The 61st edition of the lavish Cannes International Film Festival officially gets underway Wednesday night with Blindness, the dark Canadian-Japanese-Brazilian co-production based on the acclaimed Jose Saramago novel.
Michael Jackson's iconic pop album Thriller, the original 1956 My Fair Lady cast album and Joni Mitchell's For the Roses are among the latest additions to the U.S. National Recording Registry, the Library of Congress announced Wednesday.
Bonnie Fuller, the Canadian-born editor of some of the world's highest-profile celebrity magazines, has handed in her resignation as executive vice-president and chief editorial director of American Media Inc.
British police will not lay charges against singer Amy Winehouse in connection with video footage that seemed to show her smoking crack cocaine, a police source said on Wednesday.
A fleshy, life-sized nude portrait by U.K. artist Lucien Freud fetched more than $30 million US at a Christie's auction in New York Tuesday night and set a new record for the sale of a work by a living artist.
Organizers of Ottawa's Tulip Festival have apologized to a marching band for turning it away from the opening ceremonies after its members wore uniforms displaying support for Falun Gong.
Influential U.S. artist Robert Rauschenberg, best known for incorporating everyday objects into paintings, prints and sculptures, has died at the age of 82.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is asking the federal broadcasting regulator to intervene after a satellite TV company pulled the plug on CBC Saskatchewan.
Lively musical In The Heights will be the show to beat at next month's 62nd annual Tony Awards, while family drama August: Osage County leads the play nominees.
The Tony nominations are in, and it would be difficult to come up with a season that presented a clearer portrait of where Broadway is headed and where it has been.
The 30th-anniversary revival of Sam Shepard?s ?Curse of the Starving Class,? at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, is respectable but timid.
In the Acting Company production of Orson Welles?s ?Moby Dick Rehearsed,? gung-ho actors bring everything to life with no more than some crates and ladders for scenery.
In his furious satire ?The Unconquered,? part of the Brits Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters, the British playwright Torben Betts shakes the daylights out of the smarmy idea of freedom.
Jill Furman, a producer of the Broadway musical ?In the Heights,? believes in big dreams and bright lights. So when it came to love she refused to settle for less.
If one set of identical twins doesn?t generate enough mayhem for a comedy to take flight, the presence of two doppelgä nger duos should ensure total bedlam.
An actor in the Broadway show ?The Little Mermaid? fell through a trap door on the deck of a suspended boat and onto the stage just before the start of the Saturday matinee performance.
A major selling point of this ?Camelot? is the chance to hear this winning 1960 score sumptuously performed by the New York Philharmonic under the musical theater maestro Paul Gemignani.
TAMPA, Florida - Artist Robert Rauschenberg, whose use of odd and everyday articles earned him regard as a pioneer in pop art but whose talents spanned the worlds of painting, sculpture, and dance, has died, a his gallery representative said Tuesday. He was 82.
Robert Rauschenberg, the protean artist from small-town Texas whose imaginative commitment to hybrid forms of painting and sculpture changed the course of American and European art, died Monday ...
Artist Robert Rauschenberg, whose use of odd and everyday articles earned him regard as a pioneer in pop art but whose talents spanned the worlds of painting, sculpture and dance, has died, a his gallery representative said Tuesday.
Robert Rauschenberg the artist whose use of everyday materials --- made him pioneer in pop art died yesterday at age 82. His talents spanned the worlds of painting, sculpture and dance. He was known....
The artist's use of odd and everyday articles earned him regard as a pioneer in pop art, but his talents spanned the worlds of painting, sculpture and dance.
Artist Robert Rauschenberg, whose use of odd and everyday articles earned him a reputation as a pioneer in pop art but whose talents spanned the worlds of painting, sculpture and dance, has died aged 82.
TAMPA, Fla.—The gallery representative for Robert Rauschenberg says the pop artist has died in Florida at 82. He was known for his use of odd and everyday articles, earning him regard as a pioneer in pop art whose talents spanned the worlds of painting, sculpture and dance.
Robert Rauschenberg, who time and again reshaped art in the 20th century, died Monday of heart failure at his home on Captiva Island, Fla. He was 82. His work gave new meaning to sculpture. "Canyon," for instance, consisted of a stuffed bald eagle attached to a canvas.
Robert Rauschenberg, the irrepressibly prolific American artist who time and again reshaped art in the 20th century, died at his home on Captiva Island, Fla.
