ROME (Reuters) – Raphael probably didn’t like his nose, and replaced it with an idealised version in his famous self-portrait. That is the conclusion of Rome University scientists who produced a 3D computer reconstruction of the Renaissance master’s face from ... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will invest nearly $2 billion in the arts and hopes to allow outdoor and socially distanced performances at cultural venues as it tries to help a high-profile sector hit hard by the coronavirus. Spanning theatres in London’s West End... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain hopes to permit outdoor and socially distanced performances at cultural venues, minister Oliver Dowden said on Monday, after announcing a nearly $2 billion investment in the arts. “I want all our cultural institutions to return to no... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Residents of a luxury London block who were trying to stop visitors to the neighboring Tate Modern art gallery from peering into their glass-walled apartments lost their case in the Court of Appeal on Wednesday. The dispute began in 2016 whe... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – A lost portrait of Charles Dickens and 25 of his unpublished letters will go on display for the first time after a major acquisition from a private collector. The Charles Dickens museum in London has bought a huge collection of objects belon... More »
(Reuters Health) – Older people who frequent art galleries and museums, attend the theater and concerts may live longer than those who don’t, a study in England suggests. Even after accounting for a wide range of other health and social factors, researchers fr... More »
(Reuters) – Electronic Arts Inc launched “Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order” on Friday, garnering strong reviews for its flagship action-adventure series that is crucial to its holiday sales, after the videogame publisher shelved “NBA Live” game. The latest title, ... 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 »
Apr 26, 2014- Baltimore, MD, USA- Jon Jones puts his arms in the air after the UFC light heavy weight championship fight against Glover Texeira at Baltimore Arena. Mandatory Credit: Tommy Gilligan-USA TODAY Sports – RTR3MRK2 The United States Anti-Doping Agenc... More »
The Electronic Arts Inc., logo is displayed on a screen during a PlayStation 4 Pro launch event in New York City, U.S., September 7, 2016. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo Electronic Arts Inc’s (EA.O) second-quarter revenue edged past analysts’ estimates an... 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 »
Comedian, actor, director Mel Brooks (C) enters the East Room to receive his 2015 National Medal of Arts from U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House in Washington, U.S., September 22, 2016. REUTERS/Gary Cameron President Barack Obama awarded 24 America... More »
Conor McGregor said on Monday he is back on the UFC 200 card though there has been no confirmation from the Ultimate Fighting Championship on the Irish featherweight’s return. UFC president Dana White said last week McGregor had been pulled from his rematch wi... More »
NEW YORK Harper Lee’s classic novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” is coming to Broadway for the first time in a new stage version written by “West Wing” writer Aaron Sorkin, producers said on Wednesday. The Pulitzer Prize-winning 1960 novel about racism and injustic... More »
LONDON Had you seen Bob Dylan reinventing popular music on the stage of London’s Royal Albert Hall in 1966, you would never have believed that nearly 50 years later he would be treading the same boards and crooning the songs of Frank Sinatra. But there he was ... More »
LONDON Spanish artist Francisco Goya, best known now for depicting the horrors of war, was celebrated in his own time as a great portrait painter for royalty and aristocrats, generals and despots, politicians and friends. An exhibition at London’s National Gal... More »
MILAN A 1896 film of a woman plucking babies from a cabbage patch marks a whimsical start to a Milan exhibition that examines artistic representations of motherhood, but the mood turns more sinister as the show moves into the 20th century. “The Great Mother” r... More »
ROME The museums that house masterpieces such as Michelangelo’s David and Botticelli’s Venus will soon be run by foreign directors for the first time as Italy overhauls what a senior official called its “sclerotic” museum management. Following an international... More »
LONDON The theater critic of the London Times received poor reviews of her own after she broke with protocol by reviewing Benedict Cumberbatch’s hotly anticipated “Hamlet” weeks before its official opening. Cumberbatch, 39, star of the BBC TV series “Sherlock”... More »
CHICAGO (Reuters) – One hundred years after the mass killing of Armenians, a Chicago artist has created a monumental painting to honor the victims and celebrate a culture that nearly vanished. The 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman troops became a defining ... More »
CHICAGO (Reuters) – One hundred years after the mass killing of Armenians, a Chicago artist has created a monumental painting to honor the victims and celebrate a culture that nearly vanished. The 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman troops left up to an esti... More »
ROME (Reuters) – Actor and director Luigi Lo Cascio says he “stripped the flesh” from Shakespeare’s great tragedy Othello for his new version, with a pared-down cast and a white-skinned Moor speaking Sicilian dialect. The production dispenses with sailors, off... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – After years playing the ambitious copywriter Peggy Olson in the acclaimed TV show “Mad Men,” Elisabeth Moss has traded the small screen for the Broadway stage in the Pulitzer Prize and Tony award-winning drama “The Heidi Chronicles.” The f... More »
ST IVES, England (Reuters) – The English seaside town of St Ives has long attracted leading modern artists and a new exhibition there looks at how modernist photographers from across the globe developed new ways of seeing a rapidly changing world. The Modern L... More »
GRASSE, France (Reuters) – Nearly 300 works by Pablo Picasso must be returned to the family of the late artist, a French court ruled on Friday, rejecting testimony from a former employee who said the painter’s last wife gave them to him as a gift over 50 years... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A west Los Angeles diner that is celebrated as a classic example of mid-20th century Space Age-style Googie architecture has been mentioned on a record by singer Tom Waits and depicted with fiery streaks of orange by painter Edward Rusc... More »
DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Syria has retrieved more than 120 antiquities looted from cemeteries in the millennia-old oasis city of Palmyra following years of destruction and war pillaging, its director of museums said on Wednesday. Looters have breached tombs and Ro... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Early daguerreotype photos of Venice that were auctioned off as an odd lot belonged to John Ruskin and provide new insight into the Victorian art critic’s work, the authors of a book about the images said on Thursday. The Venice scenes, take... More »
WATERLOO, Belgium (Reuters) – Battle-worn old enemies sat side by side at Waterloo in a display of historic British-French reconciliation 200 years after their epic showdown — or at least their hats did. Napoleon’s instantly recognizable black felt bicorn has ... More »
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Three months after police quashed the last of Hong Kong’s massive pro-democracy street protests, its artists are keeping the movement alive with displays of edgy, protest artwork on the fringes of Asia’s leading contemporary art fair. A s... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – A butterfly he address, feathered gowns and garments crafted from horns, hair and seashells went on display in London this week in a exhibition celebrating the work of the late British fashion designer Alexander McQueen. McQueen was famous f... More »
LIMA (Reuters) – First a mural in downtown Lima that depicted indigenous Peruvian revolutionary Tupac Katari was painted over. Then one of a boy stacking bricks on top of books suffered the same fate. Lima’s arts community was incensed. And suspicious: The yel... More »
(This version of the story corrects museum that loaned ‘Henry Ford Hospital’ painting in paragraph 11.) By Serena Maria Daniels DETROIT (Reuters) – The Detroit Institute of Arts, renowned for its Diego Rivera murals, is set to open a public exhibition of his w... More »
BAGHDAD/ERBIL,Iraq (Reuters) – Islamic State militants have destroyed ancient remains of the 2,000-year-old city of Hatra in northern Iraq, officials said on Saturday, in their latest attack on Iraqi antiquities which the United Nations condemned as barbarism.... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – “Fish in the Dark,” a new play by comedian Larry David, is the hottest ticket on Broadway, but critics said the lightweight, 60s-style comedy flounders with one liners and a weak plot. The play racked up a record of more than $13.5 million... More »
VIENNA (Reuters) – One of Gustav Klimt’s most famous paintings will not be returned to the heirs of its Jewish former owner in a case that has tested Austria’s laws on restitution of looted art. The law, which is often applied in cases linked to the country’s ... More »
PARIS (Reuters) – The naming of a political insider with no art background to run Paris’s Centre Pompidou modern art museum has triggered charges that France’s credibility in the world of culture will suffer as a result of nepotism. The row is particularly emb... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – With pulsating sounds, stunning videos and elaborate costumes, a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) dedicated to the work of Bjork transports visitors into the creative world of the Icelandic musician, composer and singer. “B... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – International conducting star Simon Rattle said he hoped to make the concert experience more theatrical to attract younger audiences, as the London Symphony Orchestra announced on Tuesday he would become its fulltime music director in 2017. ... More »
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – It’s not every artist who could see a woman’s hat in a red farmyard faucet, but works on view in Istanbul show the 20th century Catalan painter and sculptor Joan Miro in a playful mood in later life. “Women, Birds, Stars” at the Sakip Saba... More »
BOSTON (Reuters) – A 122-year old Venetian-style palazzo tucked into Boston’s marshy Fens section stands as one of the city’s more popular tourist attractions and the site of one of its longest-unsolved crimes. It has been almost 25 years since 13 artworks wor... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – The eminent but anonymous British street artist known as Banksy has posted a mini-documentary on his banksy.co.uk site showing squalid conditions in Gaza six months after the end of the war between the enclave’s Islamist Hamas rulers and Isr... More »
PARIS (Reuters) – The new Philharmonie de Paris concert hall in the French capital this week hosted the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Simon Rattle in a program guaranteed to test its acoustic mettle. On the basis of Wednesday’s concert of the pioneering Ger... More »
ATHENS(Reuters) – Tucked away in a corner of Athens’ historic Plaka district is a small museum showing that there is more to Greek music than “Zorba’s Dance” and “Never on Sunday”. In fact, the Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments, or MELMOKE, contains bar... More »
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Gamblers betting on the multi-state Powerball lottery this week could win one of the biggest jackpots in the game’s history, as the total climbed to $485 million on Tuesday, the Powerball website showed. The third-largest jackpot in t... More »
TOKYO (Reuters) – A push by Japan to correct perceived bias in accounts of the country’s wartime past is creating a row that risks muddling the positive message in a mammoth public relations campaign to win friends abroad. The PR campaign, which has a budget o... More »
BERLIN (Reuters) – Actress Helen Mirren said on Monday her portrayal of a Jewish woman’s struggle to get back paintings confiscated when her ancestors fled Austria to escape Nazi rule throws a spotlight on the slow pace of restitution of looted Jewish property... More »
BERLIN (Reuters) – Actress Helen Mirren said on Monday her portrayal of a Jewish woman’s struggle to get back paintings confiscated when her ancestors fled Austria to escape Nazi rule throws a spotlight on the slow pace of restitution of looted Jewish property... More »
BERLIN (Reuters) – Actress Helen Mirren said on Monday her portrayal of a Jewish woman’s struggle to get back paintings confiscated when her ancestors fled Austria to escape Nazi rule throws a spotlight on the slow pace of restitution of looted Jewish property... More »
BERLIN (Reuters) – Actress Helen Mirren said on Monday her portrayal of a Jewish woman’s struggle to get back paintings confiscated when her ancestors fled Austria to escape Nazi rule throws a spotlight on the slow pace of restitution of looted Jewish property... More »
BERLIN (Reuters) – Actress Helen Mirren said on Monday her portrayal of a Jewish woman’s struggle to get back paintings confiscated when her ancestors fled Austria to escape Nazi rule throws a spotlight on the slow pace of restitution of looted Jewish property... More »
ATHENS/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Greece’s new leftist-led government, isolated in the euro zone and under pressure from the European Central Bank, said on Friday it wanted no more bailout money with strings attached from the European Union and International Monetar... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Auctioneers Christie’s staked out its share of a buoyant art market on Wednesday with a barrage of surrealist works, a day after fierce rival Sotheby’s set a London auction sale record. Sotheby’s brought in $280.2 million from its Impression... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Surprise, eager anticipation and a tinge of skepticism surrounded the news that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Harper Lee would publish a second novel half a century after “To Kill a Mockingbird” became an American classic. Until Tuesday wh... More »
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s biggest art fair opened in New Delhi this week with a focus on homegrown artists and exhibits inspired by contemporary themes such as the worst floods in the Kashmir region in more than a century. A smorgasbord of works by 1,100 a... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Works by the elusive British graffiti artist Banksy sold for double their estimate or more at an auction in London featuring his and work by other contemporary artists, Bonham’s said on Thursday. Banksy’s “Rude Copper” (2002), a screen-print... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Tom Stoppard, the grand old man of British theater, is back with his first new stage play in nine years, tackling typically big ideas: consciousness, science and God. “The Hard Problem” is a 100-minute gallop, with no interval, through neuro... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – One of Britain’s most-loved museum exhibits, the skeleton-cast of Dippy the Diplodocus dinosaur at the Natural History Museum in London, is to be replaced, much to the distress of its many fans. The museum announced on Thursday that Dippy, w... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Buying art at Sotheby’s (BID.N) will soon become more expensive as the top international auction house announced it is increasing its buyer’s premium, the rates it charges a successful bidder. Beginning on Sunday, anyone who purchases a wo... More »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Supermarket chains Albertsons and Safeway (SWY.N) agreed to sell 168 stores in eight states to win U.S. antitrust approval for their $9.2 billion merger, the Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday. Albertsons, which has 630 supermarket... More »
MADRID (Reuters) – Historians searching for the tomb of Spain’s greatest writer, Miguel de Cervantes, said on Monday they had found fragments of a coffin with his initials on it, under a convent where he may have been buried. Four centuries after the writer of... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – What happens in Las Vegas does not always stay there. “Honeymoon in Vegas,” based on the 1992 Nicholas Cage movie, arrived on Broadway on Thursday night with a winning dose of glitz and kitsch. The musical, starring Tony Danza as a dapper,... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – A British man who sold a painting at Sotheby’s for 42,000 pounds ($63,750) only to hear a year later that it could be by the Italian master Caravaggio and be worth 10 million pounds has lost his negligence lawsuit against the auctioneers. In... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Jonas Kaufmann, regarded as the world’s best tenor, says he is ready to reward fans waiting for him to sing Verdi’s highly demanding “Otello” by making his debut in the role at London’s Royal Opera House in 2017. The opera world has been wai... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stephen Somerstein was a 24-year-old college student when he photographed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the 1965 Selma to Montgomery, Alabama march that changed the course of civil rights in the United States. Fifty years later as the dea... More »
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Puppets aren’t just about Muppets, kids and circuses. Indeed, an international puppetry festival in Chicago aims to redefine the art form and promises theatergoers an experience that, unlike so many in our digital age, can’t be swiped, stre... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Filmmakers are bringing major art exhibitions featuring the works of Henri Matisse, Vincent van Gogh and Rembrandt from museums around the globe to U.S. theaters with a series of movies that will take audiences on a guided tour of the show... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – The London auction scene is gearing up for another big season, with the two biggest auction houses targeting buyers around the world for evening sales in February expected to generate several hundred million pounds. Sotheby’s is offering a v... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Anglo-South African financial services firm Old Mutual will discuss with partner Kotak Mahindra upping its stake in their Indian joint insurance venture following a rule change, Old Mutual’s chief executive said on Wednesday. Old Mutual is a... More »
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – A painting by Louisiana artist George Rodrigue that depicts him as a blue dog beside his bride on their wedding day was recovered undamaged hours after it was stolen from a New Orleans gallery, a gallery spokesman said on Wednesday. The... More »
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – A painting by Louisiana artist George Rodrigue with an estimated value of $250,000 that depicts the artist as a blue dog beside his bride on their wedding day was stolen on Tuesday from a gallery in New Orleans, the artist’s son said. T... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – British actress Sienna Miller will replace Emma Stone as singer Sally Bowles for the final six weeks of the Broadway run of the musical “Cabaret,” producers said on Wednesday. The 33-year-old actress will join the cast of the musical – set... More »
MIAMI (Reuters) – When Gil Marmol and his family fled Cuba in 1961 the revolutionary government seized 17 paintings that they left behind, including two watercolors by Mexico’s Diego Rivera. Years later, he discovered that one of the works was smuggled abroad ... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Broadway musical “The Last Ship,” written by Grammy-winning rock star Sting based on his childhood growing up in a shipbuilding town in northeast England, will close later this month, its producers said on Tuesday. Sting, 63, has been ... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Broadway had its best-attended and highest grossing calendar year in 2014 with 13.1 million people seeing shows that brought in $1.36 billion, according to figures released on Monday. The Broadway League, which represents producers and the... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Grammy-winning rock star Sting has boosted ticket sales of his Broadway musical “The Last Ship” and won praise for his performance as a foreman in the show based on his childhood in a shipbuilding town in northeast England. “The Last Ship,... More »
HONG KONG (Reuters) – A former top Hong Kong civil servant was found guilty on Friday of accepting HK$8.5 million ($1.1 million) in bribes from executives of property developer Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd (0016.HK), in the city’s highest profile corruption cas... More »
HONG KONG (Reuters) – A former top Hong Kong civil servant was found guilty on Friday of accepting HK$8.5 million ($1.1 million) in bribes from executives of property developer Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd (0016.HK ), in the city’s most high-profile corruption ... More »
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Eddy Merckx did it on a bicycle, Jacky Ickx drove fast for Formula 1. Now that both are approaching 70, an exhibition is celebrating their feats as two of history’s speediest Belgians. The stunning accomplishments of the “fast friends” are... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – A “shimmering” Paul Cezanne painting of the Mediterranean with a castle in the background is expected to attract the big-money buyers at a February auction that includes works by Modigliani, Giacometti and Picasso, Christie’s said on Wednesd... More »
SEATTLE (Reuters) – A U.S. judge has allowed a Seattle artist’s intellectual property lawsuit to go forward over her claims she was cheated out of possibly millions of dollars from the sale of “Angry Birds” pet toys she designed, her attorney said on Tuesday. ... More »
GENEVA (Reuters) – Researchers into the provenance of a painting dubbed the “Early Mona Lisa” reported on Monday they had identified an English noble who probably bought it in Italy in the late 18th century and a country house where it was found in 1911. The r... More »
(Reuters) – Former New Orleans Saints All-Pro safety Darren Sharper was indicted Friday on rape charges, the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office said. Sharper, a five-time Pro Bowler, was indicted on two counts of aggravated rape and one count of simple ... More »
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – An online buyer from New York overcame spirited bidding to grab a painting by modern Indian artist Tyeb Mehta for $2.8 million at a Christie’s auction in Mumbai, highlighting global interest in the finest works of Indian art. Mehta’s unti... More »
LISBON (Reuters) – Portuguese artist Alexandre Farto, known by the tag name VHILS from his graffiti days, literally shakes the foundations when he explodes powder charges inserted into stucco facades, or drills and carves into bricks and concrete with power to... More »
Los Angeles (Reuters) – All was calm on Thursday at the Los Angeles premiere of Sony Pictures’ parody film “The Interview”, which had been in the spotlight for sparking tension with North Korea and potentially prompting a major cyber hack on the company. Stars... More »
NEW YORK/SEOUL (Reuters) – Sony Corp. Chief Executive Kazuo Hirai ordered the film “The Interview” to be toned down after Pyongyang denounced it for depicting the assassination of North Korea’s leader, according to emails apparently stolen from Sony’s Hollywoo... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – A hush comes over the audience when one of the actors slowly revolves full circle while aiming a pistol at spectators in a revival of Stephen Sondheim’s 1990 musical “Assassins” at an intimate London theater-in-the-round. The gunman is out t... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – A hush comes over the audience when one of the actors slowly revolves full circle while aiming a pistol at spectators in a revival of Stephen Sondheim’s 1990 musical “Assassins” at an intimate London theater-in-the-round. The gunman is out t... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – A hush comes over the audience when one of the actors slowly revolves full circle while aiming a pistol at spectators in a revival of Stephen Sondheim’s 1990 musical “Assassins” at an intimate London theater-in-the-round. The gunman is out t... More »
(Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc added a new feature to its website on Tuesday that allows customers to bid for lower prices on more than 150,000 items, including fine art and rare coins, sold by third-party vendors. The new feature represents a renewed attempt by A... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Scenes from Jerusalem and 1920s Paris are among the rare works showcasing Lithuania’s Jewish artists from the last century that are going on show as a collection abroad for the first time. Lithuania, whose borders before World War 1 included... More »
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) – From the untold millions in sales of contemporary art to luxury brand-sponsored parties and an invasion of street artists, Miami Art Week ended its 13th and largest annual fair on Sunday, cementing its reputation as one of south F... More »
MILAN (Reuters) – Daniel Barenboim celebrated his final season premiere as musical director of La Scala on Sunday with a performance of “Fidelio”, Ludwig van Beethoven’s only opera, winning a 13-minute ovation on the opening night of a new modern-dress product... More »
MIAMI (Reuters) – The acrid smell of spray paint fills the air in Miami’s once-blighted Wynwood neighborhood where graffiti artists from all over the world have descended, covering walls – sometimes invited, sometimes not – with eye-popping murals from traditi... More »
LONDON/ATHENS (Reuters) – A British museum spirited one of the world’s most hotly disputed artistic masterpieces to Russia for a loan on Friday, causing an outcry in Greece, which says the priceless 2,500-year-old statue was looted from Athens and must be retu... More »
