An Australian council is rueing a decision to send street cleaners into a Melbourne lane after they painted over a priceless stencil of a rat by the celebrated British graffiti artist Banksy.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy's 82-year-old artist father is putting on his first show in Paris, featuring naked buttocks, exploding television sets and a portrait of French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.
A Batman stage show soon might be swooping to a town near you.
Hal Holbrook has performed on stage as Mark Twain far longer than Twain himself did.
Cirque du Soleil will develop touring shows based on the music of Michael Jackson in the third major deal by the "Thriller" singer's estate since his death last June.
Best-selling relationship book "Men are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" is headed for the big screen.
Sales of nearly $10 million of photographs, including works by Irving Penn, at Christie's showed that international collectors are willing to pay top dollar for rare images.
By staging a large retrospective of his works, a new exhibition will test the golden rule of art lovers and museum goers: Pablo Picasso never gets old.
The 69-year-old Spanish tenor Placido Domingo performs during a rehearsal at La Scala Opera theater.
The best-selling vampire themed "Twilight" book series has entered the top 10 list of books that U.S. schools and public libraries were asked to remove from their shelves in 2009.
Mark Twain died here on April 21, a century ago. He was 74, and in failing health, his heart — his tobacco heart, he called it — so weak that he interrupted a restful cruise to Bermuda to return and die at the house on a hill built for him just two years earlier.
Auction house Christie's expects to sell HK$ 1.5 ($193 million) worth of predominantly Chinese artwork during its spring sales in Hong Kong, buoyed by recent positive art sales in the region.