The striking new depot in the heart of Rotterdam’s Museum Park is covered in 1,664 mirrored panels that reflect the park and the urban skyline
About 1,000 full-time unionized employees have been furloughed without salary since April. The opera house has continued to provide health care and the opera’s general manager said it could be possible to reboot the Met’s payroll if musicians agree to leaner multi-year contracts
‘I’ve not been rehearsing due to lack of energy and my house was destroyed, so physiologically I need to heal, get past this, fix my house and then get back to creation’
Sky News Arabia told Thawabeh that the censorship was the act of a single editor, who, they said, sought to make the poster more ‘visually relevant’ to the topic
As India's "monument to love" re-opened on Monday after a six-month hiatus, special rules were introduced -- including no touching the white marble walls of...
The tribute combined live performances with pre-recorded contributions -- including poems and testimonies from Fadia Tomb el Hage, Rifaat Torbey, Omar...
Cairo, Sept 20, 2020 (AFP) - Egypt's antiquities ministry announced Sunday the discovery of 14 coffins in the Saqqara area that had lain buried for two and a...
Around 120,000 years ago in what is now northern Saudi Arabia, a small band of homo sapiens stopped to drink and forage at a shallow lake that was also...
A teenage singer from Lebanon this week became the latest to join a global pop band formed by Simon Fuller, the man behind the Spice Girls and "American...
CAIRO, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Egypt's Al Nour Wal Amal (light and hope) chamber orchestra, a music group of visually-impaired women, has faced many challenges...
Enola Holmes is the creation of American author Nancy Springer who wrote a series of six young adult novels about Sherlock and Mycroft’s teenage sister who...
Across the region, a conspiracy of silence enshrouds the memories with few prepared to open up about a bloody and painful era that many would prefer to forget
‘I am making this move and exploring this new way of communication to me because, as we all know, the world is in trouble,’ the naturalist and broadcaster...
Winston Groom, the writer whose novel "Forrest Gump" was made into a six-Oscar winning 1994 movie that became a soaring pop cultural phenomenon, has died at...
The UK street artist has lost trademark ownership over one of his most iconic artworks
‘It was a great surprise for us and an exciting discovery because it’s the first time such an industrial wine press has been found in a Phoenician site. The...
This year’s shortlist includes four debut novelists and omits high-profile books including Anne Tyler’s ‘Redhead by the Side of the Road’ and ‘The Mirror and...
Artist Ryan Mendoza has been campaigning for more than five years to draw attention to the historic value of the home, where Parks lived for a short time...
Egypt is building two highways across the pyramids plateau outside Cairo, reviving and expanding a project that was suspended in the 1990s after an...
Our audience research has shown that visitors often saw the museum’s displays of human remains as a testament to other cultures being ‘savage,’ ‘primitive’ or...
Akhtar’s brilliant new novel ‘Homeland Elegies’ mourns an America that has lost its way in the half century since it welcomed his parents’ generation of...
‘The feedback is quite positive, I’ve had a lot of heartwarming messages and people relating to the message, which was the goal of the project and what we...
The pandemic financial hit absorbed by the theater district is severe, and industry leaders say they would lose money operating at a limited capacity --...
Archaeologists feared the worst when record Nile floodwaters threatened to overwhelm priceless ancient royal baths in Sudan, but prompt action averted...
In Syria's capital, Mohammed Hallak blows through a long metal tube into billowing red-hot glass, trying to keep his waning craft alive despite a war that...
AFAC director Rima Mismar discusses the second phase of the Lebanon Solidarity Fund for the Arts, in the wake of the Beirut Port blast
Photographer Lara Alc?ntara’s COVID-19 works are carefully staged self-portraits. Some reflect her fatigue humorously -- She appears stuck in a washing...
The archeological crypt of Notre-Dame reopens on Wednesday with an exhibition retracing the cathedral's turbulent history nearly 18 months after it was...
Beirut Heritage Initiative plans to work independently of the government while partnering with the Directorate General of Antiquities, Beirut Municipality,...
‘What we’re doing now is trying to prevent the worst -- a total collapse. Restoration is a longer, more expensive process, which will take months, years even....
Artists have used their work and contacts to mobilise donations, distributing funds among their colleagues or targeting the wider community through NGOs. Some...
Palestinian Culture Minister Atef Abu Seif urged Arab intellectuals to stand against a decision which ‘strengthens the [Israeli] enemy.’ Cultural...
Titled “and suddenly it all blossoms,” this year’s edition of the Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, which opened August 20, has been shortened...
Abed Al Kadiri's 'Today, I Would Like to be a Tree' pays tribute to Jean-Marc Bonfils -- the architect of the gallery’s home, the East Village Building -- who...
MOMA is the first major museum in the Big Apple to reopen to the public since the US cultural capital was hard-hit by the pandemic, bringing its busy calendar...