“There are so many ways to see and discuss and celebrate documentary film,” Orwa Nyrabia observed, “well beyond festival premieres and competitions.”
The Lebanese American University honored Nidal Ashkar Tuesday as part of Next Festival 2019, an eclectic week of arts and communications events including workshops and music, dance and drag performances.
In many countries it is a common sight, but when musicians began playing their instruments at a Dubai metro station, surprised commuters stopped to take photos of the rare performances.
Wrapping up its third edition, the Phoenicia Hotel’s Art Photo Competition awarded Marcia Gunning the first prize in an award ceremony and exhibition Tuesday.
Among the mud houses, palm trees, alleyways and camels of a long-disused film set outside Damascus, actors in flowing robes are making a television series.
A Dutch art detective dubbed the “Indiana Jones of the Art World” has struck again, finding a Picasso worth 25 million euros ($28 million) stolen from a Saudi...
A painting at a Connecticut museum that has long been thought to be by Vincent Van Gogh has been authenticated as such by Dutch researchers.
When he was still a teenager, Tintoretto was sent to Italian Renaissance painter Titian’s studio, only to be kicked out within days because the older master...
Ariana Grande won her first Grammy Award on Sunday, but the singer didn't collect it after deciding to skip the ceremony following a public dispute with the...
The producers of "The Simpsons" are removing a classic episode that featured the voice of Michael Jackson.
Netflix has acquired the rights to Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude," one of the most celebrated novels of the 20th century.
Keith Flint, lead singer of electronic band The Prodigy, has been found dead at his home near London. He was 49.
Luke Perry, who gained instant heartthrob status as wealthy rebel Dylan McKay on "Beverly Hills, 90210," died Monday after suffering a massive stroke, his...
Jordan Peele has tightened his grip in “Us,” a less satirical, more slaughterhouse horror parable than the writer-director’s astonishing debut, “Get Out.”
A rare nude drawing by Picasso of his lover Marie-Therese Walter is to be sold by New York’s Museum of Modern Art in Paris later this month, Christie’s said...
Collectors from America and Europe are scouring Cape Town’s booming art scene in search of deals as diverse as an expressive oil painting by South Africa’s...
A London museum has handed back locks of hair cut from the corpse of an Ethiopian emperor during a British invasion 150 years ago, after a campaign by...
For audiences in the multiplex, it’s all about the actors. While invested in the cult of the director, entertainment journalists do admit that directors of...
Wandering around the Karantina construction site, it’s hard to imagine that in about two weeks the metal exoskeleton will be transformed into a new permanent...
Italy’s La Scala opera house has decided to return more than 3 million euros ($3.4 million) in funding to Saudi Arabia after a plan to work closely with the...
A 3,000-year-old carved stone tablet from Babylonia, which promises a curse on those who would destroy it, is to be flown home from Britain after being looted...
One year on from the start of Gaza’s border protests, the weekly demonstrations have become part of the texture of life in the Palestinian enclave, providing...
The newly opened, permanent Downtown space of Artual Galley inaugurated the occasion with its first exhibition, “The Thousand and One Nights,” displaying the...
Nearly 120 years after Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi called it his “most beautiful work,” ageing musicians still play out their days at his Casa Verdi...
More than 30 years after it was brazenly stolen from an Arizona museum, a painting by Willem de Kooning reportedly worth $100 million is going on display back...
Those visiting the Phoenicia Hotel’s Cascade Lounge for an afternoon tea or quick coffee will find it hard to miss the newly added, delicately folded origami...
Californian group Red Hot Chili Peppers played in front of Egypt’s great pyramids of Giza Friday, entertaining more than 10,000 people at the site and many...
The women depicted in the new issue of Lebanese comic magazine Samandal always seem a few steps ahead of their present.
Young artists lined up across a wall in the Yemeni capital Sanaa Thursday, painting murals that reflect their fears as well as hopes in a country crippled by...
Oscar-winning Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar premiered his retrospective drama “Pain and Glory” in Madrid this week, reuniting actors Penelope Cruz and...
Germany has agreed to speed up the return of human remains and artwork from former African colonies where the country carried out brutal massacres and...
“Cool,” is one word Bob Colacello used to describe Andy Warhol, “and complicated.”
There’s that moment on roller coasters when the lap bar gets locked down and you slowly, agonizingly ride up to the first drop.
Amid the success in New York of a major Basquiat exhibition from Paris, a gallery in the painter’s hometown is paying homage to the late American artist’s...