PARIS, FRANCE, Aurélie Mayembo- "I love being famous," the black US comedian Chris Rock once quipped. "It's almost like being white." But a growing number of artists would rather have success without...

LOS ANGELES, UNITED STATES, Frankie Taggart- It's an all-too-familiar Hollywood story: the out-of-work actor eking out an existence in cheap housing, earning minimum wage delivering pizzas, desperate...

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM- Influential British art critic and prize-winning author John Berger, a self-declared revolutionary who controversially backed the far-left Black Panthers, has died aged 90,...

VIENNA, AUSTRIA- The Vienna Philharmonic rung in 2017 with its famed New Year's Concert on Sunday under the baton of the orchestra's youngest-ever conductor, charismatic Venezuelan Gustavo Dudamel....

WARSAW, POLAND, Anna Maria Jakubek- Poland's culture ministry on Thursday bought a private art collection worth an estimated two billion euros that includes Leonardo da Vinci's "Lady with an Ermine"....

BERLIN, GERMANY- German cultural officials said Tuesday they had to cancel a planned Berlin exhibition of an Iranian treasure trove of Western modern art after Tehran refused to provide an export...

LOS ANGELES, UNITED STATES, Frankie Taggart- Film legend Debbie Reynolds was rushed to hospital Wednesday after suffering a possible stroke, a day after the death of her movie star daughter Carrie...

LOS ANGELES, UNITED STATES, Frankie Taggart- After decades of fast living that her fearless "Star Wars" character Princess Leia would have struggled to keep up with, Carrie Fisher died Tuesday...

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY, Géza Molnar / Grégoire Ozan- Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Hugh Jackman. Spotting hunky Hollywood actors is no big deal any more in Budapest, now one of Europe's top hubs for...