Arts & Lifestyle News

September 24, 2018

Robert Indiana's home needs love if it's to be a museum

Pop artist Robert Indiana died in a house with a hole in the roof and pigeons living inside. The front windows are now ...

September 23, 2018

Performance artist unhurt after hit by painting in Italy

A man has hit performance artist Marina Abramovic on the head with a painting at a Florence museum. Palazzo Strozzi director ...

September 23, 2018

Man arrested at Buckingham Palace with stun gun

London police say a man has been arrested at the visitors' entrance to Buckingham Palace carrying a firearm. Police said ...

September 22, 2018

Art's iconic 'Blue Boy' gets major 250th birthday makeover

"Blue Boy" is getting a long-awaited makeover, and the public can watch as one of the world's most recognizable paintings ...

September 21, 2018

'IllumiNations' pyrotechnic show ending next year at Epcot

After almost two decades, Walt Disney World is ending the pyrotechnic, light and fireworks show which nightly lights up the ...

September 21, 2018

My First Audition: Fionn Whitehead

"The Children Act" and "Dunkirk" star Fionn Whitehead started to learn all of the lines of a play for his first audition - ...

September 21, 2018

My First Audition: Emma Thompson

British screen icon Emma Thompson describes her first ever audition - for Cambridge Footlights - as "total nepotism." (Sept.

September 21, 2018

Ancient treasures on show in Germany reveal turbulent past

An arrowhead firmly lodged in the skull of an ancient fallen warrior, a voluptuous woman's form carved from ivory and the ...

September 21, 2018

Correction: Homes-Regional Modern story

In a story Sept. 18 about how modernist homes vary by region, The Associated Press misspelled the publisher of two new books ...

September 20, 2018

Poet Sonia Sanchez working on memoir, 'Watch My Language'

With the help of Ta-Nehisi Coates, poet Sonia Sanchez is writing a memoir. Sanchez has a deal with One World for "Watch My ...

September 20, 2018

Top 20 Global Concert Tours from Pollstar

The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for ...

September 20, 2018

Wrestler-turned-mayor to become WWE's Kane once again

A new Tennessee mayor who's also a semi-retired pro wrestler will once again don his "Kane" gear to participate in the WWE ...

September 20, 2018

Harvard's Hasty Pudding casts first women in 175 years

Harvard University's Hasty Pudding theater troupe has cast its first women after nearly two centuries of all-male productions

September 20, 2018

Isabel Allende to receive honorary National Book Award medal

Isabel Allende, winner of an honorary National Book Award, sees no reason to discuss her legacy. "I think legacy is a very ...

September 20, 2018

First Audition: Jessica Henwick

British actress Jessica Henwick - known for "Game of Thrones," "The Defenders" and "Iron Fist" - lost out to Dakota Blue ...

September 20, 2018

Chris Pratt: Sharing religious messages 'fills my soul'

Chris Pratt says "it feels like an important time" for him to share religious messages with his fans. The "Jurassic World" ...

September 20, 2018

Milan Fashion returns to elegance with Arbesser, N.21

Milan Fashion Week launched Wednesday on a note of optimism with news that sales have reached pre-crisis levels. The Italian ...

September 19, 2018

Rahm Emanuel to publish book on 'Why Mayors Run the World'

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has a new book deal. Book publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced Tuesday it will publish a book by ...

September 19, 2018

Pratt's running role model: Tom Cruise

After meeting with seven disabled athletes who are being sponsored by Michelob Ultra to run in the New York Marathon, actor ...