Copenhagen - Acclaimed Danish architect Jorn Utzon, best known for his landmark Sydney Opera House, has died, news reports said

Dresden, Germany - Some 27 masterpieces of Italian art are being shipped from Dresden, Germany to the J Paul Getty Museum

Doha - An imposing new Museum of Islamic Arts was officially opened Saturday in Qatar by Emir Sheikh Hamad bin

Kiev/Aachen, Germany - The management of a Ukrainian art museum on Saturday refused to return to Germany dozens of paintings

   New York - A record sale of a work by Russian abstract painter Kazimir Malevich soothed frayed nerves at New

New York - A painting by Russian avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevich was sold at a New York auction for a

Berlin - Berlin is locked in art fever, with four powerful exhibitions going ahead including work by Jeff Koons and

Havana - The 21st edition of the International Ballet Festival of Havana is set to showcase the best of contemporary

We have added a new set of images from the event "Body Worlds & The Mirror of Time at the

Anne Hathaway is set to star in a musical in New York's famous Broadway theatre district.

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By Andrew Koubaridis Marc Spijkerbosch at work near the bus incident. Photo / Greg Bowker An artist was working on a series of street murals about pedestrian safety on Ponsonby Rd yesterday when a man was struck by a bus only metres away. Marc

The painting had been estimated to go for 70,000 A painting reproduced for one of the most popular Christmas card designs has been auctioned for 145,000. Aberdeenshire laird Joseph Farquharson, who died in 1935, painted 'Sheep Beneath Snow Encumbered

Lucian Freud, seen by many as Britain's greatest living artist, seldom talks to the press. However, his daughter Bella Freud, who once served as a childhood model for the painter, has managed to get him to open up in an interview in the December issue of

Big Canvas Applications Make iPhone an Artistic Tool for Creative Expression I believe that just as we moved from voice to text we will see a movement from text to visual communications With our applications, anyone can be an artist and everyone can

The Philadelphia Museum of Art continues its commitment to presenting stimulating contemporary art with Notations: The Closing Decade a presentation that includes the work of thirteen artists from around the world made in the closing years of the 20th

Georgia O?Keeffe was a ground-breaking artist during her lifetime, and now the museum dedicated to her life and art is following that inspiration. The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) in Los Angeles, the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), and the

More than 350 additional objects from the Museum?s renowned American holdings will be installed in the Luce Visible Storage ¦ Study Center, bringing the total number of works on view in the Center to 2,500. These objects will be installed in forty-two

?Posters from the Division of Community Education (DIVEDCO) of Puerto Rico, 1949-1989,? on view through Jan. 18, 2009, at the S. Dillon Ripley Center?s Concourse, highlights Puerto Rican poster art from the 1940s through 1980s. This exhibition was

By Mike Collett-White LONDON (Reuters Life!) - London's Royal Ballet is looking beyond just ticket sales for revenue by teaming up with Italian dance and fitness clothes maker Freddy. In a partnership that could help the world-famous dance company ride

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - London's Royal Ballet is looking beyond just ticket sales for revenue by teaming up with Italian dance and fitness clothes maker Freddy. In a partnership that could help the world-famous dance company ride out the recession,

Santa Fe: High Culture Blue skies, adobe facades, and art greet visitors to Santa Fe. more photos More from Budget Travel See 9 hotels you won?t believe America?s 38 favorite restaurants Trivia quiz: Think you know New York City? 105

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The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For By Alison Bechdel 392 pages. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $25. Two years ago Alison Bechdel seemed to come out of nowhere with a graphic memoir, 'Fun Home,' that knocked a lot of people, myself included, right over. You

, over 60 carefully selected galleries will gather in the beach resort of Madinat Jumeirah for the third edition of Art Dubai. Emphasis will be placed on galleries representing artists from the Middle East, South and Central Asia and the Far East,

Male science 'nerds' are more likely to be virgins than university students who study English literature or other arts subjects, a new study says. An Australian investigation of the sexual history of students found male science boffins were the least

NEW YORK, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Noted Canada-based artist Yana Movchan is now offering limited-edition premium archival reproductions of her acclaimed paintings. Several of Movchan's works are now available as Giclee reproductions through

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UAE. Aramex today announced it is providing logistical support to the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC), an independent initiative committed to empowering artists, authors and filmmakers across the region through grants, partnerships and advocacy for

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - London's Royal Ballet is looking beyond just ticket sales for revenue by teaming up with Italian dance and fitness clothes maker Freddy. In a partnership that could help the world-famous dance company ride out the recession,

London, Dec 4 : The British Museum and HSBC today announced plans for Indian Summer, a season dedicated to Indian culture featuring a unique programme of exhibitions, installations, performances, lectures and film screenings. HSBC is the sponsor of the

, over 60 carefully selected galleries will gather in the beach resort of Madinat Jumeirah for the third edition of Art Dubai. Emphasis will be placed on galleries representing artists from the Middle East, South and Central Asia and the Far East,

An exhibit called 'Marquis'art,' or Marquesan art, is the second ongoing exhibition on Tahiti of art objects created by the talented people from French Polynesia's northernmost archipelago, the Marquesas Islands. French Polynesia Culture Minister Joseph

Aramex is providing logistical support to the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC), an independent initiative committed to empowering artists, authors and filmmakers across the region through grants, partnerships and advocacy for the arts. Under the

Prices aren't the only thing different about the art on offer at ABMB this year: tough economic conditions have also influenced what many dealers have brought and what many collectors are buying. Eventually, the times may also affect what art is made. In

New contemporary art project www.murmurart.com has launched in November 2008 - The murmurART site launch will present 40 of the most talented emerging artists in the UK and exhibit their work for sale online. Many of the pieces will debut at launch.

PATRICK JOSEPH GORDON, FRIEND OF OPERA, CINEMA 1-6-1929 â?? 16-11-2008 PATRICK Gordon, a much-loved figure of Melbourne's opera and film worlds, has died of a heart attack at his home in Kew. He was 79. Gordon not only enthusiastically promoted

Female arts students at university are the most sexually active while male science students are the most likely to be virgins, Australian researchers said Thursday. A pilot study at the University of Sydney asked 185 students aged 16 to 25 about their

It is hoped the former barber shop can be turned into a 'living' museum A museum wants funds to help renovate an iconic former barber shop run by the same man for more than 70 years. Jack Wardell, known as Jack the Barber, who is 92, finally hung up his

The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art is in serious financial trouble. The museum has rising operational costs and is not receiving enough money from donors. Philanthropist and art-lover Eli Broad discusses the conditions of his $30 million offer to save MOCA.

Sol LeWitt was one of the pioneers of conceptual art. He saw it in his mind, then communicated it to others to complete. Dozens of people have done just that with his ideas for his famous Wall Drawings, which are now at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.

Several states are trying to boost their budgets by luring Hollywood movie productions. Louisiana offers tax credits to filmmakers who produce movies in the state. Greg Albrecht, chief economist for Louisiana's Legislature, discusses how one justifies such incentives in a rough economy.

Monika Hertwig, daughter of Nazi Amon Goeth, has spent her life dealing with her father's murderous legacy. James Moll's documentary, Inheritance, tells the story of how Hertwig has reached out to Helen Jonas, one of Goeth's former slaves.

Although it is late and over budget, the $621 million dollar Capitol Visitor Center is spectacular. The long-delayed center has finally opened and it is the largest-ever expansion to the U.S. Capitol.

Award-winning children's book author and illustrator Mo Willems wants to become a radio cartoonist. He and Michele Norris give it a shot.

A recent study suggests that teens who see a lot of sex on TV are more likely to become pregnant or get a partner pregnant. NPR's Kim Masters investigates Gossip Girl, a show notorious for steamy high-school sex scenes.

Alex Nyerges is no stranger to working 16-hour days and wearing multiple hats. As director of the VMFA, his domain ranges from the art blogosphere to the museum's $130 million construction site — with countless travel obligations, fundraising opportunities and donor visits thrown in for good measure.

HBO's new miniseries, House of Saddam, chronicles the life of the former Iraqi dictator. Actress Shohreh Aghdashloo, who plays Hussein's wife, and writer-director Alex Holmes discuss the challenges they faced in portraying the Hussein family.

The 1950s insult comic Don Rickles made a name for himself by poking fun of audiences and public figures. His new book, Rickles' Letters, is a collection of imaginary correspondences to a variety of historical and contemporary figures.

The actor plays Muddy Waters in the new film Cadillac Records, which tells the story of Chicago's Chess Records, where Waters launched his career alongside Etta James, Chuck Berry and others.

Director Ron Howard's new film documents David Frost's historic interviews with former president Richard Nixon — during which Nixon disclosed his involvement in the Watergate scandal. The film is based on the Tony Award winning play by Peter Morgan.

The Library of Congress is a cathedral to the written word. The white marble building may hold the nation's collection of books, but those aren't the only words in the building worth reading.

Hip hop artist Brutus Baez, better known as Bigg B, blends his culture and passion for music. Bigg B explains the hip hop scene on Native American reservations, and how he incorporates the struggles of his people in his lyrics.

Before year's end, more than 50 movies — about everything from Nazi plots to animated French mice to visitors from other galaxies — will hit the multiplex. Bob Mondello previews the offerings.

Months ahead of time Wayne Shorter?s 75th birthday concert at Carnegie Hall was being described as a kind of collaboration with Imani Winds, a classical wind quintet.

Over the weekend, just before the city of Venice became nearly impassable, a production of Monteverdi?s ?Return of Ulysses,? devised by William Kentridge, had a short, magical run at the ancient Malibran Theater.

The ascension of Philip J. Smith and Robert E. Wankel to the top of the Shubert Organization ended a 20-plus-year guessing game about the future of the largest theater-owning enterprise in the nation.

If things turn out as expected, festivalgoers will have more to cry about than the room prices at Sundance next year.

Just as CBGB is getting its due alongside John Lennon?s piano and Jimi Hendrix?s guitar, its ownership and legacy are being challenged by a lawsuit that has riven the family of its proprietor, Hilly Kristal, who died last year.

The walls come tumbling down in ?Opening Night,? Ivo van Hove?s wild and woolly stage version of the 1977 John Cassavetes movie about a Broadway-bound play in crisis.

Miguel Zenón?s ?Esta Plena,? a work in 10 parts, will be performed for the first time this week, Thursday through Sunday, at the Jazz Gallery in the South Village.

Proving an artist?s relevance on paper is a very different thing from proving it onstage. And this is the daunting challenge facing the Limón Dance Company, which on Tuesday opened a weeklong stint at the Joyce Theater.

Odd sounds kept appearing when Kassin+2, a band from Rio de Janeiro that?s grounded in Brazilian pop and familiar with funk, rock and Caribbean and African music, performed at Nublu on Tuesday night.

Christmas, Michael Feinstein and Frank Sinatra: three different, tenuously connected worlds collided Tuesday evening at Feinstein?s at Loews Regency, where Mr. Feinstein brought a drastically revamped version of his annual holiday extravaganza.

Morris Robinson offered an overview of his strengths in a varied, if oddly organized, recital at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Tuesday evening.

Philip Hensher?s new novel is a haunting, loving, trenchantly grotesque story about two families in Sheffield, England, over the course of two politically fraught decades.

On Sunday, the final day of the Fall North American Championships here, Eric Rodwell capped 10 days of play that will probably never be equaled.

Federal immigration officials returned more than 80 ancient artifacts to the Egyptian government on Wednesday, pieces that had been stolen from a museum near Cairo in 2002 by a United States Army helicopter pilot and later sold to an antiquities dealer. The antiquities, right, seized by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after an investigation in 2006, were among 370, dating to 3000 B.C. or earlier, that were discovered missing from a museum in Maadi, a suburb of Cairo. At a ceremony in Manhattan, Peter J. Smith, special agent in charge of the immigration department?s Office of Investigations, returned the artifacts to Egypt?s consul general in New York, Hussein Mubarak, and Attiya Radwan, who oversees the Central Department for Upper Egypt Monuments.

A five-day auction of Asian artwork at Christie?s in Hong Kong sold 35 percent less than its presale estimates in another sign of the declining global economy?s impact on the art market, Reuters reported. The auction had been expected to take in more than $225 million, but it ended Wednesday with total sales of $146 million, and more than 30 percent of its 2,400 lots went unsold. A Christie?s Hong Kong auction in May ended with total sales of $310 million, an all-time high for its Asian offerings. ?Like all markets we are affected by confidence, and we?ve definitely seen less confidence in our world in the last two or three months,? Edward Dolman, the chief executive of Christie?s International, told Reuters.

The Broadway revival of ?Boeing-Boeing? will play its final performance on Jan. 4.

Two quirky crime series and a remake of a short-lived 1990s romantic comedy are among the new shows that ABC has announced in its midseason schedule.

The coming Michael Jacobs play ?Impressionism,? which will star Jeremy Irons and Joan Allen as a photojournalist and a gallery owner, has added more members to its cast.

The week of Thanksgiving is usually one of the music industry?s biggest and most important, but sales were low this year despite several high-profile new releases. Guns N? Roses? ?Chinese Democracy? (Geffen), an album 14 years in the making that was sold through an exclusive deal with Best Buy, sold 260,000 copies; some early estimates for it were nearly triple that amount. ?Chinese Democracy? opens at No. 3 on the Billboard album chart, behind Kanye West?s new ?808s & Heartbreak? (Def Jam), which sold 450,000, and Taylor Swift?s ?Fearless? (Big Machine), which moved 267,000 in its third week. Last week?s No. 1, Beyoncé?s ?I Am ... Sasha Fierce? (Columbia), dropped to No. 4 with 257,000; Ludacris?s ?Theater of the Mind? (Def Jam) opens at No. 5 with 213,000; and the Killers? new ?Day & Age? (Island) opened at No. 6 with 193,000. Over all sales were down 13 percent from the week of Thanksgiving last year.

CBS?s hit show ?The Mentalist? delivered Tuesday?s largest television audience, 18.8 million viewers, lifting the network to first place in the night?s ratings.

CNN edged out the Fox News Channel as the most popular cable news channel in November among the 25-to 54-year-old viewers that advertisers covet.

The Marvel comics mini-series ?Secret Invasion? concludes Thursday with a twist ending: The world has lost faith in Iron Man, who was unable to prevent an infiltration by shape-changing aliens, and turns to Norman Osborn, the Spider-Man villain known as the Green Goblin, who delivers the final blow to the extraterrestrial threat. The events put Osborn and a cabal of nefarious allies in charge of the Marvel universe. The ?Secret Invasion? series has been a best-seller for Marvel; its first issue sold more than 270,000 copies. So what will its author, Brian Michael Bendis, do for a follow-up? ?What we really need to do is spend some time with the characters and deal with the aftermath of all that?s happened,? he said in an interview. ?We need to dig deep down and see what they?re made of.?.

Danny Hoch?s one-man play will run at the Public Theater through Dec. 21.