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A Picasso oil painting from 1955 smashed the record for the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction when it…

Art for politics' sake is the dominant theme on this year's Turner Prize shortlist with works featuring power structures, consumer…

The recently-published book "Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution" by the Egyptian-American Journalist Mona Eltahawy…

A team of American explorers on Thursday claimed to have discovered silver treasure from the infamous 17th-century Scottish pirate William…

"La Traviata", Verdi's opera about the doomed love of a courtesan and a young man, will be streamed live and…

A chilling Pakistani documentary entitled "Among Believers"  stirred controversy at the Tribeca Film Festival.

The Palestinian film "Omar" will be screened in five Arab countries, including Egypt and the UAE, for two weeks starting…

A group of young men and women have decided to establish "Our Street Cinema," an initiative that aims to organize…

Maya Plisetskaya, a star of Russia's Bolshoi ballet who overcame a legacy of Stalinist oppression to redefine her art and…

Ossama Raouf, director of the Youth Theater, said that only two dates were left for each of the productions of…