Modern Japanese play 'Steel Tower' to make U.S. debut
2007-02-22 09:48:08
Theatre Arts Japan, woken'glacier theatre company and MONO theatre company announced the March 2-18 U.S. premiere of Hideo Tsuchida's award-winning play it is said the men are over in The Steel Tower, translated by M. Cody Poulton and adapted by Matthew Paul Olmos.
Warhol, the pop art icon who remains a mystery
2007-02-20 09:35:19
Twenty years after his death, pop art icon Andy Warhol is a seminal influence for contemporary artists and a collectors' darling, even though what drove the man and his art remains a mystery.
Famed Shanghai Museum opens U.S. exhibit
2007-02-19 12:00:29
The bronze bowl seems unremarkable until you study it from above. Then, the shallow basin suddenly seems to teem with life
Sondheim routs Spamalot at UK theater awards
2007-02-19 09:46:24
Broadway veteran Stephen Sondheim swept the board at one of Britain's top theater awards on Sunday, sending the big-budget Monty Python musical "Spamalot" away empty-handed.
Stolen Goya painting finally arrives at US Guggenheim
2007-02-16 10:13:42
A Goya painting finally arrived at New York's Guggenheim Museum, three months after it was stolen on its way to an exhibition and recovered nearly two weeks later.
Bacon painting sets record at Christie's auction
2007-02-09 10:56:10
The sale price makes it the most expensive work of art ever by Bacon, and a record price for a painting in the post-war period in US dollars, though not in pounds -- an effect of modern exchange rates.
Ice-creams, vacuums - is a kiss still just a kiss?
2007-02-07 10:35:39
There's the flicking kiss, the ice-cream kiss, the vacuum kiss, the Hollywood kiss and another 50 or so smoochy variations.
Rowling heartbroken, euphoric as the spell ends
2007-02-07 10:25:48
British author J.K. Rowling said on Tuesday she was both heartbroken and euphoric about wrapping up the long-awaited final book in her successful "Harry Potter" series, but gave no clues about the boy wizard's fate.
"Malta" revival puts accent on farce
2007-02-06 14:21:57
"The Jew of Malta" - This is not your great-grandmother's "The Jew of Malta," but it certainly is fun.
London auction houses eye record week
2007-02-06 09:21:11
Sotheby's began what is expected to be a record week of sales, with a combined auction of Surrealist, Impressionist, Modern, German and Austrian art.
Writer Yu Qiuyu on Board for Dunhuang Drama
2007-02-01 17:23:27
Well-known Chinese writer Yu Qiuyu confirmed Tuesday at a press conference in Beijing that he will join the crew for the stage drama "Nine Scenes. Dunhuang" as a cultural consultant.