In small tin sheds in a town outside Bangladesh's capital Dhaka, wooden looms are deftly operated by a group of men and women as huge garment factories churn out cheaper alternatives.

Fancy face masks and protective shields feature next to printed-out versions of paintings and graffiti, photographs, sculptures, music and video at a Prague exhibition of COVID-19 art created during the pandemic.

British artist Sacha Jafri paces barefoot back and forth across his giant canvas stretched across the ballroom floor of a luxury Dubai hotel, listening to a young girl singing. She performed Friday on the almost-completed canvas measuring just under 2,000 square meters, before it is broken down next week into 60 framed works.

Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said Saturday the French capital plans its first statue of a black woman to remember a heroine who fought against slavery on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe in the early 19th century.

Fancy owning a piece of pop history? Sotheby's is hosting an online auction this month of Beatles memorabilia to mark the 50th anniversary of the British band breaking up.

The winners of this year's Nobel Prizes will miss out on a swanky gala in Stockholm surrounded by royalty and Sweden's glitterati, but 2020 will at least not be added to the war years when no awards were given. Yet as the coronavirus pandemic rapidly enveloped much of the world earlier this year, that was far from certain.

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.