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People who participate in the arts, even if only reading literature, are twice as likely to volunteer in their communities as those who don't, according to a new study released Wednesday.
A group of young men stormed into a leading Moscow art gallery, destroying an exhibition of paintings by an ethnic Georgian artist and injuring its owner, the gallery owner said Sunday.
For more than 20 years, author Doris Lessing has lived on a quiet block in North London, in a brick Hampstead house among a row of such homes, as straight and steady as a line of toy soldiers.
Performances of a Mozart opera canceled because of fears of Muslim anger could be reinstated as early as December if authorities guarantee security, Berlin's Deutsche Oper said Wednesday.
British entertainment company 57 Productions launched a new Web site Tuesday which allows users to download and listen to poetry on their MP3 players and iPods.
Germany's interior minister condemned a leading opera house's decision to cancel a production of Mozart's "Idomeneo" out of concern a scene featuring the severed head of the Prophet Muhammad could provoke a dangerous reaction from Muslims.
Enthusiasts filed into their seats wearing jeans and T-shirts for the Metropolitan Opera's opening night performance.
The Philadelphia Orchestra will become the first major U.S. orchestra to open its own online music store for consumers who want to download performances.
A city agency that allowed a spray-painted elephant to appear at an art exhibit is now saying it will not issue permits for such events in the future.
Police recovered the Edvard Munch masterpieces "The Scream" and "Madonna" on Thursday, two years after masked gunmen grabbed the national art treasures in front of stunned visitors at an Oslo museum.
Five hours of color footage of writer Eudora Welty has been found in the National Endowment for the Arts media archives and returned to Mississippi.
The program said "Abduction from the Seraglio." But Saturday's performance of Mozart's Turkish opera at the Salzburg Festival should have been called "You Always Hurt the One You Love."
Two fragile artworks on loan from the United States slid from the walls of Paris' Pompidou Center and shattered, the museum said Friday.
Author J.K. Rowling said two characters will die in the last installment of her boy wizard series, and she hinted Harry Potter might not survive either.
A rediscovered masterpiece by Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele sold for $21.7 million at auction on Tuesday, a highlight of a bumper week in the buoyant London art market.
A painting by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold for $5.6 million, setting a new record for the artist and for a Latin American work of art at auction.
The Saint Louis Art Museum will keep a 3,200-year-old mummy mask unless it gets more proof that it belongs to Egypt.
The image on the canvas swirls in a frenzy of violence — two horses tangled in a fight set against a dark, turbulent landscape.
Not since Rembrandt lived here have so many of his works been gathered for display under the same roof where he painted them.
A young Richard Harris carouses with fellow actors in a pub overlooking the River Liffey. Dockworkers kill time while waiting to find out if they'll get jobs that day. Fleets of bicycling workers pedal to work. An old man sells rosary beads to supplement his pension.
He's a man in black with a full beard and a hoop earring. Or a clean-shaven, balding gent in a starched collar. Or a sensitive young man in a rich, red doublet.
Their story was singular from the start: Picasso fell for the dark Dora Maar when he saw her in a Left Bank cafe, methodically stabbing a knife into the table between her outstretched fingers. Sometimes, she missed and drew blood.
The United States returned three paintings stolen at the end of World War II to the mayor of the western German town that owned them.
India's most famous artist has apologized for representing the country as a nude goddess in a painting.
Warhol silk-screen sells for $46.8mAn Andy Warhol silk-screen of dollar bills sold at Sotheby's in New York for $US43.8 million ($46.8 million) after a dramatic bidding war.
Placenta Teddy Bear Turns HeadsAfter the baby is born and the cooing in the delivery room begins, parents may do a variety of things with the placenta -- maybe take a picture, poke it a bit, or just divert their eyes and let the nurse take it away.
Fingerprint leads experts to new Da VinciArt experts believe that a new painting has been discovered by the Italian renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci.
Herta Muller, German Author, Wins Nobel Prize in LiteratureHerta Müller, the Romanian-born German novelist and essayist who writes of the oppression of dictatorship in her native country and the unmoored existence of the political exile, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday.
Art's shock of the new will never dieWe're in the season of the new. As the Turner Prize exhibition opens, and Regent's Park squirrels quake at the imminent arrival of the Frieze art fair, it seems that art's rage for revolution is as passionate as it was 100 years ago when Picasso was dismantling reality.
Residents vote to spare Banksy muralA London council is offering residents the opportunity to decide whether a Banksy mural should stay or go.
What Is an Andy Warhol?Just as Monroe understood that you don't have to act for the camera in the way the stage-trained Olivier defined acting, so Warhol realized that you don't need to make art for an audience brought up on film and television in the way Kenneth Clark defined art.
Polaroid Last picture showAs the final cartridges of Polaroid film pass their use-by date, an exhibition of the finest photographers to use the instant format demonstrates just how much it will be missed.
Thieves steal Magritte nude from Belgian museumTwo men, one armed with what appeared to be a pistol, stole a painting by Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte from a Brussels museum on Thursday morning.
The cannibal convict was an everyman at heartCruising on the Gordon River in his home state of Tasmania, Jonathan Auf Der Heide was told the story of the cannibal convict Alexander Pearce. The aspiring film director was soon obsessed.
Collection of Andy Warhol art stolen from Westside homeA multimillion-dollar collection of original artwork by famed pop art icon Andy Warhol was stolen last week from a West Los Angeles home, according to police.
Frozen blood head on show in LondonA head made from frozen blood - the latest in a series of self-portraits by artist Marc Quinn - has been unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Banksy artwork painted over in HackneyCouncil officials have painted over a Banksy graffito sketch from which a reworked version was derived as the cover artwork for the 2003 single Crazy Beat by the band Blur.
Knossos: Fakes, Facts, and MysteryThe masterpieces of Minoan art are not what they seem. The vivid frescoes that once decorated the walls of the prehistoric palace at Knossos in Crete are now the main attraction of the Archaeological Museum in the modern city of Heraklion, a few miles from the site of Knossos.
Fake Dutch 'moon rock' revealedA treasured piece at the Dutch national museum, a supposed moon rock from the first manned lunar landing, is nothing more than petrified wood, curators say.
Art brings steam power to the digital revolutionIn a field near Sandwich in Kent, Alan Gibbs, a local model maker, is firing up his steam engine. Its chimney is coughing out irritated little clouds of smuts and its pistons are bobbing up and down.
Warhol's Jackson goes to auctionA portrait by Andy Warhol of the late singer Michael Jackson is set to be auctioned in New York.
Man seeks massive printerAround eight months ago, Mark Webber began work on his latest project, which he is very nearly ready to print. It's a typographic map of Paris. It's in French (naturally) and, being a linocut, Webber has had to carve out every single street and area name he's included, in reverse.
Incredible New Portfolio of Dave Hill Who doesn't know Dave Hill, the guy with the awesome hdr looking photos.
Models, muses, lovers: Bringing art history to the screenLined with handsome five-storey townhouses built by refugee Huguenot weavers, the road had been closed to traffic, and three young women in bonnets and bustles were sitting sunning themselves on the kerbside, in a composition straight out of a Victorian photograph.
Gnome probed over Nazi saluteGerman prosecutors have launched an enquiry into whether a garden gnome with its right arm raised in a Hitler salute in a Nuremberg art gallery is against the law.
Stroke of Genius: 10 Artists with Abilities Borne of Brain DamageImagine having a stroke, a severe brain injury or a tumor and suddenly waking up one day to find you've developed artistic talents to rival Picasso.
Stopping culture at our bordersThere are no words in the thesaurus of insult that quite do justice to the UK Border Agency and the minister for borders and immigration, Phil Woolas.
Nazi art thefts under summit spotlightJewish groups and representatives of 49 countries are meeting in Prague for talks on returning art and property stolen by the Nazis.
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