A stalking horse bid for Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group was dismissed as inadequate by lenders during a Quebec court hearing into the company's restructuring on Tuesday.

Arising from creative necessity amid the current restrictions, Wayang Orang Bharata's Sirnaning Pageblug (Vanquishing the Epidemic) has broken through the digital divide in traditional theater.

An actor from France's most prestigious theater company, the Comedie Francaise, has been accused of assaulting and threatening to kill a vlogger.

Nigeria failed to halt a Paris sale of sacred statues Monday which museum officials said were stolen during the country's bloody civil war.

The “new normal” is inevitable and comes with a fresh set of changes for cultural institutions like museums, the daily operations of which usually cater to large groups of people. 

Cirque du Soleil announced on Monday it is filing for bankruptcy protection and cutting thousands of jobs as the world's most famous circus troupe seeks to survive the coronavirus pandemic.

New York's iconic Broadway theater district will stay closed through the end of the year, its trade association said Monday, due to the unpredictability of the coronavirus pandemic.

Streaming may be a boon for opera, ballet and drama lovers desperate for their fix.

The auction house has recently launched the first in a series of online exhibitions of works created by child artists from Studio in a School.

Six people have been arrested in France over the theft of an artwork by street artist Banksy commemorating the victims of the 2015 Paris attacks that was stolen from the Bataclan concert hall.

If you like American pop culture you certainly know his work, even if you don't know his name: graphic designer Milton Glaser, known for his wildly popular "I (Heart) NY" logo, died Friday on his 91st birthday.

Norway began work to excavate the first Viking ship to be unearthed in the country in more than a century, with experts hoping it will shed light on the era of the Nordic seafarers.

A prominent French archaeologist and his husband were charged on Friday as part of an investigation into an antique smuggling ring exploiting unrest in Middle Eastern countries to spirit out works to sell in France.

Japan has produced its first ninja studies graduate after Genichi Mitsuhashi spent two years honing his martial arts skills and absorbing the finer traditions of the feudal martial arts agents.

A Moscow court on Friday handed outspoken Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov a three-year suspended sentence following a fraud conviction denounced by his supporters as politically motivated.

The Korean Cultural Center Indonesia will air classic Korean films until June 30. 

An online wayang orang (human puppet) performance is set to be livestreamed via video conferencing app Zoom on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. local time.

The Musee d'Orsay in Paris reopened to the public on Tuesday, three months after being forced to shut by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Washington's Kennedy Center has pushed back its prestigious annual arts awards gala due to the coronavirus pandemic, setting a new date of March 7, 2021.

Historic silver, crystal and even towels sold off at auction by the swanky Paris Ritz hotel were snapped up for a total of 1.7 million euros ($1.9 million), more than four times the pre-sale estimate.

With easy public access in mind and cultural advancement as its end goal, the open cultural data will enable the public to use, share and even to modify the information into works of art, stories, educational mobile applications and games.

The British Museum has marked Pride season by putting five objects on permanent display that tell the stories of LGBT+ culture through history.

Barcelona's Liceu opera house reopened its doors on Monday for the first time in over three months to hold a concert - exclusively for a quiet, leafy audience of nearly 2,300 house plants,

A monument to honor Indonesian founding father Sukarno is to be officiated in Algiers.

Cinemas, museums and galleries in England can reopen from July 4, Prime Minister Boris Johnson will say on Tuesday as he sets out which sectors of the economy can resume trading and announces the findings of a review into social distancing.

Arts organizations across Germany have to think creatively as they strive to get up and running again in a world where they must coexist with the coronavirus.

Tunisia's president has become a surprise champion of Arabic calligraphy in his country, shining a light on the artistic tradition as Arab states lobby for its recognition by UNESCO.

After 32 years, the curtain has finally fallen at Madrid's Casa Patas flamenco club, its vibrant shows silenced by the epidemic which has dealt a dramatic blow to Spain's flamenco 'tablaos'. 

Jeff Koons unveiled a new sculpture of the Roman goddess Venus, entitled "Balloon Venus Lespugue (Red)", in the newly-launched online exhibition "Studio: Jeff Koons".

Dozens of street artists have painted over parts of Toronto's "Graffiti Alley" in shades of black and gray in a message of solidarity with anti-racism protesters following the death in US police custody of George Floyd.