“Once we launched this campaign, I noticed that people were shocked that we were having this financial ... discomfort,” Hania Mroue says, not quite smiling.
Those unable to visit the Musee National Picasso-Paris will soon have the chance to see some of Picasso’s work up close and personal.
The inaugural edition of the Beirut Image Festival starts Wednesday, ushering in a month of photography exhibitions in the Lebanese capital and other locations across the country.
In “The King,” Timothee Chalamet goes from reluctant heir to powerful monarch, a role he described as “terrifying” in a coming-of-age tale loosely based on William Shakespeare’s plays about Prince Hal and his transformation into Henry V.
The 44th Toronto International Film Festival kicked off Thursday with a documentary celebration of Canada’s The Band and the premiere of Armando Iannucci’s...
It can be a cheesy thing when a novel is split up and spread out over a handful of films, but Stephen King’s “It” is not one of those books.
The makers of the world’s biggest blockbuster unveiled the first Hollywood action movie shot entirely in Arabic Wednesday at the Venice Film Festival.
A searing adaptation of one of most controversial novels about World War II divided critics at the Venice Film Festival Wednesday, with some fighting each...
The pop star Elissa received an outpouring of support over the past 24 hours, calling for her to reconsider a recent decision to quit the music industry that...
U.S. rapper A$AP Rocky Thursday told a Stockholm court he felt "scared" and had tried to "walk away" before a street brawl, in an assault case that has...
The new James Bond film finally has a title - "No Time to Die" - and an April 2020 release date, producers announced Tuesday.
Nearly a month after he was arrested in Sweden, rapper A$AP Rocky returned to the United States as the verdict in an assault case against him and two other...
Two previous winners, Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie, were short-listed Tuesday for the Booker Prize for the best English-language fiction, to be awarded...
For Turkey’s “Microangelo,” any tiny, discarded item could be the canvas for his next minimasterpiece, from a matchstick to a pumpkin seed.
The world’s richest people are playing a “black-hearted joke on all of us” Hollywood star Meryl Streep said at the premiere of a new movie based on the Panama...
Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky hopes a new documentary about his life chronicling his journey from being Russia’s richest man to an exiled dissident will...
The Lebanon Latin Festival will once again gather dance enthusiasts from around the region for a four-day extravaganza of performances, workshops and social...
Saudi Arabia’s Haifaa al-Mansour cried as she spoke about the barriers to women’s success around the world Thursday in Venice, where she is one of only two...
Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” has been a favorite among opera lovers since it premiered in Prague in 1787 but it is unlikely that any have ever watched it on a...
The idea behind “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” is tantalizing - a woman goes missing and her 15-year-old daughter tries to piece together where she went.
For his first movie directed outside of his native Japan, filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda traveled to Paris to work with two of France’s top leading ladies in “La...
When 20th Century Fox greenlit James Mangold’s “Ford v. Ferrari” - an original movie with a nearly $100 million budget - the director’s agent had some advice.
The eighth edition of Mishkal, Masrah al-Madina’s annual interdisciplinary arts festival, will return to the streets this Friday.
Lebanon’s autumn film festival calendar commences in Akkar this year with the first edition of REEF - Environment and Cinema Days, launching in Qobeiyat on...
Evocative videos, graphic tapestries, charcoal drawings, woodcut prints, sculptures and sound installations combine in the largest-ever show by South African...
Secrets have a way of getting out.
From Bob Dylan’s first hard-driving blues number at summer camp to the rollicking Rolling Thunder Revue concert tour, the legendary musician’s childhood best...
In the wake of Saturday evening’s all-Bach concert at Byblos, cello maestro Yo-Yo Ma took his Bach Project to Beirut Sunday, in the company of local musicians...
Lovers of classical music were treated to a unique evening at Byblos festival’s closing concert Saturday night, courtesy of renowned Chinese-American cellist...
Traditionally, weddings usually lead to some fun and games in the bedroom for the happy and exhausted couple.
World-famous Chinese-American cellist Yo-Yo Ma, in collaboration with an array of local and international partners, will launch a cultural event across three...
Futuristic thrillers such as “1984,” “Fahrenheit 451” and “The Handmaid’s Tale” succeed because the plots harbor more than a few kernels of truth that make...
Most international musicians would baulk at the notion of a two-day journey to final rehearsals past military checkpoints on alert for weapons smugglers.