London - Charlotte Prodger has won the 2018 Turner Prize, Britain's most prestigious award for art, for her autobiographical video work questioning gender and identity, shot on an i-Phone.   The...

Berlin - British pop singer Dua Lipa is now one of the world's most-streamed artists, and her singles - including "New Rules," "Scared To Be Lonely," "IDGAF" and "One Kiss," - have sold 32 million...

San Francisco - Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett has defended the right of straight actors to play LGBT characters, it was reported late Friday.   Blanchett, appearing at the Rome Film...

Stockholm - The New Academy, a provisional body formed by a group of Swedish cultural representatives, was due Friday to announce the winner of a literature prize meant to replace the Nobel.  ...

Frankfurt - By Sandra Trauner,- The world's largest trade fair for the publishing industry, the Frankfurt Book Fair, launches on Tuesday with 7,000 exhibitors from 110 countries. The book trade is...

NEW YORK (dpa)- New York's Guggenheim Museum is to hand over a painting by the German artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner worth millions of dollars to the family of its former owner, a prominent Jewish art...

BARCELONA, Emilio Rappold (dpa)- Spanish opera singer Montserrat Caballe died early Saturday in Barcelona, a hospital spokesman said. She was 85. Caballe began her career in 1956 in Basel,...

BERLIN (dpa)- A prominent German historian lost his job as director of a former Stasi East German secret police prison in Berlin that was later converted into a memorial. Hubertus Knabe was fired...

STOCKHOLM, Lennart Simonsson (dpa)- Nobel winners in fields from medicine and physics to peace and economics will be unveiled with one exception: the literature prize. The Nobel Prize calendar that...