Arts

US computer club unveils Warhol digital art - 04/26/2014

NEW YORK- A dozen previously unknown works of digital art created by much-loved pop artist Andy Warhol have been discovered by a computer club at an American university in his hometown Pittsburgh....

Yo-Yo Ma in continuous search for all kinds of music - 04/24/2014

San Diego (California) – Abdul Rahman Bitar It is enough to hear the name of Yo-Yo Ma to prompt music lovers racing to buy tickets for his concerts. That is what happened in San Diego when the La...

Mysterious prehistoric reptiles fly into NY - 04/23/2014

NEW YORK, Mariano Andrade- An international exhibition in New York explores the fascinating world of prehistoric flying reptiles, the pterosaurs who ruled the skies when dinosaurs ruled the earth...

London looks to give voice to muted buskers - 04/22/2014

LONDON, Remi Banet- Concerned that London's seasoned street musicians are being silenced by excessive regulation, mayor Boris Johnson is leading calls for the buskers' voices, and guitars, to be...

Queen Elizabeth portrait released to mark 88th birthday - 04/21/2014

LONDON- A new portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, taken by David Bailey, has been released to mark her 88th birthday on Monday, with the renowned photographer delighting in the "mischievous glint" in her...

Christians mark Holy Fire rite on eve of Easter - 04/20/2014

JERUSALEM- Thousands of Christian pilgrims thronged the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City Saturday amid tight security to celebrate the Holy Fire ceremony on the eve of Easter....

Dusty home town remembers Garcia Marquez with plenty of rum - 04/20/2014

ARACATACA- In his sleepy, tropical home town, the people who knew the late Nobel-winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez as a child are greeting his death with warm memories and hope. "His grandfather, who was...

Oscar timetable back to normal next year, after Sochi - 04/19/2014

LOS ANGELES- Next year's Oscar nominees will be announced on January 15, and the show itself held on February 22 -- back to its regular slot after being held in March this year due to the winter...

World's first Tiananmen museum to open in Hong Kong - 04/19/2014

HONG KONG- The world's first museum dedicated to the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown wants to convince Chinese visitors to fight for democracy when it opens in Hong Kong next week, almost 25 years...

Garcia Marquez, godfather of magic realism, dies at 87 - 04/18/2014

MEXICO CITY, Laurent Thomet- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel-winning Colombian author who used magical realism to tell epic stories of love, family and dictatorship in Latin America, died Thursday...
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