ROME (dpa)- A high-profile Franco-Italian deal for the loan of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous drawing to Paris' Louvre museum was blocked Tuesday by an Italian court, pending a ruling on an appeal...
LONDON, dpa correspondents (dpa)- One of street artist Banksy's best-known non-street works, a painting of chimpanzees debating in the British parliament, was sold for over 9.8 million pounds (12.1...
NEW YORK (dpa)- Opera singer Placido Domingo on Wednesday resigned as general director of the Los Angeles Opera amid allegations of sexual harassment. The 78-year-old opera star also withdrew from...
STOCKHOLM (dpa)- The spokesman for the Swedish Academy, which chooses the Nobel Literature Prize, is confident the laureates due to be announced next week will be regarded on an equal footing. "The...
NEW YORK, Holger Mehlig (dpa)- Renowned US opera singer Jessye Norman has died aged 74, the New York Times and NPR radio reported on Monday. The Metropolitan Opera House in New York confirmed the...
ROME/PARIS, Alvise Armellini (dpa)- Italy will loan to France one of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous artworks, the "Vitruvian Man," ending a months-old cultural spat. The male figure, shown in...
MUNICH (dpa)- Lothar-Guenther Buchheim, author of the 1973 novel "Das Boot," which was famously made into a film of the same name, was much more deeply involved in Nazi propaganda than previously...
BERLIN (dpa)- The new director of a memorial in Berlin for people detained by East Germany's Stasi secret police wants to take the museum's work to a new level. In addition to tours of the Stasi...
KARLSRUHE, GERMANY (dpa)- German industrial designer Luigi Colani died at the age of 91 in the western city of Karlsruhe on Monday following an illness, his partner Yazhen Zhao said. Colani's...
VIENNA (dpa)- German opera director Peter P Pachl was prevented from showing highly-charged sexual material during a performance of one his productions at the Klosterneuburg Monastery in Austria,...
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