinal intrigue as Patrick Bertoletti tipped
July 04, 2024
A Russian state prosecutor has asked a court to jail two leading Russian theatre figures accused of "justifying terrorism" for six years, their lawyers said on Friday.
July 05, 2024Kendrick Lamar drops ‘Not Like Us’ video
July 05, 2024
Bulgarian archaeologists stumbled upon unexpected treasure this week during a dig in an ancient Roman sewer - a well-preserved, marble statue depicting the Greek god
July 05, 2024
It’s been 30 years since Beck released his breakout lo-fi anthem “Loser.”
July 05, 2024
A team of archeologists have discovered the ruins of what appears to be a 4,000-year-old ceremonial temple buried in a sand dune of northern Peru, alongside skeletal human remains
July 05, 2024
Zoo animals enjoy Fourth of July-themed enrichment activities
July 05, 2024
When the Little Art Theatre set out to land a $100,000 grant to fund a stylish new marquee, the cozy arthouse theater had some talented help
July 06, 2024
New Orleans group Tank and the Bangas got a big boost when they won a 2017 National Public Radio contest for “undiscovered bands."
July 06, 2024
Tree removal at North Carolina church unearths centuries-old artifacts
July 07, 2024
Paris’ famous Moulin Rouge windmill gets its blades back
July 07, 2024
Dutch wheelchair tennis standout Esther Vergeer has been awarded this year’s ITF Philippe Chatrier Award for her contributions to the sport
July 07, 2024
The Essence Festival of Culture is ending in New Orleans with performances by Janet Jackson and a special tribute to Frankie Beverly & Maze
July 07, 2024
Oxford University Press has named “brain rot” its word of the year
December 02, 2024
When the Rolling Stones close out their North American "Hackney Diamonds" tour on July 21, their concert venue will be a far cry from the bustling cities they
July 08, 2024
This Pokémon card collector has some of the coolest finds in the game. He gives them away to kids for free
July 08, 2024
Fun or frightening? A brief history of Olympic mascot design
July 08, 2024
Napoleon’s ornate flintlock pistols sell for $1.83 million
July 08, 2024
The daughter of the late Nobel laureate Alice Munro is alleging that she was sexually abused by the author’s second husband, Gerard Fremlin, whom Munro remained with because she “loved him too much” to leave
July 08, 2024
Actor Willem Dafoe, a frequent red-carpet star at the Venice Film Festival, was named artistic director Monday of the Venice Biennale’s theater department
July 08, 2024
A popular form of writing nowadays is one that involves reexamining the lives of people, often members of marginalized groups, who have otherwise been flattened or short-changed by history
July 08, 2024Artist repairing Peanuts' Lucy statue for South St. Paul library
July 08, 2024
The Brera Modern will be inaugurated in the fall 52 years and 39 Italian governments after it was first envisioned
July 08, 2024
Unable to get married legally in Japan, LGBTQ couples are celebrating their special bond by donning traditional kimonos and
July 08, 2024
The daughter of late Canadian writer Alice Munro said that she was sexually abused as a child by her stepfather and that her mother stood by her husband when
July 08, 2024Archaeologists in Peru have discovered the remains of what is believed to be wealthy members of the Chimu civilization, a pre-Inca society that thrived for centuries
July 09, 2024
The British playwrights known affectionately as "the two Joes," whose drama extracts hope from vexed political issues, have begun researching
July 09, 2024
The Grammy Museum will soon launch its first full-floor K-pop exhibit as part of its ongoing initiative to explore the music, culture, technology, fandom and business behind Korean pop music
July 09, 2024
An upcoming thriller about a female judge in the contemporary, rural South will have two very famous, and very different, authors, Oscar winner Viola Davis and mega-selling novelist James Patterson
July 09, 2024
From a diva commanding the stage to a punk-rock loving hooligan, a new generation of clowns took to the stage on Monday night at the start of a London festival celebrating
July 09, 2024
In the ugly spectacle of American politics, it’s hard to keep humanity in sight. But literature, says a poet and scholar of the classics, can remind us of what we know about growing old.
July 09, 2024
Alice Munro's daughter sees outpouring of messages after essay on mother's silence to her sexual abuse
July 09, 2024Melissa Etheridge realized two career dreams with her new docuseries “Melissa Etheridge: I’m Not Broken”: performing for imprisoned women and recording the concert for a live album
July 09, 2024
Judy Garland Museum fundraises to get stolen ruby slippers back on display permanently
July 09, 2024
How a blind leatherworker revives old cowboy boots entirely by touch
July 09, 2024
Joe Bonsall, a 50-year member of The Oak Ridge Boys, dead at 76
July 09, 2024
Bob Bryar, a former drummer for My Chemical Romance who played on the band’s career-defining rock opera, “The Black Parade,” has died
December 01, 2024
Grammy award winner and celebrated Oak Ridge Boys tenor Joe Bonsall has died
July 09, 2024
Teen with health challenges gifted new piano for composing music
July 09, 2024
Bob Dylan fans who want to relive his memorable 1974 concert tour with The Band will soon have the opportunity to own most of it
July 09, 2024
Traveling piano man, galaxy shows off new look, Enron’s elaborate joke: Catch up on the day’s stories
December 02, 2024I got inked by the world’s oldest tattoo artist
July 10, 2024
‘Shrek 5’ is coming in July 2026, and the big stars are onboard
July 10, 2024
The author of ‘A Black Philadelphia Reader,’ a new anthology of writing by Philadelphia authors past and present, revisits four riveting works by local women.
July 10, 2024
Hip-hop band Cypress Hill to perform with London Symphony Orchestra, decades after ‘Simpsons’ gag predicted it
July 10, 2024
Irish rock and blues star Rory Gallagher's 1961 Fender Stratocaster guitar, described as "the most recognisable Strat in rock history" because of its worn appearance, is headed for
July 10, 2024
Kevin Costner’s next ‘Horizon’ film pulled from August theatrical release schedule
July 10, 2024
A man charged in the death of Dennis Day, an original cast member on Walt Disney’s “Mickey Mouse Club” television program in the 1950s, has been sentenced to just over four years in prison after entering a modified guilty plea this week
July 10, 2024
The first Miss AI has been crowned — and she’s a Moroccan lifestyle influencer
July 11, 2024
‘Fly Me to the Moon’ launches Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum in a space-race romance
July 11, 2024Dairon Darias, a Cuban ballet dancer, has an unusual hobby when it comes time to unwind following the strict discipline of dance - raising melipona bees, a stingless Cuban variety
July 11, 2024
Ancient temple and theater 3,500 years older than Machu Picchu discovered in Peru
July 11, 2024
The Library of Congress has awarded a lifetime achievement prize to James McBride, whose acclaimed novels include “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store,” “Deacon King Kong” and “The Good Lord Bird.”
July 11, 2024Author-illustrator Brian Selznick’s next book is for all ages
July 11, 2024
Will ‘Wicked’ and ‘Gladiator II’ give us the new ‘Barbenheimer’? This weekend will be the judge
July 11, 2024
Leaders of two performing arts festivals say that they will gladly give up their grants if Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis restores the $32 million in state funding he nixed for more than 600 Florida arts groups
July 11, 2024
Australian museum admits that ‘Picassos’ hanging in restroom are fake
July 11, 2024
A man’s world? Art exhibit about misogyny was only open to women — until a man complained
April 10, 2024
These Picasso pieces are on display in a ladies’ restroom inside a museum. Here’s why
June 25, 2024
Gary Ginstling surprisingly resigned as chief executive officer of the New York Philharmonic after one year on the job
July 11, 2024The Beastie Boys are suing the parent company of Chili’s in a case that accuses the chain restaurant of running an advertisement that used the hip-hop trio’s smash hit “Sabotage” without permission
July 11, 2024
LL COOL J, the Grammy award winning rapper, actor and author, will release his first new album in 11 years, “The FORCE” on Sept. 6 — 40 years into his hip-hop career
July 12, 2024
Turkey has emerged as a leading exporter of television dramas, bolstering the nation’s international image and drawing millions of viewers and tourists to its historical and cultural sites which are backdrops to many of the shows
July 12, 2024
Matías Tarnopolsky will become president and CEO of the New York Philharmonic on Jan. 1, after six years heading the Philadelphia Orchestra
December 02, 2024
An Australian art museum curator has divulged that she was the creator of three paintings that she presented as works by Pablo Picasso -- and which prompted a gender discrimination case when she only permitted female gallery patrons to view them
July 12, 2024
Iranian dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi released from prison
December 02, 2024
‘Show the violated work’: Artist requests beheaded sculpture remains on view
July 12, 2024
A Bronze Age-style ship just sailed through the Persian Gulf 4,000 years after it was designed
July 12, 2024
A small museum in Nashville is returning 255 pre-Columbian artifacts to Mexico
July 12, 2024
Mexican authorities have slapped a “closure” order on a 10-foot tall aquatic statue of the Greek god of the sea Poseidon that was erected in May in the Gulf of Mexico just off the beach in the town of Progreso, Yucatan
July 12, 2024
Red Hulk debuts in ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ teaser trailer
July 12, 2024
Alleged thieves caught stealing artwork from Mellwood Art Center
July 12, 2024
An exhibition center on Chicago' lakefront is modifying its windows to prevent bird strikes after hundreds of birds crashed into the building in one night last fall
July 12, 2024
An award winning film director provides free creative writing and filmmaking courses
July 12, 2024
A retired police detective involved in the arrest of the husband of Alice Munro, the Nobel laureate from Canada renowned for her short stories, says he was disturbed by her reaction 20 years ago when he said he was going to charge her husband for sexually assaulting her daughter
July 12, 2024
British singer-songwriter Griff’s career has been an unmistakable whirlwind
July 12, 2024
The estate of Chuck Close, the artist known for massive photorealist portraits of himself and others, settled a lawsuit accusing Cigna of failing to pay
July 12, 2024
Today in History: July 13, Live Aid concerts
July 01, 2024Milwaukee loves its Miller Beer, Brewers baseball and “Bronze Fonz” statue
July 13, 2024
Frida Kahlo had no religious affiliation
July 13, 2024
Faye Dunaway lets her diva flag fly, then and now, in the documentary ‘Faye’
July 13, 2024Opinion: It’s time more horror films push back against queer stereotypes
July 13, 2024A pipe organ that provided the live music for silent movies in an ornate Detroit theater nearly a century ago is set to become the centerpiece of a performing arts center on a New York college campus
July 14, 2024
The latest dinosaur being mounted at the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles is a 75-foot-long sauropod named Gnatalie (pronounced Natalie)
July 14, 2024
"Displaced Chefs Project" pop-up shops give Baltimore chefs a second chance
July 14, 2024An Unforgettable Evening of Magic and Entertainment with Harry Maurer and Guest Magicians from Around the Country
July 14, 2024Bill Viola, a video artist who combined with director Peter Sellars on a groundbreaking production of Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” originally seen in Los Angeles, Paris and New York, has died at age 73
July 14, 2024
"This is a career highlight," popular K-pop group Stray Kids said as they headlined the British Summer Time (BST) Hyde Park Festival on Sunday.
July 14, 2024
This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include a final album under Donald Glover’s Childish Gambino moniker, Kerry Washington’s comedy “UnPrisoned” returning for a second season and daredevils who scale the world’s tallest buildings fall in love in “Skywalkers: A Love Story.”
July 12, 2024
Curators from the Smithsonian will be at the GOP convention collecting items from buttons to banners. Their goal: to add objects to the museum’s collection that will ‘make sense of our moment.’
July 15, 2024
“Made in England: The Films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger" is a poignant crescendo in one of the great love affairs in movies
July 15, 2024
Dating back 500 years, the art of reading coffee grounds is still alive in Istanbul. Turks get readings at coffee houses around the city, usually given by fortune tellers who have learned the art from their elders. But in recent years, the younger generation has turned to online readings, bringing the mystical practice into the 21st century.
July 16, 2024Minnie Polson was in trouble, but when she met with private eye Hap Collins, she didn’t like his wise-cracking attitude
July 15, 2024Performing with a live band gave South Korean girl group NMIXX new means to connect with audiences as they brought their "mix pop" sound to the
July 15, 2024Houston’s Next Poet Laureate: An Invitation to Shine Through Words
December 02, 2024AP gardening writer Jessica Damiano has been growing dwarf blueberries for three years and her plants outside New York City are covered in green fruits right now
July 16, 2024For decades, Robert Lecker has read, taught and written about Alice Munro, the Nobel laureate from Canada renowned for her short stories
July 16, 2024
The female stars of an Egyptian street theatre troupe that is the subject of a prize-winning documentary film said they set out to challenge attitudes to women's role
July 16, 2024
Sacramento Zoo experiences baby boom despite current facility size constraints
July 16, 2024
A pathbreaking photojournalist who helped cement women’s place behind the lens during her nearly 45-years career at The Associated Press has died
July 16, 2024
“The Bear” has gone on a tear at Wednesday morning’s Emmy nominations with a comedy-series record 23, and “Shogun” led all nominees with 25 in a dominant year across categories for FX
July 17, 2024
It's the final holiday stretch at the White House for President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, and the theme is “A Season of Peace and Light.”
December 02, 2024
‘Twisters’ spins out from the original but has all the weight of a stiff breeze
July 17, 2024
There’s a lot to be said for the work/play energy of a nice studio or other small apartment during the day
July 17, 2024Born enslaved, John Andrew Jackson spent his life fighting for freedom as a fugitive, abolitionist, lecturer and writer. Along the way, he met an aspiring writer.
July 17, 2024
Audiobooks can develop children’s listening skills, expand their vocabulary and encourage independent learning.
July 17, 2024
Archaeologists identify Roman wall built to hold back rebel slave Spartacus and his army
July 17, 2024
Emmy nominations 2024: ‘The Bear’ sets new record for comedies
July 17, 2024
“The Bear” has gone on a tear at Wednesday morning’s Emmy nominations with a comedy-series record 23, and “Shogun” led all nominees with 25 in a dominant year across categories for FX
July 17, 2024Nominations were announced on Wednesday for the Emmy Awards, the highest honors in television.
July 17, 2024
Art lovers drift slowly through the exhibition halls of the Pushkin Museum, pausing to peer at vibrant works by Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh.
July 17, 2024
In extreme heat, sculptors prepare for Revere Beach International Sand Sculpting Festival
July 17, 2024
Italian officials slam tourist who ‘mimicked sex acts’ on a statue of Bacchus in Florence
July 17, 2024White House halls decked with ‘peace and light’ holiday theme
December 02, 2024
The Emmy nominations are out and it's good to be Netflix and FX
July 17, 2024
More than 14,000 objects collected, created or customised by British hobbyists are shown together for the first time in a major exhibition exploring the UK's
July 17, 2024
Sotheby's says the nearly complete fossilized remains of a stegosaurus have sold for $44.6 million at a New York auction
July 17, 2024
Actor Johnny Depp has turned to tarot iconography to inspire an art collection that includes a tribute to his former partner, French actor and singer Vanessa Paradis, and goes on
July 17, 2024
Bernice Johnson Reagon, an American civil rights activist who used her stirring alto and lyrics to fight racism, died on Tuesday at age 81, her daughter said on Wednesday.
July 18, 2024Is it too soon for political comedy
July 18, 2024
The sturdy canvas bag made by L
July 18, 2024
As image-generating AI continues to evolve, artists are increasingly fighting against what they see as an existential threat to their craft
July 17, 2024
A filmmaking legend and one of the world’s most enduring musical acts headline this year’s crop of Kennedy Center Honors recipients
July 18, 2024
We’re in the thick of the ‘dog days of summer.’ We can thank the ancient Greeks for that
July 18, 2024
One of the few moments of levity in “Longlegs” — the Neon horror film in theaters now about a Satanist serial killer — happens when Maika Monroe’s character, Lee Harker, meets her co-worker’s young daughter
July 18, 2024
Britney Spears has a message for Ozzy Osbourne after he called her dancing ‘sad’
July 18, 2024
Donald Glover is retiring Childish Gambino
July 18, 2024
Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, rock band the Grateful Dead, blues rock singer-songwriter Bonnie Raitt, jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer Arturo Sandoval, and The
July 18, 2024
CNN's Stephanie Elam looks back at the iconic career of Bob Newhart who passed away at age 94.
July 19, 2024
Twisters: A Cinematic Tornado of Thrills!
July 18, 2024Dressed in white robes and colourful tunics, devotees of polytheism each year honour gods on Mount Olympus with ceremonies they say can revive
July 19, 2024
This couple’s hobby? Illegally scaling the world’s tallest buildings together
July 19, 2024
Cheng Pei-pei, a Chinese-born martial arts film actor who starred in Ang Lee’s “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” has died at age 78
July 19, 2024
Cheng Pei-pei, ‘queen of martial arts’ movies, dead at 78
July 19, 2024
How Tennessee-based artist Aaron Lee Tasjan is using his music to combat hate
July 19, 2024
A history professor recounts how being indoors during the pandemic led him to rediscover his fondness for video games – and to bring it into the classroom as well.
July 19, 2024
The Paris Olympics' opening ceremony next Friday will be a joyful, daring and atypical show in which artists and athletes together celebrate Paris, France and the Games alongside the
July 19, 2024
Ten years ago, “Weird Al” Yankovic made history
July 19, 2024
Russia has designated pianist Evgeny Kissin as a "foreign agent" because of his support for Ukraine and opposition to the war, state news agency TASS quoted the justice ministry as saying
July 19, 2024The Sundance Institute announced six finalists in its search for a new host location for the prolific film festival Friday
July 19, 2024
Fans flock to Fenway to see New England artist Noah Kahan in his biggest show yet
July 19, 2024Paris adds an unusual museum to its illustrious roster
July 20, 2024
Thomas Jolly is preparing to share France with the world with the Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony
July 20, 2024
Ernest Hemingway spent the 1930s in Key West, Florida, and more than six decades after his death, fans, scholars and relatives continue to congregate on the island city to celebrate the author’s award-winning novels and adventure-filled life
July 21, 2024
Restaurant critics appear to have the best job in journalism, enjoying meals a few nights a week on someone else’s dime
July 21, 2024
Francisco Seco, based in Istanbul, enjoys making photos of daily life in cities around the world
July 21, 2024‘Barbie’ was important to me. This summer has melted her
July 21, 2024
This ‘once in a generation’ Scottish cottage is up for sale. But there’s one key quirk
July 21, 2024
A Brazilian conceptual artist swapped a historic British coin for a fake in the
July 22, 2024
Ballet-inspired double skyscraper design tricks the eye
July 22, 2024
Today in Entertainment History: MGM's lion first roared
July 22, 2024Nigerian artist Fola David is seeking the Guinness record for the largest drawing by an individual after spending six days on his piece in a stadium in the commercial capital Lagos.
July 22, 2024
“Nickel Boys,” an adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, will open the 62nd New York Film Festival in September, organizers said Monday
July 22, 2024
Newhart showed how standup comedy could also be an art form, particularly with his ‘Abe Lincoln vs. Madison Avenue’ bit.
July 22, 2024
Hunter Biden has dropped a lawsuit accusing Fox News of illegally publishing explicit images of him as part of a streaming series
July 22, 2024
Cyprus has taken delivery of priceless antiquities looted after war split the island in 1974, as part of an ongoing effort to trace and repatriate thousands of artefacts fenced
July 22, 2024
How Steven Spielberg changed the ending of ‘Twisters’
July 22, 2024
The last surviving original member of the Four Tops has died
July 22, 2024
The Oscar-winning screenwriter Marshall Brickman, whose wide-ranging career spanned some of Woody Allen’s best films, the Broadway musical “Jersey Boys” and a number of Johnny Carson’s most beloved sketches, has died
December 01, 2024
‘The Simpsons’ are once again getting credit for predicting American politics
July 22, 2024
The Angelina Jolie-directed war film “Without Blood,” a documentary about Bruce Springsteen and Mike Leigh’s contemporary tragicomedy “Hard Truths” will have their world premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival this fall
July 22, 2024
The daughter of the late Colombian artist Fernando Botero has helped to turn the streets and piazzas of the Italian capital into an open-air museum to display eight of her father’s famously voluminous and whimsical sculptures
July 23, 2024
The gentle lilt of a flute fills a cramped second-storey space in Tokyo that houses a burbling vat of fermenting sake.
July 23, 2024
Family's famous holiday lights have returned home
December 02, 2024
Athletes have a hard time standing out in a Paris cultural sphere driven largely by food, fashion and the arts
July 23, 2024
How this ‘off-putting’ color shaded the internet and beyond
July 23, 2024
Five years after “Joker” won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival, filmmaker Todd Phillips is returning with the sequel
July 23, 2024
A Florida school district banned ‘Ban This Book.’ Author says that’s ‘erasure of the highest order’ and wants it reinstated
July 23, 2024
How a 60-mile, sixth-grade field trip became a life-changing date with destiny
July 23, 2024
Over the past two decades, Gee’s Bend quilts have captured the public’s imagination with their kaleidoscopic colors and their daring geometric patterns
May 11, 2024Within the span of five days in January, Sean Wang’s life changed about as dramatically as is possible for a young filmmaker
July 23, 2024
‘Veep’ creator reminds the internet the show was a fictional comedy
July 23, 2024
Everything we know about Season 4 of ‘Bridgerton’: It’s Benedict’s time to find love
July 23, 2024
Stars will bedeck this year's Venice Film Festival, as the beach-lined Lido bounces back from the 2023 actors' strike that deprived the red carpet of its usual
July 23, 2024
It’s not just hype. ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ is a bleeping good time
July 23, 2024
John Mayall, the British blues musician whose influential band the Bluesbreakers was a training ground for Eric Clapton, Mick Fleetwood and many other superstars, has died
July 23, 2024
Influential Blues musician John Mayall has died at 90
July 24, 2024
The cauldron is lit, and the action is picking up at the Paris Olympics
June 28, 2024
'It's just so amazing': 'Miracle on 34th Street' lights up for 77th year
December 02, 2024Cher has long known only one person could take on the job of telling her story
July 24, 2024
After years of trying and many months of feverish speculation “Deadpool & Wolverine” is here at least
July 24, 2024
Matthew Macfadyen doesn’t think he was ‘dishy’ enough for his role as Mr. Darcy in ‘Pride & Prejudice’
July 24, 2024
Outfits, musical instruments and other objects on loan from U.S. musician Taylor Swift are going on display at London's V&A in a temporary summer exhibition.
July 24, 2024
Bobby Flay’s latest cookbook is really a sort of recipe for how Bobby Flay was made
December 02, 2024
Get ready to say willkommen to the next stars to enter the Kit Kat Club on Broadway — Adam Lambert and Auli’i Cravalho
July 24, 2024
Stunning ancient Roman mosaic found submerged in the sea off Naples
July 24, 2024Renowned British conductor John Eliot Gardiner has announced he is quitting the orchestra he has led for six decades
July 24, 2024
Taylor Swift fans who missed her world tour or those who can’t get enough of her can catch her at the museum this summer
July 24, 2024
Lorrie Moore, Attica Locke and Edwidge Danticat will be among hundreds of writers attending this September’s Brooklyn Book Festival, for years one of the literary world’s most anticipated gatherings
July 24, 2024
Performing Arts Houston Partners with Houston Mariachi Festival to Celebrate Hispanic Culture
July 24, 2024The photographer capturing climbers at dizzying heights
July 25, 2024
The ‘Olympic Picasso’ finally finds recognition for his athletics-inspired art
July 25, 2024
What to expect from Paris during the 2024 Summer Olympic Games
July 25, 2024
Sotheby's embarks on a new kind of selling in Hong Kong on Saturday, with its first retail outlet, stocking anything from collectable trainers to dinosaur fossils,
July 25, 2024
Singer-songwriter Charli XCX, rapper Ghetts and indie rock band The Last Dinner Party are among the nominees for this year's Mercury Prize, organisers of the British music award
July 25, 2024
Former First Nations chief voices Disney's first Ojibwe language Star Wars movie
July 25, 2024When early proponents of hosting an unprecedented Olympics opening ceremony along the river Seine first pitched the idea to the then-head of Paris
July 25, 2024
The Paris Games have fully embraced skateboarding, with its youthful appeal and blockbuster television ratings, but skaters say they have to stay off their boards
July 25, 2024
By Sarah Mills Documentary filmmaker Louis Theroux hopes his provocative film "Tell Them You Love Me" will encourage audiences to think about issues like consent and sexual assault.
July 25, 2024
The reality of a dance career is that it’s tough
July 25, 2024
Two climate protesters from Just Stop Oil who threw tinned soup at Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" painting in London's National Gallery in 2022 were on Thursday found guilty of
July 25, 2024
‘An insight into Diana’s life’: Princess’ handwritten letters go on sale
July 25, 2024
Coco Gauff’s childhood coach in Delray Beach inspires 4 generations of players
July 25, 2024
Lupita Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Sandra Oh will help reopen the newly revitalized Delacorte Theater in Central Park in a free production of “Twelfth Night.”
July 25, 2024
North Texan comes home to lead Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus into new era
July 25, 2024
More than 2,500 video game voice actors and motion capture performers are going on strike after negotiations with game industry giants that began nearly two years ago failed to result in an agreement
July 25, 2024
“Deadpool & Wolverine” has swept through Comic-Con, with its hordes of Marvel fans, with a surprise screening and the film's stars and thousands of fans
July 25, 2024
Yuval Sharon’s contract as artistic director of the Detroit Opera has been extended for three years through the 2027-28 season
July 25, 2024If given the chance, Pharrell Williams would reintroduce arts competition into the Olympics, reviving a tradition that’s been missing for nearly 80 years
July 26, 2024
Destructive cyclones and dreamlike scenery: award-winning photos show beauty and destruction
July 26, 2024A Native American activist and artist who became a victim of America's ubiquitous gun violence during a visit to New Mexico last year returned to the
July 26, 2024
While much of the globe is focused on the Paris Olympics, a movie filmed in ancient Olympia starring mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato premiered this week that uses music to spark contemplation of creation and carnage
July 26, 2024
Irish museum pulls Sinéad O’Connor waxwork after just one day due to backlash
July 26, 2024
Celine Dion returns to stage for dramatic performance at Olympic Games opening ceremony in Paris
July 26, 2024
Lady Gaga flutters in dazzling feathery performance to kick off Olympic Games in Paris
July 26, 2024
Lady Gaga delivered a dazzling performance as the first musical act during the Paris Olympics 2024 opening ceremony — except it was all prerecorded
July 26, 2024
‘Deadpool & Wolverine’s’ four TOTALLY INSANE cameos explained
July 27, 2024
Three members of the Gospel Music Association Hall of Fame quartet the Nelons and the chairman of the Georgia Board of Corrections are among seven people killed in a plane crash in Wyoming, according to the fourth member of the group
July 27, 2024Missing Henry VIII portrait spotted on X by eagle-eyed art historian
July 27, 2024
A parody of Leonardo Da Vinci's famous fresco 'The Last Supper' featuring drag queens in the Olympic opening ceremony in Paris has sparked fury among the Catholic
July 27, 2024Italy’s ancient Roman Appian Way has been admitted to the UNESCO World Heritage List, becoming the country’s 60th entry on the list
July 27, 2024
In an unprecedented display of inclusivity, drag queens took center stage at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony, showcasing the vibrant and influential role of the French LGBTQ+ community
July 27, 2024
Prince’s ‘Purple Rain’ turns 40, and one thing still rings true: Its authenticity
July 27, 2024
By playing with scale, Massey brings new attention to everyday objects.
December 02, 2024
Jazz music and Black life in America are dominant themes in an exhibition of Frank Stewart's photographs on display at the Brandywine Museum of Art in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
July 28, 2024
Paris 2024 organisers apologised on Sunday to Catholics and other Christian groups angered by a kitsch tableau in the Olympic Games opening ceremony that appeared
July 28, 2024UNESCO added a series of outdoor sculptures by Romanian modernist master Constantin Brancusi to its list of world heritage sites on Saturday, celebrating their place as one of
July 28, 2024
Glass shards reveal what was inside a Renaissance alchemist’s demolished laboratory
July 28, 2024
Edna O’Brien has died at age 93
July 28, 2024
Robert Downey Jr. is returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in new ‘Avengers’ movie
July 28, 2024
Edna O'Brien, the author who wrote of her native Ireland in such febrile prose, steeped in sex, love and religious angst, that it sparked national outrage and led to
July 28, 2024Artwork stolen by Nazis returned to rightful owner's family. Here's what they're doing with it.
July 28, 2024
This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include an EP from country-turned-pop singer Maren Morris, Léa Seydoux and George MacKay lead the intriguing French sci-fi “The Beast,” and an HBO documentary lets Elizabeth Taylor tell her story by relying on 40 hours of recently discovered audio
July 26, 2024
Native American artifacts have remained out of public view but still very much in the hands of some of the nation’s largest museums some six months after institutions closed and covered exhibits in response to new federal regulations
July 29, 2024
Polish divers have found a 19th-century shipwreck off the coast of Sweden laden with bottles of champagne, a "very exclusive" cargo they say may have been destined for the tsar of
July 29, 2024
Houston: A Top Street Art Destination with Over 850 Murals Showcasing Cultural Diversity
July 29, 2024Meet the couple using their art studio as a safe space for children of all abilities
July 29, 2024
Sotheby’s expands Hong Kong footprint with cavernous new exhibition and retail space
July 30, 2024Why Japan’s teenage girls are so good at skateboarding
July 30, 2024
Marvel reclaims its mojo with ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ and the return of Robert Downey Jr.
July 30, 2024With no shortage of talent and ambition, Nigeria's film business can become a global phenomenon like Afrobeats, industry insider Toyosi Etim-Effiong tells CNN’s Stephanie Busari at this year’s Essence Film Festival in New Orleans.
July 30, 2024
Nollywood aims to become a global cultural phenomenon like Afrobeats
July 30, 2024
Six American writers are among 13 semifinalists for the Booker Prize for fiction
July 30, 2024
Palestinian musician Raouf Belbeisi had dreamt from a young age of creating a vibrant cultural hub in the Gaza Strip, but five months after he opened a cafe in Gaza
July 30, 2024
French DJ and producer Barbara Butch, who performed at the Paris Olympics' opening ceremony, filed complaints against people who have harassed and threatened her since then, she said
July 30, 2024“Sweet Valley High” creator Francine Pascal has died
July 30, 2024Some years ago, when Sonya Balsara and Adi Roy were in middle school, they got cast in the kiddie version of the musical “Aladdin.”
July 30, 2024
‘Supacell’ creator Rapman thinks superheroes need to keep it real
July 30, 2024
Celebrating Sisterhood: Downtown Houston Welcomes the "Greater Sisterhood" Mural
July 30, 2024Comedian and Actress Cristela Alonzo to be Keynote Speaker at Annual AAMA Estrella Gala
July 30, 2024Ancient swimming ‘taco’ had ‘bug jaws,’ new fossils show
July 30, 2024
Preservation of Nina Simone's childhood home in progress; completion set for Fall 2024
July 31, 2024
Soprano Anna Netrebko is scheduled to give a recital at the Palm Beach Opera for its gala on Feb. 3 in what would be her first U.S. appearance in six years
July 31, 2024
The second part of Kevin Costner’s “Horizon: An American Saga" will have its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in September, organizers said Wednesday
July 31, 2024
John Mangum has been hired to succeed Anthony Freud as general director of the Lyric Opera of Chicago
July 31, 2024The German city of Gelsenkirchen, which temporarily renamed itself “Swiftkirchen” before the American superstar played three concerts there in mid-July, says it received about 1,400 bids from Germany and abroad for signs it put up with the name
July 31, 2024
Twin sisters use artistry to heal community, Meet the McCorkle's as they prepare for Artscape
July 31, 2024
Houston Style Magazine Presents: The 3rd Annual Houston Theater Week
July 31, 2024Celebrating Leadership: Dr. Shawn E. Simmons Takes Helm as South-Central Regional Director of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.®
July 31, 2024Blair Underwood is ready for more horror movie escapades after being in ‘Longlegs’
July 31, 2024
It’s the early days of the 1918 pandemic when a mysterious new chef descends on a wealthy family’s estate in the new film “COUP!"
July 31, 2024
Archeologists dig deeper into 200-year history of Maryland's Hammond-Harwood House
July 31, 2024
Four friends posed for a photo on vacation in 1972. Over 50 years later, they recreated it
December 02, 2024
‘Squid Game’ to end with Season 3
August 01, 2024‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’: How Netflix brought the imaginary town of Macondo to life
December 02, 2024
London theater pauses play as abortion scene leaves audience feeling queasy
August 01, 2024
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, who played a pair of extraordinary slackers in three “Bill & Ted” films, are reuniting on Broadway for a revival of the brainy, existential classic “Waiting for Godot.”
August 01, 2024
Britney Spears memoir ‘The Woman in Me’ headed to the big screen
August 01, 2024
Ohio’s historical society has struck a deal that will allow it to take control of ancient ceremonial and burial earthworks located on a golf course east of Columbus
August 01, 2024
Universal Pictures has landed the rights to Britney Spears’ memoir “The Woman in Me” and will develop a biopic of the pop star to be directed by Jon M
August 01, 2024
Scientists reveal new details about ‘screaming’ Egyptian mummy’s life and death
August 02, 2024
St. Louis School student in an international baton twirling competition
August 02, 2024
The six-time platinum-selling artist invites fans into an imagined future that celebrates Blackness and queerness.
August 02, 2024
French authorities have opened an investigation into death threats and cyber harassment targeting the artistic director of the 2024 Olympics opening ceremony Thomas Jolly, the Paris
August 02, 2024
He calls himself a “troglodyte” with his brushes, oil paints, and large canvas among photographers with expensive cameras and long lenses
August 02, 2024
'Happy & brave.' This pageant group is focusing on inclusivity
August 02, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday offered his support to the artists behind the 2024 Olympic opening ceremony who had received death threats and praised their
August 02, 2024
Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi was released from prison on Dec. 1 after completing a one-year sentence for speaking out against the Iranian regime, the Iranian judiciary's Mizan news
December 02, 2024Excavation in Egyptian necropolis uncovers 63 ancient tombs and a trove of gold artifacts
August 03, 2024Scientists digitally dissect ancient Egyptian ‘screaming’ mummy
August 03, 2024
Simone Biles is getting kind of old for this
August 03, 2024
Tiramisù and the other classic Italian dishes you need to try
August 03, 2024
The Vatican said on Saturday it had been saddened by a skit at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony appearing to parody Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper"
August 03, 2024Fragile and complex, female friendships hinge on the three S’s, a new book says
August 04, 2024
Mourad Merzouki is bringing hip-hop dance to the Paris Olympics
August 04, 2024
The 2024 Paris Games got off to a rocky start with many religious groups around the world, including the Vatican over a tableau in the opening ceremony perceived by some as evoking Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper.”
August 04, 2024
Break dancing makes its debut at the Paris Olympics. A timeline of when every Olympic sport was introduced
August 04, 2024A capacity crowd of about 10,000 people braved heat and humidity to witness the 70th anniversary of the Newport Jazz Festival, one of the largest music festivals in New England
August 04, 2024
New Miss USA crowned, capping tumultuous year of pageant controversy
August 05, 2024A rebuilt bronze statue of baseball icon Jackie Robinson is back in Wichita, Kansas
August 05, 2024
Chappell Roan may have had the biggest Lollapalooza set of all time
August 05, 2024
The Olympics have their own language, traditions and rules
August 03, 2024
How did ancient Egyptians stack those heavy stones of the oldest pyramid? Scientists float new theory
August 05, 2024Woman finds historic baseball card collection in her old barn house
August 05, 2024
In photos: A photographer’s journey with the Palestinian Bedouin
August 06, 2024
The Paris prosecutor’s office says a ransomware attack has targeted the central data systems of the Grand Palais and other museums in the Réunion des Musées Nationaux network
August 06, 2024
David Lynch says he will ‘never retire,’ despite emphysema diagnosis
August 06, 2024
Twenty-two poets around the country each will be receiving $50,000 grants for projects ranging from a poetry cookbook in Kansas to a billboard campaign in Michigan celebrating contemporary verse
August 06, 2024In singer-songwriter Ivan Cornejo’s world, regional Mexican music can have pop, ballads and also a bit of melancholic lyrics
August 06, 2024
The New York Film Festival on Tuesday unveiled the main slate for its 62nd edition with selections including Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-winning “Anora,” Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door” and Mati Diop’s “Dahomey.”
August 06, 2024
Yuval Sharon, an American known for innovative productions, will direct the Metropolitan Opera’s next stagings of Wagner’s Ring Cycle and “Tristan und Isolde,” both starring soprano Lise Davidsen and conducted by music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin
August 06, 2024
Rare coins unknowingly sold at Massachusetts yard sale returned to family with heartfelt note
August 06, 2024
‘The Sixth Sense’ turns 25. Here’s a list of M. Night Shyamalan’s freak movie endings, from ridiculous to incredible
August 06, 2024Business owner restoring historic neon signs damaged by monsoon
August 06, 2024
The Upside Down is coming to Broadway
August 06, 2024
Memorabilia from aspiring mid-century American museum up for auction
August 07, 2024Connie Chiume, ‘Black Panther’ actress, dead at 72
August 07, 2024
Istanbul is known for its unique position between Europe and Asia, its incredible vistas and the many cats that meander through its streets. Cats have VIP status in the city, and adoring locals have even set up an art museum for street cats.
August 08, 2024Animal rights activists storm pope’s general audience to protest bullfighting
August 07, 2024
Former Bennington College head Mariko Silver was hired Wednesday as president of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
August 07, 2024
Alley Theatre announced that single tickets for all remaining shows of the 2024-25 season are now on sale
August 07, 2024The rock band Journey has made many hits over the past 50 years, but the song that might now be resonating the loudest for some band and crew members is “Separate Ways.”
August 07, 2024
Rapper Nelly has been arrested at a St. Louis-area casino
August 07, 2024
The mystery French street artist known only as “Invader” has struck Paris again, this time to celebrate the Olympics
August 07, 2024
An Austrian teenager arrested over an alleged plot to strike a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna planned to carry out a suicide attack
August 08, 2024
Meet Dominika Banevič, teenage breaking superstar who wants to ‘write history’ in the Olympics’ newest sport
August 08, 2024
Why this photographer prefers to be called a ‘visual activist’
August 08, 2024
Man under investigation in Spain for pouring water on ancient cave paintings to get a sharper photo
August 08, 2024
Paris is getting a colorful splash of Olympic creative spirit with nearly 30 vibrant street art pieces, popping up at bustling metro stations and airports and in front of city hall
August 08, 2024
San Diego Zoo’s new giant pandas to make their public debut
August 08, 2024A revival of the cutthroat business play “Glengarry Glen Ross” is slated for Broadway this spring, cast with a star from “Succession.”
August 08, 2024
Liza Minnelli is ‘mad as hell’ and writing new memoir
August 08, 2024
“Alien” Romulus," one of the most anticipated movies of the summer, is set to be one of the scariest, as well
August 08, 2024
Author-educator Kwame Anthony Appiah has received a $500,000 lifetime achievement award from the Library of Congress
August 08, 2024Cate Blanchett says ‘no one got paid anything’ for ‘Lord of the Rings’
August 08, 2024
Cate Blanchett wears top made of 102 spoons on the red carpet
August 08, 2024
As sweaty fans pushed up against one another, clutching their drinks and swaying to the music, Annie Clark, known professionally as St. Vincent, was being transported
August 08, 2024
Fifty years after his iconic high-wire walk between the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center, Philippe Petit recreated the death-defying stunt with a performance about seven miles north of the trade center at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine
August 08, 2024Two Chinese giant pandas are now California residents as their enclosure at the San Diego Zoo opened to the public on Thursday in an international ceremony.
August 08, 2024
Ancient pot of gold unearthed in Turkey hints at ‘gravest misfortune,’ researchers say
August 08, 2024
An 18-year-old Iraqi national was detained in Vienna in connection with investigations into an alleged plot to attack a Taylor Swift concert in the Austrian capital, Austria's
August 09, 2024
Austrian authorities have announced a third arrest in connection with the foiled conspiracy to attack three now-canceled Taylor Swift concerts even as disappointed fans charmed Vienna by trading friendship bracelets and singing the pop star’s songs in the streets
August 09, 2024
Cover art showing Marvel hero Deadpool’s first appearance could sell for record $7.5 million
August 09, 2024
Twenty years on from the release of his career-making debut album, John Legend is entering uncharted territory
August 09, 2024
A musicologist explains how an oft-forgotten opera, pop and jazz singer from New York City launched the country music industry a century ago.
August 09, 2024
NYC street renamed for Jimi Hendrix
August 09, 2024
Betty Prashker, a pioneering editor of the 20th century who as one of the first women with the power to acquire books published such classics as Kate Millett’s “Sexual Politics” and Susan Faludi’s “Backlash,” died July 30 at age 99
August 09, 2024
New excavations reveal missing pieces of intriguing artifact at Sutton Hoo
August 10, 2024
Grammy-nominated American hip hop star Travis Scott has been released from police custody in Paris and will not face any charges, said a representative for Scott on Saturday.
August 10, 2024Jude Law enters the Star Wars galaxy in epic fashion in nostalgic ‘Skeleton Crew’ trailer
August 10, 2024
Disney has bestowed “legends” status on 14 artists who have shaped the company, including Harrison Ford, Angela Bassett and Miley Cyrus
August 11, 2024
Simone Biles stole the show at the Paris Olympics with a captivating comeback that had everyone watching everything she did both in and out of the gymnasium
August 11, 2024
The tear-jerker documentary “Daughters" follows four young girls as they prepare to reunite with their incarcerated fathers for a dance in a Washington, D
August 12, 2024
Although he is most prominently known for his decades-long rap career and being everyone’s “uncle,” Snoop Dogg has proven his talent extends beyond what he does in the recording studio
August 12, 2024
It happens in journalism and it happens in the arts. But in Congress – where just 2% of representatives held blue-collar or service-industry jobs before entering politics – it’s rampant.
August 13, 2024
Berklee College of Music professor teaches kids how to make rap music and keep it clean
August 13, 2024
Who is ShamCow? Artist behind the graffiti tag popping up around Philadelphia defends his work
August 13, 2024
Street artist Banksy has unveiled a new mural of a rhinoceros that looks like it is climbing on top of a car in London
August 12, 2024
Sweden has dropped its investigation into a backstage altercation in May involving a Dutch contestant in the Eurovision Song Contest who was expelled from the competition hours before the final
August 12, 2024
Amid the green hills and meadows of central Bosnia, a local businessman has realised his long-held dream: recreating one of Vincent van
August 12, 2024Workers arriving at the London Zoo were surprised to discover an unexpected exhibit that suggested the animals were being set free
August 13, 2024
Alyssa Milano hopes to charm audiences when she makes her Broadway debut this fall in the musical “Chicago,” adding her celebrity to a show that skewers celebrity culture
August 13, 2024
Icelandic director Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson’s production of “Tristan und Isolde” at the Bayreuth Festival is becomes a psychoanalytic examination of self-loathing and burdensome expectations
August 13, 2024
Mosaic buried for thousands of years uncovered by archaeologists
August 14, 2024
Parks around campus at this university become a place for law students to produce prose and draw parallels between nature and the law.
August 14, 2024
The author of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and other classic novels used the words ‘slave’ and ‘slavery’ nearly a dozen times in her books.
August 14, 2024
Will there be Minnesota hot dish hats worn at the upcoming Democratic National Convention? Curators from the Smithsonian will be there, looking for both routine and unconventional campaign items.
August 14, 2024
Kate McKinnon, Malcolm Gladwell and Eva Mendes will be among the featured speakers this fall at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, a leading venue for arts events
August 14, 2024
Researchers are one step closer to understanding how Stonehenge was created
August 14, 2024
Mural celebrating Black Italian volleyball star defaced with racist graffiti
August 14, 2024
On the 10th day, after creating the mountain goat, elephants, pelicans, a rhinoceros and a gorilla, among other animals, Banksy rested
August 14, 2024
Tinashe is releasing her seventh studio album, “Quantum Baby,” on Friday
August 14, 2024
Minnie Driver plays Queen Elizabeth right on time
August 14, 2024
Archaeologists have unearthed four human remains believed to be more than 3,000 years old in a stretch of barren land in northern Peru that appears to have housed a ceremonial temple
August 14, 202420 years later, Phish fan releases documentary 'Jam' recalling Coventry festival
August 14, 2024
Cambridge combines art and social justice to give teens their own space
August 14, 2024National monument to mark site of 1908 Springfield Race Riots
August 14, 2024Rome’s mayor and several others have denounced the defacing of a street-art celebration of Paola Egonu
August 14, 2024
Go inside the Dream Orchestra, a group of more than 300 people speaking 20 languages and united by music. It was founded by CNN Hero Ron Davis Alvarez.
November 07, 2024Despite feeling some schadenfreude at watching politicians squirm over being derided as such, a scholar of speculative fiction wants to keep America weird.
August 15, 2024
Were these Renaissance masterpieces some of the world’s first ‘viral images’?
August 15, 2024
Elon Musk’s AI photo tool is generating realistic, fake images of Trump, Harris and Biden
August 15, 2024
Remembering Floyd Newsum: A Visionary Artist and Beloved Founder of Project Row Houses
August 15, 2024Global Fest fashion show to showcase designs from many nations
August 15, 2024
Chicago artists' murals to grace exteriors of CTA train cars
August 15, 2024
Photography finalists showcase the ‘wonder and fragility’ of world’s oceans
August 15, 2024'Pure professionalism': Winnipeg recording studio welcomed Mark Hamill for voiceover work
August 15, 2024His love of music is helping refugees and immigrants build new lives
August 16, 2024
Dan and Eugene Levy to host 76th Emmy Awards
August 16, 2024
The choices of author and illustrator Crockett Johnson during the printing process – as well as his civil rights advocacy – make it entirely within the realm of possibility.
August 16, 2024
Offbeat operas have been some of the Salzburg Festival’s best in recent years, the latest a colorful, outlandish and entertaining staging of Sergei Prokofiev’s “The Gambler” by director Peter Sellars
August 16, 2024
Hettie Jones, an award-winning poet, publisher and children's book author who was the first wife and early muse of the author-activist Amiri Baraka, has died at age 90
August 16, 2024Artist behind iconic Obama ‘Hope’ poster crafts new artwork for Harris
August 16, 2024
He went viral with his singing talents. Now he wants to use them to help mentor Richmond kids.
August 16, 2024
Captain Newfoundland, a 'psychedelic,' meditating provincial superhero, is about to go national
August 16, 2024Archaeologists unearth tiny 3,500-year-old clay tablet following an earthquake
August 16, 2024A carnival float featuring a Hindu temple that is planned for an upcoming India Day Parade in New York City has sparked controversy, with a number of groups calling it
August 16, 2024
The death of Nirvana’s frontman is raw for many. A photo showing the word ‘unalived’ stirred fresh emotion
August 17, 2024
Priceless paintings by Monet, Cezanne, Van Gogh and others were safe after firefighters worked to douse a fire at Somerset House
August 17, 2024
Around 125 firefighters tackled a fire in the roof of London's Somerset house on Saturday, though the historic building's major art collections, including works by
August 17, 2024
Maurice Williams, a rhythm and blues singer and composer who with his backing group the Zodiacs became one of rock's great one-shot acts with the classic ballad "Stay," has died at 86
August 17, 2024Neolithic people moved Stonehenge’s mysterious Altar Stone over hundreds of miles
August 17, 2024
The London Zoo has removed Banksy’s gorilla mural from its entrance gate
August 18, 2024
Video game performers say the physical strain and hours put into motion capture and voice work make it worth protecting against artificial intelligence
August 16, 2024
The creatives pushing nail art to sculptural new lengths
August 19, 2024
'We are all one': Woodstock photographer looks back 55 years later
August 19, 2024Ship gag crowned the funniest joke from the Edinburgh Fringe
August 19, 2024
Students can play to their strengths in this anthropology course designed to teach them how to present research findings in ways other than a peer-reviewed paper.
August 19, 2024
The Directors Guild will pay tribute to Francis Ford Coppola at its 25th DGA Honors in October
August 19, 2024
Lainey Wilson will release her fifth studio album, “Whirlwind,” on Friday
August 19, 2024
Knife maker turns passion into booming business
August 19, 2024
Egyptian officials and the U.S. ambassador inaugurated renovations of several monuments and buildings in Historic Cairo, including the Bimaristan al-Muayyad Sheikh, a hospital
August 19, 2024
Zoo hosts 10th birthday party for first elephant born in Arizona
August 19, 2024
A group of authors is suing artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, alleging it committed “large-scale theft” in training its popular chatbot Claude on pirated copies of copyrighted books
August 20, 2024
Spectacular images of nature’s wonders revealed in photo competition
August 20, 2024
The four stars who helped shape the new musical “Swept Away” — John Gallagher Jr., Stark Sands, Adrian Blake Enscoe and Wayne Duvall — will steer the nautical tale to the commercial waves of Broadway
August 20, 2024
Ryan Reynolds reflects on tribute to Rob Delaney’s late son in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’
August 20, 2024
'A Santa’s Workshop': Wisconsin Woodworker's Guild turns talents to making toys for children facing difficult times
August 20, 2024
Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane had never worked with one another before
August 20, 2024
The University of Houston-Downtown Mourns the Loss of Visionary Art Professor Floyd Newsum
August 20, 2024Taylor Swift gives a behind-the-scenes look at Eras Tour in ‘I Can Do It With a Broken Heart’ music video
August 20, 2024
How Uzbekistan’s young generation is changing the face of its creative economy
August 21, 2024How the lobster became an unlikely status symbol — and a ‘cultural icon’
August 21, 2024
Pink to close out the DNC with a performance. John Legend will take the stage Wednesday
August 21, 2024
Every song played during the 2024 DNC’s raucous roll call
August 21, 2024
Alien: Romulus – A Review of Nostalgic Sci-Fi with Modern Thrills
August 21, 2024Lionsgate recalled its new trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” Wednesday amid revelations that critics’ quotes were fabricated
August 21, 2024
Cambodia’s prime minister has led a celebration of the return of dozens of precious centuries-old artifacts from museums and private collectors abroad, and said his government will continue working with others to bring home more such cultural treasures
August 22, 2024
'Work doesn't only live in a museum or in a gallery': Artist designs mural to represent cultural diversity
August 22, 2024
Archaeologists in Virginia are uncovering an ornamental garden from the 1700s where a wealthy politician and enslaved gardeners grew exotic plants from around the world
August 23, 2024
The second season of “Pachinko" — opening Friday — delicately captures the plight of ethnic Koreans brought to Japan during colonial rule and their descendants, exploring themes of home and identity through several generations
August 23, 2024
Moravian Pottery and Tile Works Museum preserving Philadelphia suburb's art history
August 23, 2024
Anna Netrebko’s lawsuit against the Metropolitan Opera has been narrowed to gender discrimination claims by a federal judge, who agreed to dismiss the star soprano’s allegations of defamation, breach of contract and discrimination because of national origin
August 23, 2024
The VW Beetle evokes memories of years gone by, but in Mexico it’s still part of the present
August 25, 2024
Mexico City’s Hera HSBC music festival brought together an all-female lineup of both Latina and international talent including Kesha, Demi Lovato and Camila Cabello
August 25, 2024
Taiwan has cancelled a planned Taipei concert by a Chinese rapper over his use of the insulting term “Taipei, China” in promotional materials
August 26, 2024
More than 70 European artists and film directors have signed an open letter urging Serbia not to extradite to Belarus a filmmaker and a prominent critic of the authoritarian government in Minsk, who is wanted in his home country for alleged tax evasion
August 26, 2024Large mural unveiled meant to slow down traffic
August 26, 2024
A Pennsylvania museum has agreed to sell a 16th century portrait that once belonged to a Jewish family that was forced to part with it while fleeing Nazi Germany
August 26, 2024
Indigenous talent from Manitoba set to strut the Paris Fashion Week runway
August 26, 2024Teen's art project goes viral after being turned away from State Fair of Texas competition
August 26, 2024Martin Shkreli ordered to give up all copies of one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album
August 27, 2024
Opera Philadelphia is lowering all tickets to $11 under new general director Anthony Roth Costanzo, establishing a “pick your price” model aimed at widening the company’s audience
August 27, 2024
Stars galore will light up this year's Venice Film Festival, which opens on Wednesday, bringing sex, song and soul-searching to the Lido, making
August 27, 2024
Germany’s newest panda twins are thriving at the Berlin Zoo
August 27, 2024
Rare collectibles from the worlds of music and film, including gold rings owned by Elvis Presley and a letter written by Beach Boy Brian Wilson, will be up
August 27, 2024
Eugenie Montague explores memory in the digital age with her debut novel, “Swallow the Ghost.”
August 27, 2024
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August 27, 2024
Britain's hospitality industry is gearing up for a multi-million pound boost from the Oasis concerts next summer after brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher
August 27, 2024
Two nearly 2,000-year-old tombs with magnificent wall paintings will be open to the public for the first time in southern Israel after a painstaking conservation process
August 27, 2024
The art of crochet brings smiles to people
August 27, 2024
Meet the inventor who has created hundreds of toys and games
August 27, 2024
The 81st edition of the Venice Film Festival kicked off in Hollywood style with the world premiere of “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” Wednesday
August 28, 2024
Dusty & Stones want the world to lend an ear to African country music
August 28, 2024
Tania Tetlow has earned a reputation as a trailblazer
August 28, 2024
Percival Everett’s “James,” a reworking of Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the enslaved Jim’s perspective, is among the fiction finalists for the 11th annual Kirkus Prize
August 28, 2024
Makeshift memorials are public expressions of private mourning in response to trauma and tragedy.
August 28, 2024
While “Asian brunch” may initially evoke images of traditional meals like Chinese dim sum, it’s become shorthand now for restaurants that offer Asian takes on American brunch
August 28, 2024
It has been almost a decade since Zedd, the Grammy-winning producer and DJ, released his sophomore album, “True Colors.”
August 28, 2024
Signed Dalí prints ‘tucked away and forgotten’ for 50 years found in garage
August 28, 2024
Archaeologists are in high demand in Italy thanks largely to a construction boom fueled by EU post-COVID recovery funds, the head of the country's National
August 28, 2024
Look at almost any movie theater marquee right now and you’ll probably see not just new titles but a smattering of older films, too
August 28, 2024
A special Ring Cycle will be performed for the 150th anniversary Bayreuth Festival in 2026, the annual Richard Wagner showcase said as this season’s schedule ended with sellouts for all 30 performances
August 28, 2024
Dolly Parton visits Kansas City to celebrate statewide expansion of her book gifting campaign
August 28, 2024
Discover the Pulse of Dance at the Inaugural – Houston Black Dance Festival
August 28, 2024Celebrating the Hispanic Impact in Houston - A Resounding Success
August 28, 2024Stunning images from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition
August 28, 2024Angelina Jolie portrays renowned opera singer Maria Callas in a film premiering at the Venice Film Festival Thursday
August 29, 2024
Several prominent film actors and directors are the focus of a police investigation into sexual assault and harassment in India's southern state of Kerala, a
August 29, 2024Alfonso Cuarón is the first to admit that he does not know how to make a television series
August 29, 2024
Colman Domingo has implicitly invited audiences to join his journey of racial healing across a Hollywood career spent largely in supporting roles
August 29, 2024
Errol Morris turned his lens toward the U.S. government’s border policies the separation of migrant families in the new film “Separated,” which premiered at Thursday at the Venice Film Festival
August 29, 2024
Oscar-winning documentary maker Errol Morris premiered his latest work at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday, picking apart one of former President Donald
August 29, 2024
A 4-year-old boy who accidentally broke a rare 3,500-year-old jar at a museum in Israel has been forgiven and even invited back
August 29, 2024
Angelina Jolie moved to tears during ‘Maria’ standing ovation at Venice Film Festival
August 30, 2024
Grit and glamour: Behind-the-scenes docuseries asks what it takes to become a K-pop idol
August 30, 2024
New Zealand’s indigenous Māori king dies age 69
August 30, 2024
Nicole Kidman has returned to the Venice Film Festival for the world premiere of “Babygirl.”
August 30, 2024
A new Apple TV+ documentary series, “K-pop Idols,” offers an intimate look at how the K-pop industry is embracing diversity while grappling with challenges in a field that demands perfection
August 30, 2024
With politics set aside, well-wishers have gathered to wish Taipei zoo’s oldest giant panda a happy 20th birthday
August 30, 2024
Due to conflicts over music rights and the high cost of adapting the show to HD, the series had become overshadowed by its spiritual successor, ‘The Wire.’
August 30, 2024Emmett Till remembered with exhibit at Two Mississippi Museums
August 30, 2024
A 4-year-old boy whose curiosity led to the destruction of a 3,500-year-old jar has returned to the museum in northern Israel where it happened, welcomed by forgiving curators who are using the accident as an educational opportunity
August 30, 2024
Players at the U.S. Open describe doubles like dating
August 30, 2024
Jude Law plays an FBI agent investigating the violent crimes of a white supremacist group in “The Order,” which premiered Saturday at the Venice Film Festival
August 31, 2024
By Casey Hall and Xihao Jiang SHANGHAI - Shanghai Museum has pulled in crowds this summer for an exhibition of ancient Egyptian relics including cat statues and other feline imagery, and which on
September 01, 2024
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August 26, 2024George Clooney and Brad Pitt have returned to the Venice Film Festival for the world premiere of “Wolfs.”
September 01, 2024
“The Brutalist,” a three-hour post-war epic about a Holocaust survivor architect rebuilding a life in America, is a fantasy
September 01, 2024
Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar is returning to the Venice Film Festival with stars Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore
September 02, 2024
Activist trying to make streets safer by forging guns into jewelry, art and tools
September 02, 2024
A rare haul of 27 silver Roman coins dated between 94 and 74 BC has been discovered on the remote island of Pantelleria, the Sicily region said on Monday.
September 02, 2024
Ian McKellen is listening to his inner critic
September 02, 2024
Rembrandt portrait found in attic sells for record price
September 02, 2024Artist uses social media to teach people about Baltimore's 'ghost signs'
September 02, 2024
After $1 billion at the box office, 11 Oscar nominations and two major wins, including for Joaquin Phoenix, it’s easy to forget the handwringing over “Joker.”
September 03, 2024
Venice Film Festival regular Luca Guadagnino has returned to the Lido to debut his new Daniel Craig film “Queer” on Tuesday night
September 03, 2024
Fans of “Game of Thrones” can now battle it out themselves as 2,000 items from the series go up for auction
September 03, 2024
See inside Jennifer Garner’s tranquil farmhouse-style home
September 03, 2024
Woman at local care center brings happiness to residents with her inside garden
September 03, 2024
The Arch of Constantine, a giant ancient Roman arch next to the Colosseum, was damaged after a violent storm hit Rome, conservation authorities said on Tuesday.
September 03, 2024
CNN's Richard Quest takes a look at the past, present and future of New York's Museum of Modern Art.
September 11, 2024
An artist made scathing sculptures of Mao over a decade ago. Now, he’s detained for slandering China’s heroes, family says
September 04, 2024
Five years after “Joker” won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival, director Todd Phillips can’t help but be a little nervous about returning with its sequel
September 04, 2024
By reviving a century-old patent for blue paint, this architect reflects on a powerful, lesser-told history
December 01, 2024
Braving the constant threat of airstrikes and bombings, 15-year-old Youssef Saad, a Gazan oud player, rides his bicycle through the war-ravaged streets of northern
September 04, 2024
Latin music superstar Daddy Yankee, the Grammy winning “King of Reggaeton,” hopes his own story will inspire others to believe in themselves
September 04, 2024
‘Moana 2,’ ‘Wicked’ and ‘Gladiator II’ score box office trifecta on Thanksgiving weekend
December 01, 2024
‘Wicked’ star Marissa Bode speaks out against ‘harmful’ ableist comments made about her character
December 01, 2024
Throughout modern history, charismatic leaders have shown their extraordinary ability to elicit devotion to themselves and their causes.
September 04, 2024
A Rembrandt discovered in a Maine attic has sold for $1.4 million
September 04, 2024
It was a rapture and a revelation all at the same time
September 04, 2024
Ridley Scott calls his upcoming Roman epic “Gladiator II” his best film
September 04, 2024
Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo sings Figaro, Susanna, the Count, Countess, Cherubino, Antonio and Barbarina in Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” at New York’s Little Island, stretching his voice 3 1/2 octaves
September 04, 2024
For “Live Drugs Again,” the The War on Drugs' upcoming second live album out Sept. 13, frontman Adam Granduciel wanted to do justice to the ways in which the band has grown
September 04, 2024
Daniel Craig rolled his eyes when asked about a ‘Queer’ James Bond, but there’s more to it
September 04, 2024
‘Enthusiastic amateur’ finds ‘remarkable’ Pictish ring buried for more than 1,000 years
September 04, 2024
Why people are upset about Glenn Close in ‘The Deliverance’
September 04, 2024
'It's kind of a first': Woman donates piano to Columbia to preserve history
September 04, 2024Bruce Springsteen Fast Facts
June 26, 2013Music director Jaap van Zweden earned just over $1.5 million from the New York Philharmonic in the fiscal year ending in August 2023, and Deborah Borda received slightly more than $1.7 million in her final season as CEO
September 04, 2024
Jason Momoa and Danielle Brooks are the new kids on the block in ‘Minecraft’ movie trailer
September 04, 2024
An Indiana judge has ruled that Valparaiso University can sell a Georgia O'Keeffe and two other paintings, in part because the O'Keeffe and another of the paintings
September 04, 2024Independent Russian watchmaker upends race to design world’s thinnest wristwatch
September 05, 2024
Italy's culture minister admitted in a tearful prime time TV interview to an affair with a woman who claimed to have been hired as an aide, in a case that is testing
September 05, 2024
Walt Disney's animated musical "Moana 2" debuted with an estimated $368 million in global ticket sales through Sunday and combined with "
December 01, 2024
Salman Rushdie’s account of a stabbing attack that blinded him in one eye is among contenders announced Thursday for a prestigious nonfiction book prize
September 05, 2024
The U.K.’s competition watchdog has launched an investigation into the way more than one million tickets were sold for next year’s reunion concerts from iconic 1990s Britpop band Oasis
September 05, 2024
Hundreds of theatres, galleries and other cultural organisations in Slovakia threatened on Thursday to go on strike if the culture ministry did not stop what they described as intimidation
September 05, 2024
Artist appears to take credit for fake Kamala Harris Eagles political ads in Philadelphia
September 05, 2024
Grapevine woman keeps tradition alive with iconic Texas mums for homecoming season
September 05, 2024
Xian Zhang has been hired as music director of the Seattle Symphony, becoming the first woman conductor to head a major West Coast orchestra and filling a post that had been vacant since Thomas Dausgaard quit abruptly in January 2022
September 05, 2024
The Toronto International Film Festival is the clean-up hitter of the fall festival circuit
September 05, 2024
A statue depicting Johnny Cash is on its way from Arkansas to the U.S. Capitol
September 05, 2024
Empowering Houston’s Creative Future: MOCA Awards $100,000 to Artists and Organizations Driving Cultural Tourism & Resilience
September 06, 2024Michelle Azar Shines in "All Things Equal: The Life and Trials of Ruth Bader Ginsburg" at The Hobby Center
September 06, 2024Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted an opening night screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, chanting “Stop the genocide!”
September 06, 2024
The National Book Foundation has awarded Barbara Kingsolver a medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (DCAL), which has previously been given to Toni Morrison, Philip Roth and Joan Didion among others
September 06, 2024
Italian Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano quit on Friday after a controversy over a consultancy role for his former mistress had become an
September 06, 2024
Sérgio Mendes, Brazilian singer and pop artist, dead at 83
September 06, 2024
Speaking to CNN's Mike Valerio in Seoul, where he's hosting a sale of K-pop star G-Dragon’s prized possessions, Pharrell reflects on how a new generation of collectors has “transformed” the auction market.
September 08, 2024
Catherine O’Hara is the birthmother of bizarre movie moms. ‘Beetlejuice’ was only the beginning
September 06, 2024
The Toronto International Film Festival has played host to many comeback stories over the years
September 06, 2024
Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door” won the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion award Saturday
September 07, 2024
The city where the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were conceived has largely been overlooked during the crime-fighting quartet's meteoric rise
September 07, 2024
Maya Rudolph and Angela Bassett are among the winners at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards
September 07, 2024
Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium is known as the Mother Church of Country Music
September 07, 2024
“Musical” has been a dirty word in marketing some recent song-and-dance studio films, but there’s no avoiding it in bringing “Wicked” to the big screen
September 07, 2024
“Unstoppable," about the one-legged wrestler Anthony Robles, was one of the most-anticipated premieres of the Toronto International Film Festival
September 07, 2024
The 81st Venice Film Festival ended on Saturday. Here is a list of all the main award winners.
September 07, 2024
Eight-time Grammy award winner Anderson
September 07, 2024
Ron Howard's "Eden" may be based on a true story, but its actors at the Toronto International Film Festival said on Saturday the Darwinian story of survival
September 08, 2024
Don’t Tell Comedy is changing stand-up. Comics say that’s a good thing
September 08, 2024
In the 1940s, Mexican artist Diego Rivera had a dream: to build a sacred place to preserve and display his lifelong collection of pre-Hispanic art
September 08, 2024
Prominent Egyptian archaeologist and former antiquities minister Zahi Hawass has launched a petition for the return to Egypt of the pharaonic bust of Queen Nefertiti from the Neues
September 08, 2024
Bass guitarist Herbie Flowers, who played with David Bowie, Elton John, Lou Reed and other music legends in a decades-long career, has died at 86
September 08, 2024
Filipino hospital administrator Anna Galarrita and Filipino domestic helper Olga Reyes have been practising for months to be part of the 1,500-strong choir during
September 08, 2024
“Shogun” won a whopping 14 times at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards
September 09, 2024
A portrait found in a Maine attic unexpectedly sold for $1.4M. Could it be a long-lost Rembrandt?
September 09, 2024
Sylvester Stallone’s second season of “Tulsa King” and Snow Patrol's first new album in seven years are some of this week’s new streaming entertainment releases
September 06, 2024
New York Fashion Week: Highlights from the Spring-Summer 2025 runways
September 09, 2024
Benj Pasek and Justin Paul attain EGOT status after ‘Only Murders in the Building’ Emmy win
September 09, 2024
Morgan Wallen tops the 2024 Country Music Association award nominations with seven
September 09, 2024
When the British filmmaker Mike Leigh was 6, his father, a doctor who opposed his son becoming an artist, told him to quit drawing pictures of people
September 09, 2024
A hero’s masterpiece: Central Iowa veterans heal through art
September 09, 2024
CMA Awards 2024 nominations led by Morgan Wallen, but no Beyoncé
September 09, 2024
Author-playwright Jessica Hagedorn, “Yellowface” novelist R
September 09, 2024Keri-Lynn Wilson has been hired as music director of the Kyiv Camerata
September 09, 2024On Oneida Nation in Wisconsin, white corn harvests are an important cultural practice
September 09, 2024
Giant beach sand sculpture created by expert, college students
September 09, 2024
Kendrick Lamar’s wordsmith journey to Super Bowl halftime headliner
September 09, 2024
James Earl Jones, who overcame racial prejudice and a severe stutter to become a celebrated icon of stage and screen has died
September 09, 2024
James Earl Jones, the actor, was sometimes in danger of being upstaged by James Earl Jones, the voice.
September 09, 2024
Meet the artist transforming tennis balls into furniture
September 10, 2024
A city councilor in Switzerland has apologized after she fired a sporting pistol at an auction poster of a 14th-century Madonna and child painting and posted images of their bullet-ridden faces on social media
September 10, 2024Science fiction can be thought of as a film negative of history – a back door into what used to worry people and what gave them hope.
September 10, 2024
Constantine Orbelian has been promoted to executive director of the largely dormant New York City Opera, which hasn’t given a staged performance since 2022
September 10, 2024Poet Li-Young Lee has won a $100,000 lifetime achievement prize, and Carole Boston Weatherford has been named the new Young People’s Poet Laureate
September 10, 2024A year after he appeared on the stage supporting Sheryl Crow's induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Peter Frampton finds the doors of the hallowed institution open to him
September 10, 2024
“Moana 2” brought in a tidal wave of moviegoers over the Thanksgiving Day weekend with $221 million in ticket sales
December 01, 2024
Bob Bryar, drummer for rock band My Chemical Romance, dead at 44
November 30, 2024
As the Paralympic Games wrap up in Paris, Bianna Golodryga speaks with Oksana Masters, who has racked up 19 Olympic medals across multiple Games, about her extraordinary journey to finding acceptance within the sporting world.
September 09, 2024
This year’s long list of National Book Awards for young people’s literature has a poetic touch
September 10, 2024Many of the expected conventions of music biopics are present in “Piece by Piece,” about the producer-turned-pop star Pharrell Williams, and “Better Man,” about the British singer Robbie Williams
September 10, 2024
Ukrainian diplomats and activists in Canada on Tuesday urged the Toronto International Film Festival to cancel further screenings of a documentary portraying Russian
September 10, 2024
Over the course of an acting career that spanned more than six decades, James Earl Jones’ voice became an indelible piece of his work as a performer
September 11, 2024
Glenn Lowry, director of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, to step down after 30 years
September 11, 2024
Taylor Swift has won the biggest award at the MTV Video Music Awards — the trophy for video of the year for “Fortnight,” featuring Post Malone
September 11, 2024
New sculpture of late Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip – plus corgis – divides opinion
September 11, 2024All signs point to this Sunday's Emmy Awards becoming the “Shogun” show
September 11, 2024
An Israeli museum has put back on display a rare Bronze-Era jar that a 4-year-old accidentally smashed
September 11, 2024
August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson" deals profoundly with ancestry and heritage, which makes it all the more fitting that the new film adaptation, produced by Denzel Washington and directed by his son Malcolm, is a family affair
September 11, 2024
New York City's Noguchi Museum said on Wednesday it fired three employees after they violated its updated dress code by wearing keffiyeh head scarves, which have become
September 11, 2024How Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris matters
September 12, 2024
Top moments from the 40th MTV Video Music Awards
September 12, 2024
A $10,000 literary award named for the late author and editor Gabe Hudson has been established by the publisher McSweeney’s, where Hudson once worked
September 12, 2024
The Sundance Film Festival has narrowed its search for a new home down to three finalists
September 12, 2024
Mesmerizing photos from the Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest
September 12, 2024Salman Rushdie’s “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder,” his explicit and surprisingly resilient memoir about his brutal stabbing in 2022, is a nominee for the National Book Awards
September 12, 2024
The man who discovered Winston Churchill's picture was stolen was treated like a suspect; now he's being honoured
September 12, 2024Christiane Amanpour speaks to playwright Jeremy O. Harris about creating 'Slave Play' and the future of Broadway.
September 12, 2024
Director Francis Ford Coppola has sued the entertainment trade publication Variety for libel
September 12, 2024
Filmmaker Lana Wilson had never thought much about psychics
September 12, 2024
At Beijing's largest antiques market, Panjiayuan, among the Mao statues, posters and second-hand books are prominent signs warning against the sale of publications
September 12, 2024
Indigenous chants and the rattle of maracas are resounding in a Rio de Janeiro park, where Brazil’s Tupinambá people gathered to celebrate the homecoming of a sacred cloak absent for some 380 years
September 12, 2024
One of British street artist Banksy's best-known paintings, "Girl with Balloon", has been found after its theft from a London gallery last week with two men charged, police said on
September 13, 2024
Two men have been charged with burglary over the theft of an artwork by street artist Banksy that was taken in a smash-and-grab raid on a London gallery
September 13, 2024
The Emmy Awards, the highest honors in television, had evolved into an annual battle for bragging rights between two prestige-TV
September 13, 2024
How a common hearing impairment helped Terry Crews master the art of physical comedy
September 13, 2024
Even though Bernal is known as the father of Chicano photography, his work has long been overlooked. Now he’s the subject of a new exhibition at the University of Arizona.
September 13, 2024
Percival Everett’s “James,” his acclaimed retelling of Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” is a fiction nominee for the National Book Awards
September 13, 2024
Kate Winslet doesn’t want to be called ‘brave’
September 13, 2024
The TV series “Slow Horses” is a critical darling that only seems to have gained traction in the U.S. of late, now in its fourth season
September 13, 2024
From the window of her tin-sided shop outside El Salvador's capital San Salvador, Esmeralda Quintanilla watches artists get to work in her
September 13, 2024
Mural honors Nashville's first female bus driver, Elizabeth Duff
September 13, 2024
Jane Goodall inspires next generation of conservationists in Tampa Bay
September 13, 2024
The search for the origin of Stonehenge’s mysterious Altar Stone intensifies
September 13, 2024
Where to watch the year’s top shows ahead of the Emmy Awards
September 13, 2024
The ancient monastery hanging from the side of a cliff
September 14, 2024
If it seems like the Emmys just happened, you’re not wrong
September 14, 2024
Ballet dancer Michaela Mabinty DePrince, who came to the United States from an orphanage in war-torn Sierra Leone and performed on some of the world’s biggest stages, has died
September 14, 2024
The wife of Jane's Addiction lead singer Perry Farrell says a scuffle on stage involving her husband was caused by “tension and animosity” within the band during their reunion tour
September 14, 2024
“Shogun” won best drama series in a record-setting year, while “Hacks” was the surprise winner of best comedy series at the Emmy Awards
September 15, 2024
Stained glass windows, a sweeping staircase and embellished interiors make Mohatta Palace a gem in Karachi, a Pakistani megacity of 20 million people
September 15, 2024Queen Victoria’s favorite Tuscan villa for sale for more than $55 million
September 15, 2024Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury, who dedicated much of his writings to the Palestinian cause and taught at universities around the world, making him one of Lebanon’s most prominent intellectuals has died
September 15, 2024
Making arts and crafts improves your mental health as much as having a job, scientists find
September 15, 2024
The Toronto International Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award has gone to “The Life of Chuck.”
September 15, 2024
See who won at the Emmy Awards
September 15, 2024
“Shogun'' and ”Hacks'' won the top awards at the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday
September 15, 2024
Fest Eve 2024: A Magical Evening for the Arts and Community Artist Collective
September 16, 2024Houston’s Hotspot for Creativity: The City Lights Up with $97K in Grants!
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September 16, 2024
At the Emmy Awards on Sunday, Hollywood celebrated a diverse line-up of nominees and winners at television's highest honors
September 16, 2024
Mid-Autumn Festival: Mooncakes, lanterns and so much more
September 16, 2024
Some public figures achieve immortality with buildings or monuments named after them
September 16, 2024
‘Shōgun’ led the Emmys — and its red carpet
September 16, 2024
D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai’s bold Emmys statement highlights missing and murdered Indigenous women
September 16, 2024
New York rapper Lil Tecca will release his fourth studio album, “Plan A," on Friday
September 16, 2024
How Daniel Ricciardo went from a ‘shy’ teenager to one of F1’s most effervescent characters
September 16, 2024
American writers Percival Everett and Rachel Kushner have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize
September 16, 2024
Tito Jackson, founding member of the popular Black American Motown group The Jackson 5 with his brothers, died on Sunday at the age of 70, his family said.
September 16, 2024
Shogun Reigns Supreme at the 2024 Emmys, Making History With 18 Awards
September 16, 2024Bailes de Mi Tierra showcases Mexican culture through music, dance and folklore
September 16, 2024A New York woman is challenging the longstanding rules of Miss America and Miss World that disqualify mothers from their beauty pageants
September 16, 2024
CNN's Victor Blackwell spoke with musician Alicia Keys and producer Swizz Beatz about their art collection "Giants," and the meaning behind the exhibition.
September 17, 2024
Music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs was arrested in Manhattan by federal agents on Monday evening based on a sealed indictment, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York said.
September 17, 2024
Japan's government and people cheered the record trophy haul for period drama "Shogun" at the Emmy Awards as yet another win for their history and culture, which are
September 17, 2024
Costuming an icon: How the Beetlejuice wardrobe got a modern upgrade
September 17, 2024
Édgar Barrera, the producer and songwriter known for his work with artists such as Madonna, Karol G, Peso Pluma, Shakira and Grupo Frontera, leads the Latin Grammy nominations for a second year in a row
September 17, 2024
Tattoo business moves out of rented space due to controversial mural with swastika
September 17, 2024Ancient remains of Egyptian army barracks and a bronze sword unearthed by archaeologists
September 17, 2024
The Mexican pop-rock band Maná has removed its 2016 song with Nicky Jam after the Puerto Rican reggaeton singer expressed his support for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump
September 17, 2024
As New Zealand celebrates its annual Māori language week, the government is ramping up initiatives to remove recognition of Indigenous people and language from public policy and law
September 18, 2024
Dancing, drums and rituals: with zeal and joy, India celebrates Hindu festival Ganesh Chaturthi
September 18, 2024
An artwork featuring the plaster face casts of hundreds of transgender people is on display in London’s Trafalgar Square
September 18, 2024
In the heat of the Civil Rights Movement, Jones didn’t give rousing speeches or lead marches. Instead, he doubled down on his art.
September 18, 2024
Sean “Diddy” Combs is widely recognized as one of the most influential figures in hip-hop, but his indictment Tuesday on sex trafficking and racketeering charges further clouds his legacy
September 18, 2024
Authorities say a man used construction equipment to drop a heavy boom lift onto a sculpture that has stood for 25 years outside St. Louis’ Cathedral Basilica
September 18, 2024It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own
September 18, 2024
Ten years after “Whiplash” took the film world by storm, Damien Chazelle’s breakthrough film is returning to theaters nationwide Friday
September 18, 2024
Marvel's "Agatha All Along" Cast Dazzles at Star-Studded Hollywood Launch Event
September 18, 2024Marvel's latest television series “Agatha All Along" promises to deliver magic, classic Marvel twists and an all-star ensemble cast led by Kathryn Hahn as the evil witch Agatha Harkness on a journey to regain her powers
September 18, 2024
Cuban rapper Ovi arrested after road rage incident in Miami, FHP says
September 18, 2024Actress and singer Demi Lovato sits down with CNN’s Elizabeth Wagmeister for a revealing interview about her new film, “Child Star.”
September 18, 2024
Demi Lovato hopes to one day bring issues raised in ‘Child Star’ documentary to Capitol Hill
September 18, 2024
Turbulent skies of Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘The Starry Night’ align with a scientific theory, study finds
September 19, 2024
Happy 50th “SNL!"
September 19, 2024
A ceremony at the Canadian Embassy in Rome has marked the successful recovery of a stolen photo portrait of Winston Churchill, known as “The Roaring Lion,” after a two-year search
September 19, 2024Christiane Amanpour speaks to Sonia Purnell, author of "Kingmaker", a biography taking a fresh look at the life and legacy of Pamela Churchill Harriman.
September 19, 2024
Benmou Suzuki's dilapidated 420-year-old temple, located deep in the forest near a tiny Japanese mountain village, hardly looks like prized real estate
September 19, 2024
The New York Philharmonic and its musicians’ union have settled on a collective bargaining agreement that includes a 30% raise over three years
September 19, 2024
When he wasn’t working on mystery stories, and he completed hundreds, G
September 20, 2024The critically acclaimed French film “La Haine” is being adapted into a musical show nearly three decades after becoming a classic
September 20, 2024
Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy’s first memoir is coming out next fall, a book inspired by the death of her mother
September 20, 2024
Robert Caro spends most of his days writing the fifth and final volume of his Lyndon Johnson series, more than a decade in the making and still without a scheduled release date
September 20, 2024
Peter Cat Recording Co_ is in the midst of their 77-concert world tour, “Good Luck Beta 24’” following the release of their 2024 studio album, “BETA.”
September 20, 2024
Zoo Atlanta bids farewell to pandas after 25 years
September 20, 2024
She speaks seven languages, has a PhD in particle physics, an apartment in Budapest plastered with her own pastel drawings of nudes, and a career that took her
September 20, 2024
Today on CNN 10, we take a look at how artificial intelligence is helping journalists in Venezuela hide their identity. We'll also be mesmerized by one of nature's most fascinating phenomena that happens at a special time on the Chinese Lunar calendar. And we tour some unique homes that are sure to catch your attention. All this and more on CNN 10!
September 20, 2024
Widener University's Beyoncé course allows students to explore her influence on African-American culture
September 20, 2024
French filmmaker Coralie Fargeat speaks to Christiane Amanpour about the grotesque violence society and women inflict on their own bodies in her new film "The Substance".
September 20, 2024
Christiane Amanpour speaks with acclaimed actor Ian McKellen about his new film "The Critic", and his recent accident on stage.
September 20, 2024
Christiane Amanpour speaks to musician, songwriter and producer, Jack Antonoff, about his band Bleachers' latest album and working on some of pop's biggest hits.
September 20, 2024
A new play about the dark side of the internet is drawing throngs of young theater-goers. Bianna Golodryga speaks to stars Sydney Lemmon and Peter Friedman, and playwright Max Wolf Friedlich.
September 20, 2024
Influencers are raking in clicks and cash by making videos of themselves applying makeup while talking about something completely different. Psychologists say there are two psychological powers at work that keep us watching.
September 20, 2024
On a film set that resembles the medieval castle of a Chinese lord, Zhu Jian is busy disrupting the world's second-largest movie industry.
September 21, 2024
Simone Biles leads star-studded cast of US gymnasts headlining ‘victory lap’ Gold Over America Tour
September 21, 2024
Milwaukee is spending $88,000 on an art car. It broke a month after it was introduced.
September 21, 2024
Sean “Diddy” Combs created a hit-making empire with big name performers, earning his place as a savvy music mogul and becoming a three-time Grammy winner while securing high-profile deals across other industries
September 21, 2024
A man shattered a sculpture by Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei on Friday during the opening of his exhibition at Palazzo Fava in the Italian city of Bologna, a spokesperson for
September 21, 2024
Madonna has attempted a semi-stealth entrance to the Dolce & Gabbana runway show draped in a black veil for a runway show referencing her 1990s heyday and celebrating the cone bra
September 21, 2024
Carolina Moment: Local corn maze marks 20 years with focus on charity, community aid
September 21, 2024
‘The Substance’: What to know about Demi Moore’s powerhouse new film
September 21, 2024
CNN's Laura Coates speaks with Rapper Eve about her journey as a woman in the music business.
September 21, 2024
By Lam Yik and Jessie Pang HONG KONG - Xavian Wu, Hong Kong's first high-profile transgender singer-songwriter, sought to use the city's annual LGBTQ Pink Dot HK carnival on Sunday to share his story
September 22, 2024
Milan designers have wrapped up six days of runway womenswear previews with a gala award ceremony at Milan’s famed Teatro alla Scala to honor innovations in sustainability
September 22, 2024
It's a three-peat for “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.”
September 22, 2024
This eye-of-the-beholder dynamic between vandalism and urban art form has been a reality since the earliest days of urban graffiti
September 23, 2024
Two new reports provide a mixed but compelling outlook on the wave of book removals and challenges as the annual Banned Books Week begins for schools, stores and libraries nationwide
September 23, 2024
30 years ago, the company had grand plans to build a history-themed park in Virginia. But efforts to ‘Disneyfy’ American history met staunch opposition, even in the halcyon 1990s.
September 23, 2024
US to return a trove of nearly 300 history-spanning antiquities to India
September 23, 2024
Jeanine Tesori becomes the first woman composer to open a season in the Metropolitan Opera’s 141-year history when a revised “Grounded” starring mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo is featured at Monday night’s gala
September 23, 2024
Erik Menendez says Ryan Murphy’s ‘Monsters’ is full of ‘blatant lies’
September 23, 2024
Fans of Broadway, circle this date: This season’s Tony Awards will take place on June 8 at its familiar home of Radio City Music Hall
September 23, 2024
Thousands of bones and hundreds of weapons reveal grisly insights into a 3,250-year-old battle
September 23, 2024
Jazz saxophone player and composer Benny Golson has died at age 95
September 23, 2024
Green Day receives key to the city in Bay Area hometown of Pinole
September 23, 2024
Former “Harry Potter” film actor Rupert Grint faces a 1.8 million-pound ($2.3 million) bill after he lost a legal battle with the tax authorities
November 30, 2024
A judge in Brazil’s northeastern Pernambuco state has ordered the preventive arrest of Gusttavo Lima, one of the nation’s biggest country music stars, in connection with a money laundering investigation
September 23, 2024Johnny Cash is now standing tall inside the U.S. Capitol
September 24, 2024
Nigerian playwright and Nobel Prize in Literature Wole Soyinka reflects on his novels, poetry, and plays. The laureate also eloquently recounts the extraordinary activism that influenced his work and inspired a movie out this year about his time under political incarceration in Nigeria.
September 24, 2024
These buildings would have transformed skylines, but they were never built
September 24, 2024
A man has smashed a sculpture by Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei during the private opening of his exhibition in the northern Italian city of Bologna
September 24, 2024
Huge diamond necklace linked to Marie Antoinette scandal sells for $4.8 million
September 24, 2024
Italian designer Alberta Ferretti has announced that she is stepping down as creative director of the eponymous brand she founded more than 40 years ago
September 24, 2024
A large concrete sculpture of a bracelet referencing the excesses of former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos and a collection of portraits focusing on Black men and women are among the eclectic artwork shortlisted for the prestigious Turner Prize
September 24, 2024
A new exhibition exploring the vast network of the Silk Road trade routes opens at the British Museum in London this week.
September 24, 2024
If you think Latin American history starts with Christopher Columbus, John Leguizamo would like to have a word
September 24, 2024
Lady Gaga announces ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ companion album ‘Harlequin’
September 24, 2024
As the first St. Lucian to win an Olympic medal, sprinter Julien Alfred already has poetry, paintings and even a calypso song dedicated to her
September 24, 2024
'This neighborhood deserves color.' One of Ohio's largest murals emerges in Cleveland
September 24, 2024
These hyperreal drawings of trucks look just like photographs – and take up to 500 hours to make
September 25, 2024
“Joker” is a hard act to follow
September 25, 2024
After fueling so many other people’s parties, it will be time for Kool & the Gang to themselves finally celebrate when they are inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame next month in Cleveland
September 25, 2024
Kim Porter and Sean “Diddy” Combs' children have made a statement denouncing a book that claims to be written by the late Porter
September 25, 2024
Ukrainian soldiers offer songs of thanks at Virginia War Memorial performance: 'Music is a universal language'
September 25, 2024The author of a new biography of poet Phillis Wheatley has received a $50,000 history award
September 25, 2024A tree at the fabled 1969 Woodstock festival used by concertgoers as a sort of message board has been cut down
September 25, 2024
Pulitzer Prize winning author Jhumpa Lahiri declined to accept an award from New York City's Noguchi Museum after it fired three employees for wearing keffiyeh
September 26, 2024
Meryl Streep takes on the Taliban with a story about cats, squirrels and birds
September 26, 2024
Popular Greek singer Marinella is in stable but critical condition in an Athens hospital, a day after collapsing on stage during a concert in the ancient Herod Atticus theater
September 26, 2024
Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia is working on a children’s book centered on a generous boy and a proliferating baloney sandwich and inspired by a Biblical miracle
September 26, 2024
American writer Ralph Ellison provided a sharp analysis of the subversive power of Black laughter in 1930s America.
September 26, 2024
Smiles, surprises and sticky situations. Hilarious images from the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards
September 26, 2024With a few daubs of a paintbrush, the Brontë sisters have got their dots back
September 26, 2024
Five high school students have been named National Student Poets
September 26, 2024Prepare for a Leadership Legacy Like No Other: The Global Leadership Forum 2024 in Nassau, Bahamas!
September 26, 2024ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED: A Gladiator Legacy Reborn – The Anticipation for Gladiator II
September 26, 2024“The Listeners,” a two-hour expose of cults and psychological manipulation, has been given its U.S. premiere on at Philadelphia's Academy of Music
September 26, 2024
Cirque Du Soleil's first Hawaii show 'Auana' debuts in December at Waikiki Beachcomber
September 26, 2024When Kate Winslet stumbled upon the extraordinary story of Lee Miller she didn’t want to let go
September 26, 2024
The Associated Press has withdrawn its story about a sexual assault case against rapper K'naan
September 26, 2024
Understanding elusive killer whales, ‘SNL’ celebrates milestone, secrets to healthy eating: Catch up on the day’s stories
September 26, 2024The movie year tends to come into focus at the New York Film Festival, which prizes itself on being a curated gathering of the best cinema from around the world
September 26, 2024
An Australian court on Friday lifted a ban on a women's only art exhibit at a gallery in the southern state of Tasmania, saying it did not discriminate against men.
September 27, 2024A Belarus book publisher forced to operate out of Poland because of persecution from its own government is being honored by the trade association representing U.S. publishers
September 27, 2024Three Just Stop Oil activists threw soup at two of Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" paintings in London's National Gallery on Friday, just hours after two other members
September 27, 2024
Loewe’s latest collection dazzled at Paris Fashion Week Friday, presenting an explosion of flowers and form that showcased designer onathan Anderson’s innovative spirit
September 27, 2024
Britain's Maggie Smith, one of the most acclaimed actors of her generation with a career ranging from Shakespeare to Harry Potter and Downton Abbey, has died aged 89, her family said
September 27, 2024
Maggie Smith, who won an Oscar for 1969 film “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and won new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Grantham in “Downton Abbey” and Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter films, has died at 89
September 27, 2024
Local writers, painters, musicians and philosophers have long been inspired by the Black cultural movement that pulls from the past to envision the future.
September 27, 2024
Since its inception more than two decades ago, the experimental rock band Xiu Xiu has danced between extremes
September 27, 2024
An appeals court says a museum in Australia was within its rights to bar men from a controversial art exhibit for women meant to underscore their exclusion from segments of the male-dominated society
September 27, 2024
Dame Maggie Smith, who died on Friday aged 89, was a perfectionist who turned anxiety into an art form and was hailed as one of the great actors of stage and screen.
September 27, 2024
Dame Maggie Smith, one of Britain’s best-known actresses whose long career ranged from starring opposite Laurence Olivier in “Othello” on stage and screen, to roles in “Harry Potter” and “Downton Abbey,” has died, her sons announced in a statement shared by their publicist Clair Dobbs.
September 27, 2024
A group of activists attacked a pair of paintings by Dutch master Vincent van Gogh at London’s National Gallery by throwing what appeared to be tomato soup on the artworks
September 27, 2024
The Kennedy Center and the union representing musicians in the National Symphony Orchestra have come to an agreement on a short-term contract after a brief strike that threatened to derail Saturday’s season-opening gala
September 27, 2024
Chappell Roan has dropped out of the All Things Go music festival scheduled for this weekend
September 27, 2024
UK court hands prison terms to climate activists who threw soup on Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’
September 27, 2024
Kate, Britain's Princess of Wales, says love is the greatest gift people can give each other in a message to guests who will attend her annual Christmas carol service next week at
November 30, 2024
Fall for Dance, the eclectic annual festival in New York, is a beloved tradition for fans, not least for its $30 tickets
September 27, 2024
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood replica trolley up for a vote to become next LEGO set
September 27, 2024
Billie Jean King becomes first individual female athlete to receive Congressional Gold Medal
September 28, 2024
Filmmaker brings new life to silent films by adding a rock music soundtrack
September 28, 2024
Philadelphia native climbing art museum steps 1,000 times to honor his brother, inspire others
September 28, 2024
Why Will Ferrell wanted a doc about his friendship with a trans woman to release before the election
September 28, 2024
In a time when streaming and a pandemic have radically transformed cinema consumption over the past decade, a growing number of mostly younger people are contributing to a renaissance of the Los Angeles independent movie theater scene
September 29, 2024
The mosaics of a mediaeval cathedral in Sicily, built by the island's last Norman king, are set to regain their golden lustre thanks to careful
September 29, 2024
Actor Damian Lewis has driven a flock of sheep across the River Thames in homage to a centuries-old tradition
September 29, 2024
A Polish non-government organisation said on Sunday that it has filed a lawsuit against President Andrzej Duda over comments he made in 2023 about the film "Green Border", which
September 29, 2024
Alessandro Michele’s Valentino debut signaled a transformation, with a stage set like a living room in flux, evoking a sense of renewal
September 29, 2024
Man completes 1,000 laps on art museum steps to honor his brother injured in car accident
September 29, 2024
Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar who became a superstar songwriter, singer and actor, has died
September 29, 2024
Kris Kristofferson, who became one of the most influential American singer-songwriters of his time with works such as "Me and Bobby McGee," as well as becoming a successful
September 29, 2024
A French trading ship that sank in the 17th century with treasure onboard is being brought back to life in a workshop in Madagascar with every stroke of Rafah Ralahy’s small wood sander
September 29, 2024New Zealand has set the world record for the most people to perform a haka, a traditional dance of the country's indigenous Maori, reclaiming the title from France.
September 30, 2024‘Who are you?’ An artist confronts photos of her father’s past lovers
September 30, 2024
Oasis shocked fans by announcing a reunion tour last month, ending a 15-year hiatus
September 30, 2024
Gavin Creel, a Broadway veteran who won a Tony Award for “Hello, Dolly!”
September 30, 2024
Global Citizen Festival 2024: Music, Activism, and Unity in the Heart of NYC
September 30, 2024The Cincinnati Opera has postponed the premiere of the Afrofuturist-themed “Lalovavi” by one year to the summer of 2026
September 30, 2024The All Things Go music festival made its way to New York City this weekend for the first time, featuring a lineup of predominantly women and queer women headliners like Boygenius’ Julien Baker, Ethel Cain, Muna, Janelle Monae and Reneé Rapp
September 30, 2024
Barbra Streisand remembers ‘charming’ Kris Kristofferson
September 30, 2024
Gavin Creel, Broadway star known for ‘Hello, Dolly!’ and ‘Waitress,’ dead at 48
September 30, 2024
Kris Kristofferson led a remarkable life that might sound implausible if it appeared in fiction
September 30, 2024
Orion Sun found solace amongst the works of Audre Lorde while working on her self-titled album
September 30, 2024
Stella McCartney’s high-octane Paris show transformed an ordinary rainy market street into a dazzling runway spectacle
September 30, 2024
Archaeologists unearth more than 50 Viking skeletons at huge burial site
October 01, 2024
Salman Rushdie’s memoir about his near-fatal stabbing, “Knife,” and Percival Everett’s revisionist historical novel, “James,” are among the finalists for the 75th annual National Book Awards
October 01, 2024
Ina Garten is looking back in a new memoir, “Be Ready When the Luck Happens,” which distills stories from her life into lessons for foodies and non-foodies, alike
October 01, 2024
Donna Summer immortalized in giant Roxbury mural
October 01, 2024
Kate McKinnon came up with the idea for “The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science,” about 10 years ago but didn’t begin writing in earnest until she left “Saturday Night Live” in May 2022
October 01, 2024
Comcast’s Black Experience on Xfinity: Celebrating Black Fine Art Month with “Who’s Behind Black Art”
October 01, 2024Ken Page, a stage and screen actor who starred alongside Beyoncé in “Dreamgirls,” introduced Broadway audiences to Old Deuteronomy in “Cats” and scared generations of kids as the voice of Oogie Boogie, the villain of the 1993 animated holiday film ”The Nightmare Before Christmas,″ has died
October 01, 2024
John Amos, star of ‘Good Times’ and ‘Roots,’ dead at 84
October 01, 2024
Daniel Day-Lewis is coming out of retirement, seven years after his last movie, for a film directed by his son Ronan Day-Lewis
October 01, 2024
Chanel finds itself at a crossroads following Virginie Viard’s abrupt departure, as a giant empty cage at its Grand Palais show symbolizes the current creative void
October 01, 2024
Bianna Golodryga speaks to CEO and founder of Global Citizen ahead of their annual music festival, with the aim of calling on world leaders to help fight extreme poverty.
October 02, 2024
Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna tells Fareed about her path to becoming a leading scientist and explains how her discovery of CRISPR can help cure diseases and improve crops.
October 02, 2024
Sudanese musicians and dancers perform in Cairo for an audience that is mostly refugees from the war-torn country
October 02, 2024
Using films like “The Matrix,” a sociology course examines how factors beyond our control shape the world we live in − in fact and in an imagined future.
October 02, 2024
A junk dealer found a painting in a basement. Experts say it’s an original Picasso
October 02, 2024
Robert Downey Jr. made his Broadway debut this week in “McNeal,” revealing some unexpected inspirations that helped him prepare for the stage
October 02, 2024
Javier Bardem was no longer comfortable being silent on Gaza
October 02, 2024
Saoirse Ronan is having a big fall with two major films coming to theaters
October 02, 2024
Des Moines parents reunited with late son's artwork after unexpected call
October 02, 2024
Louisville Zoo debuts its newest addition: A Sumatran tiger cub
October 02, 2024
Houston’s Cultural Boom: City Awards $100,000 to Art-Driven Projects Promoting Tourism and Disaster Resilience
October 02, 2024Reese Witherspoon is breaking into thriller writing with the help of Harlan Coben
October 02, 2024
Jonathan Majors’ film ‘Magazine Dreams’ gets a premiere date after Disney previously pulled film
October 02, 2024
School leaders fined for taking sons to see "Hamilton" with tickets meant for students
October 02, 2024The Ulmer Münster in southern Germany is the world’s tallest church
October 03, 2024
Deaf audiences are being prioritized at U.K. cinemas
October 03, 2024
‘Rust’ set to premiere at Polish film festival next month
October 03, 2024
For years, the Grammy Awards have been criticized over a lack of diversity, a a reflection of the Recording Academy’s electorate
October 03, 2024
Paris Fashion Week: Highlights from the Spring-Summer 2025 shows
October 03, 2024
Ninety years ago, Greenberg had a momentous decision to make: Should he play baseball on Yom Kippur?
October 03, 2024
An Italian family hopes to prove definitively that a painting discarded from a villa on Capri more than 60 years ago is a Picasso
October 03, 2024
A 31-year-long treasure hunt that drew in thousands of enthusiasts across France appears to have come to an end after official social media accounts linked to the search said the token needed to claim the grand prize had been found
October 03, 2024The river that runs through Asheville, North Carolina, is littered with artwork drifting downstream after deadly floods from Hurricane
October 03, 2024
Sarah Michelle Gellar is ‘here’ to fill in for the late Shannen Doherty in potential ‘Mallrats’ sequel
October 03, 2024
Shirley Chisholm Day honors pioneering New York congresswoman on what would be her 100th birthday
November 30, 2024The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat named Singapore’s Pan Pacific Orchard the world’s best new tall building. The 347-room hotel stacks four open-air terraces with different themes, highlighting a unique approach to high-density urbanism.
October 06, 2024
Lady Gaga says she had to ‘do away’ with her usual onstage ‘bravado’ for her take on Harley Quinn in ‘Joker’ sequel
October 04, 2024
RZA’s hoarding habit led to his newest adventure in music: a ballet and surprisingly traditional classical music album he calls “A Ballet Through Mud.”
October 04, 2024
Jurors who will be picked for the trial of a man who severely injured author Salman Rushdie in a knife attack likely won’t hear about the fatwa that authorities have said motivated him to act
October 04, 2024
Indiana University to honor John Mellencamp with statue
October 04, 2024A well-known Asheville musical tradition has returned in a sign of hopefulness a week after Helene battered the mountain city
October 05, 2024
Renowned Greek musician and composer Mimis Plessas has died just a week before his 100th birthday
October 05, 2024
‘Hotel in nature’: Inside the world’s best new skyscraper
October 06, 2024
Donald Glover has canceled the remaining dates of Childish Gambino’s North American and European tour
October 06, 2024
Andrew Garfield recalls awkward moment when he and Florence Pugh didn’t hear ‘cut’ while filming love scene
October 06, 2024
Experimental author Robert Coover has died at age 92
October 06, 2024Although “The Room Next Door” is Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature, Tilda Swinton says it’s in the director’s inimitable style
October 07, 2024
Ryan Miller, lead singer of alternative rock band Guster, has a new gig that even he’s a little surprised about: Musical theater songwriter
October 07, 2024
Kathy Bates shocked she forgot this moment in her 1991 Oscars speech
October 07, 2024
As two of the most in-demand actors of their generation, Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield have transformed themselves into all kinds of roles
October 07, 2024
Cissy Houston, a two-time Grammy-winning singer who performed alongside superstar musicians like Elvis Presley and Aretha Franklin and the mother of Whitney Houston, has died
October 07, 2024
Ohio group brings food, shelter, clothes and even musical instruments to Helene victims
November 30, 2024
Lore Segal, an esteemed Austrian American author and translator, has died at 96
October 07, 2024
Before his highly anticipated Benin City homecoming concert, Nigerian singer Rema tells CNN's Larry Madowo why his hometown will always have his heart.
October 08, 2024
A 10-month project to restore the giant bronze-and-wood canopy in the middle of St Peter's Basilica is nearing completion, and the work will be unveiled to
October 08, 2024
Oprah Winfrey has chosen Lisa Marie Presley’s posthumous memoir as her next book club selection
October 08, 2024
Museum’s beer can artwork accidentally thrown in trash by staff member
October 08, 2024The Metropolitan Opera is preparing to stage a Flamenco-infused production of an opera about Spanish author Federico Garcia Lorca
October 08, 2024
Adobe said on Tuesday it will offer a free web-based app starting next year, aimed at helping the creators of images and videos to get credit for their work used in AI systems.
October 08, 2024
Wilmer Valderrama memoir, titled “An American Story: Everyone’s Invited” chronicles his family’s journey as Venezuelan immigrants in the United States
October 08, 2024
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is about to rectify a wrong that some rock fans may celebrate with their lighters up in the air — the band Foreigner will be finally welcomed in
October 08, 2024
Television morning show interviews often don't stray beyond celebrities and food segments
October 08, 2024
Meow Wolf files lawsuit over alleged copyright
October 08, 2024Teen brings joy of music to underprivileged children through community initiative
October 08, 2024
Philly AIDS Thrift at Giovanni's Room providing LGBTQ+ literature a voice to people worldwide
October 08, 2024
In a thrilling rematch, the winner of Fat Bear Week 2024 is …
October 09, 2024
Louisiana’s Cajun and Creole heritage will take center stage when the Festivals Acadiens et Creoles marks a half-century of honoring and celebrating the culture through music, arts, food and community
October 09, 2024
A woman with dwarfism, Judy-Lynn del Rey founded the imprint that put out fantasy hits such as ‘The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever’ and ‘The Sword of the Shannara.’
October 09, 2024
Auction house withdraws shrunken heads and other human remains from sale following outcry
October 09, 2024
The theme of the next Met Gala and its celebrity chairs have been announced: Pharrell Williams, Lewis Hamilton, Colman Domingo, A$AP Rocky and LeBron James will help the museum celebrate Black style in menswear over the centuries
October 09, 2024
Shari Redstone says CBS leaders made ‘bad mistake’ with handling of Ta-Nehisi Coates interview fallout
October 09, 2024
All of Broadway’s marquees will dim to honor the life of Gavin Creel following an outcry by theater fans when only a partial dimming was proposed after the 48-year-old Tony Award-winner’s death last month
October 09, 2024
Flour Bluff's accidental time capsule includes photos, old notes and more between late 70s to early 2000s
October 09, 2024
The Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang for what the Nobel committee called her “intense poetic prose.”
October 10, 2024
Han Kang wins Nobel Prize in literature for ‘intense poetic prose’ confronting human fragility
October 10, 2024
Jason Mott’s first novel since “Hell of a Book” is a kind of meta-sequel to his award-winning meta-narrative about a Black author’s haunting promotional tour
October 10, 2024
South Korean author Han Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature for "her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes
October 10, 2024
South Koreans have reacted with joy and astonishment after learning that homegrown writer Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in literature, an unexpected moment that stoked national pride about the country’s growing cultural influence
October 10, 2024
National World War I Museum and Memorial unveils century-old time capsule
October 10, 2024A chilling, thriller-like account of how a nuclear war might unfold and books by two award-winning novelists are among finalists for Britain’s leading nonfiction book prize
October 10, 2024Han Kang, South Korea's first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, was slow to secure global acclaim, getting her first big international prize nine
October 11, 2024
The complexity of flying a special shape balloon
October 11, 2024Exclusive: Chappell Roan on the surprising Grammy award she really wants to win
October 11, 2024
Neighborhood embraces community through art
October 12, 2024
China’s censorship is among the toughest in the world. So why did it let Kanye West play?
October 12, 2024
How Hurricane Katrina and an off-script remark by Kanye West shifted culture
October 13, 2024
Canadian drink company tastes controversy after Simu Liu raises cultural appropriation questions
October 14, 2024
Like the Japanese atomic survivors who were awarded the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, Godzilla has a message to share.
October 14, 2024
Jamie Foxx returns to the stage and finds ‘pure love’
October 14, 2024
Blood River Drive: Couple builds a free haunted house for their neighborhood
October 14, 2024
A California school has planted a tree that’s out of this world
October 14, 2024
Theatre company unveils interactive art installation to honor Lenape tribe
October 14, 2024
Why pop culture’s love of Joan of Arc endures
October 15, 2024
A Minnesota horticulture teacher has remained the reigning champion of an annual pumpkin-weighing contest in Northern California
October 14, 2024
Ken Follett’s next historical epic will look back to the origins of Stonehenge, one of the world’s most famous and enigmatic destinations
October 15, 2024Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Tori Amos is working on a children’s book she hopes will help young people forge their own paths of inspiration
October 15, 2024
Lowrider enthusiasts say the predominantly Latino cultural expression may be on the verge of a renaissance
October 15, 2024
Male artists ‘peak in their 40s,’ Tracey Emin says
October 15, 2024
One’s got a big appetite, the other’s a bit of an introvert. China’s new panda diplomats touch down in DC
October 15, 2024
The long-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum will partially open its main galleries Wednesday, showcasing 12 halls that exhibit aspects of ancient Egypt
October 15, 2024
Sean Baker's “Anora” is by wide consensus one of the year’s best films and a best picture contender at the Oscars
October 15, 2024
Tim Heidecker is working through his existential dread
October 15, 2024
Made Trade compiled a brief history of women and textiles in the United States, drawing on historical museum documents, interviews, and research.
October 15, 2024
The hidden annex where the young Jewish diarist Anne Frank hid from Nazi occupiers during World War II is heading to New York
October 16, 2024
Nigerian recording artist Victony is driven by his passion for music. Despite not having a musical background he went viral on TikTok with his single “Soweto” in 2022, and since then he’s recorded collaborations with Afrobeats stars like Burna Boy, Mayorkun, and Asake.
October 16, 2024
‘A short and significant relationship’: How a piano in a pickup builds connections
November 30, 2024
Prada and Axiom Space unveil spacesuit designs for NASA’s Artemis III moon mission
October 16, 2024
Jerry Seinfeld says he no longer thinks the ‘extreme left’ has broken comedy
October 16, 2024
Barry Diller has a memoir coming out next spring, covering a life that could fill multiple volumes
October 16, 2024
It’s a pop hit like many others, with an ascending chorus, an addictive hook, a warm rhythm
October 15, 2024
Kristen Bell reveals the salty joke snuck into ‘Frozen’
October 16, 2024
The upcoming film “Rumours,” starring Cate Blanchett, starts off criticizing world leaders in a way most political satires would — and then it turns down the wit and turns up the absurdity
October 16, 2024
Someone edited the ‘Wicked’ movie poster to look more like the musical’s version. Cynthia Erivo called it ‘deeply hurtful’
October 16, 2024
How women are forced to handle, and suffer, the bruised egos of men fuels Anna Kendrick's directorial debut, “Woman of the Hour."
October 16, 2024100-year-old artifacts kept inside Kansas City time capsule are revealed at World War I museum
October 16, 2024
Project turns traffic signal boxes into works of art
October 16, 2024Percival Everett’s novel “James" has won a $50,000 prize that continues Everett’s recent wave of literary honors
October 17, 2024This year’s National Book Awards 75th anniversary ceremony won’t only be a celebration of literature
October 17, 2024
A Japanese toymaker has made a $5,000 Rubik’s Cube that is the size of a few grains of rice. And it actually works.
October 17, 2024Colorado artist keeps colcha embroidery tradition alive, new exhibit on display at University of Denver
October 17, 2024
Singer Liam Payne, who shot to fame as a member of boy band One Direction in the early 2010s, died on Wednesday after falling from the third floor of his hotel
October 17, 2024
An art adviser who once counted actor Leonardo DiCaprio among her wealthy clients has pleaded guilty to wire fraud
October 17, 2024Naomi Shihab Nye is this year’s winner of the Wallace Stevens Award, a $100,000 lifetime achievement honor named for the great 20th century poet
October 18, 2024In Kyoto, Yozan Miura says he is using today’s technology to achieve the same goal as artists from centuries past: to bring Buddhist teachings to life.
November 30, 2024
Scary movies and haunted houses can actually be a coping mechanism that helps you survive.
October 18, 2024
A Russian state museum is mounting an exhibit of artwork by the daughter of slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, dedicated to her father's memory.
October 18, 2024
Dog spotted hanging out on top of ancient pyramid in Egypt
October 18, 2024
Hit musical "The Lion King" is celebrating its 25th anniversary in London's West End this weekend with a special gala performance on Sunday, after first opening its
October 18, 2024
A museum dedicated to barbecue is opening soon
October 18, 2024
Art created by a humanoid robot's artificial intelligence is being auctioned by Sotheby’s. CNN's Anna Stewart reports on what this means for AI in the future.
October 22, 2024Hollywood stars Julia Roberts and Zendaya bookended Saturday’s inductions into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, giving a little stardust to an eclectic lineup that included pop icon Cher, heavy metal’s Ozzy Osbourne, hip-hop soul queen Mary J
October 19, 2024
Family of missing ‘Hamilton’ dancer expands their search area
October 19, 2024
‘What has happened online actually dwarfs what Magnus has done’: Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura on chess’ streaming revolution
October 20, 2024
Horror movies topped the domestic box office charts and the Oscar contender “Anora” got off to a sparkling start this weekend
October 20, 2024
Idris Elba is building an entertainment industry in Africa
October 20, 2024
Yehuda Bauer, one of Israel’s foremost Holocaust scholars who shaped the way people around the world study and learn about the Holocaust, has died in Jerusalem
October 20, 2024
Polish musician and teacher Janusz Olejniczak, who played the piano parts in the 2002 Oscar-winning movie “The Pianist,” has died aged 72
October 21, 2024
Stars shine at Academy Museum gala
October 21, 2024
President Joe Biden has honored acclaimed filmmakers, writers and others who have made their mark on American culture, awarding the prestigious National Medals of Arts and National Humanities Medals to 39 recipients
October 21, 2024
Two new books take a deeply troubling look at the wrongly convicted in our prisons, many languishing for decades
October 21, 2024The family of the prolific Finnish conductor and composer Leif Segerstam says he will be remembered in a tribute event at the Finnish National Opera following his funeral next month
October 21, 2024
A building-sized sculpture popular with tourists in Manhattan is open again with new safety features meant to prevent people from jumping off its viewpoints
October 21, 2024
Stacker identified 20 music legends from the '70s who still perform today. All acts included either performed in 2024 or have a show scheduled for 2025.
October 21, 2024
Photo portraits of King Charles are available in Australia under a little-known government policy that says every citizen there can request, and receive, a portrait of their monarch
October 21, 2024
A new film adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘Salem’s Lot’ swaps in an owl for the book’s haunting whip-poor-wills, showing how species loss is also tied into cultural loss.
October 22, 2024
In his posthumous memoir “Patriot,” Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny tracks the boredom, isolation, exhaustion, suffering and absurdity of prison life, while commenting on everything from French literature to Billie Eilish
October 22, 2024
Glenn Close is set to receive AARP The Magazine’s Movies for Grownups Awards career achievement honor
October 21, 2024
Hoard of silver coins dating from Norman Conquest is Britain’s most valuable treasure find ever
October 22, 2024
Dead anchovies fill Santa Cruz Harbor
October 22, 2024
'JESUS SAVES' was unknowingly written into homes after cement work was done
October 22, 2024
Musicians from ABBA, Radiohead and The Cure have joined actors and authors in signing a protest letter against the mining of their artistry to build artificial intelligence tools
October 22, 2024
Sacramento police still searching for stolen art sculptures despite suspect's arrest
October 22, 2024South Carolina is preparing to put up the first individual statue of an African American on its Statehouse lawn
October 23, 2024
Before the National Toy Hall of Fame inducts a new class each fall, curators at the upstate New York attraction have to figure out how to showcase the honorees
October 23, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron praised on Friday the more than 1,000 craftspeople who helped rebuild Paris' Notre-Dame Cathedral in what he
November 29, 2024
Polish police investigating after treasure trove of Bronze Age artifacts mysteriously surfaces
October 23, 2024
Customarily, Simchat Torah is one of the most joyous days of the Jewish calendar, highlighted by exuberant dancing around a Torah
October 23, 2024
Curators are unraveling the mysteries of the belated art icon Tamara de Lempicka
October 23, 2024
A new history of the USS Intrepid will be co-written by Montel Williams, a former Navy man otherwise known for his long career as a daytime television host
October 23, 2024
Brazilian street artist Mundano's latest work incorporates ash from forest fires and mud from flooding in Brazil to create a giant mural
October 23, 2024
MusiCares, an organization that helps music professionals who need financial, personal or medical assistance, will honor the Grateful Dead as its 2025 Persons of the Year
October 23, 2024
Mariachi music fills the stands at North Side High School's homecoming game
October 23, 2024The imagination of Tim Burton has produced ghosts and ghouls, Martians, monsters and misfits
October 23, 2024
Singapore's heritage board will assess if founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew's home should be preserved as a national monument, the culture ministry said on
October 24, 2024
Good storytelling relies on sound writing, believability, creativity and lived experience. AI has become skilled at the first two but still falls short on the second two.
October 24, 2024
Paul Jebara examines the uncharted beauty of the world's most underrated national parks for GetYourGuide.
October 24, 2024
Louis McCartney who starred in the play “Stranger Things: The First Shadow” in London will reprise his creepy monster on Broadway
October 24, 2024
Tim Burton is a ‘technophobe’ who would rather look to the sky than the internet
October 24, 2024
France should charge visitors a small fee to see the Notre-Dame cathedral to help the country keep its world-famous churches and cathedrals in shape, the culture
October 24, 2024
African playwright and actor Oliva Ouedraogo's “Queen” depicts the fictional journey of a girl who is raped by her stepfather on the night of his marriage to her mother, and decides to speak out against her family’s wishes
October 24, 2024Renovation of Wisconsin bar leads to discovery of massive 140-year-old circus art
October 24, 2024
Painting by AI robot Ai-Da could fetch more than $120,000 at auction
October 24, 2024The undead, Medieval-themed suburban restaurants, the mall
October 24, 2024
Archaeologists in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have uncovered a richly decorated but uncommonly small house with finely preserved frescoes of mythological scenes, the site said
October 24, 2024
The grand opening of new modern art museum designed by the American architect Thomas Phifer is taking place in the Polish capital, Warsaw
October 25, 2024
This viral banana artwork on sale again — and it could now be worth $1.5 million
October 25, 2024
The New Orleans City Council has rejected plans to turn a historic home connected with the life of civil rights movement leader Oretha Castle Haley into a museum
October 25, 2024
French authorities say they have charged seven individuals in connection with a cyberbullying campaign targeting Thomas Jolly, the artistic director behind the Paris Olympics’ opening and closing ceremonies
October 25, 2024
Kate Bush is ‘very keen’ to make a new album
October 25, 2024
Tiny house with elaborate – and erotic – frescoes unearthed at Pompeii
October 25, 2024
There are so many Hollywood stars either on New York theater stages or on the way that you might want to level up your stargazing game
October 25, 2024
Scientists say skeletal remains found in castle well belong to figure from 800-year-old saga
October 25, 2024
Khatia Buniatishvili has been one of the most well-known classical musicians for more than a decade
October 25, 2024
From friendly aliens to warring cardinals, here’s what to watch this weekend
October 25, 2024
Lo que más miedo puede dar de un espeluznante gato negro es el modo en que la superstición y la tradición conforman las percepciones y prejuicios de la gente sobre los animales basándose únicamente en su color.
October 25, 2024
There is a new temporary statue attracting attention near the U.S. Capitol: a brass-colored desk with poop on top of it.
October 25, 2024
Florida women help families save photo albums damaged by recent hurricanes
October 25, 2024
Grateful Dead founding member Phil Lesh has died at age 84
October 25, 2024
Sometimes, it really does help to have all that money
October 22, 2024
Grammy-winning rapper Lil Durk has been arrested on suspicion of ordering the murder of a rival in 2022 from his position as leader of the Chicago-based rap collective
October 25, 2024
Phil Lesh, a founding member of the Grateful Dead whose nuanced bass playing made him an architect of the band's otherworldly sound, died on Friday at age 84, his
October 25, 2024
Bianna Golodryga speaks to documentary maker Arwa Damon about her new film ‘Seize The Summit’. It follows four young people who are survivors of war, and they take on the challenge of climbing Mount Kilimanjaro.
October 26, 2024
Witches walk among us — but they’re not like the fictional ones you grew up with
October 26, 2024
Art professor paints playful animals to encourage people to vote
October 26, 2024
Actor Timothée Chalamet made a surprise appearance at his own look-alike contest in Lower Manhattan
October 27, 2024
Once illegal, this Japanese alcohol is making a comeback
October 28, 2024
A criminal court in Paris has postponed French actor Gérard Depardieu’s trial on charges of sexually assaulting two women on a film set because of concerns about his health, shifting the start of the proceedings to March
October 28, 2024
‘The chief objection to Michigander is that it inspires idiots to call a Michigan woman a Michigoose and a child a Michigosling,’ the American essayist H.L. Mencken wrote in 1947.
October 28, 2024
Rao’s will have its first-ever float in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
October 28, 2024
Concert for Carolina raises $24.5 million for hurricane victims
October 28, 2024The English-language translators of an Italian collection of short stories and a French book of poetry have won awards from the American Literary Translators Association
October 28, 2024Kwon Young-doo, owner of a private art gallery in Seoul's historic Bukchon Hanok Village, is concerned about an impending curfew policy aimed at
October 29, 2024
Folklorists created a through line from the Celtic pagan festival of Samhain to Halloween. But the Halloween we know today has more to do with the English, a 9th century pope and American consumerism.
October 29, 2024
Lost Chopin music unearthed nearly 200 years after composer’s death
October 29, 2024
'It's really inspiring': SCAD Film Festival inspires students looking to break into the industry
October 29, 2024
Jason Caron has delivered one of the most remarkable performances of the year
October 29, 2024
Students discover and publish unexpected proof for 2,000-year-old mathematical theory
October 29, 2024
Orange penguin found in South Carolina dumpster subject of international art theft, sheriff says
October 29, 2024University of Chicago receives mathematically fascinating Gömböc sculpture
October 29, 2024Ralph Yarl’s aunt crafts bracelets to support families impacted by gun violence
October 29, 2024
In the huddled market stalls, sprawling farms and pulsing parties of Viacha, a scrappy town southeast of Bolivia’s capital, it’s typical for women to sport bowler hats, tiered skirts and fringed shawls
November 30, 2024
San Jose woman continues Halloween decoration tradition in honor of her son
October 29, 2024
A handful of new films don’t just deal with video games, they’re set inside them
October 29, 2024
Francis Ford Coppola will receive the 50th AFI Life Achievement Award, the American Film Institute announced Tuesday
October 29, 2024
Dave Matthews Band announce benefit concert for Helene and Milton victims
October 29, 2024
Political art mysteriously pops up in DC ahead of Election Day
October 29, 2024
Archeologists in Mexico have discovered a huge, lost Mayan city, which they named Valeriana, hidden deep in the southern jungle of Campeche -- a sprawling, urban settlement,
October 29, 2024
Filipino artist connects with his "Lola" through collaborative watercolors
October 30, 2024
Archaeologists in Cambodia have unearthed a dozen centuries-old sandstone statues in a “remarkable discovery” at the Angkor World Heritage Site near the city of Siem Reap
October 30, 2024
Perched on two fingers on the roof of an art gallery in Wellington, New Zealand, the giant sculpture of a hand has loomed over the city for five years
October 30, 2024
For Nigerian artist Nengi Omuku every painting has two sides
October 30, 2024
Art historian and curator Alayo Akinkugbe on reframing Blackness
October 30, 2024
Should a rap album be counted as a scholarly work? We asked a scholar who makes hip-hop and hit the recording studio to earn his Ph.D.
October 30, 2024
Apple on Wednesday unveiled new MacBook Pro models that feature more powerful processors for tasks such as photo and video editing, aiming to bolster its appeal among creative
October 30, 2024
How an 1884 painting at Chicago's Art Institute saved Bill Murray's life
October 30, 2024
Field Museum uses CT scans on mummies to see inside them for first time
October 30, 2024
The author of “Daisy Jones & The Six” is aiming high with her next book
October 30, 2024Prominent hip-hop producer Metro Boomin has been accused of rape in a lawsuit
October 30, 2024
An unknown artist placed a bronze replica of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk – topped with an emoji-like poop, the size of a basketball – along the National Mall near the US Capitol just a week before Election Day. CNN's Gabe Cohen explains.
October 31, 2024
Fifty years after ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre,’ is the classic slasher film dead, or just waiting in the shadows?
October 31, 2024
She was condemned to death in 1685. But England’s last ‘witch’ may have survived
October 31, 2024
A Tudor warship sank nearly 500 years ago. The bones of its crew reveal what life was like
October 31, 2024
The enduring allure of Tim Burton’s macabre world
October 31, 2024
Radiohead’s Thom Yorke walks off stage after being heckled by pro-Palestinian protester
October 31, 2024
Quentin Tarantino's handwritten script for “Pulp Fiction” is the stuff of moviemaking legend
October 31, 2024
Scientists find new piece in puzzle of America’s oldest tombstone
October 31, 2024
More anti-Trump statues are popping up across US. Anonymous artist attached to the project says there could be more
October 31, 2024
It was a single photograph that started Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen on the journey to make “Blitz.”
October 31, 2024
Country Bay Music Festival is returning to Miami for its second year, with organizers hoping the event can earn a permanent spot in the city's music scene alongside events like Ultra and Rolling Loud
November 01, 2024
Collins Dictionary has declared “brat” its 2024 word of the year
November 01, 2024
A museum in Virginia has nearly finished restoring the nation’s oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children
November 01, 2024
How Luther Vandross documentary director Dawn Porter let the late singer speak for himself
November 01, 2024
Collins Dictionary’s word of the year is a confident, messy way of life
November 01, 2024
Thieves have blown open the door of an art gallery in the southern Netherlands and stolen two works from a famous series of screen prints by American pop artist Andy Warhol
November 01, 2024
The ancient UNESCO-listed city that’s considered the cradle of Thai culture
November 01, 2024
Jodi Picoult's “Nineteen Minutes” has topped a list compiled by PEN America of the books most often pulled from school shelves
November 01, 2024
A noted Belarusian film director and dissident who was held in Serbia for a year while Belarus sought his extradition has been released and gone to Germany
November 01, 2024
With ‘Endurance,’ an Oscar-winning duo meet their toughest subject to date
November 01, 2024
Those typing monkeys will never produce Shakespeare’s works, mathematicians say
November 01, 2024
The deadliest flash floods in Spain's modern history have killed at least 214 people and dozens were still unaccounted for, four days
November 02, 2024
North Texas woman makes name for herself as master of Catrina artistry, a Día de los Muertos tradition
November 02, 2024For some television viewers, size apparently does matter
November 03, 2024
Quincy Jones has died at age 91
November 04, 2024
Quincy Jones, musical titan and entertainment icon, dead at 91
November 04, 2024
Quincy Jones, the man known simply as "Q" who worked with musicians ranging from Count Basie to Frank Sinatra and reshaped pop music with his collaborations with Michael
November 04, 2024
Few people in the music world can match the accomplishments of Quincy Jones, who died on Sunday at the age of 91. Here are nine facts about Jones. * Jones' work reached the moon.
November 04, 2024
Britain's Prince William began a four-day trip to South Africa on Monday by meeting young environmentalists and playing rugby with local schoolchildren in Cape Town.
November 04, 2024
Hip-hop and youth culture have long been intertwined, creating an awkward situation for rappers who want to continue practicing their craft into their 50s, 60s and beyond.
November 04, 2024
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault has a practical mission – protecting seeds as a backup for seed banks around the world – but inspires strong cultural, political and artistic reactions.
November 04, 2024
President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Oprah Winfrey and Paul McCartney are among those mourning the death of Quincy Jones
November 04, 2024
Few artists have legacies so mammoth their very name could be considered synonymous with the music industry, but then again, most musicians are not the prodigious producer Quincy Jones
November 04, 2024
To mark 30 years of his career, Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli has released a new compilation album, “Duets,” featuring previously released and new collaborations across some of his best-known work
November 04, 2024
Famous musicians and artists aren’t necessarily more likely to die at 27. But the story that they do shapes how we perceive history and reality.
November 04, 2024
Iowa State choir transforms story written by 11-year-old cancer survivor into song
November 04, 2024Quincy Jones: The Unstoppable Force of Music, Movies, and Awards - A Legacy in Chronological Triumph By Francis Page, Jr.
November 04, 2024Cillian Murphy went back to Ireland for his first film after “Oppenheimer.”
November 04, 2024
The visionary arranger thought of himself as a storyteller, not just a sound engineer.
November 04, 2024
The New York Philharmonic is firing principal oboist Liang Wang and associate principal trumpet Matthew Muckey after their union decided not to contest the decision, which followed renewed allegations of sexual misconduct and abuse of power
November 04, 2024
Mexican philosophers have a word for the peculiar anxiety you may be feeling: ‘zozobra,’ a dizziness that arises from social disintegration.
November 05, 2024
Police say they have arrested a 23-year-old man on suspicion of involvement in a botched art heist at a gallery in the southern Netherlands targeting four valuable Andy Warhol screenprints
November 05, 2024As dusk falls over the City of Light, a new spectacle is illuminating Saint-Sulpice church, a monument whose interiors are even larger than Notre Dame’s
November 05, 2024
Rare letter signed by Founding Fathers expected to fetch $1 million at auction
November 05, 2024
Peter Ames Carlin writes a cultural history of the rock bank in “The Name of This Band is R
November 05, 2024
A pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in “The Wizard of Oz” is on the auction block nearly two decades after a thief stole the iconic shoes, convinced they were adorned with real jewels
November 05, 2024
World’s oldest writing system may have its origins in mysterious, undeciphered symbols
November 05, 2024
Gregory Maguire took us to the land of Oz in 1995 with "Wicked, The Life And Times Of The Wicked Witch Of The West," which inspired the hit Broadway musical. Now he speaks to CNN about the global phenomenon of the film "Wicked."
November 28, 2024
People pay tens of thousands of dollars for furniture hand-made by artisans in Japan’s Kansai region, who use rare local wood and ancient carving tools.
November 29, 2024
CNN's Harry Enten gets a behind-the-scenes look at some of the new balloons, including Minnie Mouse, that will be featured in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and learns what it takes to make the balloons fly.
November 29, 2024
The elaborate wooden masks used in classical Japanese Noh plays were historically made by men. A new generation of female artisans is carving a new path for the craft.
November 29, 2024
Authorities say U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents have seized more than 3,000 fake Gibson electric guitars shipped from Asia at the Los Angeles-Long Beach Seaport
November 29, 2024
Merchandise is nothing new
November 29, 2024
Five years after a catastrophic fire reduced Notre Dame Cathedral to a smoldering shell, journalists entered the Gothic masterpiece for a first glimpse of its fully restored interiors during a visit with French President Emmanuel Macron
November 29, 2024
The stress of Thanksgiving is over
November 29, 2024
N.C. native, N.Y. film student making documentary on Helene, starting in Marshall
November 29, 2024
After more than five years of frenetic reconstruction work, Notre Dame Cathedral has showed its new self to the world Friday
November 29, 2024
A cryptocurrency entrepreneur who had bought a piece of conceptual art consisting of a simple banana, duct-taped to a wall, for $6.2 million last week ate the fruit in Hong Kong on Friday
November 29, 2024
How this photographer wins over total strangers when taking their impromptu portraits
November 29, 2024
Actress Silvia Pinal, legend of Mexican film and television, dies at 93
November 29, 2024
Since 1943, the people of Appalachian Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee have looked forward to Santa’s arrival
November 29, 2024
The bells of Notre Dame are chiming again, but scaffolding that still clings to the cathedral is puzzling some Parisians and raising questions about whether the monument's grand post-blaze reopening is more symbolic than substantive
November 28, 2024
One of the Middle East and North Africa’s largest film festivals is openiong in Morocco, drawing actors and directors from throughout the world to present 70 features from 32 countries
November 29, 2024
Silvia Pinal, an actress from Mexico’s Golden Age of cinema of the 1940s and 50s, has died at 93
November 29, 2024
At Osaka’s "danjiri matsuri" or float festivals, spectators watch hundreds of participants haul wooden vehicles around narrow corners as fast as they can. They come for the thrill - and the intricately hand-carved floats.
November 28, 2024
The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade marched, soared and roared into its second century as a holiday fixture despite a drenching rain and a brief disruption from pro-Palestinian demonstrators
November 28, 2024
The Super Bowl will have some Louisiana flavor: Multi-talented performer Jon Batiste will hit the pregame stage to sing the national anthem, while Trombone Shorty and Lauren Daigle are to perform “America the Beautiful.”
November 28, 2024
Researchers and religious leaders have released findings from an intriguing two-month experiment through art in a Catholic chapel in Switzerland
November 28, 2024
Give yourself the gift of playing holiday movie bingo
November 28, 2024
Buy a building, get a Banksy. ‘Well Hung Lover’ Bristol property goes on sale
November 28, 2024
Missing Hawaii woman Hannah Kobayashi long pursued passion for art – even on the trip that led to her disappearance
November 28, 2024
As one of the Arab World’s largest book fairs opens in Algeria on Wednesday, there is one conspicuous absence
November 06, 2024
Can stories about detectives from days gone by help students learn to think more critically? An English lecturer provides clues through a course that features novels about sleuths from a bygone era.
November 06, 2024
Retired firefighters preserve history by restoring vintage fire trucks
November 06, 2024
‘Poignant’ postcard from excited Titanic passenger up for auction
November 06, 2024
Rare pair of Ming Dynasty jars smash auction estimate, selling for $12.5 million
November 07, 2024
Paris’s Notre Dame cathedral, whose historic bells were silenced following 2019’s devastating fire, will soon echo again with fresh chimes
November 07, 2024
Grammy nominations preview: An album of the year race that’s impossible to predict and more
November 07, 2024
Researchers are learning more about ‘Zosia,’ the 17th century ‘vampire’ buried with a blade over her neck
November 07, 2024
Megan Park is just getting started as a filmmaker
November 07, 2024
Books like ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and ‘1984’ are flying off the shelves after the presidential election
November 07, 2024
Rashida Jones remembers her late father Quincy Jones as a ‘culture shifter’ in heartfelt tribute
November 07, 2024
The 2025 Grammy Award nominations are here
November 08, 2024
India's three-decade ban on importing author Salman Rushdie's controversial 'The Satanic Verses' book has effectively been lifted after a court said the
November 08, 2024
Lacking formal training in medicine or nursing, Walt Whitman nonetheless realized ‘the simple matter of personal presence, and emanating ordinary cheer and magnetism’ could go a long way.
November 08, 2024
Eight bells in the northern belfry of Notre Dame rang out for the first time since the 2019 fire that severely damaged the landmark. The cathedral is set to reopen in early December.
November 08, 2024
The premiere of a 19th century play directed by John Malkovich was performed in an almost empty Sofia National Theatre after angry protesters irritated with the way Bulgarians are
November 08, 2024
Grammy Award nominations 2025 revealed
November 08, 2024
AI robot’s portrait of Alan Turing that ‘challenges what it is to be human’ sets record, selling for $1.08 million
November 08, 2024
Notre-Dame’s bells ring out for the first time since the devastating 2019 fire
November 08, 2024
The decadeslong ban of Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses” in his native India is now in doubt
November 08, 2024
The Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Art, or Dak’Art, has opened in the Senegalese capital
November 08, 2024
The ancient Roman archaeological park of Pompeii in southern Italy said on Friday it would cap daily visitor numbers at 20,000 as a response to its surging popularity.
November 08, 2024
The Beatles earn first Grammy nominations since 1997 and are in the running for record of the year
November 08, 2024
New piano to return to Independence Square after vandalism
November 08, 2024
It looks like the 2025 Grammy Awards may be a different kind of award show
November 08, 2024
WWII plane fragment from Medal of Honor recipient displayed at New Hampshire museum
November 08, 2024
Here’s why music from your younger years leaves a lasting impact
November 09, 2024
The truth behind embracing figures found in ancient Pompeii
November 09, 2024
Rome’s baroque Trevi Fountain opened with a newly installed metal walkway, as workers start the painstaking process of carefully cleaning the 18th-century masterpiece. CNN's Barbie Nadeau reports from the site.
November 11, 2024
100-year-old Jimmy Carter receives 10th Grammy Award nomination for spoken-word album ‘Last Sundays in Plains’
November 09, 2024
Carolina Moment: Hendersonville taxidermist: 'Not many of us left'
November 09, 2024
Tony Todd, veteran actor behind the ‘Candyman’ horror movie franchise and more, dies at 69
November 09, 2024
Mountain Fire destroys Hummingbird Music Conservatory in Camarillo
November 09, 2024Judith Jamison, an internationally acclaimed dancer who later served as artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for two decades, has died
November 10, 2024
Taylor Swift came out top at the 2024 MTV EMAs, walking away with best artist, best U.S. act, best live act and best video for “Fortnight” (featuring Post Malone)
November 10, 2024
Judith Jamison, an acclaimed dancer and choreographer who for two decades was artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, died on Saturday in New York at the age of 81.
November 10, 2024
Music giant Quincy Jones has been laid to rest in a private ceremony in Los Angeles, a week after his death at age 91
November 11, 2024
More than a 1,000 mariachis have gathered in Mexico City’s main plaza, strumming guitars and singing classics like “Cielito Lindo” to end a mariachi congress celebrating the musical form
November 11, 2024
There are few images more indelible in the history of American dance: Judith Jamison, regal and passionate in white leotard and long ruffled skirt, punching the air in “Cry” — Alvin Ailey’s piercing solo about Black womanhood
November 11, 2024
The Vatican launched on Monday new Artificial Intelligence-enabled services for St Peter's Basilica, allowing virtual access to its Renaissance-era architectural treasures for
November 11, 2024
Latin music has taken the world by storm
November 11, 2024
A digital twin of St. Peter’s Basilica has been created using artificial intelligence to explore one of the world’s most important monument’s
November 11, 2024
Celebrated jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson has died at the age of 98
November 11, 2024125-year-old book returned to Worcester Public Library, 51 years after due date
November 11, 2024Ella Jenkins, "First Lady of Children's Music," dies at 100
November 11, 2024Pop superstar Beyoncé and her expansive cultural legacy will be the subject of a new course next year at Yale University
November 12, 2024
Archaeologists identify centuries-old battle site in Iraq using declassified spy satellite images
November 12, 2024
Chinese acrobat who lost his wife in terrifying on-stage fall seriously injured in second performance incident
November 28, 2024Dr. Mae Jemison made history when she became the first woman of color to travel to space. It was her background as a dancer that showed her how the arts and sciences are more connected than we thought.
November 12, 2024
Why Ghanaian singer King Promise and other African artists don’t want to be boxed into Afrobeats
November 12, 2024
Demonstrators wave Nazi flags outside local theater performance of ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ in Michigan
November 12, 2024
A history course created amid the upheaval of the Black Lives Matter movement invites students to have honest conversations about race. Now in its seventh year, it uses music to build bridges.
November 12, 2024
The number of book bans in the US has soared in recent years. A new study shines light on which types of books and authors are the main targets.
November 12, 2024
Italian authorities say they have dismantled a network of European art forgers who made fake Warhols, Banksys and Picassos and then tried to sell them with the help of complicit auction houses
November 12, 2024
England’s first luxury sleeper train is a garden party on wheels
November 12, 2024
Marble bust bought for $6 and used as doorstop could sell for more than $3 million
November 12, 2024Eminem, Boy George, George Clinton, Sheryl Crow, Janet Jackson, the Doobie Brothers, N
November 12, 2024
A group of people carrying Nazi flags demonstrated outside a community theater performance of “The Diary of Anne Frank” in Livingston County, Michigan, in a display of antisemitism.
November 12, 2024
British-German artist Frank Auerbach, who was sent to England to escape Nazism and went on to become one of the most significant figurative painters of his age, has died aged 93.
November 12, 2024Award-winning building to be demolished less than 30 years after being built
November 12, 2024
Percival Everett’s “James” has received yet another literary nomination
November 12, 2024
Frank Auerbach, who fled Nazi Germany for Britain as a child and became one of the major artists of the 20th century, has died at age 93
November 12, 2024
Sotheby's will pay $6.25 million and adopt reforms to settle New York Attorney General Letitia James' lawsuit accusing the famed auction house of fraudulently
November 14, 2024
Nearly two decades ago, My Chemical Romance released their career-defining rock opera, “The Black Parade.”
November 12, 2024
As Israel presses a deadly offensive against armed group Hezbollah in his home country, Lebanese artist Charbel Samuel Aoun wrestles with the role
November 12, 2024
Recycled glass tree aims for world record height with the public's help
November 12, 2024Ethan Slater, best known for his Tony-nominated starring role in Broadway's “SpongeBob SquarePants” brings his talent to the big screen in the musical adaptation of “Wicked," out Nov. 22
November 12, 2024
If life imitates art, a vandal in the English countryside may be haunted by The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
November 25, 2024
British writer Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize for fiction with “Orbital,” a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard the International Space Station
November 12, 2024
Likely most people have seen iconic footage of the Beatles performing on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”
November 27, 2024
“The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison
November 12, 2024
Activists, artists and academics brought together by German cultural project Dekoloniale gathered in Berlin on Friday, 140 years after European leaders divided up the
November 15, 2024
The massive helium balloons that will float through New York City for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade have been filled with helium ahead of the big event
November 27, 2024
Just weeks after his death at the age of 91, renowned music producer and composer Quincy Jones was bestowed with an honorary Oscar by Hollywood's film academy
November 18, 2024
Investigators in Russia are looking into the death of Vladimir Shklyarov, a principal dancer at the world-famous Mariinsky Ballet in St Petersburg, after he fell from an
November 18, 2024
Italian authorities have recovered precious 3rd century B.C. artefacts from an Etruscan necropolis looted by a couple of bungling tomb raiders in Umbria who
November 19, 2024
In his seaside workshop on the Greek island of Lesbos, Dimitris Kouvdis uses ancient techniques to create pottery pieces that have recently been honoured
November 19, 2024
Promise, backed by former News Corp President Peter Chernin and venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, will produce films and series using generative AI tools, the company said on
November 19, 2024
Magic society launches hunt for first female member, expelled for posing as a man
November 13, 2024An Italian teenager who used his computer skills to spread the Catholic faith will become the first saint from the millennial generation when he is canonized
November 20, 2024
Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the late 1940s are being returned by a museum in Norway to Chile's remote territory of Easter Island in the mid-Pacific
November 13, 2024
Cirque du Soleil will kick off its first permanent European show next year in Berlin's central Potsdamer Platz, the Canadian circus company announced on Wednesday, promising a
November 20, 2024
In this birthday party portrait, teenage girls celebrate in secret in Afghanistan
November 13, 2024
New to manhood at age 35: How one guy is learning about masculinity
November 13, 2024
Roy Haynes, legendary jazz drummer, dead at 99
November 13, 2024
Ballet fans and members of Russia's cultural elite on Thursday filed past the open casket of Vladimir Shklyarov, a principal dancer at the world-famous Mariinsky
November 21, 2024
Daniele Rustioni will become just the third principal guest conductor of the Metropolitan Opera in its nearly century-and-a-half history, leading at least two productions each season starting in 2025-26 as a No. 2 to music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin
November 13, 2024
James Patterson’s latest philanthropic project marks a deepening of ties to his undergraduate alma mater
November 13, 2024
In a career spanning more than 50 years, Japanese artist Yoshitaka Amano has gained a following as an animator, illustrator, video game creator and fine artist
November 13, 2024
Karla Sofía Gascón’s performance in “Emilia Pérez” as a Mexican drug lord who undergoes gender affirmation surgery to become a woman has brought her global acclaim and set Gascón on a path that may make her the first openly transgender actor ever nominated for an Oscar
November 13, 2024
Films from China about the COVID pandemic and a gay romance won major prizes on Saturday in Taiwan at the Golden Horse awards, the Chinese-speaking world's version of the Oscars.
November 23, 2024
Tattoo artist uses heartfelt ink to raise money for The Trevor Project
November 13, 2024Native American jeweler uses designs to raise awareness of missing and murdered indigenous women
November 13, 2024Dolly Parton’s musical story starts further back than most might expect — to the British Isles of the 1600s
November 13, 2024
Alexander Shelley will become music director of the Pacific Symphony Orchestra for the 2026-27 season following the 35-year tenure of Carl St. Clair
November 13, 2024
Stacker consulted Billboard, Time Out, and other expert music sources to determine 20 of the most iconic karaoke songs from the 1980s.
November 13, 2024
HMAAC Art Lover’s Dream: Houston's Modern and Contemporary African Art Auction Comes to Life
November 13, 2024Nearly $1 billion in donations were pledged within days of the fire that ravaged Paris' Notre Dame cathedral five years ago
November 13, 2024
Inside the wild world of Osaka’s dangerous, adrenaline-fueled float festivals
November 28, 2024
When composer Mason Bates approached Michael Chabon about turning his novel “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” into an opera, he said the writer told him frankly that “opera was not his thing.”
November 14, 2024
Milwaukee wood artist taps into nostalgia by turning trash into treasure
November 14, 2024
The papers of composer and songwriter Burt Bacharach are being donated to the Library of Congress
November 14, 2024
Commissioner Sid Miller Celebrates Texas Pride as Go Texan Partners Break Record Sales at State Fair
November 14, 2024A year after the release of “Killers of the Flower Moon,” Martin Scorsese is still looking for his next feature
November 14, 2024
Violin Teacher Arrested for Alleged Lewd Acts with a Minor in Northridge
November 15, 2024
The ancient Roman Colosseum will be the venue of gladiator fights for the first time in two millennia under a $1.5 million sponsorship deal with Airbnb
November 14, 2024
Coronations, protests and tightrope artists: Iconic images from Notre Dame’s history ahead of reopening
November 28, 2024
US returns looted antiquities worth $10 million to India
November 15, 2024
Instruments owned by the late Jeff Beck, one of rock's greatest guitarists, are going up for auction
November 15, 2024
Rare 2,000-year-old knife handle found at Hadrian’s Wall offers glimpse into gladiator life
November 15, 2024Payal Kapadia's “All We Imagine as Light" is about as rich a movie experience as you’ll find this year
November 15, 2024
A stolen portrait of Winston Churchill that was swapped with a forgery during the pandemic has returned to its rightful place
November 15, 2024
Serving up holiday joy: Iowa woman turning broken pickleballs into ornaments
November 15, 2024
After hearing Boston student was moved by her book, Elin Hilderbrand reaches out
November 15, 2024
A medieval statue of the Virgin Mary and Child, known as the “Virgin of Paris,” has returned to Notre Dame cathedral, five years after surviving the devastating fire of 2019
November 15, 2024
Religion is well-suited for terrifying and entertaining thrill-seeking moviegoers
November 16, 2024
King Arthur left an ancient trail across Britain. Experts say it offers clues about the truth behind the myth
November 16, 2024
Carolina Moment: Quality Musical Systems crafts speakers for global use
November 16, 2024
PBS Kids’ ‘Carl the Collector’ breaks new ground with first lead character on the autism spectrum
November 16, 2024
A gold pocket watch given to the ship captain who rescued 700 survivors from the Titanic has sold at auction for nearly $2 million
November 17, 2024
Gold watch gifted to Titanic hero who saved 700 lives sells for record £1.5 million
November 17, 2024Many of Hollywood’s biggest stars have gathered at the annual Governors Awards in Los Angeles to honor the late Quincy Jones, James Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G
November 17, 2024
Independent bookstores have become a new battleground in China
November 18, 2024
Russian ballet star Vladimir Shklyarov dies after falling from building
November 18, 2024
Today in History: November 28, the debut of the Grand Ole Opry
November 18, 2024Even though her most famous work, ‘Bastard out of Carolina,’ deals with physical and sexual abuse, this merely constitutes one element of a broader emotional and physical landscape.
November 18, 2024
Charles Dumont, composer of Édith Piaf’s ‘Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien,’ dead at 95
November 18, 2024
Singer-songwriter Paul Kelly is an icon in Australia but a cult figure in the rest of the world
November 18, 2024
The August Wilson adaptation “The Piano Lesson" is an impassioned family drama but it is also a profound ghost story
November 18, 2024
Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other traditions, has died
November 19, 2024
Travel writer Arthur Frommer, who revolutionized leisure travel for ordinary Americans with his guidebook “Europe on 5 Dollars a Day,” has died
November 19, 2024
Poet-novelist Anne Michaels has won the Giller Prize for her novel “Held,” a multi-generational examination of war and trauma
November 19, 2024
How are the wealthy feeling about Trump? The art market this week might hold a clue
November 19, 2024
Statue of English soccer player Harry Kane becomes latest sports sculpture to face criticism
November 19, 2024Disturbing ideas about motherhood are pushed into our collective unconscious, a film scholar writes. Little wonder they’re at the heart of several chilling films.
November 19, 2024
Borges imagined an endless library that contained every possible permutation of letters. The truth is out there, but it’s embedded among hordes of lies and gibberish.
November 19, 2024
It’s not the holiday season until the house is full of festive music, from classics to covers and reimaginations across genres, for all to enjoy
November 19, 2024
Films bring indigenous culture and significance to spotlight
November 19, 2024
A ballet group in suburban Detroit is scrambling after someone stole a trailer filled with props for upcoming performances of the beloved holiday classic “The Nutcracker.”
November 19, 2024
Sneak peek of the new floats for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
November 19, 2024
Navajo woman makes children's books to preserve her people's language
November 19, 2024
Harry Potter fans anticipating the third attraction based on the popular book and movie franchise at Universal Orlando Resort learned that the fictional setting for the ride will be the British Ministry of Magic
November 19, 2024
Yellow brick road honoring "The Wizard of Oz" author now lives in Oklahoma
November 19, 2024
Italian authorities have announced the seizure of an illegal excavation of an Etruscan burial site in the central Umbria region
November 19, 2024
Omaha Symphony members perform 'mini concerts' for ORBT riders to mark 2 million rides
November 19, 2024
Celebrating AAMA’s Estrella Gala 2024: Empowering Lives and Honoring Excellence
November 19, 2024Australian writer Richard Flanagan has won Britain’s leading nonfiction book prize, a decade after being awarded the Booker Prize for fiction
November 19, 2024
René Magritte’s ‘L’empire des lumières’ sells for record $121 million
November 20, 2024
Cambridge Dictionary’s word of the year 2024 is all about thinking positive
November 20, 2024
In a world where algorithms increasingly shape everyday life, many works of art are beginning to reflect how intertwined we’ve become with computational systems.
November 20, 2024
Stained-glass Tiffany window sells for record $12.48 million at auction
November 20, 2024
A piece of conceptual art consisting of a banana duct-taped to a wall has sold for $6.2 million at an auction in New York
November 20, 2024
Tenor Jonas Kaufmann canceled his appearance in the new production of Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino” opening the season at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala on Dec. 7
November 20, 2024
Lady Gaga, Post Malone and Green Day set to headline the 2025 Coachella fest
November 20, 2024
Viral banana artwork has sold again — this time for $6.24 million
November 21, 2024
Percival Everett’s “James” has won the National Book Award for fiction
November 21, 2024
A previously unknown musical work written by composer Frederic Chopin appears to have been found in a library in New York City
November 21, 2024
When Jean-Charles de Castelbajac saw Notre Dame cathedral burn in April 2019, he felt compelled to act
November 21, 2024
Texarkana’s Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club competes in its first-ever poetry slam
November 21, 2024
“Barbenheimer” was a phenomenon impossible to manufacture
November 21, 2024
'The Trial of the Big Bad Wolf': Elementary students hold mock trial
November 21, 2024
Politicians like Cicero saw gladiators as vain and self-indulgent, while the true warriors engaged in wars of words.
November 22, 2024
Rare first edition of Machiavelli’s famous leadership treatise, ‘The Prince,’ goes up for auction
November 22, 2024
Awkwardness is what happens in social interactions when you suddenly find yourself without a script to guide you through.
November 22, 2024
The microbudget movie “Hundreds of Beavers” has turned into lo-fi legend
November 22, 2024
Kids encouraged to send artwork to veterinarian to cheer up pets
November 22, 2024
In his sixth season as chief conductor, Kirill Petrenko is leading the Berlin Philharmonic on its 25th U.S. tour and second in three years
November 22, 2024
Houston’s Holiday Magic: A Grand Tree Lighting Celebration at Wortham Theater Center
November 23, 2024Many Shipibo-Konibo craftswomen migrated from their Indigenous communities in the Amazon to Peru's capital, Lima, in the past few decades
November 23, 2024
The stars of ‘Wicked’ have been changed for good. Former Elphabas and Glindas remember the magic
November 23, 2024
Originally priced at $1.5 million, Elon Musk painting available in Waikiki
November 23, 2024South African writer and poet Breyten Breytenbach, a staunch opponent of the former white-minority government’s apartheid policy of racial segregation, has died in Paris
November 24, 2024
The new stage musical about Louis Armstrong on Broadway opens with the jazz icon in a rehearsal room alongside an anonymous piano player
November 25, 2024
I was stunned by how movingly cinematic ‘Wicked’ is. I shouldn’t be, and here’s why
November 25, 2024
Haircut with a history: The legacy and future of Dreamers Roosevelt Barbershop
November 25, 2024Things are looking a little blue these days for the Blue Man Group
November 25, 2024
A memorial tribute to Broadway star Gavin Creel will be held next Monday in the theater where he starred in “Into the Woods.”
November 26, 2024
Dictionary.com has named its word of the year, and it isn’t ‘brat’
November 26, 2024
‘Ernest Cole: Lost and Found’: The anti-apartheid photographer who turned his lens on Black America
November 26, 2024Ancient Egyptians drank a heady mix of alcohol, bodily fluids and hallucinogens during rituals, scientists say
November 26, 2024
To early Christians, ancient gladiators were potent symbols of martyrdom, embodying virtue and bravery despite being enslaved.
November 26, 2024
George Stubbs dog painting expected to sell for up to $2.5 million at auction
November 26, 2024
Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice finalists announced
November 27, 2024It’s the world’s largest building shaped like a chicken. It’s also a hotel
November 27, 2024
‘Rhythm + Flow’ freestyles back to Netflix for Season 2
November 27, 2024
‘Moana 2’ star explains how the character is a hero princess for our times
November 27, 2024
New York students put together miniature Thanksgiving Day parade
November 27, 2024For the man at the helm of Kansas City's brightest tradition, the tradition part is important
November 27, 2024
Trump has begun another trade war. Here's a timeline of how we got here
Canada's leader laments lost friendship with US in town that sheltered stranded Americans after 9/11
Chinese EV giant BYD's fourth-quarter profit leaps 73%
You're an American in another land? Prepare to talk about the why and how of Trump 2.0
Chalk talk: Star power, top teams and No. 5 seeds headline the women's March Madness Sweet 16
Purdue returns to Sweet 16 with 76-62 win over McNeese in March Madness