Arts News

Renowned Chinese literature translator Yang Xianyi has died at the age of 94, China's official Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday.

The Clark Art Institute has acquired a landscape by a 19th century artist Pierre Etienne Theodore Rousseau, one of the prime examples of the Barbizon School of painting.

The drums have gone up for sale on auction website eBay.com and bidding will end on November 28.

Monday, 23 November 2009, 10:45 am Press Release: Wellington City Council Indoor sports centre: cheaper contract signed Construction of Wellington's Indoor Community Sport Centre is set to start early next month – with more than $4 million cut from the building budget.

Broadway musical Rent returns to PPAC with its contagious energy and colorful cast of characters, proving that it stands the test of time.

"Dreamgirls" has come home with its glitter, glitz and gusto mostly intact. A revival of Broadway's iconic interpretation of a girl group's rise to pop-music power is now playing a brief engagement at Harlem's legendary Apollo Theater, which happens to be the setting for the opening and closing scenes of the musical.

A student from New Jersey who leads weekly poetry classes at a maximum-security prison is among 32 Americans selected as Rhodes Scholars for 2010.

When Henry Spelman found out he'd won a Rhodes Scholarship, his first call was to his girlfriend.

Patricia Racette had just sung her moving final notes in "Suor Angelica" and fallen to the stage.

Two schoolboys will be performing in the world-famous Glyndebourne opera house in March.

David Johansen could use a break. The veteran vocalist has been touring constantly with a reconstituted version of the New York Dolls since 2006.

The brilliant graphic sensibility of Harry Callahan , a major figure in American photography, is the focus of Harry Callahan: American Photographer at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston .

When decorating our homes, we tend to consider things like beauty and comfort, the durability of pieces we might buy or the image they project.

Lopez is in top form, but she's still a little nervous. She'll be singing a song fans have never heard before and performing live on TV for the first time in years.

The conductor of the Windham Orchestra took a leave of absence Friday after he was cited by Brattleboro police on felony charges of possession of child pornography.

A 92-year-old Kansas woman is baring her pain and her faith, and putting it down on paper.

Ancient terracotta warriors from China are coming to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts for an exhibition planned in 2011, the museum says.

Winter hasn't even arrived but the Boston Symphony Orchestra is already planning for summer.

"Going Rogue" is going big. AP Photo Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin signs a copy her autobiography, "Going Rogue", at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in in Norwood, Ohio, on Nov.

Swedish soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom, an international opera star, has died, her husband Sverker Olow says.