A Dutch museum on Thursday unveiled a huge ball-shaped, mirrored building that will be the first in the world to offer the public access to its complete collection.

Indigenous artist Vincent Namatjira won Australia's most prestigious art prize on Friday, the first time an Aboriginal painter won the portraiture competition since its inception 99 years ago.

A painting by Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli could fetch over $80 million when it goes under the hammer in New York in January.

A 700-year-old painted scroll from the Yuan Dynasty titled "Five Drunken Princes Returning On Horseback" is expected to sell for $10-15.5 million at an upcoming Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong.

He is one of the 20th century's most famous artists, but not many people know that Man Ray got his start as a fashion photographer.

Egypt's Al Nour Wal Amal (light and hope) chamber orchestra, a music group of visually-impaired women, has faced many challenges over the decades, yet none was like this year's pandemic.

Japanese artist Takahiro Shibata's glasses are fogging up because of his face mask - a problem familiar to many spectacles wearers during the coronavirus pandemic.

Winners of the prestigious Nobel prizes this year will receive an extra 1 million crowns ($110,000).

New York's Metropolitan Opera on Wednesday announced the "painful" cancelation of its entire 2020-21 season over the still-spreading coronavirus.

Among the many mysteries surrounding the ancient Mexican metropolis of Teotihuacan, one has been especially hard to crack: how did its residents use the many signs and symbols found on its murals and ritual sculptures?

Feted for their fine architecture and often used as lavish backdrops for period movies, Britain's great estates came under the spotlight on Tuesday for a darker reason: their links to colonialism or slavery.

With the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to rage and many galleries closing their doors, the opening of Sakarsa Art Space comes as a ray of hope – showing the resilience and “never say die” attitude of the art world.

A group exhibition has invited eight prominent contemporary artists from Southeast Asia, including five artists from Indonesia, to confront and engage with images that span the region’s colonial era to the present.

British artist Banksy's "remix" of a masterpiece by Impressionist painter Claude Monet is going up for auction on Oct. 21 and is expected to fetch between 3-5 million pounds (US$3.8-6.4 million), Sotheby's said on Monday.

A museum that archives and exhibits items related to the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster opened Sunday in the northeastern Japan town that hosts the stricken power plant, helping to preserve memories and pass on lessons to future generations.

Egypt's antiquities ministry announced Sunday the discovery of 14 sarcophagi in the Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo that had lain buried for 2,500 years.

Human remains found in a tomb where Michel de Montaigne is said to have been buried may indeed belong to the 16th-century French philosopher but more work is needed to solve the mystery.

Takashi Murakami is offering us a little piece of his art for the price of a bottle of Perrier. 

An exhibition of art donated to the National Museum of Palestine has gone on show in Paris.

A fountain pen, silver pocket watch and other prized possessions of the late Jewish-Polish composer Wladyslaw Szpilman, the real-life hero of the Oscar-winning film "The Pianist", go under the hammer in Warsaw next week.

One hundred students from SMPN 1 state junior high school in Cirebon, West Java, have joined an exchange program initiated by the Korea Arts and Culture Education Services (KACES).

Jimi Hendrix made his name in London, exploding onto the 1960s music scene with his mesmeric guitar playing, before his untimely death 50 years ago at the age of 27.

The world-famous archaeological site of Pompeii could choose a non-Italian as its next general director for the first time, after an international search open to all candidates, Italy's culture minister said on Thursday.

British street artist Banksy has lost a two-year trademark battle with a greetings card company over his 'Flower Thrower' graffiti work after EU officials said his anonymity meant he couldn't be identified as the owner. 

The men in the audience clapped and the women ululated as the band finished singing: it would have been commonplace except the venue was in Iran and the group on stage were all women.

The Triennale Milano and Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art announced an eight-year collaboration on Wednesday, a cultural experiment both claimed had never before been undertaken. 

UOB Indonesia's Indahnya Berbagi dalam Berkarya, dari Seniman untuk Seniman (Sharing is Rewarding, from Artists for Artists) aims to support Indonesian artists, especially those living outside Java and Bali. 

When something becomes a defining moment in the zeitgeist,  arts and culture will inevitably revolve around it, especially when it is a pandemic affecting billions.

Among the festival's guests of 100 storytellers and culinary figures are the author of the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy, Kevin Kwan, Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat, Barack Obama’s sister Maya Soetoro-Ng, Indonesian writers Eka Kurniawan and Dee Lestari as well as chef Chris Salans and international food journalist James Oseland.

Cemeteries in the Philippine capital will be closed on All Saints' Day for the first time, officials said Monday, preventing millions in the Catholic-majority country from visiting their dead loved ones as the coronavirus rages.