DRESDEN, GERMANY, Simona Block (dpa)- Six years of renovations have been completed at the Semper Building in the eastern German city of Dresden, home to the world famous Old Masters Picture Gallery....
LOS ANGELES, Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times (tca/dpa)- While working at Random House in 1970s, Toni Morrison was known as "the black editor" for her commitment to publishing books about the...
CAIRO (dpa)- Egypt on Sunday started a months-long restoration of the coffin of Tutankhamun for the first time since the boy pharaoh's tomb was discovered in 1922, senior officials said. Minister of...
PARIS (dpa)- A collection of previously unpublished short stories by Marcel Proust is to hit French bookshops in October, publisher Editions De Fallois has announced. The founder of the publishing...
CANBERRA (dpa)- Australian author Melissa Lucashenko has won the country's Miles Franklin literature award for her novel "Too Much Lip," which depicts historical violence of colonization and...
NAIROBI, Janet Murikira and Kate Bartlett (dpa)- A US museum on Monday returned 30 artefacts considered sacred to an ethnic group in Kenya, as calls mount for galleries and collectors in the West to...
BAYREUTH, GERMANY, Britta Schultejans and Cordula Dieckmann (dpa)- The Bayreuth Festival in celebration of German composer Richard Wagner began Thursday despite scorching heat. Among the guests of...
BREMEN, GERMANY (dpa)- German museum Kunsthalle Bremen plans to digitalize its collection of graphic reproductions in order to make them available to the public by 2022, it said on Wednesday. The...
PARIS (dpa)- The Louvre in Paris has removed the name of controversial US pharmaceutical manufacturers the Sacklers from one of its wings, the museum confirmed on Thursday. The move comes after a...
SEATTLE, Seattle Times staff, The Seattle Times (tca/dpa)- All this reporting and writing about the moon landing's 50th anniversary got us in the mood to read and watch some science fiction. So here...
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