Austrian artist Ernst Fuchs, co-founder of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, has died at the age of 85. The…
Pablo Picasso’s blue period portrait La Gommeuse has achieved a record $67.5 million at Sotheby's in New York, as part…
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Irish children’s books author Eoin Colfer is teaming up with Marvel to write a new Iron Man novel for young…
Amazon Books is the very first mass market bookstore the company has ever launched. It opens on November 3 in…
Placido Domingo has been forced to cancel his conducting engagements at New York's Metropolitan Opera as he will undergo surgery…
Jamaican novelist Marlon James has won this year’s Man Booker Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings, a novel…
This year’s Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to the Belarusian writer and journalist Svetlana Alexievich "for her polyphonic…
A group of protesters have demonstrated outside Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) that is showing work by Pierre-Auguste Renoir,…