02/22/2004. COPENHAGEN.- The 2004 Sonning Prize will be awarded to the British-Palestinian sculptor, performance and installation artist Mona Hatoum.  This is the first time the Sonning Prize is awarded to a visual artist. <BOLETIN>...

04/17/2008. WEST HOLLYWOOD.-The Pacific Design Center presents the exhibit Harry Benson: A Retrospective of Iconic Photography through April 25th. Scottish-born photojournalist Harry Benson arrived in the U.S. from his native Scotland with The Beatles in...

05/12/2011. NEW YORK, NY.- The market for important works by Andy Warhol, the reigning king of Pop, continued to reach new heights at Christie’s New York tonight, as bidders chased two iconic sel...

10/10/2011. AUSTIN.- The professional archive of Nobel Prize-winning writer J.M. Coetzee will be housed at the University of Texas' Harry Ransom Center humanities library, providing a rare glimpse into the man considered a master storyteller of the South ...

10/29/2012. WARSAW (AP).- The box-like glass building rises from soil marked by tragedy in the heart of Warsaw's former Jewish district. At certain angles, its luminous facade reflects the outlines of a dark memorial to those who fought and died in the 19...

02/08/2013. POMPEII (AFP).- Conservation workers at the long-neglected Roman city of Pompeii began a 105-million euro ($142-million) makeover partly funded by the EU on Wednesday, a day after former site managers were put under investigation for corruptio...

05/19/2013. Driscoll Babcock Galleries, New York’s oldest art gallery, presents Refuge and Remembrance: Landscape Painting in the Civil War Era, an exhibition mounted from the gallery’s holdi...

09/25/2013. To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the US Civil War, the Terra Foundation for American Art and The Newberry have co-organized Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North, which runs...

02/07/2014. In a bidding war that took six minutes, Pope Francis’ 1,585cc Harley-Davidson Dyna Super Glide sold for €241,500 (£200,200). A Harley-Davidson motorcycle jacket also sold for an astounding €57,500 (£47,700) at the sale which took place...

12/27/2014. Should Charlie Chaplin continue making films or enter the trenches? The controversy over the fact that the British actor was not fighting alongside his own people erupted in 1915. At the beginning of his fame, Chaplin already faced criticism. Twenty-...

10/09/2015. Belarussian writer and dissident Svetlana Alexievich won the 2015 Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday for her work chronicling the horrors of war and life under the repressive Soviet regime. The Swedish Academy hailed the 67-year-old for writings t...

06/15/2017. Israeli author David Grossman won the Man Booker International Prize on Wednesday, sharing the £50,000 ($64,000, 57,000 euros) award with translator Jessica Cohen. Grossman, the first Israeli writer to win the prize, is now expected to enjoy a spi...

10/26/2017. This fall The Ringling offers a timely examination of photography and video art created in response to the conflicts and uprisings that have erupted in the Middle East in the last 15 years. Afterm...

10/20/2018. 2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance, an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion of African American culture that erupted in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City and spread across the cities of the greater Midwest, incl...

04/28/2019. Di Donna Galleries announces Surrealism in Mexico, an exhibition that explores the robust creative moment that emerged between 1940 and 1955 as an international community of artists fled World War ...