Spanish police have recovered three of five paintings by British artist Francis Bacon that were stolen from a Madrid apartment in 2015, they said Thursday
Under the rule of Daesh (ISIS, the self-anointed Islamic State group) a Syrian farmer named Faysal was forced to hide his sketches and paintings.
Calling all superheroes, sci-fi fans and genre lovers of all kinds: Comic-Con is here
Visitors entering Galerie Sfeir-Semler are greeted by a work from Rabih Mroué’s “Map” series.
With its airborne sharks, over-the-top gore and endless cheesy cameos from fading stars, it ought to have flopped from the start but, fed by social media, the...
The frontwoman of Russian punk provocateurs Pussy Riot is planning to recreate her prison ordeal through an immersive theatrical piece with a message to...
An art exhibition has opened at a former Romanian prison where communists tortured and killed political prisoners in a gruesome re-education program.
Jim Henson, the relentless innovator who gave the world Kermit the Frog and “The Muppet Show,” is getting a permanent tribute in New York, nearly 30 years...
Malaysia has banned "Despacito" on state radio and television, though it might be hard to slow the song's record-breaking popularity
Ben Affleck dismissed speculation that he is being dropped as Batman during a Warner Bros. presentation introducing the “Justice League” and announcing a...
“Goosebumps” creator R.L. Stine got a surprise during his first trip to San Diego Comic-Con.
R&B star R. Kelly on Monday denied explosive allegations that he was holding women in virtual slavery with control over all aspects of their lives
Martin Landau, the chameleon-like actor who gained fame as the crafty master of disguise in the 1960s TV show "Mission: Impossible," then capped a long and...
There’s nothing like an epic getaway chase to kick a movie into high gear, and the first five minutes of “Baby Driver” are pure movie magic.
Forensic experts in Spain have removed hair, nails and two long bones from Salvador Dali’s embalmed remains to find genetic samples for a paternity test – a...
From Palmyra to Paris, Ahmad Joudeh, the Syrian Billy Elliot, is set on showing the real image of his country and erasing the horrors of Daesh (ISIS).
A concussed serenity sets in somewhere in the midst of the ceaseless ballet of metal and machismo in Michael Bay’s “Transformers: The Last Knight.”
Six Syrian actors battled a fraught U.S. visa process to tread the boards in New York this week, seeking to impress upon American theatergoers the human cost...
Martin Kober is convinced the painting of a dying Jesus that hung above the mantel in his upstate New York childhood home is the work of Michelangelo.
One of the world’s greatest private collections of modern art is to be shown outside Russia for the time, exhibition organizers announced this week.
Filmmaker Ken Burns views the Vietnam War as a virus that infected Americans with an array of chronic illnesses – alienation, a lack of civil discourse,...
The actor who voiced Kermit the Frog for nearly three decades is hopping mad at Disney executives for being sacked, slamming his dismissal as a "betrayal"...
Bejart Ballet Lausanne’s “Ballet for Life,” which illuminated the Beiteddine Art Festival stage Friday, was a beautiful and bewildering show.
George Romero, whose classic “Night of the Living Dead” and other horror films turned zombie movies into social commentaries – and who saw his flesh-devouring...
Writer-director Marti Noxon’s deeply moving feature debut, “To the Bone,” isn’t just about a young woman confronting anorexia.
A woman whose paternity suit has prompted a Spanish court to order the exhumation of surrealist artist Salvador Dali’s body said she was simply seeking the...
Kenneth Johnson has worked on such classic television shows as “The Six Million Dollar Man,” “The Incredible Hulk” and “V.” Now he’s added to his repertoire...
“Unsex me here” was Lady Macbeth’s plea to the spirits for manly ferocity in Shakespeare’s tragedy.
Lebanese pop star Elissa this week released a new single depicting the life of legendary dancer Dany Bustros, 19 years after the socialite and entertainer’s...
Lebanese innovators will have a place to convene in creativity this coming September.
“This is Us.” And that is them.When Emmy nominations were announced Thursday, one side of the TV coin hinted that broadcast’s cultural relevance might be...
Bamboo is the focus of a major exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that explores Japan’s ancient craft of basketry.
Days before the opening of the Will Ferrell-Amy Poehler comedy “The House,” producer Adam McKay could see the writing on the wall. The film’s box-office...