WATCH: Contemporary artists bring giant sculptures to Versailles groves
As the winter season approaches, 14 international artists were tasked with installing works of arts in 14 of the famous…
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Arts and Culture
US author George Saunders wins 2017 Man Booker Prize
by Joe Jackson Agence France-Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) -- US author George Saunders on Tuesday became only the second…
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Japan’s blind piano maestro plays it by ear
by Ursula Hyzy Agence France Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP) -- Blind since birth, virtuoso Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii puts his…
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Da Vinci’s last work in private hands arrives in Asia for first time
HONG KONG, China (Reuters) -- The last privately-owned painting, Salvator Mundi, by Leonardo da Vinci was unveiled in Hong Kong…
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Destroyed artifacts ‘cloned’ for Tokyo exhibition
TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) -- Ancient art and monuments could be given a new lease of life thanks to 'cloning' technology…
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A changing China on view in New York art show
by Thomas Urbain © Agence France-Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) -- A generation of artists deeply marked by the Tiananmen Square…
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Lego House, designed to look like 21 giant versions of its bricks, is inaugurated
BILLUND, Denmark (Reuters) -- Danish toymaker Lego has inaugurated a play house in its home town designed to look like…
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British artist Sacha Jafri launches world tour of retrospective
LONDON, United Kingdom (Reuters) -- British artist Sacha Jafri launched a four-year world tour of his retrospective 'Universal Consciousness' in…
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Christie’s holds autumn auction in Shanghai
SHANGHAI, China (Reuters) -- Christie's Shanghai auction season got underway on Sunday (September 24), with 35 offerings from the contemporary…
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Tsunami-sunk’ Roman ruins discovered in Tunisia
NABEUL, Tunisia (AFP) -- Vast underwater Roman ruins have been discovered off northeast Tunisia, apparently confirming a theory that the…
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