A major work by British artist Damien Hirst made less money than expected at Christie's contemporary art sale in London Thursday, but the auction overall came in within pre-sale estimates.
A new exhibit at The Jewish Museum explores the impact of feminism, which inspired new ideas and challenged old ones, on contemporary painting over the last half century.
British writer Howard Jacobson won the prestigious Booker Prize Tuesday with his philosophical comedy "The Finkler Question," beating five other writers, including two-time winner Peter Carey and the bookies' favorite, Tom McCarthy.
A major exhibition in London brings together works by Italian painter Giovanni Antonio Canal, best known as Canaletto, and some of his biggest rivals who fought for artistic and commercial supremacy.
Prominent Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has filled the cavernous Turbine Hall at London's Tate Modern gallery with over 100 million handmade porcelain sunflower seeds which visitors are invited to walk over.
An artwork by Modernist master Marc Chagall became the most expensive contemporary Western painting sold in Asia when it was auctioned for $4.18 million after steady bidding in a Hong Kong sale.
Peruvian writer and one-time presidential candidate Mario Vargas Llosa, a chronicler of human struggles against authoritarian power in Latin America, won the 2010 Nobel prize for literature on Thursday.
A theatrical adaptation of the movie "Sister Act" will be getting its groove on Broadway style.
American novelist Philip Roth dislikes e-books and the distracting influences of modern technology, which he feels diminishes the ability to appreciate the beauty and aesthetic experience of reading books on paper.
New York opera companies are rolling out more high-tech shows, broadening their repertoire and raising their star quotient this season to help break the genre's image as a stodgy art form and lure new younger fans.
The World of Kublai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty, running until Jan 2, is wowing visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA), New York.
A sign from the bankrupt Lehman Brothers group fetched over $66,000 at a London auction on Wednesday, more than 15 times its estimate, as collectors and souvenir hunters fought for mementos of a corporate collapse.