Arts & Culture

Mezzo-soprano Rise Stevens dies three months shy of her 100th birthday

Mezzo-soprano Rise Stevens, who sang with the Metropolitan Opera in Manhattan for more than 20 years, has died in New…

12 years ago

Vladimir Tretchikoff’s Chinese Girl portrait nears £1 million mark at London auction

Vladimir Tretchikoff's Chinese Girl portrait, thought to be the world's most reproduced painting, has fetched £982,050 ($1,570,000) at Bonhams auction…

12 years ago

Author James Herbert dies aged 69

British horror author James Herbert, best known for classic The Rats, has died aged 69. James Herbert’s publisher, Pan Macmillan,…

12 years ago

Balshoi Ballet “is just a giant brothel for oligarchs”, claims former soloist Anastasia Volochkova

Anastasia Volochkova, a Bolshoi former soloist, claimed female dancers at the famous Russian ballet theatre were forced to sleep with…

12 years ago

Chinese bowl originally bought for $3 fetches $2.2 million at Sotheby’s auction

A rare Chinese bowl bought for $3 at a New York state garage sale has sold for $2.2 million at…

12 years ago

Toyo Ito wins 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize

Japanese architect Toyo Ito will receive 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize, a prestigious award, known throughout the world as architecture’s highest…

12 years ago

Sergei Filin may recover sight after acid attack

Sergei Filin, the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow, may recover enough of his sight to work again,…

12 years ago

Titanic violin played by Wallace Hartley is genuine

After seven years of investigation, auctioneers found out that the violin thought to be the one played by the band…

12 years ago

Vienna Philharmonic to publish details of its Nazi past

The Vienna Philharmonic orchestra is expected to publish details of its history during the Nazi era in response to accusations…

12 years ago

Pavel Dmitrichenko confesses to Bolshoi acid attack on Sergei Filin

Bolshoi Ballet soloist Pavel Dmitrichenko and two other men have confessed to an acid attack on Sergei Filin, the company's…

12 years ago