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Paris painters threaten to fold up easels over creeping cafes

For decades the artists of Montmartre have dazzled sightseers with their rapidly delivered portraits, paintings of Parisian scenes and cartoonish caricatures. But now th...

ARTS

California museum can keep Cranachs looted by Nazis: U.S. appeals court

A federal appeals court on Monday said the Norton Simon Museum can keep two 16th century masterpieces depicting Adam and Eve by the German Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach the ...

ARTS

Rubens museum steers visitors away from nudes, in jab at Facebook censorship

Visitors to a Belgian art gallery were stunned when security guards ordered them away from nude paintings by Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens, in what turned out to be a stunt t...

U.S. NEWS

From Dumbo to Mr. Toad, Disneyland collection goes up for auction

For years, Dumbo the Flying Elephant hung from his living room ceiling, a Mr. Toad Wild Ride car was parked in his library and Bashful's cart from Snow White's Scary Adventures ...

ARTS

Collection of late actor Robin Williams to hit auction block

Artwork, memorabilia, personal possessions and other ephemera from the collection of actor Robin Williams and his former wife Marsha will hit the auction block in October with a...

ARTS

Kurt Cobain's daughter says time for U.S. to get over mental health taboo

Kurt Cobain's daughter said on Tuesday the United States should overcome its taboo about mental health and addiction almost a quarter of century after her rock star father took ...

U.S. NEWS

Indictment of Russian officers puts pressure on Trump at Putin summit

If U.S. President Donald Trump was inclined to be tentative when raising election meddling with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, the indictment of 12 Russian intellig...

WORLD NEWS

Artist captures war as seen by children - toys included

U.S. photographer Brian McCarty wants you to see the horrors of war, but through the eyes of a child. There is no blood or mangled bodies. Instead there are pink dolls an...

LIFESTYLE

'Oldest known extract' of Homer's Odyssey discovered in Greece

Archaeologists in Greece have discovered what they believe to be the oldest known extract of Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey". A team of Greek and German researchers found...

LIFESTYLE

Banksy's subversive art draws tourists and locals in Paris

British graffiti artist Banksy, known for his politically charged sketches on walls from London to New York to Gaza City, has descended on Paris, painting a series of murals tha...