Arts

Julia Roberts reflects on evil in 'Mirror Mirror' - 03/31/2012

LOS ANGELES, Romain Raynaldy- Julia Roberts has taken time off from Hollywood of late to focus on her three young children -- but admits she enjoys being back on the big screen, as a fairytale...

Peru Nobel laureate donates library to hometown - 03/29/2012

LIMA- Peruvian Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa will donate more than 30,000 books from his personal library to his hometown of Arequipa, where he was celebrating his 76th birthday on Wednesday."A...

Lohan thanks judge as probation ends - 03/29/2012

LOS ANGELES, Michael Thurston- Lindsay Lohan thanked a judge Thursday for lifting her formal probation after a long string of court appearances, but the US actress was told to "stop the...

Cate Blanchett takes first steps on Paris stage - 03/29/2012

PARIS- Oscar-winning Australian actress Cate Blanchett takes her first steps on the Paris stage on Thursday, playing a lonesome woman in the lead role of the surreal 1970s play "Big and...

Profits, audience continue to hike for Vienna Opera - 03/27/2012

VIENNA- Five opera premieres and three for ballet will pepper next season at Vienna's State Opera, which continues to see its profits and spectators rise since French director Dominique Meyer took...

Director Cameron reaches bottom of Mariana Trench - 03/26/2012

WASHINGTON- "Titanic" director James Cameron reached the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean in his solo submarine, mission partner the National Geographic said Sunday.The explorer and filmmaker...

Leading Italian novelist Antonio Tabucchi dies - 03/26/2012

ROME, Ljubomir Milasin - Antonio Tabucchi, one of Italy's leading contemporary writers and a ferocious critic of billionaire former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, died in Lisbon on Sunday at the...

Director James Cameron to take record-setting plunge - 03/25/2012

WASHINGTON- "Titanic" director James Cameron could dive as early as this weekend to the deepest place on Earth, further than any other human has on a solo mission, so long as the weather...

Louvre unveils Da Vinci's 'last masterpiece' - 03/23/2012

PARIS, Emma Charlton- The Louvre on Friday unveiled a newly-restored Leonardo Da Vinci masterpiece, the "Saint Anne", hoping to lay to rest an art world row that saw the Paris museum accused of...

Pollock masterpiece loaned from Iran for 1st time - 03/23/2012

TOKYO- A masterpiece by US artist Jackson Pollock is being exhibited at a Tokyo museum in its first trip outside Iran in more than three decades.The Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art is holding an...
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