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6 movies to watch at the Cannes Film Festival
In a Cannes lineup packed with veteran auteurs — Michael Haneke, Abbas Kiarostami, Alain Resnais — and relative newcomers like Lee Daniels and Andrew ...
Romney to urge grads to honor family commitments
Barack Obama and Mitt Romney were trying to steer clear of the fight over gay marriage as the president jabbed at Republicans and his presumed ...
Van Gogh museum unveils new willow watercolor
A young Vincent van Gogh was so struck by a dead willow leaning "lonely and melancholy" over a pond near The Hague that he knew at once he had to ...
Swedish museum evacuated after bomb threat
A bomb threat closed Stockholm's modern art museum on Tuesday, two days after an exhibit about degrading stereotypes that black people have endured ...
Solo Chicago show for artist Rashid Johnson
For more than a decade, contemporary artist Rashid Johnson has worked almost under the radar, turning out work presented at museums and coveted by ...
London Book Fair's focus on China irks activists
Britain's biggest book fair opened Monday amid criticism of its decision to extend a special invitation to China, a country that regularly censors and ...
Welsh museum remembers Titanic connection
A museum in Wales is commemorating the sinking of the Titanic with written memories from a local man who heard distress calls from the vessel on his ...
Titanomania: Museum charts obsession with Titanic
Somewhere between the black Titanic teddy bears and the pale Iceberg beer, the Titanic Barbie doll and the "Tubtanic" bath plug, the global obsession ...
London hotels: pamper wealthy Olympic guests
Coming for the Olympics with money to spend? Then there's still time to ensure you can take tea at The Ritz, drink at the Savoy's American bar, or ...
Will act for food: Greek theater aids crisis needy
Theater is meant to provide food for thought, but in a Greek city it also feeds the needy. In response to the country's acute financial crisis, the ...
Spaniards protest creation of Vegas-style casinos
Around 200 people in downtown Madrid are protesting a project that aims to build six casinos and 12 hotels and create jobs in a country where ...
Nazi-seized art ordered returned to American man
A Berlin museum must return thousands of rare posters to an American man, part of his Jewish father's unique collection that had been seized by the ...
German court mulls restitution of Nazi-seized art
Germany's top federal appeals court is set to rule Friday on whether a Berlin museum must return to a Jewish man from Florida thousands of rare ...
3 decades of LA art go on show in Berlin
A primer on three decades of post-World War II art from Los Angeles, including iconic images from Ed Ruscha and David Hockney, abstract works by Sam ...
Picasso's "Guernica" undergoes medical check
Pablo Picasso's "Guernica," one of the world's most iconic paintings, is getting a full health check as it marks its 75th anniversary. A giant robotic ...
'Mona Lisa' copy draws crowds at Spain's Prado
Crowds gathered Tuesday at Madrid's Prado Museum to view a copy of the "Mona Lisa" for the first time since restoration revealed it was almost ...
Portugal observes Carnival holiday, despite crisis
The Portuguese government's attempt to make people work more by scrapping the traditional Carnival holiday has flopped as most companies and public ...
On Valentine's day, a museum for broken hearts
What becomes of a garden gnome hurled in fury at a car during a stormy breakup? Or a teddy bear that was once a Valentine's Day present? A wedding ...
Romanian military flies food in to stranded towns
Military planes flew in tons of emergency food Monday to towns and villages in eastern Romania, where thousands have been stranded. Some people were ...
Bayreuth festival to beam opera to German cinemas
The annual Bayreuth Festival has a new offering this year for Richard Wagner fans who can't get a ticket: a live broadcast of "Parsifal" to German ...
Russians alarmed by rash of teenage suicides
A rash of teenage suicides in Russia has set off alarm bells and experts are urging the government to take immediate action. Russia has the world's ...
IOC steps up fight against illegal betting
Governments, law enforcement agencies and betting operators agreed Thursday to work more closely together to fight illegal betting and corruption in ...
'Spot-fixer' cricketer Amir released from jail
Teenage fast bowler Mohammad Amir, one of three Pakistan cricketers jailed in England for spot-fixing, was released on Wednesday because of good ...
'Mona Lisa' copy done hand in hand with da Vinci
A "Mona Lisa" copy owned by Spain's Prado Museum was almost certainly painted by one of Leonardo da Vinci's apprentices alongside the master himself ...
IOC pushing governments to act on illegal betting
The IOC wants governments to do more to tackle illegal betting, match-fixing and other corrupt activities that authorities say could pose a bigger ...