Six paintings and two statues by the Spanish master were handed over to the state-run Picasso Museum in Paris by Maya Ruiz-Picasso, his daughter by French model Marie-Therese Walter
Diplomats from five different countries said they had revised down their national pavilions’ visitor targets. Continuing obstacles to foreign travel mean the Expo's economic boost is likely to fall short of projections
A bell was inaugurated at a church in Mosul on Saturday to the cheers of Iraqi Christians, seven years after the Islamic State group overran the northern city.
Erected in a business park alongside a statue of Apple founder Steve Jobs, the sculpture was the brainchild of entrepreneur and bitcoin journalist, Andras Gyorfi. It was financed by four Hungarian cryptocurrency organisations
The late artist and his wife and collaborator Jean-Claude wowed the world with their spectacular projects wrapping famous landmarks around the world. From...
Imagined in 1961 by the late Bulgarian-born artist Christo, ‘L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped’ was brought to life by Christo’s nephew, Vladimir Yavatchev, at a...
Only recently discovered, these 21 naturalistic reliefs are heavily eroded and were initially estimated in 2018 to be some 2,000 years old, based on...
A collaboration between the Beirut Art Film Festival and the Italian Cultural Institute in Beirut, ‘Dante 700 Beyrouth’ is a hybrid (sometimes in-person,...
Ranked the most-influential band of all time by Spin magazine last year, Nirvana’s ethos continues to reverberate in artists as varied as Billie Eilish, Lana...
A Taliban guard shows AFP a storeroom full of intact musical instruments that were left behind, after reports that everything had been trashed. The caretaker...
After falling victim to the pandemic in 2020, the multiple venue event presented by Metropolis Cinema and Goethe Institute Beirut will open Thursday, 23...
The world capital of filmmaking and home of Hollywood boasts museums for everything from natural history to selfies, but until now has never had one dedicated...
The legendarily prolific Hollywood star has never shown much interest in retiring and appears on-screen in the movie as a former rodeo champion tasked with...
Hallyday parlayed the huge success from Gallic covers of US rock’n’roll, such as “Blue Suede Shoes” and “C’est Le Mash Potatoes”, into a long career in music,...
Dante is credited with helping create the Italian language by using the Tuscan vernacular of his time – rather than Latin – to write his masterpiece
Marking its 70th anniversary the biennial, one of the most important of its kind in the world, reflects a reaction to the extreme right embodied in Brazil by...
Up at the Imperial War Museum, ‘Wim Wenders: Photographing Ground Zero’ presents large-scale images of the apocalyptic scenes that the veteran director shot...
Over the next few days, the entire Arc will be wrapped in 25,000 square metres of fabric – the signature of Bulgarian-born Christo, who died last year. He had...
Judge Alison Nathan in Manhattan said Turkey ‘inexcusably slept’ on its rights by not suing until April 2017, just before Christie’s put the idol up for...
The third edition of Akkar’s environmentally inflected film and cultural festival will run 9-13 September in Qubaiyat and somewhat longer online
Within weeks of the Islamists taking the capital, many of the colourful street art pieces painted on Kabul’s labyrinth of concrete blast walls have been...
Originally titled ‘Girl with Balloon,’ the painting sold for nearly £1.1 million at Sotheby’s in October 2018. Now ‘Love is in the Bin,’ the version Banksy...
‘In total, almost 100 objects of significance to the global cultural heritage have been seized,’ said the Norwegian National Authority for Investigation and...
All-female orchestra was a symbol of change in Afghanistan, but some members fled or went into hiding after Taliban victory
A video released in August showed the group’s 26-year-old leader RM eating a bowl of noodles with a book titled ‘Early Death’ on the table next to him. Out of...
The Hermitage will bring out a limited series of NFTs, including a digital copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Madonna Litta’, as well as works by Vincent Van Gogh,...
Over the past decade, Monami Ohno has used cardboard to create artwork inspired by popular culture, from anime robots to models of tanks and fighter jets, a...
During the 20 years of Western-backed government, a lively popular culture grew up in Kabul and other cities with a mashup of body building, energy drinks,...
A piece by Swedish artist Dan Park on display at the 'Political Art' show depicts the right-wing Norwegian extremist killer Anders Behring Breivik as a...
The portraits and busts depicted Gilbert Heathcote, the Bank’s founding director and a governor, James Bateman, Robert Bristow, Robert Clayton, William...
Reuters found one NFT representing an image of a cartoon ape that was sold on OpenSea for 39 ETH – the cryptocurrency ether – last week (around $124,205 at...
Joanne Hartstone is using the platform to take her show to not one, but two major fringe festivals abroad that this year are happening at the same time,...
Do you want to buy a more than 5,000-year-old Sumerian tablet, listed as the property of a gentleman from Sussex in England and passed down as a family...
‘Art is like football,’ Messi said on his Twitter account in early August, while announcing the launch of his ‘Messiverse’ collection. ‘Eternal.’
Imagined decades ago in 1961 by the late Bulgarian-born artist Christo and his wife and fellow artist Jeanne-Claude, who died in 2009, ‘L’Arc de Triomphe,...