Arts
Cupcakes & time travel: Changing cities explored in Berlin show
BERLIN - If you could go back in time to change your city, what would you do? What kind of a place do you want to live in? Would you try to stop gentrification?
Mall developer Taubman's $500 million art collection up for auction
NEW YORK - The art collection of late U.S. mall developer A. Alfred Taubman, who served prison time in an auction house price-fixing scandal, is being put up for sale in what was described on Friday as the most valuable private collection ever offered at auction.
British Museum celebrates three generations of manga artists
LONDON - London's British Museum takes a look at manga, Japan's widely popular graphic art form, in a new exhibition showcasing the works of different generations of artists. | Video
Wind-powered 'Strandbeests' strut through Boston at start of U.S. tour
BOSTON - A pair of skeletal sculptures that harness the power of the wind to walk strutted around Boston's City Hall on Friday at the start of the U.S. tour of Dutch artist Theo Jansen's "Strandbeests."
Clive Owen makes Broadway debut in Pinter's 'Old Times'
NEW YORK - British actor Clive Owen swaps Hollywood for the stage in "Old Times", making his Broadway debut in a revival of Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter's 1971 play. | Video
ABBA piano seen raising money, money, money at auction
LONDON - The piano used to play the glissando that kicks off ABBA's disco hit "Dancing Queen" will be one of the star attractions at a rock and pop auction at Sotheby's next month where it is expected to sell for up to 800,000 pounds ($1.24 million). | Video
Botticelli painted modern beauties - in 1400s, show says
LONDON - An exhibition that portrays the 15th-century Italian painter Sandro Botticelli and his blonde Venuses as an inspiration for the modern Western ideal of female beauty will open this month in Berlin and in March in London, curators said on Thursday.
FBI warns U.S. art dealers about antiquities looted from Syria, Iraq
- The FBI on Wednesday urged art dealers in the United States to be careful when buying antiquities from the Middle East, saying there is evidence collectors have recently been offered artifacts plundered by Islamic State fighters in Syria and Iraq.
Milan show depicts drama of modern motherhood
MILAN - A 1896 film of a woman plucking babies from a cabbage patch marks a whimsical start to a Milan exhibition that examines artistic representations of motherhood, but the mood turns more sinister as the show moves into the 20th century.
Cumberbatch's 'Hamlet' wears a hoodie, wows fans in London
LONDON - Benedict Cumberbatch delivered a "Hamlet" for our time in London in a production that played to his strengths, dresses up Shakespeare for a younger crowd and had the British actor's fans roaring in approval at the end.
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Harper Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman' reigns atop U.S. bestsellers list
- Sales of Harper Lee's "Go Set a Watchman" are still going strong as the novel spent a sixth week at the top of the U.S. fiction bestsellers list on Thursday.
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