A mysterious creature playing piano, a white tiger baring its fangs and a huge Batgirl: dozens of artists are busy this June painting giant frescoes for the 10th edition of the MURAL Festival of Montreal.

Saudi tour guide Nada Alfuraih ushers guests through an 18th-century palace where the kingdom's royal family is said to have first plotted its conquest of the Arabian Peninsula.

The London singer had spent a decade trying to refine his stage persona, but despite a couple of hits -- 1969's "Space Oddity" and "Changes" two years later -- he had yet to achieve the stardom he craved. 

The exhibition, which turns the sleepy German city of Kassel into the centre of the art world once every five years, kicks off Saturday after months of bitter rows.

Artworks from six artists in Dublin, Ireland showcased how similar the European island is to Indonesia in its history and nature.

In a bid to shake off its fast fashion image and be seen as more eco-friendly, this year "Love Island" has partnered with online marketplace eBay to dress contestants in what eBay calls "pre-loved clothes".

People in Rajasthan customarily plant trees in celebration, but scientists say that planting seeds and saplings are insufficient to tackle land degradation.

As a 13-year-old refugee from the conflict in Kosovo in 1999, his felt-tip pen drawings of soldiers killing civilians were singled out by then-UN secretary general Kofi Annan as a powerful depiction of the war's impact on young minds.

To many they are art's next big thing -- digital images of jellyfish pulsing and blurring in a dark pink sea, or dozens of butterflies fusing together into a single organism.

Indonesian NFT artists defy the pessimism of skeptics and naysayers who predict the cryptocurrency phenomenon as a trend or bubble.

A sign of an inhospitable people or a view into an alien mindset? A viral tale of Swedish families not offering their children's friends a place at the dinner table has captured the world's attention.

In a 500-year-old stone theatre in Cairo, two young dervishes spin ceaselessly. Slowly, then all at once, they are consumed in a flurry of vivid fabrics.

Noureddine Jaber, a musician with a unique part-guitar, part-tamboura instrument, is giving voice to Sudan's long-marginalized eastern communities through a new album.

Art Moments Jakarta returns for its first offline exhibition in two years, showcasing pandemic-inspired artworks, NFT creations and a series of talk shows by renowned artists.

With songs chronicling the lives of drug traffickers or railing against violence, new Mexican ballad singers are enjoying success through digital platforms.

An auto-repair garage in Saudi Arabia is turning to an untapped source for new car mechanics: Saudi women, who just four years ago were not even allowed to drive.

Artist Duki Noermala channels his talent in painting on natural material: Stones. 

Archeologists have uncovered the ruins of an ancient Mayan city filled with palaces, pyramids and plazas on the construction site of what is to become an industrial park near Merida, on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.

Jordan-based artist Maria Nissan is on a mission: to rid the world of single-use plastics and to raise public awareness about the environmental scourge through eye-catching art.

A former director of the Louvre Museum has been charged with conspiring to hide the origin of archaeological treasures that investigators suspect were smuggled out of Egypt.

A photography and multimedia exhibition exploring historical and present-day Banda Islands in Maluku, which was at the center of the 200-year spice wars among European colonial powers, offers a unique opportunity for poignant reflection and immersion.

Omar Ba starts most of his works by getting down on his hands and knees. Then the renowned Senegalese artist begins to paint a five-metre-long canvas a deep, dark shade of black.

NFTs are tokens linked to digital images, "collectable" items, avatars in games or property and objects in the burgeoning virtual world of the metaverse.

While dejectedly walking to her New Jersey family home, she vowed to her future self that she would soon acquire her own medals to add to her lapel. 

On a blue and yellow background, a graffiti artist retouches a spray-painted image of the half-man, half-shark statue of King Behanzin, one of the stolen treasures returned to Benin by France late last year.

Japanese taiko drumming is a musical form rooted in religious rituals, traditional theater and the joyous abandon of seasonal festivals called matsuri.

Film-makers are holding up a mirror to France over its colonial past at the Cannes festival.

Graffiti artists have created a mural depicting Benin's history and culture stretching more than one kilometre along a wall in Benin's main city of Cotonou.

Speaking to AFP at the Cannes Film Festival, Serebrennikov -- the only Russian national with a film in competition -- condemned Vladimir Putin's war which has sparked calls notably from Ukrainian film-makers to ban all Russians from the event.

Jean-Michel Basquiat's "Untitled" 1982 sold for $85 million at auction in New York, well above its pre-sale estimate.