(Reuters) – Uber is in talks to sell more than $1 billion in convertible debt, a source familiar with the matter said, soon after the U.S. taxi service said it raised $1.2 billion in its latest funding round. The new funding, which valued the firm at $40 billi... More »
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – General Motors Co’s (GM.N ) Cadillac aims to increase its global annual sales to over 500,000 cars by 2020, a senior executive said on Friday. Cadillac President Johan de Nysschen made the comments at an event in Shanghai. (Reporting by Ad... More »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – North Korea is a principal suspect in the cyber attack on Sony Pictures, a U.S. national security source told Reuters on Thursday, while a North Korean diplomat denied Pyongyang was behind the crippling hack. The U.S. government’s invest... More »
(Reuters) – A U.S. healthcare worker who may have been exposed to Ebola in West Africa arrived at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta early on Thursday for testing and observation, the hospital said. The patient, who has not been identified, was flown from We... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Steven Murphy, the chief executive of Christie’s, will step down at the end of this year, the London-based auction house said on Tuesday, following a record run of sales. Having joined Christie’s in 2010, Murphy is credited with developing o... More »
SYDNEY (Reuters) – A top Australian law enforcement agency is investigating bitcoin’s role in organized crime, a senior official said, just as politicians and financial regulators embrace the digital currency as a legitimate part of modern business. The invest... More »
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Uber Inc has signed a deal with billionaire Carlos Slim’s America Movil to bring its app, which allows users to summon a car on their smartphones, to new customers in Latin America in a move it says could be a model for other regions. S... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Academy Award winner Christopher Walken, a veteran of both stage and screen, is taking a first crack at a live television musical as Captain Hook in “Peter Pan Live!,” a gig he likens to a sporting event. In the production that airs on Dec... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – It is an arresting image for anyone who has been in New York anytime since 1960 – a long row of three-storey buildings with a lone skyscraper at the end of the block, looking almost like an alien presence. This is a view of a New York – and ... More »
BOSTON (Reuters) – The Federal Bureau of Investigation warned U.S. businesses that hackers have used malicious software to launch a destructive cyberattack in the United States, following a devastating breach last week at Sony Pictures Entertainment. Cybersecu... More »
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican actor and screenwriter Roberto Gomez Bolanos, one of Latin America’s most beloved comedians, whose slapstick acts charmed fans from Spain to Argentina for over four decades, died on Friday at the age 85. Broadcaster Televisa, fo... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – A major oil painting by J.M.W. Turner goes on sale in London next week amid renewed interest in one of Britain’s greatest artists, sparked by an acclaimed film biopic. Described by auction house Sotheby’s as one of the greatest masterpieces ... More »
HAVANA (Reuters) – In Bob Nederlander Jr.’s mission to export Broadway to new markets around the world, he found an old one where the American art form lay dormant for a least 50 years – communist Cuba. After testing the Cuban appetite with a 2011 concert of B... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – With an epic sweep worthy of a J.M.W. Turner masterpiece, a new portrayal of one of Britain’s greatest painters is winning the Romantic artist a new generation of admirers. Joseph Mallord William Turner overturned 19th Century conventions by... More »
(Reuters) – Wearable camera maker GoPro Inc (GPRO.O ) is developing its own line of consumer drones, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The multi-rotor helicopters, priced between $500 and $1,000, will go on sale late nex... More »
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The elder statesman of Mexico’s main leftist political party resigned his membership on Tuesday, citing “profound differences” with the party’s leadership over how to root out what he has described as worsening corruption within its ran... More »
CARACAS (Reuters) – His signature adorns buildings all over Venezuela. His eyes grace thousands of red T-shirts and caps. And there is even a special font to perpetuate his calligraphy. Now, the legacy of Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s charismatic socialist leader w... More »
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – A national museum commemorating the American experience of World War Two will open a new exhibit next month aimed at bringing the sounds and sensations of the conflict to new generations. With a particular focus on reaching young people... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Sting will join the cast of his Broadway musical “The Last Ship” next month in a bid to push up flagging ticket sales for the $15 million show, the New York Times reported on its website on Sunday. The rock star will appear in the show, th... More »
BERLIN (Reuters) – Over two years after the discovery of missing masterpieces looted by the Nazis from their Jewish owners, German officials and a Swiss museum are expected to confirm on Monday that the paintings will go to Switzerland. The Bern Art Museum dis... More »
BERLIN (Reuters) – A 1914 watercolour by Adolf Hitler fetched 130,000 euros ($161,000) at auction in the German city of Nuremberg on Saturday, the auctioneers said. The buyer was a private person from the Middle East who attended the sale in person, said Kathr... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – After a 20-year absence triple-Tony winner Glenn Close returned to Broadway in a revival of Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, “A Delicate Balance,” a production that elicited an uneven response from critics who found it both blis... More »
LONDON xx (Reuters) – Irish-American abstract artist Sean Scully counts Irish rocker Bono among his pals and collectors. He wouldn’t be unhappy if some of China’s 1.4 billion people also took a shine to his art being displayed at a retrospective in Shanghai la... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Don’t worry, the white dog with the pink leg is supposed to be there, as are the bees, fake snow and rocks floating on water. It’s all part of the unpredictable and self-described “randomness” of French contemporary artist Pierre Huyghe... More »
NUREMBERG, Germany Nov 18 (Reuters) – A 1914 watercolor by Adolf Hitler to be auctioned on Saturday could fetch up to 50,000 euros ($62,685) given strong global interest, a German auction house chief said on Tuesday. Auctioneer Kathrin Weidler said the paintin... More »
NUREMBERG, Germany Nov 18 (Reuters) – A 1914 watercolour by Adolf Hitler to be auctioned on Saturday could fetch up to 50,000 euros ($62,685) given strong global interest, a German auction house chief said on Tuesday. Auctioneer Kathrin Weidler said the painti... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hugh Jackman made a stunning return to Broadway with a mesmerizing performance in award-winning playwright Jez Butterworth’s new drama ‘The River.’ Set in a remote cabin, the three-person play that opened at the Circle in the Square Theate... More »
SANSEPOLCRO Italy (Reuters) – An Italian Renaissance masterpiece that English novelist Aldous Huxley once described as “the greatest picture in the world” was saved from destruction in World War Two by a British artillery officer who defied orders to shell the... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Christie’s held the biggest art auction in history on Wednesday, selling $853 million worth of contemporary and post-war art, led by a pair of Andy Warhol works featuring multiple images of Elvis Presley and Marlon Brando. The impressive h... More »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Smithsonian Institution, the world’s biggest museum complex, unveiled a $2 billion plan on Thursday to revamp the south side of the National Mall, a favorite draw for Washington’s millions of tourists. The proposed master plan for th... More »
PARIS (Reuters) – Some 400 works by Man Ray including photographs, films, sculptures and even chess sets will go under the hammer in Paris this month, the last chance for collectors to buy directly from the 20th century surrealist’s estate. The auction by Soth... More »
TORONTO (Reuters) – Debut novelist and music blogger Sean Michaels won Canada’s Scotiabank Giller prize, the country’s richest fiction award, for his novel “Us Conductors.” The award was announced late on Monday. Michaels topped five shortlisted-authors, inclu... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The blockbuster post-apocalyptic action franchise “The Hunger Games” is hitting the stage and will open London in the summer of 2016 in a new purpose-built theater next to Wembley Stadium, Lionsgate said on Friday. The studio behind “The H... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – From a jade green wool dress suit worn by former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher to the suffragettes’ lace blouses, clothes have been a defining feature of women’s empowerment, according to a new exhibition in London. “Women Fashion... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – In a town famously built on self-promotion, Hollywood mogul Jerry Perenchio preferred to stay out of the spotlight, which he says “fades your suit.” On Thursday, the 83-year-old stepped into the glare of the burgeoning Los Angeles art s... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – French Impressionist painter Edouard Manet’s “Le Printemps,” which set a world record price for the artist when it sold at auction for $65.1 million at Christie’s on Wednesday evening, will be going to the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angel... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A celebrated 1881 portrait by French Impressionist Edouard Manet on Wednesday smashed the record for the artist when it sold for $65.1 million at Christie’s, going far towards the auction house’s solid total takings of $165.6 million. “Le ... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Sculptures by Alberto Giacometti and Amedeo Modigliani soared to $101 million and $70.7 million on Tuesday to lead Sotheby’s biggest auction in its history, with Modigliani’s “Tete” setting a new auction record for the artist. The sale of ... More »
BERLIN (Reuters) – The head of the World Jewish Congress warned a Swiss art museum that it risks an “avalanche” of lawsuits if it accepts the bequest of a collection of artwork amassed by a man who dealt in art for the Nazis. The Bern Art Museum discovered in ... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Thirty years after its initial Broadway run, Scottish actor Ewan McGregor is heading an all-star cast in the latest revival of Tom Stoppard’s Tony winning play, “The Real Thing,” about love, truth, marriage and infidelity. The Roundabout T... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The gavel will not come down on the first lot of New York’s major fall auctions until Tuesday, but records have already fallen and more are virtually certain once the bidding actually begins. With a global pool of collectors competing for ... More »
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Vatican on Wednesday unveiled new high-tech, energy-saving lighting and air purification systems to protect Michelangelo’s delicate Sistine Chapel frescoes from damage caused by ever-growing crowds of tourists. Dust brought in from... More »
MIAMI (Reuters) – Samuel Willenberg, the last known living survivor of the notorious Nazi extermination camp Treblinka is nearing the end of a life’s mission to tell of the horrors that he saw there. Now 92, his remarkable story, featured in a documentary film... More »
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela is flaunting its newly-recovered Henri Matisse painting next to a sloppy copy that was put in its place when the original was stolen more than a decade ago, rekindling an art-world mystery. The “Odalisque in Red Pants,” worth roug... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – “The Last Ship,” a musical by Grammy-winning rock star Sting based on his childhood in a shipbuilding town in northeastern England, landed on Broadway with a star-studded opening. Actors Robert De Niro, Liam Neeson, Bill Pullman and Alan C... More »
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgian composer Nicholas Lens and Australian rocker Nick Cave have joined forces to create an opera marking the centenary of World War One, depicting the horrors of the conflict through the eyes of soldiers, deserters, a nurse and an orph... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – British actress Keira Knightley will make her Broadway debut next year in a new adaptation of “Therese Raquin,” based on the novel by Emile Zola. Knightley, who was nominated for a best actress Oscar in 2006 for her performance in “Pride &... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – The man who runs London’s Tate Modern – an art gallery in a former power station that looms over the River Thames – was named on Thursday the most powerful figure in the world of contemporary art. Nicholas Serota has been in the top 10 of th... More »
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – U.S. officials returned two stolen, colonial-era paintings to the government of Peru on Wednesday in a repatriation ceremony at the San Antonio Museum of Art. The paintings from the late 18th century were stolen from the altarpiece of a... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Italian conductor Riccardo Chailly knows that Milan’s legendary La Scala opera house, where he takes over as principal conductor in January, is a political and cultural pressure cooker. So he’s going to give the public what it wants: Italian... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Rudy Giuliani, a former New York City mayor, led a rally outside the Metropolitan Opera on Monday to protest the company’s production of “The Death of Klinghoffer,” which some have called anti-Semitic and sympathetic to terrorism. The 1991... More »
PARIS (Reuters) – Vandals attacked a giant green inflatable sculpture in one of the most famous squares in Paris in the early hours of Saturday after its resemblance to a sex toy sparked an outcry. The 24-meter-high canvas artwork by U.S. artist Paul McCarthy ... More »
PARIS (Reuters) – Billowing sails of glass join the Eiffel Tower and the Sacre Coeur as permanent fixtures of the Paris skyline this month, when the new Fondation Louis Vuitton contemporary art museum designed by Frank Gehry opens to the public. Thirteen years... More »
NEWBURY Mass. (Reuters) – Andre Dubus III put his faded hometown of Haverhill, Massachusetts, on the map of modern literature with his gritty memoir, “Townie.” But Dubus’ native New England did not find a setting in his fiction until he published a collection ... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – How do you make an exhibition about a man who never existed? The Museum of London show on Sherlock Holmes, which opens on Oct. 17 after two years of preparation, acknowledges the conundrum with its title, “The Man Who Never Lived and Will Ne... More »
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – China, the world’s second-biggest book market after the United States, has long been a consumer of works from other countries, now it is making a push to export its own literature abroad, helped by the e-book revolution. Industry players ... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – From an installation of a Venezuelan-themed Internet cafe to brothers from Japan serving soup made with radishes from the Fukushima nuclear disaster zone, the London Frieze contemporary art fair that opened on Wednesday is nothing if not var... More »
BERLIN (Reuters) – Art professor Sheryl Oring sits at a desk outside the Berlin Wall Memorial, clacking away at a typewriter like a secretary, with thick-rimmed glasses perched on the end of her nose. A man stands before her giving a testimony that will form p... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A Cold War guardhouse rescued from demolition has gone on display as an art installation in the heart of Los Angeles, as way to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The East German surveillance booth, one of thousan... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – An auction of mostly German and Austrian contemporary art to raise emergency cash to bail out the Essl Museum in Austria generated its own drama at Christie’s on Monday when the most expensive work failed to make its minimum price. There was... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A rogue crocodile, a green baby, a puking Peter Pan and a punching kangaroo are troublesome yet comedic obstacles that befall the Cooper family on a “Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day” in Disney’s new live-action family comedy. ... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – A sculpture of a goddess riding a chariot and a limestone bust of a woman’s head upon which the sculptor Modigliani used to light candles are the centerpieces of an eye-popping 500 million pounds ($800 million) of art put on show at Sotheby’... More »
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Finnish writer Sofi Oksanen arrives for an interview in a Frankfurt hotel in trademark vivid make-up and theatrical outfit — a black and violet suit topped with her customary black, blue and purple dreadlocks. Her gothic appearance chimes... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – It took “big guys”, cranes and a street closure to move four steel installations weighing more than 200 tons by American minimalist sculptor Richard Serra into a London gallery. But once assembled the pieces were quite simple – one of the ha... More »
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – French writer Patrick Modiano has won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature for works that made him “a Marcel Proust of our time” with tales often set during the Nazi occupation of Paris during World War Two, the Swedish Academy said on Thu... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Blue figures swim around walls, dancers prance in a circle and flowers sprout on a huge canvas in an exhibition of the cut-out works of French artist Henri Matisse that opens next week. The show, “Henri Matisse: the Cut-Outs,” which runs f... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Tony-winning actress Marian Seldes, regarded as one of the great ladies of the American stage and famed for never missing a single performance during an entire four-year Broadway run of “Deathtrap,” died her Manhattan home on Monday at age... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A major collection of modern and contemporary art assembled by two of the 20th century’s most prominent collectors is expected to fetch more than $85 million when it hits the auction block next month, Sotheby’s said on Monday. The sale wil... More »
VIENNA (Reuters) – Not many opera seasons start off as dramatically as this year’s did at the Vienna State Opera with two star conductors storming off, but the opera’s director Dominique Meyer wants to put that behind him. The departures of Franz Welser-Moest,... More »
ROME (Reuters) – Rome’s opera house has sacked nearly 200 members of its permanent orchestra and chorus as Italy’s worst economic crisis for decades chokes state spending on the arts. Just two weeks ago, the opera’s internationally respected honorary director,... More »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A composite landscape portrait of American men, so big it is best seen from a low-flying airplane, went on display on Washington’s National Mall on Wednesday. The Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery opened its “face-scape... More »
PARIS (Reuters) – Pablo Picasso once boasted: “Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.” That wager has been frustrated in Paris for five years, however, as repeated delays, infighting and controversy have marked the renovation of one of the world’s largest collecti... More »
MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine authorities recovered on Tuesday more than a dozen paintings, including a work by Pablo Picasso, from an office and residences of lawmaker Imelda Marcos, a day after an anti-corruption court ordered their seizure. The court ordere... More »
TOKYO (Reuters) – Just a decade ago, a lithograph by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama sold for several hundred dollars at best. But now her pieces, some just the size of a magazine, can fetch as much as $74,000. Japan’s long dormant art market has been turbo-charg... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Images ranging from film of defaced sexually explicit photos in art books in a Tokyo library to a picture of an Irish Republican Army fighter silhouetted against a burning building feature in works of the Turner Prize finalists unveiled on M... More »
WOODSTOCK England (Reuters) – Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei could not be at Blenheim Palace for the opening of an exhibition of his work on Friday, but his message came through loud and clear. Earlier this week a massive show including Ai’s depictions in ... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – As the hipsters of animation, Portland, Oregon-based Laika studios is not afraid to play on the fringe with its latest film “The Boxtrolls,” and its lead stars are not your average cute animated monsters. “We’re never going to make thin... More »
ALCATRAZ (Reuters) – One of China’s most famous dissidents has appropriated the United States’ most famous former prison as a way to highlight the plight of activists held in detention. Starting Sept. 27, the former island penitentiary turned U.S. national par... More »
FLORENCE Italy (Reuters) – If there is any mind an art restorer would die to get into, it would be that of Leonardo da Vinci, the master painter, architect, engineer and inventor whose genius epitomized the brilliance of the Renaissance. That was the unique op... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The stage musical of “The Lion King” has generated the highest total box office of any production in any entertainment medium, with worldwide takings of more than $6.2 billion, a spokesman for Walt Disney Co said on Monday. The musical, wh... More »
GDANSK Poland (Reuters) – A new Elizabethan-style theater opened in Gdansk last week on the site of a building that showed Shakespeare’s plays during his lifetime in the Baltic Sea city. Celebrating its ties with the English playwright, the Gdansk Shakespeare ... More »
CHICAGO (Reuters) – David Bowie has been best-known throughout his five-decade career as a prolific musician and songwriter, with hits like “Changes” and “Space Oddity” in constant radio circulation. But he is also an actor and artist who helped design his own... More »
BERLIN (Reuters) – Adolf Hitler’s utopian plans to rebuild Berlin on a monumental scale were never realized, but the preparations that got under way involved demolitions and the use of slave labor – the victims mainly Jewish, as a new exhibition shows. Masterm... More »
DETROIT (Reuters) – The Detroit Institute of Arts is prepared to sue to prevent the sale of its collection if Detroit’s plan for exiting bankruptcy is not approved, the museum’s chief operating officer told U.S. Bankruptcy Court on Thursday. When Detroit filed... More »
LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) – Private banking hub Luxembourg sought to lure more wealthy investors on Wednesday by opening a high-security center designed to look like a jewel box, where collectors can store and trade valuables without paying customs or sales tax. St... More »
PARIS (Reuters) – Shooting a .22 caliber rifle at a plaster-covered canvas concealing bags of paint launched Niki de Saint Phalle to the height of the avant-garde international art world in 1961. The demolished results, with its splattered paint liberated thro... More »
BERLIN (Reuters) – Moshe Gershuni’s expressive, historically loaded art, which places symbols of the Holocaust in a religious setting and seeks to polarize opinion about current Israeli society, seems unlikely to reward the casual viewer. Titled “No Father No ... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – An exhibition of paper cut-outs by the French artist Henri Matisse drew more than 560,000 visitors to London’s Tate Modern, making it the most popular show ever mounted at the museum, the Tate said on Monday. The cut-outs were works that Mat... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A rare blue flawless 12-carat diamond, one of the world’s rarest gems, was the newest attraction at the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles on Friday, adding a vibrant sparkle to the museum’s gem collection. The “Blue Moon Diamond,”... More »
OXFORD England (Reuters) – Egypt’s “boy king” Tutankhamun has gripped the imagination since his tomb was discovered in 1922, and a new exhibition tells the enthralling tale of how archaeologists unearthed and recorded the contents of his 3,000-year-old resting... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – The Royal Opera House rolled out the red carpet for young people on Thursday for season opener “Anna Nicole,” based on the life of American stripper and Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith whose voluptuous surgically enhanced cleavage attracted ... More »
VIENNA (Reuters) – A portrait by Gustav Klimt could be put up for sale, potentially fetching over $30 million, to resolve a dispute between a Viennese art foundation and the granddaughter of the woman in the painting, a lawyer for the granddaughter said on Thu... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Royal Opera House will open its doors to children as young as two when its new season starts on Thursday, as the 282-year-old institution seeks a new generation of music-lovers. Alongside staples such as Puccini’s “La Boheme”, the ... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two senators asked the federal government to investigate a data breach on the payment-card processing systems of Home Depot Inc (HD.N ) and five U.S. states launched a probe into the matter on Tuesday as fallout from the attack intensified... More »
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Renowned British architect Norman Foster and a son-in-law of Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim have won a design contract for a new $9.15 billion airport for Mexico City, a source familiar with the decision said on Tuesday. The source, who ask... More »
VIENNA (Reuters) – Austrian tycoon Hans Peter Haselsteiner has come to the rescue of home-improvements millionaire Karlheinz Essl by buying a modern art collection that Essl had tried in vain to sell to the state to prop up his BauMax business empire. A spokes... More »
PARIS (Reuters) – Yves Carcelle, the man credited with turning Louis Vuitton into the world’s biggest luxury brand by revenue, died on Sunday, Louis Vuitton parent LVMH said. Carcelle, an energetic, self-made man who headed Louis Vuitton for more than two deca... More »
(Reuters) – A foundation controlled by the son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett has paid $4.5 million for hundreds of artifacts belonging to civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks, a lawyer for Parks’ heirs said on Friday. The artifacts, which include Parks’ Pr... More »
MINSK/KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine released a video of captured Russian soldiers on Tuesday, sharply escalating a dispute over Moscow’s alleged backing for separatist rebels in the east of the former Soviet republic. The footage was released only hours before the ... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – British actor Rupert Grint, best known as wizard Ron Weasley in the “Harry Potter” film franchise, makes his Broadway debut as a young, wunderkind director alongside a stellar ensemble cast in the show business comedy, “It’s Only a Play.” ... More »
