ROME (dpa)- Elena Ferrante, a world-famous Italian author who hides her identity behind a pseudonym, is to publish a new novel in Italy on November 7, her publisher edizioni e/o said Monday. There...

LOS ANGELES, Karen Wada, Los Angeles Times (tca/dpa)- Robert Frank, the fiercely independent photographer and filmmaker whose bleak yet poetic book "The Americans" jolted the nation's self-image and...

DESSAU, GERMANY, Andrew McCathie (dpa)- Germany has been celebrating 100 years since the founding of the Bauhaus, a school of revolutionary design and architecture once reviled by the Nazis. For the...

DUSSELDORF (dpa)- The Kunstpalast (Art Palace) museum in the German city of Dusseldorf has launched an exhibition dedicated to art created in former East Germany as the country marks 30 years since...

PARIS (dpa)- Paris on Sunday marked the 75th anniversary of its liberation from Nazi German occupation with re-enactments and the opening of a new museum dedicated to the events. City firefighters in...

ROME, Alvise Armellini and Annette Reuther (dpa)- The Gallerie dell'Accademia, one of Florence's top museums, whose treasures include the statue of Michelangelo's David, has lost its German director...

STUTTGART, GERMANY (dpa)- The state art gallery in the southern German city Stuttgart will return two drawings in its collection to the heirs of the rightful Jewish owners, the museum said Tuesday....

WARSAW (dpa)- The 15th Chopin and His Europe music festival started in Warsaw on Wednesday, bringing together some of the world's most renowned pianists and other musical artists. The festival...

ISTANBUL/BERLIN, Michael Fischer and Christine-Felice Roehrs (dpa)- A theatre director from the German city of Hamburg was arrested and denied entry into Turkey and subsequently put on a return...