10/02/2005. EDINBURGH.-The niece of a celebrated senior aid worker who was killed in the Asian tsunami has convinced more than 300 artists and musicians, including Sir Paul McCartney, David Hockney and Charlotte Church, to donate their artwork for a chari...

12/16/2008. IOWA CITY.- University of Iowa faculty member Susan Chrysler White was awarded a $25,000 Joan Mitchell Foundation 2008 Painters and Sculptors Grant. The grant will be used to enhance her studio...

10/25/2009. BERLIN.- Merry Karnowsky Gallery Berlin presents "Supreme Beings", a solo exhibition by award-winning artist Kill Pixie. Kill Pixie (AKA Mark Whalen) began as a graffiti artist on the str...

03/16/2010. LONDON.- Independent art charity The Art Fund, and the Crafts Council, today announced the eleven curators short-listed to take part in Art Fund Collect, a nationwide initiative championing co...

11/14/2010. LONDON.- Letters home from Sergeant Arthur Bradley who served on the Western Front for practically the entire course of the First World War are to be auctioned at Bonhams Printed Books, Maps...

07/02/2011. LONDON.- Frieze Film is a programme of artist films screened to coincide with Frieze Art Fair. This year it is curated by Sarah McCrory and includes five newly commissioned films that ...

03/18/2012. NEW YORK, NY.- Animals have provided a particularly fertile source of inspiration for artists, writers, and composers for centuries. From the carving of ancient seals with fearsome lions and mythical beasts, to the depiction of the serpent in ...

11/08/2013. An oil on canvas of a young woman striking a wistful pose in a field by the American genre and landscape painter Charles Courtney Curran (1861-1942), titled Far Away Thoughts, sold for $192,000 at Sha...

01/15/2014. Britain is recruiting an army of amateur historians to sift through more than 1.5 million pages of diaries written by World War I army officers, published online for the first time 100 years after the conflict began. Spanning the whole of the 1914...

06/19/2014. While a digitalised Hollywood reboot stomps its way to box office success around the world, the original Godzilla -- a man in a rubber suit -- has hit screens in Japan again, as relevant as ever. The 1954 classic, which spawned more than two dozen...

01/04/2015. Pop diva Madonna has hit back at criticism of images posted on her Facebook page showing iconic figures such as Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King in bondage to mirror her latest album cover. Photo-shopped portraits of King and Mandela were pos...

11/12/2015. R&B legend Allen Toussaint, one of the signature forces in New Orleans music whose songs have been played by a who's who of rock greats, has died, his family said Tuesday. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, who was 77, died suddenly in Madrid shortl...

09/12/2016. The United States on Sunday commemorated the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with a moment of silence observed in somber remembrance at Ground Zero in New York, where nearly 3,000 people were killed. Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton an...

03/28/2018. An extensive archive of material pertaining to the 1976 hijacking of Air France flight 139 from Tel-Aviv, Israel to Paris – a news story so important it was the inspiration for five movies, including the one currently in theaters titled 7 Days i...

09/12/2018. New York on Tuesday honored the nearly 3,000 people killed on September 11, 2001 in a ceremony at Ground Zero, the site where hijacked Al-Qaeda planes brought down the Twin Towers. The 17th anniversary was commemorated in fog and gentle rain by re...