Arts

September 11 museum draws 2.7 million visitors in first year - 05/16/2015

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES- About 2.7 million people have visited the September 11 museum in New York since it opened a year ago, museum officials said on its anniversary. The visitors came from all 50...

Beatles guitar headlines NY music auction - 05/15/2015

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES- A guitar played by George Harrison in the Beatles' early days, previously on display in a British museum, goes on auction in New York Friday, valued at $400,000 to $600,000....

Yoko Ono is star of one-woman New York exhibition - 05/14/2015

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, Brigitte Dusseau- Yoko Ono is most famous as the widow of John Lennon. But on Sunday, New York's Museum of Modern Art explores the avant-garde artist with a major...

Turkish leader inaugurates grand Tirana mosque construction - 05/14/2015

TIRANA, ALBANIA- Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his Albanian counterpart Bujar Nishani inaugurated on Wednesday the construction project of a grand mosque which Turkey is financing. The mosque...

Berlin Philharmonic fails to elect new chief conductor - 05/13/2015

BERLIN, GERMANY, Raphaelle Logerot- Musicians from the prestigious Berlin Philharmonic failed to elect their next chief conductor Monday after more than 11 hours of suspense-filled secret voting and...

Peacock Room reimagined in ruins at Washington museum - 05/13/2015

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES- An over-the-top reimagination of 19th century American-born artist James Whistler's iconic Peacock Room is going on display in the Washington museum that is home to the...

Favourite names in Berlin Philharmonic's hunt for new chief - 05/11/2015

BERLIN, GERMANY, Simon Morgan- The legendary Berlin Philharmonic meets to elect its chief conductor Monday in one of the most closely watched appointments in the world of classical music. Current...

British church bells ring out in VE Day celebrations - 05/11/2015

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM- Cathedrals and churches across Britain rang their bells on Saturday as part of the three-day commemorations marking the 70th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day (VE Day)....

Germany hails 'liberation' from Nazis 70 years on - 05/10/2015

BERLIN, GERMANY- Germany on Friday celebrated its "liberation" from the Nazis 70 years ago, with the speaker of parliament Norbert Lammert hailing the willingness of the country's neighbours to...

Stolen first edition of '100 Years of Solitude' found in Colombia - 05/10/2015

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA- A signed first edition of "100 Years of Solitude" by Nobel-Prize winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez was recovered Friday, a week after it was stolen at a Colombia book festival,...
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