Arts

Choir explores collective brutality on New York stage - 01/12/2015

NEW YORK, US, Shaun Tandon- The choir, in its origins in ancient Greece, served to explain what a solitary performer could not express and offered a mirror for the audience. For the innovative...

Courtney Love, puppets and Korean identity at NY opera fest - 01/11/2015

NEW YORK, US, Shaun Tandon- A dreamy video performance that explores Korean identity and an opera that dramatizes a disabled boy's plight through puppets are premiering in New York as part of the...

French TV cancels interview with 'Islamic France' novelist - 01/10/2015

PARIS, FRANCE- French television network Canal Plus on Friday cancelled the broadcast of an interview with one of the country's top novelists about his new book imagining a France under Islamic rule....

'The Grand Budapest Hotel' leads BAFTA nominations - 01/10/2015

LONDON, UK- "The Grand Budapest Hotel" led the pack Friday with 11 nominations for the BAFTAs, the British film awards seen as a pointer for Oscar success. Wes Anderson's stylish comedy is nominated...

Pop 'robots' Kraftwerk kick off shows at Berlin landmark - 01/09/2015

BERLIN, GERMANY, Deborah Cole- German electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk kicked off eight nights of concerts at an iconic Berlin museum Tuesday with a multimedia performance of their classic album...

Images of urban America find a lasting home - 01/08/2015

WASHINGTON, US- The US Library of Congress has purchased the archives of a Chilean-born photographer who has documented the decay of great American cities for more than four decades. More than 5,000...

Paris Louvre is world's most-visited museum - 01/06/2015

PARIS, FRANCE- The famous Louvre in France received 9.3 million visitors last year, retaining its title as the most-visited museum in the world, the Paris attraction announced Tuesday. Foreign...

Romance novelist Nicholas Sparks, wife break up - 01/06/2015

LOS ANGELES, US- Romance novelist Nicholas Sparks, whose bestsellers about ever-lasting love have been spun into a series of popular Hollywood films, is breaking up with his wife of 25 years. "Cathy...

Houellebecq stirs passions with 'Islamic France' novel - 01/05/2015

PARIS, FRANCE, Myriam Chaplain Riou- France 2022: An Islamic government in power, veiled women and the Sorbonne renamed Paris-Sorbonne Islamic University. The new book out Wednesday by French "enfant...

Movie being made of kiss-and-tell book by French leader's ex - 01/05/2015

PARIS, FRANCE, Marc Burleigh- A movie adaptation of a kiss-and-tell bestselling book that deeply embarrassed French President Francois Hollande is in the works after his journalist ex-girlfriend who...
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