BEIJING (Reuters) – Liu Bolin, the Chinese artist known as “the invisible man” for using painted-on camouflage to blend into the backdrops of his photographs, has done it again by making himself and 22 others “disappear” into the red seats of a Beijing theatre... More »
HONG KONG (Reuters) – More than 40 works by pop artist Andy Warhol will be displayed at an exhibition hosted by the auction house Sotheby’s in Hong Kong, with the most expensive piece valued at about $1 million. The collection, “From Warhol, With Love,” focuse... More »
BUCHAREST (Reuters) – The suspected Romanian ringleader in the theft of seven paintings, including a Picasso and a Monet, from a Dutch museum will only disclose their whereabouts if his trial is moved to the Netherlands, his lawyer said on Tuesday. Radu Dogaru... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Six tales from gold-rush New Zealand to Zimbabwe to the English countryside and elsewhere on the planet were shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker prize, organizers said on Tuesday. Two-time Booker nominee and Irish writer Colm Toibin headed a... More »
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Seamus Heaney, one of the world’s best-known poets and winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for literature, died on Friday after a short illness at the age of 74, his family said. The Northern Ireland-born Heaney’s poems evoke an Irish country chi... More »
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Seamus Heaney, one of the world’s best-known poets and winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for literature, died on Friday after a short illness at the age of 74, his family said. The Northern Ireland-born Heaney’s poems evoke an Irish country chi... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – With a camera meant to amuse her in her solitude and some famous friends, Julia Margaret Cameron managed to forge a body of work focused on Victorian portraiture that is still celebrated a century and a half later. “She was one of the grea... More »
BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Romanians on trial accused of stealing paintings worth tens of millions, including works by Picasso and Monet, have denied burning the artworks and are willing to give them back if a deal can be struck, their lawyers said on Tuesday. The ... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Britain’s E.L. James, the writer of the “Fifty Shades of Grey” series of erotic novels, has made it onto the Forbes list of the world’s top-earning authors – landing in first place. James, a former television executive, surpassed regulars ... More »
FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) – Researchers opened a centuries-old Florence tomb on Friday in a search for remains that could confirm the identity of the woman whose enigmatic smile Leonardo da Vinci immortalized in the “Mona Lisa”, one of the world’s most famous ... More »
EDINBURGH (Reuters) – A play about Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier convicted by a military judge last week for passing classified information to anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, has won a newly created drama prize at Britain’s oldest literary awards. Welsh pl... More »
DETROIT (Reuters) – Detroit will begin to assess the value of its assets, including parking meters, real estate, and a portion of the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) collection, in what the city called a “necessary part” of its restructuring efforts. The city ... More »
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Sergei Filin, the artistic director of Russia’s Bolshoi ballet who nearly lost his sight when a masked attacker threw acid in his face six months ago, said on Thursday he hoped to be back at work next month. The attack on January 17 shocked ... More »
(Reuters) – A top officer at the Detroit Institute of Arts predicts near-certain closure for the museum if Detroit sells major pieces from the 60,000 works in the institute’s art collection as a way to address the city’s dire financial situation. In an intervi... More »
BAYREUTH, Germany (Reuters) – Richard Wagner made hand grenades for the 1849 Dresden uprising, so maybe he would have cheered the tumultuous end of his 200th birthday “Ring” cycle in Bayreuth, a production that has raised questions over his heirs running the f... More »
BAYREUTH, Germany (Reuters) – Richard Wagner made hand grenades for the 1849 Dresden uprising, so maybe he would have cheered the tumultuous end of his 200th birthday “Ring” cycle in Bayreuth, a production that has raised questions over his heirs running the f... More »
BAYREUTH, Germany (Reuters) – Richard Wagner made hand grenades for the 1849 Dresden uprising, so maybe he would have cheered the tumultuous end of his 200th birthday “Ring” cycle in Bayreuth, a production that has raised questions over his heirs running the f... More »
BAYREUTH, Germany (Reuters) – Richard Wagner made hand grenades for the 1849 Dresden uprising, so maybe he would have cheered the tumultuous end of his 200th birthday “Ring” cycle in Bayreuth, a production that has raised questions over his heirs running the f... More »
BAYREUTH, Germany (Reuters) – Richard Wagner made hand grenades for the 1849 Dresden uprising, so maybe he would have cheered the tumultuous end of his 200th birthday “Ring” cycle in Bayreuth, a production that has raised questions over his heirs running the f... More »
BAYREUTH, Germany (Reuters) – Richard Wagner made hand grenades for the 1849 Dresden uprising, so maybe he would have cheered the tumultuous end of his 200th birthday “Ring” cycle in Bayreuth, a production that has raised questions over his heirs running the f... More »
BAYREUTH, Germany (Reuters) – Richard Wagner made hand grenades for the 1849 Dresden uprising, so maybe he would have cheered the tumultuous end of his 200th birthday “Ring” cycle in Bayreuth, a production that has raised questions over his heirs running the f... More »
BAYREUTH, Germany (Reuters) – Richard Wagner made hand grenades for the 1849 Dresden uprising, so maybe he would have cheered the tumultuous end of his 200th birthday “Ring” cycle in Bayreuth, a production that has raised questions over his heirs running the f... More »
BAYREUTH, Germany (Reuters) – It was bound to happen in a staging of Richard Wagner’s “Ring” cycle someday, but few would have expected that in Wagner’s own opera house in his bicentenary year his hero Siegfried would kill the fierce dragon Fafner with a machi... More »
BAYREUTH, Germany (Reuters) – An oil-themed staging of Richard Wagner’s famous “Ring” cycle for his bicentenary year in the opera house he built in Bayreuth showed signs on Saturday of defying predictions it would be a disaster that might even bring down the h... More »
BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Romanian experts believe that three out of seven paintings stolen last year from a Dutch museum, a haul that included works by Picasso and Monet, have been destroyed by fire, the team’s head told Reuters on Monday. Their findings appeared... More »
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Russian government dismissed the head of the revered but scandal-plagued Bolshoi Theatre on Tuesday, six months after a hit man hired by one of its dancers threw acid in the face of its ballet director. Anatoly Iksanov was replaced by Vl... More »
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Russian government replaced the head of the Bolshoi Theatre on Tuesday following a series of scandals including an acid attack that left the artistic director of its ballet company almost totally blind. Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – The surviving members of the British comedy troupe Monty Python lost a High Court battle on Friday over tens of thousands of pounds in royalties from their hit Broadway musical “Spamalot”. Mark Forstater, who helped produce the 1975 film “Mo... More »
TAIPEI (Reuters) – A dark figure stands alone in the centre of a bleak, shadowy landscape in one painting, while an ethereal tree-like form claims attention in another. The haunting black-and-white paintings are the work of Gao Xingjian, the first Chinese-born... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Nearly 50 years after writing the conceptual art book “Grapefruit,” writer, artist and peace activist Yoko Ono has released a sequel that she hopes will inspire people and get them thinking and reading. “Acorn,” a book of 100 “instructiona... More »
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) – Chancellor Angela Merkel told President Vladimir Putin on Friday that German art seized by the Soviets in the wake of World War Two should be repatriated to Germany, a claim the Russian leader swiftly rejected. The tense excha... More »
(Reuters) – Olympic bronze medalist Justin Gatlin is not willing to call his surprising 100 meters victory over world record holder Usain Bolt a fluke. The American sprinter prefers to think of last month’s triumph as the opening act of journey that will bring... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky’s expressionist masterpiece “Studie zu Improvisation 3, 1909” was the highlight and leading indicator for a flat Christie’s London Impressionist and modern art sale on Tuesday. The painting fell short of its... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Actor Ethan Hawke is returning to Broadway in a production of ‘Macbeth’, with performances set to begin in October at Lincoln Center, the performing arts center said. ‘Macbeth’ will be directed by Jack O’Brien, who helmed the acclaimed 200... More »
BEIJING (Reuters) – The wife of jailed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo has written an open letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping, protesting against her house arrest and her brother’s jailing, which activists have called official retribution on the fami... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr put snapshots of his musical and creative life on display in a new exhibit, “Ringo: Peace & Love,” which opened on Tuesday at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles. Starr, 72, was on hand at the exhibit, wh... More »
HUAIROU, China (Reuters) – A Chinese court on Sunday sentenced the brother-in-law of jailed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo to 11 years in prison on charges of fraud in a case that rights activists have called another example of official retribution on t... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Auctioneers are pinning their hopes on “uber-collectors” to help London summer art sales top last year’s $1 billion total when the series kicks off later this month. Estimates from Christie’s, Sotheby’s and smaller rivals such as Phillips an... More »
VIENNA (Reuters) – Alexander Pereira, the next manager of Italian opera house La Scala, would like to have an Italian music director, ideally Riccardo Muti or Claudio Abbado, he told an Austrian newspaper. Pereira, an Austrian who is now artistic director of t... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A dream-like painting of children releasing kites by Brazil’s Candido Portinari sold for $1.4 million at Christie’s Latin American art sale and set a world auction record for the artist. Portinari’s 1941 “Meninos Soltando Pipas” was the to... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Edvard Munch’s masterpiece “The Scream,” one of the world’s most recognizable works of art, sold for $120 million at Sotheby’s on Wednesday, setting a new record as the most expensive piece of art ever sold at auction. Sotheby’s Impression... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Edvard Munch’s masterpiece “The Scream,” one of the world’s most recognizable works of art, sold for $120 million at Sotheby’s on Wednesday, setting a new record as the most expensive piece of art ever sold at auction. Sotheby’s Impression... More »
