The late artist and his wife and collaborator Jean-Claude wowed the world with their spectacular projects wrapping famous landmarks around the world. From Saturday, Paris, Arc de Triomphe in is the latest. it will disappear under silvery-blue recyclable material for a fortnight
Imagined in 1961 by the late Bulgarian-born artist Christo, ‘L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped’ was brought to life by Christo’s nephew, Vladimir Yavatchev, at a cost of about 14 million euros
Only recently discovered, these 21 naturalistic reliefs are heavily eroded and were initially estimated in 2018 to be some 2,000 years old, based on similarities with artworks found in Petra in Jordan
A collaboration between the Beirut Art Film Festival and the Italian Cultural Institute in Beirut, ‘Dante 700 Beyrouth’ is a hybrid (sometimes in-person, otherwise online) event staging eight evenings of poetry, music, theatre, film and art, through 26 September
Dante is credited with helping create the Italian language by using the Tuscan vernacular of his time – rather than Latin – to write his masterpiece
Marking its 70th anniversary the biennial, one of the most important of its kind in the world, reflects a reaction to the extreme right embodied in Brazil by...
Up at the Imperial War Museum, ‘Wim Wenders: Photographing Ground Zero’ presents large-scale images of the apocalyptic scenes that the veteran director shot...
Over the next few days, the entire Arc will be wrapped in 25,000 square metres of fabric – the signature of Bulgarian-born Christo, who died last year. He had...
A Taliban guard shows AFP a storeroom full of intact musical instruments that were left behind, after reports that everything had been trashed. The caretaker...
From a seven-hour “silent opera” and productions of Verdi and Puccini influenced by Japanese “Noh” theatre, to collaborations with songwriters Tom Waits and...
‘If you’re afraid of wolves,’ 36-year-old screen star Yulia Peresild told journalists, a month before being dispatched to the International Space Station,...
The musician believes the health crisis showed that people actually yearn for a better society, as he envisions in his Broadway show
The legendarily prolific Hollywood star has never shown much interest in retiring and appears on-screen in the movie as a former rodeo champion tasked with...
Hallyday parlayed the huge success from Gallic covers of US rock’n’roll, such as “Blue Suede Shoes” and “C’est Le Mash Potatoes”, into a long career in music,...
Judge Alison Nathan in Manhattan said Turkey ‘inexcusably slept’ on its rights by not suing until April 2017, just before Christie’s put the idol up for...
The third edition of Akkar’s environmentally inflected film and cultural festival will run 9-13 September in Qubaiyat and somewhat longer online
Within weeks of the Islamists taking the capital, many of the colourful street art pieces painted on Kabul’s labyrinth of concrete blast walls have been...
Originally titled ‘Girl with Balloon,’ the painting sold for nearly £1.1 million at Sotheby’s in October 2018. Now ‘Love is in the Bin,’ the version Banksy...
‘In total, almost 100 objects of significance to the global cultural heritage have been seized,’ said the Norwegian National Authority for Investigation and...
All-female orchestra was a symbol of change in Afghanistan, but some members fled or went into hiding after Taliban victory
A video released in August showed the group’s 26-year-old leader RM eating a bowl of noodles with a book titled ‘Early Death’ on the table next to him. Out of...
The Hermitage will bring out a limited series of NFTs, including a digital copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Madonna Litta’, as well as works by Vincent Van Gogh,...
Over the past decade, Monami Ohno has used cardboard to create artwork inspired by popular culture, from anime robots to models of tanks and fighter jets, a...
During the 20 years of Western-backed government, a lively popular culture grew up in Kabul and other cities with a mashup of body building, energy drinks,...
A piece by Swedish artist Dan Park on display at the 'Political Art' show depicts the right-wing Norwegian extremist killer Anders Behring Breivik as a...
The portraits and busts depicted Gilbert Heathcote, the Bank’s founding director and a governor, James Bateman, Robert Bristow, Robert Clayton, William...
Reuters found one NFT representing an image of a cartoon ape that was sold on OpenSea for 39 ETH – the cryptocurrency ether – last week (around $124,205 at...
Joanne Hartstone is using the platform to take her show to not one, but two major fringe festivals abroad that this year are happening at the same time,...
Do you want to buy a more than 5,000-year-old Sumerian tablet, listed as the property of a gentleman from Sussex in England and passed down as a family...
‘Art is like football,’ Messi said on his Twitter account in early August, while announcing the launch of his ‘Messiverse’ collection. ‘Eternal.’
Imagined decades ago in 1961 by the late Bulgarian-born artist Christo and his wife and fellow artist Jeanne-Claude, who died in 2009, ‘L’Arc de Triomphe,...
Friends of the Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra oversaw the purchase of the instruments for students at the conservatoire, which lost equipment in the 4 August...
Every day from 6.30 p.m. to 9 p.m. since the start of July, painter and sculptor Antonio Lopez, 85, has positioned his large easel and canvas and begun mixing...
The exhibition recreates existing paintings but with extra dimensions, such as sound and smell – including the aroma of ripe cheese. For once, museum-goers...
An Instagram video clip, just over three minutes long and entitled ‘A Great British Spraycation’, shows the elusive artist taking a summer road trip in a...