A 1,500-year-old mosaic floor with a Greek inscription has been uncovered during works to install communications cables in Jerusalem's Old City - a rare discovery of an ancient relic and an historic document in one. More »
A prominent Russian theater director who has lamented what he says is the lack of freedom and growing social conservatism in his country was detained on Tuesday and accused of embezzling state funds. More »
A Texas family who discovered their old Norman Rockwell work of baseball umpires was an authentic painting sold the work at auction for $1.6 million, Heritage Auctions said on Monday. More »
In a small studio littered with empty cigarette packets in Egypt's second city, Alexandria, Abdelrahman al-Habrouk sits hunched over a sheet of paper making portraits with tobacco. More »
Art is well known for its power to move people, but a new installation in London can move itself - it comprises a series of autonomous floating spheres, that interact with visitors and the space on their own. More »
Bruce Springsteen is headed to Broadway for an eight-week solo theater run that he says will feature "just me, the guitar, the piano and the words and music." More »
In 1517, Michelangelo climbed Mount Altissimo in Tuscany and found the marble of his dreams. More »
Millions of bubbles floated across Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour on Wednesday, the latest public art exhibition by Japanese artist Shinji Ohmaki. More »
Inspired by Rudyard Kipling's famous fables, "The Concrete Jungle Book" offers a gritty outlook on life where tigers and forests have been replaced by homeless people and refugees struggling to survive in an urban jungle filled with drugs and knife crime. More »
Ladislav Vlna, a metallurgic painter, works on a painting in Prague, Czech Republic July 26, 2017. Vlna uses a world-unique technique, heating up steel to different temperatures to obtain different colors. Picture taken July 26, 2017. Czech artist Ladislav Vln... More »
Local villager Lazar, walks past murals on the wall of his house, depicting him and Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May, in the village of Staro Zhelezare, Bulgaria, July 28, 2017. A group of young Polish artists are bringing a splash of colorful street art t... More »
A general view shows the location of the exhibition entitled ‘Hitler – How Could it Happen?’ about German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler during a media tour in a World War Two bunker in Berlin, Germany, July 27, 2017. More than 70 years after Adolf Hitler committed ... More »
Artist Benjamin Shine hopes the launch of a new installation featuring his signature tulle fabrics in a New York department store window display at Bergdorf Goodman will inspire passersby to pause and self-reflect. More »
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R), her husband Joachim Sauer (L) and Bayreuth’s Lord Mayor Brigitte Merk-Erbe arrive at the red carpet for the opening of the Bayreuth Wagner opera festival outside the Gruener Huegel (Green Hill) opera house in Bayreuth, Germ... More »
A mural on a shop front illustrates electrical appliances in Wabari district of Mogadishu, Somalia, June 8, 2017. A collection of yawing mouths and extracted teeth, booming stereo speakers and colorful hookah pipes adorn shop fronts in Somalia, a colorful cont... More »
A child looks at a display of Jim Henson’s Muppets character Kermit the Frog at the Museum of the Moving Image in the Queens borough of New York City, New York, U.S. July 21, 2017. A new exhibit featuring the work of Muppets creator Jim Henson will go on perma... More »
Workers carry a coffin to be used during the exhumation of Spanish artist Salvador Dali, in order to obtain DNA samples following a paternity claim, at Teatre-Museu Dali (Theater-Museum Dali) in Figueras city, Spain, July 20, 2017. Forensic scientists and lega... More »
Maria Pilar Abel, who claims to be the daughter of surrealist Spanish artist Salvador Dali, attends an interview with Reuters in Madrid, Spain. A woman whose paternity suit has prompted a Spanish court to order the exhumation of surrealist artist Salvador Dali... More »
A negative of an old film is seen at Al-Ahram, a derelict cinema in Tripoli, Lebanon July 5, 2017. Picture taken July 5, 2017. With paint peeling from the ceiling and crumbling plasterwork, renovating an abandoned picture house in the northern Lebanese town of... More »
FILE PHOTO: A sculpture of the Greek God Apollo is seen above the entrance of the Bolshoi Theatre in central Moscow, Russia March 28, 2016. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/Files Photo The Bolshoi Theatre has postponed the world premiere of Nureyev, a ballet about famou... More »
A man uses his mobile phone as he takes a picture of the painting ‘Maschka’ by late German artist Otto Mueller during a news conference, after the arrival of the first artworks from the Dossier Gurlitt, at the Kunstmuseum Bern art museum in Bern, Switzerland J... More »
A cuneiform tablet, an ancient clay artifact that originated in modern-day Iraq is seen in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters July 5, 2017. United States Attorney’s Office Eastern District of New York/Handout via REUTERS Arts and crafts retailer Ho... More »
A group of artists in the southern English coastal town of Brighton are taking their works off the gallery wall and offering them to the public via an unusual channel, through a vending machine. More »
A cuneiform tablet, an ancient clay artifact that originated in modern-day Iraq is seen in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters July 5, 2017. United States Attorney’s Office Eastern District of New York/Handout via REUTERS Arts and crafts retailer Ho... More »
Paint-brushes and chisels are the familiar tools of painters and sculptors through the ages, but one British artist is creating pictures using an unusual instrument for the visual arts: a typewriter. More »
A man enters Studio Gang’s ‘Hive’, the latest Summer Block Party interactive installation, at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 3, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque A soaring exhibit of stacked cardboard tubes shaped into three hive-like ... More »
London’s Victoria and Albert Museum has built a vast, underground exhibition space as part of a 55 million pound ($70 million) refurbishment. More »
A new exhibition will examine the overlapping worlds of two figures bound together by history on different sides of the Atlantic – King George III and President George Washington. More »
Sand carver Sergey Zaplatin from Russia. REUTERS/Yves Herman A beach in Belgium has been transformed into a giant sandy gallery, featuring larger-than-life super heroes, cartoon characters and Cinderella’s castle, for one of the world’s biggest sand-sculpture ... More »
Italy’s top administrative court on Thursday suspended a ruling that ousted five museum directors who had been hired as part of a bid to modernize and boost revenue from the country’s artistic and archaeological treasures. More »
Lisa Schiff, New York based art advisor looks at the artwork ‘Rob Pruitt’s Official Art World/Celebrity Look-Alikes from 2016/2017’ by US artist Rob Pruitt at the Unlimited exhibition during the Art Basel in Basel, Switzerland June 13, 2017. REUTERS/Moritz Hag... More »
FILE PHOTO: The One World Trade Center tower is seen in New York, U.S. on November 8, 2013. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo A Korean-born architect on Wednesday sued a major architecture firm over the design of Manhattan’s One World Trade Center, claiming that t... More »
Tourists pose for pictures as they take selfies inferno of the neon signs in God’s Own Junkyard gallery and cafe in London, Britain, May 13, 2017. REUTERS/Russell Boyce On the flick of a flurry of switches, a studio on a gray industrial estate in East London l... More »
FILE PHOTO: The London Eye, run by Merlin Entertainments, is seen at dawn in central London, Britain October 21, 2013. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo Merlin Entertainments, operator of Madame Tussauds waxworks and other attractions, has seen a fall in demand... More »
A boy plays in front of a wall painting by Hawaiian artist Kamea Hadar during an art happening, called POW! WOW! Israel, which is connected to a week-long art and culture festival held in Hawaii called POW! WOW! Hawaii, in the southern city of Arad, Israel Jun... More »
A man walks past ‘Kenilworth AM1’ at the press preview of Grayson Perry’s ‘The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever!’ show at the Serpentine Gallery in London, Britain, June 7, 2017. REUTERS/Marko Djurica British artist Grayson Perry will launch a new exhibition o... More »
FILE PHOTO — David Rockefeller arrives at the funeral service for New York socialite and philanthropist Brooke Astor at St. Thomas Church in New York, August 17, 2007. REUTERS/Jeff Zelevansky/File Photo Works of art, furniture and decorative objects from the c... More »
A man reads a book at a bookshop in Bab Doukkala in the city of Marrakech, Morocco May 13, 2017. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal Lined up against shopkeepers hawking everything from fresh parsley to colorful socks, Marrakech’s historic booksellers face an uncertain fu... More »
A new digital interactive exhibition in Beijing allows visitors to create their own art and see it immediately reflected in the work being displayed around them. More »
A reconstructed apartment interior is pictured inside the newly opened kitsch museum in Bucharest, Romania May 4, 2017. Picture taken on May 4, 2017. Inquam Photos/Octav Ganea via REUTERS Visitors to Romania who yearn for a taste of communist era kitsch now ha... More »
A reconstructed apartment interior is pictured inside the newly opened kitsch museum in Bucharest, Romania May 4, 2017. Picture taken on May 4, 2017. Inquam Photos/Octav Ganea via REUTERS Visitors to Romania who yearn for a taste of communist era kitsch now ha... More »
Visitors are silhouetted at The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains at the V&A Museum in London, Britain May 9, 2017. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth A new exhibition celebrating the career of Pink Floyd, featuring a raft of memorabilia and tributes to the rock... More »
Data visualiser Hans Hack points to a computer screen showing Aleppo’s destruction projected on a London map, in Berlin, Germany May 3, 2017. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch The bullet-riddled, bombed-out buildings of Aleppo may bear little resemblance to London’s gle... More »
A visitor looks at the painting ‘The Turner’ by Albanian artist Zef Shoshi during the ‘Documenta 14’ art exhibition in the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Greece, May 9, 2017. REUTERS/Costas Baltas Three women stare down from the gallery wall – ... More »
An artwork attributed to street artist Banksy, depicting a workman chipping away at one of the 12 stars on the flag of the European Union, is seen on a wall in the ferry port of Dover, Britain May 7, 2017. REUTERS/Hannah McKay British street artist Banksy has ... More »
A sign is pictured outside Christie’s auction house in Geneva, Switzerland, December 15, 2016. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse As auction powerhouses Christie’s and Sotheby’s gear up for their New York spring sales, hopes are high that a host of major works the likes ... More »
Spanish artist Eugenio Merino poses next to his artwork entitled ‘Picasso died here’, featuring a hyperrealistic figure of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso’s corpse, displayed at the Alliance Francaise (French Alliance) in Malaga, southern Spain May 5, 2017. REUTE... More »
A German foundation appealed on Friday a decision by a U.S. federal judge to allow a lawsuit to proceed against Germany over claims of a Nazi-era theft from Jewish art dealers of a collection of medieval art treasures. More »
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei poses in downtown Hong Kong, China April 19, 2017. REUTERS/Venus Wu Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei said on Wednesday global banking giant HSBC Holdings Plc refused to open a personal bank account for him in Hong Kong for what he as... More »
More than a dozen works by the elusive British graffiti artist Banksy are among a collection of street and contemporary art up for auction in Los Angeles next month. More »
A 1913 painting by Expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner that was seized by the Nazis as “degenerate art” will remain in a Ludwigshafen museum after the German government and others paid 1.2 million euros to the heir of the painting’s original owner. More »
FILE PHOTO: A monument to Karl Marx stands above his remains at the Highgate Cemetary in North London February 24. May 5 marks the 180th anniversary of the birth of Marx in Trier, Germany./CLH/File Photo The German city of Trier has decided to accept a towerin... More »
Workers pose with Gustav Klimt’s ”Bauerngarten (Blumengarten)” ahead of an upcoming sale at Sotheby’s auction house, in London, Britain February 22, 2017. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls/Files A painting of flowers by Gustav Klimt sold in London for 48 million pounds (... More »
Two 1:1 scale photographic books depicting Sistine Chapel are seen during a news conference in the Sistine Chapel, the Vatican February 24, 2017. REUTERS/Philip Pullella The last time the entire Sistine Chapel was photographed for posterity, digital photograph... More »
A painting representing artist Remigio Hernandez and his late wife is seen at his self made ‘Museum of Baby’ at his home in Moron, Cuba, February 16, 2017. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini Lack of money has not kept Remigio Hernandez from making striking art. Witho... More »
By Sally HaydenLONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Standing in front of two ancient Assyrian statues, eight Iraqi archaeologists discuss not only t More »
Goldcorp Inc reported a fourth-quarter profit on Wednesday compared to a steep loss a year ago, as much lower costs at its gold mines in the Americas offset lower production. More »
Boudewijn Kok, former member of Dutch batallion serving with the U.N. peacekeepers, walks through Memorial Centre in Potocari near Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina February 9, 2017. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic Former Dutch peacekeepers and bereaved Bosnian Muslims co... More »
Jane Austen’s fictional character, Fitzwilliam Darcy, is seen in this historically accurate portrait by Nick Hardcastle, released in London, Britain, on February 9, 2017. Courtesy of UKTV/Nick Hardcastle/Handout via REUTERS Mr Darcy, the romantic hero of Jane ... More »
Syrian artist Manaf Halbouni stands next to his art instalation ‘Monument’ made from three passenger busses near to the ‘Frauenkirche’ church in Dresden, Germany February 8, 2017. REUTERS/Matthias Schumann Right-wing activists in the eastern German city of Dre... More »
A man wears a virtual reality device during a visit at the Domus Aurea, built by Roman Emperor Nero in 64 A.D. and later buried by Emperor Trajan in Rome, Italy, January 31, 2017. REUTERS/Max Rossi Emperor Nero, a technology enthusiast, would have loved it: hi... More »
Spanish police arrested three people on Tuesday in connection with the theft of five paintings by the Irish-born artist Francis Bacon that were worth 25 million euros ($26.88 million), the Interior Ministry said. More »
FILE PHOTO: A sign is posted on an electricity pole outside a house near Sandy Hook Elementary School, nearly two weeks after a gunman shot dead 20 students and six adults, in Newtown, Connecticut December 27, 2012. REUTERS/Adrees Latif/File Photo A new docume... More »
Artist David Shrigley poses after the unveiling of his artwork ”Really Good” on the fourth plinth at Trafalgar Square in central London, Britain September 29, 2016. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth A 14-foot high sculpture of a winged bull made of empty date syrup cans ... More »
Egypt will restore hundreds of coffins dating back thousands of years to the time of the pharaohs as part of a joint American-Egyptian project to document and preserve one of the world’s oldest civilizations, a director of the project said on Tuesday. More »
International art dealer Guy Wildenstein arrives for his trial at Paris court, France, January 4, 2016. REUTERS/Charles Platiau/File Photo Wealthy French art dealer Guy Wildenstein and seven others were acquitted of tax fraud charges on Thursday thanks to a le... More »
British novelist Richard Adams, the author of “Watership Down”, which sold millions of copies and captivated a generation of children, has died aged 96, his family said. More »
Posters are seen in the ‘House of Houdini’ museum in Budapest, Hungary, December 19, 2016. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo Even almost 100 years after his death, the name Harry Houdini is synonymous with escapology, but less is known about his first great escape – how... More »
Pole dancers from Argentina and Venezuela displayed a skillful blend of poise and athleticism to be crowned South American champions in Buenos Aires on the weekend. More »
Pierre Le Guennec leaves the courthouse after his appeal trial in the Le Guennec-Picasso case in Aix en Provence, southeastern France, December 16, 2016. REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier Francois Rosnoblet More »
Blind people touch sculptures during a special exhibition for people with visual disabilities in Prague, Czech Republic, December 5, 2016. REUTERS/David W Cerny An exhibition aimed at blind people has opened in Prague, inviting visitors to touch artwork and en... More »
Russian choreographer Boris Eifman’s latest ballet ‘Up and Down’ arrives on the London stage this week, a two-act ballet set to the music of composers George Gershwin and Franz Schubert that chronicles a young psychiatrist’s descent into madness. More »
Director Riccardo Chailly and the cast acknowledges the applause at the end of the Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, opening of the 2015-16 opera season at La Scala opera house in Milan, Italy December 7, 2016. REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo Milan’s La Scala opera hous... More »
Over 200 artworks by Jan Fabre displayed at St. Petersburg’s State Hermitage Museum have drawn mixed reactions because of the Belgian artist’s use of stuffed animals alongside classical paintings. More »
A man hangs a sign as artist Frida Kahlo’s painting ‘Nina Con Collar’ sits on an easel at Sotheby’s auction house in New York U.S., November 14, 2016. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s “Nina con Collar,” an early painting whose whereabouts... More »
Copies of the book ‘Vincent van Gogh: The Lost Arles Sketchbook’ are displayed during a news conference about a lost sketchbook by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, in Paris, France, November 15, 2016. REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen Webber More »
From childhood illustrations to items from movies he has directed, American filmmaker Tim Burton is bringing a touring exhibition of his works to Hong Kong through which he hopes to inspire others in their creative pursuits. More »
A new Hans Christian Andersen Museum in Odense is seen in an undated artist’s rendering released by Odense City Museums in Odense, Denmark. Kengo Kuma & Associates, Cornelius+Voge, MASU planning/Handout via Reuters A new museum dedicated to the life and work o... More »
Alexander Rodchenko’s 1919 avant-garde artwork “Construction No.95” will lead an auction of Russian art in London this month, where it is seen fetching up to $4.3 million. More »
A British artist is suing U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, saying the campaign illegally used his photograph of a bowl of brightly colored Skittles candies to illustrate its position against bringing Syrian refugees to the United States. More »
A gallery worker walks passed Yves Klein’s ‘Blue Monochromes’ on display as part of the launch of the winter season at the Tate gallery in Liverpool, northern England October 20, 2016. REUTERS/Phil Noble Paintings by Yves Klein go on display at Tate Liverpool ... More »
A stone tablet thought to be about 1,500 years old with a, worn-down chiseled inscription of the Ten Commandments is seen in this photo released in Dallas, Texas, U.S., October 21, 2016. Courtesy Heritage Auctions/Handout via REUTERS A stone tablet thought to ... More »
The “Secret Wars” exhibition of guides to sabotage, hollow high-heeled shoes, fake moustaches and code-deciphering machines opened on Wednesday in Paris, offering a glimpse into the often fantasized world of secret agents and intelligence services. More »
Diana Widmaier Picasso, grand-daughter of Pablo Picasso, poses beside a 1938 portrait of her mother entitled ‘Maya in a Sailor Suit’ at the National Portrait Gallery in London, Britain, October 5, 2016. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez – Pablo Picasso’s family, friends ... More »
From high chairs to balloons shaped like cartoon speech bubbles, artworks from around the world go on display at Frieze London this week, a huge fair mixing creations by new artists and more established names. More »
Elvis Presley’s purple sunglasses and a signed Beatles LP are among the musical memorabilia that will go under the hammer at a rock and roll auction in Los Angeles next month. More »
Ukrainian artist Daria Marchenko gives comments to journalists near the artwork ‘Heart of War’ from the series ‘Five Elements of War’, created in cooperation with her colleague Daniel Green and made of bullet and shell cartridges from the frontline of a milita... More »
A New York museum seeks to explore the strange and profound connections humans have with preserved animals through an exhibit titled “Taxidermy: Art, Science & Immortality.” More »
Deborah Levy, one of the shortlisted authors for the 2012 Man Booker Prize, poses with her book ”Swimming Home”, in London October 15, 2012. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor/File Photo Novels on subjects ranging from murder in 19th century Scotland to classical music in... More »
Security guards are seen during a ceremony to mark the return of paintings that were stolen from the Netherlands’ Westfries Museum in 2005 and discovered in Ukraine earlier in 2016, in Kiev, Ukraine, September 16, 2016. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich Kiev authorities h... More »
If, as The Beatles sang, you say you want a revolution, a new major exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London may have one for you. More »
Actor Nate Parker poses at the premiere of his new film ‘Non-Stop’ in Los Angeles, California, U.S. February 24, 2014. REUTERS/Fred Prouser/File Photo Roy and Alastair Sharp More »
The National Gallery of Art in London was sued on Wednesday in New York for the return of the 1908 Henri Matisse painting “Portrait of Greta Moll” by three grandchildren of its subject, who claim it was stolen. More »
Using honey, ketchup and Nutella, Aya Hany uses food ingredients to create unique art pieces.A 20-year-old student at Mansoura University, Hany says More »
South Korean President Park Geun-hye delivers her speech during a ceremony to celebrate Korean Liberation Day from Japanese colonial rule in 1945, at Seong Cultural Center in Seoul, South Korea, August 15, 2016. REUTERS/Ahn Young-joon/Pool South Korea’s Presid... More »
South Korean President Park Geun-hye delivers her speech during a ceremony to celebrate Korean Liberation Day from Japanese colonial rule in 1945, at Seong Cultural Center in Seoul, South Korea, August 15, 2016. REUTERS/Ahn Young-joon/Pool South Korea’s Presid... More »
Artist Christopher Saucedo, whose brother Gregory Saucedo was killed in the 9/11 attacks, stands next to his work titled ‘World Trade Center as a Cloud’ during a preview event for the ‘Rendering the Unthinkable: Artists Respond to 9/11’ exhibition at the Natio... More »
Geoffrey Carey and Valerie Crouzet perform at the dress rehearsal of Eat a Crocodile’s production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, at the Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland, Britain August 11, 2016. Picture taken August 11, 2016. REUTERS/Russell Cheyne Rappi... More »
