Tibetan writer jailed for 4 years in China: group
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Tibetan writer was sentenced to four years in jail last month after helping edit a magazine critical of Chinese policy...
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PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - After nearly a decade of lawsuits and bitter debate, the world famous Barnes art collection is about to move from...
Get the full story >>Book Talk: Fresh mayhem in chilly Stockholm
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Winter nights are long and cold in Stockholm. Their chill permeates some recent Swedish fiction.
Get the full story >>British writer risks death in the afternoon
LONDON (Reuters) - The pavement outside a tapas bar in London's Old Brompton Road is a far cry from a bullring in Spain.
Get the full story >>Reclusive painter keeps Mao spirit alive on Tiananmen
BEIJING (Reuters) - Reclusive Chinese painter Ge Xiaoguang's art has gazed over one of the world's most famous city squares for decades.
Get the full story >>Forgotten Chaplin film fails to find buyer at auction
A forgotten short film featuring footage of comic legend Charlie Chaplin failed to sell at a London auction despite expectations it could...
Get the full story >>New Cirque du Soleil show is sensory overload
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - A branding phenomenon with few equals in global entertainment, Cirque du Soleil needs no help from critics...
Get the full story >>Author James Patterson eyes movies, kids reading
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Prolific novelist James Patterson has raised the stakes on what it means to be a modern-day publisher, again, and...
Get the full story >>New Yorkers get fresh look at Ai Weiwei's art
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A photography exhibit offering glimpses of Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei's time spent living in New York in the...
Get the full story >>Exhibit highlights Victorian sisters' art collection
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Works by Picasso, Matisse, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Cezanne, and the two American women who purchased them in the early...
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LONDON (Reuters) - Robert Capa once said "It's not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian," and a new London exhibition on...
Get the full story >>Liz Taylor's jewels, fashion set for December auctions
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Actress Elizabeth Taylor's renowned collection of jewelry, works of art, fashion and memorabilia will be sold...
Get the full story >>Alicia Keys backs Broadway play about black America
NEW YORK (Reuters) - R&B; pop singer Alicia Keys is the latest music star to back a Broadway production, according to a statement issued by...
Get the full story >>Muhly's edgy "Two Boys" opera gets London premiere
LONDON (Reuters) - If the film "The Social Network" lifted the veil on the ingenuity and intrigue behind Internet networking, the opera "Two...
Get the full story >>Oxford academic finds "tantalizing" clue to Ophelia
LONDON (Reuters) - An Oxford academic has found a "tantalizing" link between Shakespeare's tragic heroine Ophelia and a real-life girl who...
Get the full story >>China demands Ai Weiwei pay $1.85 million in taxes, fines
BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing's tax authorities have asked the dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, released recently from more than two months...
Get the full story >>Top British art consultancy targets Russian collectors
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Top British art consulting firm Art Market Research (AMR) said on Monday it plans to offer its services in Russia,...
Get the full story >>Muhly's edgy "Two Boys" opera gets London premiere
LONDON (Reuters) - If the film "The Social Network" lifted the veil on the ingenuity and intrigue behind Internet networking, the opera "Two...
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