Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands will officially re-open the Rijksmuseum next week, marking the end of a painful restoration project.…
Novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, whose scripts for Howards End and A Room With A View earned her two Oscars, has…
Scottish author Iain Banks has revealed today that he has late stage gallbladder cancer and is unlikely to live for…
An ancient gold ring thought to have inspired JRR Tolkien to write The Hobbit is being exhibited for the first…
Musical director of the Vienna State Opera Franz Welser-Moest was treated in hospital after collapsing with back pain while conducting…
Amazon has announced it will buy Goodreads, a book discovery and recommendation website. San Francisco-based Goodreads was founded in 2007,…
Louvre has topped the list of the most visited art museums of 2012, according to the Art Newspaper. The publication's…
Tilda Swinton is sleeping in a fitted glass box at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) this month. Museum…
Jazzman Bebo Valdes, a central figure in the golden era of Cuban big band music, has died in Sweden at…
Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, one of Africa's best known authors, has died at the age of 82 after a brief…