“Our Vast Dreams,” the latest production of the Saida-based Minwal Theatre Company, imaginatively stages the stories of its actors Palestinian and Syrian young people living in south Lebanon.
A new partnership between Deezer, the global music streaming service, and Rotana might see music fans switching from the popular Anghami, with the launch of Deezer’s MENA region services Thursday.
More than 100,000 small white porcelain skulls cover a walkway at a temple in the Thai capital, an evocative installation on mortality featured in the first-ever Bangkok Art Biennale.
Nearly a half-century has passed since the majestic moment when Neil Armstrong stepped carefully onto the lunar landscape, left foot first, taking that giant leap for mankind.
How many ambitious politicians can you name who’ve hitched their stars to migrant bashing?
Women everywhere are sharing stories of sexual harassment and gender inequality but men still aren’t really listening, Nigerian author and feminist icon...
A young filmmaker has turned the camera on her own family to document South Korea’s obsession with education and the severe toll it takes on its children...
In a red cape and dark, windblown hair, he crosses the dunes under a blazing sun.
The Beatles' psychedelic masterwork "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" has been named the most popular British album in history.
Spain's world-famous opera star Montserrat Caballe has died in Barcelona, a source at the hospital where she was being treated said Saturday.
Jonah Hill has always wanted to direct.
Award-winning American war reporter Marie Colvin was known for her dispatches from some of the world’s most brutal conflicts. Now a new film starring “Gone...
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were greeted by hundreds of flag-waving well-wishers on Tuesday after arriving in Fiji for a three-day visit as part of their...
Japanese-born Marine biologist Osamu Shimomura, who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry, has died.
Sometimes the raw material of Ali Ghomari's work comes screaming from the skies over Yemen.
The third edition of “Almost There,” the human rights and migration film festival, will open Friday with a selection of 14 shorts, documentaries and features.
Two new major exhibitions in the French capital counterpoint the work of a pair of art world rebels Jean-Michel Basquiat and Egon Schiele.
One of the gifts of fiction is that the story must end. Whether the plot concludes happily or not matters less than how the end is reached.
Friends shunned, lovers torn apart and emotions exploding: A new play running in London this month tackles the very personal divisions in British society...
Art prankster Banksy has struck again.A work by the elusive street artist self-destructed in front of startled auctiongoers Friday, moments after being sold...
“Venom,” starring Tom Hardy as a TV investigative journalist whose body is occupied by an alien organism, is a destabilizing mix of intentional and...
The Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Literature Prize, Friday announced an Iranian-born poet and a judge as new members as it seeks to recover from a...
The first edition of Lebanon’s European Theatre Festival opened Thursday night with “My Name is Rachel Corrie,” which tells the story of the American...
Le Choix Goncourt de L’Orient has returned for a seventh edition. The organizers of the yearly event announced its shortlist of eight francophone titles this...
A world away from the opulence showcased in hit rom-com “Crazy Rich Asians,” a critically acclaimed film noir is shedding light on a less well-known side of...
A stone image of an ancient priest is one of many stolen antiquities recovered by the Syrian government and put on display in Damascus this week, a reminder...
The world’s first monograph exhibition dedicated to 16th-century Flemish master Pieter Bruegel the Elder assembles half of all of his extant works.
Cuban artist Tania Bruguera unveiled an installation on the theme of migration Monday, in which viewers use their body heat to make a portrait of a young...
Much as we’re assaulted by it in TV news, it’s hard to watch old people suffer.
The first edition of Lebanon’s European Theatre Festival will be staged this month at Masrah al-Madina, bringing a variety of plays from EU countries to the...
The 10-year-old hero at the center of “The House With a Clock in Its Walls” likes to look up words in the dictionary, like “foreboding” and “indomitable.”
The contemporary art market is booming with Chinese artists helping to push prices up by nearly a fifth in the past year, the world’s biggest art index said...
They told him he was too ugly, too short and that he couldn’t sing. But Charles Aznavour, who has died aged 94, became one of the greatest singer-songwriters...
With his latest exhibition, “Building With Fire,” Jean Boghossian hopes to contrast his flame-scorched artworks with the shelled remains of the old...