Arts

Film about UK miners' strike wins gay cinema award at Cannes - 05/25/2014

CANNES- A film set in Margaret Thatcher's Britain at the time of the devastating miners' strike has won this year's unofficial Queer Palm award for gay-themed cinema at the Cannes Film Festival....

Cannes race heads for photo finish for Palme d'Or - 05/24/2014

CANNES, Deborah Cole- The 67th Cannes Film Festival awards its top prizes Saturday with a Canadian prodigy, a Russian corruption critic, Belgian brothers, a Turkish husband-and-wife team and a...

US museum adds Katy Perry portrait to collection - 05/23/2014

WASHINGTON- Thanks to the generosity of a US forklift truck dynasty, pop star Katy Perry will soon take pride of place in the dignified National Portrait Gallery in Washington. "Cupcake Katy," an...

Oil painting certified as early work by Dali - 05/23/2014

MADRID, Daniel Silva- An oil painting sold at a Spanish antique shop over two decades ago for around 150 euros ($200) has been certified as Salvador Dali's first Surrealist work which he painted as a...

Young actors hit 'overwhelming' Cannes for first time - 05/23/2014

CANNES- How not to trip on the red carpet in vertiginous heels, which star-studded Champagne party to go to, and how to bring yourself back down to earth next week when it's all over. Just a few of...

'Broadchurch' scores hat-trick at British TV awards - 05/22/2014

LONDON- Crime drama "Broadchurch" and US hit series "Breaking Bad" were both winners at the British Academy Television Awards on Sunday, with a special award being handed out to veteran British...

Famous Serbian writer, nationalist Dobrica Cosic dies - 05/22/2014

BELGRADE- Dobrica Cosic, a nationalist Serb writer and former politician considered by admirers as the "father of the nation", has died, his family said Sunday. He was 92. Cosic, born in 1921 in the...

Public 'overwhelmed' as 9/11 museum opens - 05/22/2014

NEW YORK, Jennie Matthew- New York's 9/11 museum opened to the general public on Wednesday, praised by early visitors as an overwhelming and beautiful tribute to the survivors and nearly 3,000...

Nightmare or dream? Ryan Gosling fantasy debut divides Cannes - 05/21/2014

CANNES, Marianne Barriaux- Hollywood heartthrob Ryan Gosling served up his hugely-anticipated directorial debut "Lost River" in Cannes Tuesday, a psychedelic fantasy with strong David Lynch echoes...

Bowie's Berlin comeback -- if just for a retrospective - 05/20/2014

BERLIN, Kate Millar- David Bowie's richly creative years in gritty 1970s Berlin where he made his iconic "Heroes" album are explored in a new exhibition expanding on last year's hit London show....
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