Although the virus is still spreading fast in Sao Paulo, students and teachers at the dance school say they wanted -- needed -- to dance together again.

Broadway stars who once lit up New York's most bankable stages now face a reckoning over the future of the performing arts, in an industry that has bled money since the pandemic began.

The boxy museum tucked away beside the prime minister's office in the city center is known affectionately to Dubliners as the "dead zoo". Dating back to 1856, it is part of the sprawl of the National Museum of Ireland and is currently at the start of an extensive 15-million-euro (US$18-million) renovation project.

Poop wine and scorpion vodka are just some of the stars of a new exhibit on revolting alcohol at the Disgusting Food Museum in Malmo in Sweden.

The US city of Charlottesville on Saturday dismantled a statue of a Confederate soldier just blocks from the site of a deadly white supremacist rally in 2017 -- Virginia's latest move to strip away tributes to the pro-slavery Civil War south.

A German museum said Friday it would return the ancestral remains of indigenous Aboriginals to Australia, as European institutions face growing calls for a critical re-evaluation of their collections. 

Komunitas Salihara arts center has just announced its upcoming digital arts festival called Musim Seni Salihara (Salihara’s Arts Season).

The Quai d'Orsay art museum in Paris has apologized to a woman after agents refused to let her in until she covered up a low-cut dress. 

The festival is scheduled to feature four main activities, namely a visual art exhibition, performance programs, art competitions and a culture festival market. 

Stuck at home for weeks while Japan was under a state of emergency due to the coronavirus, renowned Japanese Bunraku puppet master Kanjuro Kiritake, all his performances cancelled for months, was stricken with deep anxiety.

The toppling of Confederate statues during nationwide protests against racial injustice brought renewed attention to the importance of US public monuments, very few of which were made by Black sculptors.

South Korean tattooist Doy counts Hollywood superstar Brad Pitt and members of K-Pop band EXO among his celebrity clients, but his delicate, detailed designs could land him in prison.

A festival in Taiwan where enormous pigs are slaughtered and displayed is drawing smaller crowds as animal rights activists alter perceptions of the controversial tradition.

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They're drawing crowds in Sweden: cute and quirky shopfronts, delis and restaurants created by a mystery art collective called "Anonymouse" that have popped up out of nowhere in some cities.

When the second wave of COVID-19 infections hit South Korea in late August, forcing people to suspend many of their daily activities, the Busan Biennale‘s organizing committee went into crisis mode.

British theaters urgently need to be given a date when they can reopen at full capacity if they are to survive the coronavirus pandemic, composer and theater owner Andrew Lloyd Webber told a parliamentary committee on Tuesday.

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France's culture ministry said it had contacted prosecutors about allegations by a soprano that she was repeatedly sexually assaulted during opera rehearsals in Paris and three other French cities.

It’s a little-known fact that dockworkers in Australia were up in arms to help Indonesia maintains its Independence.

Dutch King Willem-Alexander's "Golden Coach" will have its return to ceremonial duties postponed after a refit, amid controversy over pictures of slaves on the horse-drawn carriage.

It is well-known that music calms the soul, but how does it affect artistic creation? The Art Newspaper called on contemporary artists Jenny Saville, Chantal Joffe, Rashid Johnson and Michael Armitage to share the titles of songs that they often play in their studios. 

Rising Nile floodwaters are threatening to swamp an ancient archaeological site in Sudan, after some of the highest ever recorded river levels, archaeologists said Monday.

Korean International Art Fair (KIAF), the largest international art fair in Korea, will go online as the government’s strengthened social distancing system continues, the KIAF Art Seoul Committee announced Monday.

The archaeological crypt of Notre-Dame reopens on Wednesday with an exhibition retracing the cathedral's turbulent history nearly 18 months after it was ravaged by fire.

Standing in a pile of broken glass in northern Lebanon, a man heaved shovel-loads of shards -- retrieved from Beirut after the massive explosion at its port -- into a red-hot furnace.

Noh, one of Japan's traditional performing arts with a history of around 700 years, has expanded its boundaries by realizing the world of "Ghost in the Shell," a sci-fi manga masterpiece, on stage with the assistance of cutting-edge virtual reality and visual technology.

Growing up in Iraq, Omar Farhadi would heat up dinner for his Jewish neighbors when they rested on the Sabbath. Few are left, and their heritage risks fading away too.

Coronavirus lockdown rules forced Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini on Saturday to host a scaled down version of the annual reed dance celebration.

Dozens of mask-wearing music enthusiasts gathered at a church in an eastern German town to witness the first note change in seven years in the world's longest lasting pipe organ performance.