Kunsthaus Zurich, where Picasso had his first museum show in 1932, is celebrating its centenary with a special program including an exhibition showing how contemporaries received the Spanish artist's work.
Chile inaugurated a museum on Monday to thousands murdered, "disappeared" and tortured during General Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.
Popular male dan (a young woman in Peking Opera) performer Li Yuguang will lead the New Year's vocal concert of Chinese classical songs.
U.S. artist Emily Prince has been working on "American Servicemen and Women Who Have Died in Iraq and Afghanistan" for five years, and is likely to have to do so for several more.
The idea for Tracy Chevalier's latest novel "Remarkable Creatures" came to her in a dinosaur museum in Dorset, England.
Thieves have stolen about 30 paintings, including a work by Spanish master Pablo Picasso, from a private villa in the south of France.
The sweet, syncopated sounds of "Ragtime" will fall silent Sunday on Broadway.
Daniel Day-Lewis has not appeared on a live theater's stage in decades, but he takes on a uniquely theatrical role for new movie musical, "Nine.
It takes guts to put on an opera in a working man's pub in an Irish part of London, but the Cock Tavern Theater Company's production of Puccini's "La Boheme," in English and updated to today, has audiences mesmerized.
Critics were sharply divided on Friday over Hollywood star Keira Knightley's London stage debut, with one calling her "strikingly convincing" and another accusing her of "having all the charisma of a goldfish."
Egypt will formally ask Germany to return a bust of Queen Nefertiti after a Berlin museum official presented papers showing the 3,400-year-old treasure was taken unethically.
The love affair has lasted more than a century and began with the woman in question having her way -- entirely.
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