Fernando Meirelles did boys with guns in "City of God" and murderous corporations in "The Constant Gardener." With "Blindness," the opening night entry at the Cannes Film Festival, the Brazilian director exposes the world`s ultimate savages: your friends and neighbors.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin unveiled an exhibit from the art collection of a renowned Russian cellist Monday, a ceremony that reflected his continuing political influence even after stepping down as president.
Works by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse have been sold at a Sotheby`s sale of impressionist and modern art in New York where new records for works by Edvard Munch and cubist Fernand Leger help to calm some fears over the health of the art market.
A portrait of a brooding Heath Ledger, painted shortly before the Australian actor died in January, was voted the most popular painting in Australia`s top art prize for portraiture on Thursday.
In a dark alley in Gotham City, Batman is trapped by an enemy who has finally discovered his Achilles heel -- at least on paper, where the latest escapades of the superhero remain for now.
A violin made by legendary 18th century Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari was sold at auction in New York Friday for 1.27 million dollars.
Billionaire Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling would feel "exploited" if a fan`s unofficial encyclopedic companion to the boy wizard series was published, she said in court papers made public on Thursday.
Two handwritten letters by 19th century French author Emile Zola have been stolen from a safe at the municipal offices of the village where he lived and served on the local council, officials said Saturday.
Oscar nominations for a Russian and Kazakh film have put the ex-Soviet countries` film industry back on the map, directors and actors said.
A British cultural organization reopened offices in two Russian cities Monday in defiance of an order to close, drawing an angry response from Russia, which called the decision a "deliberate provocation" and promised punitive measures.
A Maoist professor who is one of France`s most respected academic philosophers has produced a surprise literary hit with an outspoken attack on Nicolas Sarkozy that compares the president to wartime collaborator Marshal Philippe Petain.
A row over a planned exhibition in London of Russian-owned masterpieces was resolved on Wednesday as Russia`s culture agency said it had given permission for the paintings to be sent to Britain.
Screen legend Charlie Chaplin`s Swiss retreat is set to become a museum dedicated to his life, with the signing of a deal to purchase the house Thursday, one of the agreement`s backers said.
Russia responded coolly Friday to Britain`s promise to rush through legislation aimed at ending a row that threatens a major Russian art exhibition in London, a news agency reported.
The masked man in black, El Zorro, a fictional defender of townspeople played on the silver screen by Antonio Banderas and Douglas Fairbanks, Wednesday was honored with a statue in his home town.
Russia ordered the British government`s cultural arm on Wednesday to halt work at its regional offices, in the latest round of a bitter dispute over the murder of Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko.
Dark crime thriller "No Country for Old Men" won best film on Monday at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards -- the movie`s second such honor in the run-up to February`s Academy Awards.
The first six minutes of Warner Bros.` "The Dark Knight," a prologue that introduces Heath Ledger as the Joker, will appear as a preview in Imax theaters before the studio`s "I Am Legend," which opens December 14.
"Charlie Wilson`s War" will take to the box office battlefield a few days earlier than originally scheduled.
The tortured life of Roman Polanski and the true story of plane crash survivors forced into cannibalism will come under the spotlight at next year`s Sundance Film Festival, organisers said Wednesday.
The 18th Stockholm International Film Festival, which wraps up Sunday, handed its top Bronze Horse award for best film to "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days".
The earliest known full-length portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, thought to have been commissioned to help the English monarch "advertise" herself to potential suitors, sold on Thursday for 2.6 million pounds ($5.3 million).
A cache of Asian art, Chinese jade and porcelain goes under the hammer in Hong Kong next week at what global auction house Christie`s expects will be another record-breaking sale in an apparently insatiable market.
The director of Russia`s Tretyakov Gallery said Wednesday he is suing the culture minister over his remarks attacking an exhibit that featured a photo of two policemen kissing.
After a gap of nearly two decades, Czech playwright and former president Vaclav Havel made a comeback in local bookshops this week with a new work set to become the Czech literary event of the season.