Arts
Islamic State blows up tower tombs in Syria’s Palmyra: antiquities chief
Islamic State has blown up three ancient tower tombs in the city of Palmyra, Syria’s antiquities chief said on Friday, continuing the destruction...
News Corp confirms return of Rebekah Brooks in top role
News Corp, Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, has confirmed that Rebekah Brooks is returning to the top spot in London more than a year after she was...
JK Rowling sends Twitter into a frenzy with Harry Potter update
JK Rowling has given a surprise update on the progress of Harry Potter’s oldest son - sparking a frenzy among her millions of Twitter followers.
Could Spectre be Daniel Craig’s last Bond film?
Daniel Craig has hinted Spectre could be his final outing as suave agent James Bond.
Ukrainian filmmaker sentenced to 20 years by Russian court
A Russian military court convicted a prominent Ukrainian filmmaker on Tuesday of conspiring to commit terror attacks and sentenced him to 20 years in prison...
Banksy’s Dismaland site crashes again - but is it all part of the plan?
The website for Banksy’s Dismaland theme park has crashed again as fans scramble to book tickets online.
‘Scuse me while I sue this guy: Hendrix family trademark feud settled
Warring relatives of guitar legend Jimi Hendrix have reached a settlement after going to court over the rights to T-shirts and other merchandise bearing...
America returns stolen Picasso painting La Coiffeuse to France
U.S. authorities returned the stolen $15 million Picasso painting “La Coiffeuse” to France on Thursday, nine months after it was found in a...
U.S. returns stolen Picasso painting ‘La Coiffeuse’ to France
U.S. authorities returned the stolen $15 million Picasso painting “La Coiffeuse” to France on Thursday, nine months after it was found in a...
String operation: Stradivarius violin worth millions is recovered 35 years after it was stolen
A Stradivarius violin that disappeared 35 years ago has been found after it was handed in by the ex-wife of a man suspected of stealing it.
What book should I get? The new Dr Seuss, published 24 years after his death
Among Theodor Seuss Geisel’s things set aside by his widow after his death was an unknown manuscript that would become a book being published posthumously...
How long-lost Dr. Seuss book released today was discovered
Among Theodor Seuss Geisel’s things set aside by his widow after his death was an unknown manuscript that would become a book being published posthumously...
Harper Lee book flies out of stores — to mixed reviews
Harper Lee’s second novel flew out of stores Tuesday in one of the most eagerly anticipated book releases in modern publishing history and half a...
‘Go Set a Watchman’: World reacts to first chapter of Harper Lee novel
The world has been watching, and finally the wait is over. The first chapter of Harper Lee’s highly anticipated new novel, “Go Set a Watchman,”...
Big money and bigger doubts ahead of Harper Lee’s lost novel debut
The literary world is poised for what many are calling the biggest book event of the decade, the July 14 publication of Harper Lee’s long-lost first...
Disputed Klimt portrait fetches more than $39m in Sotheby’s auction
A Gustav Klimt portrait of a young woman that had been the subject of an ownership dispute fetched the highest price of $39.1 million in an auction at...
Jurassic World becomes fastest film in history to take $1bn at the box office
Jurassic World has smashed box office records after taking $1bn (£634m) in the fastest time ever.
Private Harper Lee letters could fetch $250,000 at auction
Four of the six letters sent from the author to one of her closest friends were written before “To Kill a Mockingbird,” when Harper Lee was...
Six private Harper Lee letters could fetch $250,000 at auction
Six letters by “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee to one of her closest friends could fetch as much as $250,000 at auction.
‘Napalm girl’ photographer returns to scene with iPhone and Instagram
Huynh Cong “Nick” Ut was 21 on that day more than half a lifetime ago when he stood on the same road, pointed his camera northeast and captured...
Clint Eastwood reveals his next movie will be based on ‘Miracle on the Hudson’
Clint Eastwood is to make a film about the pilot who famously landed a plane in the Hudson River in New York in 2009. Warner Bros announced on Tuesday...
Brazil students make art out of trash plucked off Rio shore
Forget pricey imported oil paints and exorbitant blocks of marble. Art students at a Brazilian university have taken advantage of one material they have...
Lovelocked: Paris cuts loose thousands of ‘eternal’ hearts on a sagging bridge
Paris, the city of romance, began the heart-breaking process of removing tens of thousands of “love-locks”, padlocks chained to the city’s...
German police find Hitler’s long-lost giant bronze horse sculptures
A German investigation into black market art has recovered two bronze horse statues that once stood in front of Adolf Hitler’s grand chancellery...
German police find Hitler’s long-lost horse sculptures
A German investigation into black market art has recovered two bronze horse statues that once stood in front of Adolf Hitler’s grand chancellery...
True face of Shakespeare? Botanist says he cracked ancient code to find bard portrait
A historian has revealed what he claims is the first portrait of William Shakespeare created in his lifetime.
Africa is ‘the next China’ for contemporary art, say auctioneers
Giles Peppiatt, from Bonhams in London, had good reason to make the trip to Nigeria’s financial capital, Lagos, for the auction house’s next...
Photos of Frida Kahlo’s locked-away belongings go on display in London
For 50 years, the colorful wardrobe and personal belongings of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo were hidden away in a bathroom.
Freud’s nude portrait of benefits officer ‘Fat Sue’ sells sold for £35.7m
A Lucian Freud nude portrait has sold at auction for more than £35 million after four bidders became locked in a battle to buy the modern masterpiece. Benefits...
New Charlie Hebdo doc secures worldwide deal at Cannes
A new documentary about French magazine Charlie Hebdo, which was attacked by jihadists this year, has been snapped up by distributors at the Cannes Film...
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