“You, how old?” a man in a mustard-colored shirt asks.
Dropping a finger at random into Claude Closky’s “Words of Value Dictionary,” the column for works beginning with the letter F, the reader will find a listing for “Fuck the Police.”
Following a two year absence from the music scene, Ziad Rahbani returned to the stage Thursday night to open the 33rd edition of Beiteddine Art Festival.
With some 60 films to his name, many of which have become classics of psychological and conjugal torment, Ingmar Bergman’s filmography showcases both his stylistic range and striking thematic consistency. Here are five key works from a six-decade career that has marked the history of cinema and influenced generations of directors to this day.
Hundreds of ancient artifacts returned by Italy after they were recovered from smugglers in May went on display at the Egyptian museum in Cairo Wednesday.
Film restoration seems relatively free of politics. Cinema is a relatively young form and cleaning grimy celluloid is innocent of the dangers that stalk...
The Association for the Promotion and Exhibition of the Arts (APEAL) announced the winning recipients of its 2018 Maria Arida Annual Scholarship Award...
“Journeys into the Future through the Sea of the Past,” the latest exhibition up at the Mark Hachem Gallery by Algerian artist Nacer, explores themes of...
LOS ANGELES: Joe Jackson, the father of Michael Jackson who created the Jackson 5 music family with iron will, died Wednesday, reports said.
Bee Gees singer Barry Gibb received a knighthood from Buckingham Palace on Tuesday, where he was honoured for his services to music and charity.
When filmmaker Marina Zenovich sought to make a documentary about Robin Williams, she found she could do it largely in the late comedian’s own voice.
Amid olive trees and plenty of ABBA tunes, the musical world of “Mamma Mia” took over a London theater Monday for the film sequel’s world premiere with Oscar...
Veteran British pop star Cliff Richard won a long-running case against the BBC on Wednesday after it broadcast live on TV a police raid on his home over...
Nancy Sinatra Sr, the teenage sweetheart and first wife of legendary singer Frank Sinatra, has died.
A Swiss museum will retain ownership of a Paul Cezanne painting in a Nazi-era collection after agreeing to exhibit the work regularly at a museum in the...
About an hour and half of traffic to the north of Beirut lies Jbeil, an enchanting, historic region which this summer will once again become a performance...
In “Safe Houses,” author Dan Fesperman superbly melds a character-strong espionage thriller with a suspenseful mystery that also aligns with the #MeToo...
Martial arts icon Bruce Lee wanted to be known around the world, and he built the perfect platform to do so as an international film star.
Those au-fait with the Beirut art scene will know the formula by now.
The first time that brothers David Kellman, Bobby Shafran and Eddy Galland were in the public eye, it was joyous.
UNESCO added Saudi Arabia’s Al-Ahsa Oasis, Oman’s ancient city of Qalhat and pre-Islamic Iranian archeological sites to its World Heritage List Saturday, the...
Iraqi cellist and conductor Karim Wasfi has played a concert for “peace and co-existence” amid the ruins of Mosul, almost a year after Iraqi forces ousted...
Donna Hylton opens her memoir “A Little Piece of Light,” with an admission of guilt and remorse for her crimes.
A new art exhibition in London depicts Michael Jackson as a savior, a saint, an entertainer, an icon, a monarch, a mask and a mystery.
Clean Bandit gave an electrifying performance at the Summer Misk Festival Thursday night, and the U.K. electro pop-classical crossover trio did so short-handed.
A mad rush is needed to preserve or catalogue thousands of Arctic archaeological sites before they are washed away by the hastening thaw of permafrost and...
The 15th edition of Zouk Mikael International Festival is set to return to the Kesrouan town’s Roman Amphitheater this July, with a four-concert program...
Just months after California legalized recreational marijuana, the state is giving stoner comedian Cheech Marin’s Chicano art museum $9.7 million.
There’s an oppressive bleakness to the brutal action-thriller “Sicario: Day of the Soldado,” but with the faces of Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro above the...
Bucharest, June 28, 2018 (AFP) - Romania asked UNESCO on Thursday to delay a decision on whether to accord world heritage list status to the Rosia Montana...
It’s usually a bad sign when critics start questioning your film before it’s finished. Director Eugene Jarecki had to endure worse.
When scientists calculate that a comet will collide with the Earth, chaos reigns, but the worst is yet to come in Kenneth Johnson’s sci-fi thriller, “The...
Lebanese trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf has been keeping busy.
“How can an artwork give voice to those buried beneath archival files?”
For the first time in the history of London’s West End theater district, a play is being staged in English and French – Moliere’s classic “Tartuffe,”...