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In one room, a ghastly photo wall of bloody, uncensored images showcases the mob's greatest hits.

Even dog actors can get awards in Tinseltown, and six pooches collected prizes at the inaugural Golden Collar Awards.

Renowned former ballet dancer, actress and teacher Zina Bethune was hit by two vehicles and killed after getting out of her car in an apparent attempt to help a wounded animal, authorities said Monday.

Homeless, financially strapped and lacking musical leadership, the New York City Opera still managed to do something that just weeks ago had seemed in doubt: It launched its season.

ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - A few blocks from the Mississippi River levee where a homeless W.C. Handy composed "St. Louis Blues" more than 100 years ago, the first national blues museum in the United States is taking shape. While several regional blues museums have popped up around the country -- Memphis, Tennessee; Clarksdale, …

LONDON (Reuters) - Silent movie-era romance "The Artist" won the BAFTA award for best film on Sunday, adding another prestigious trophy to its growing collection just two weeks before the Oscars. The French-made black-and-white film set in Hollywood during the transition from silent to talking movies had been widely expected …

'The Artist' named best picture at British Academy Film Awards; 7 trophies in all.

Silent movie "The Artist" has won a handful of prizes at the British Academy Film awards, Britain's equivalent of the Oscars.

Jean Dujardin wins best actor prize at British Academy Film Awards for 'The Artist.'

Michel Hazanavicius wins best director prize at British Academy Film Awards for 'The Artist.'

"The Phantom of the Opera" is making musical history on Broadway.

If the whole singing and acting thing ever falls apart for Jennifer Hudson, you might find her working at a tattoo parlor.

"American Idol" winner Scotty McCreery, Brantley Gilbert and Hunter Hayes are The Academy of Country Music Awards' best new artist nominees.

TBILISI (Reuters) - It has survived communist oppression, the Cold War, the break-up of the Soviet Union and counted Josef Stalin and Elvis Presley among its admirers, but at its heart the Georgian National Ballet has always been a bit of a family business. Founded nearly 70 years ago by the husband and wife team of Iliko …

A northwestern Georgia county has bought the garden where folk artist Howard Finster held court for tourists and art lovers from around the world.

Photographs by Chinese artist Liu Xia (lee-OW' zah) will be shown at Columbia University next month. She's the wife of imprisoned 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo (Lee-OW' Zawh-BOH').

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Works by Damien Hirst, Ed Ruscha and Roy Lichtenstein are among Post-War and Contemporary art that will be sold by Christie's at an auction next month that will also feature 45 works from the collection of Silicon Valley pioneer Peter Norton. The First Open sale on March 7, which is designed to spotlight …

ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - The St. Louis Art Museum is rearranging galleries by theme rather than time period, seeking to make them more accessible to visitors as part of a $162 million expansion. Galleries that once covered the 18th Century, for example, now focus on "The Modern Body" with nudes from different eras, or "The …

LOS ANGELES, Feb 5 (TheWrap.com) - Two of The Weinstein Company's contenders for Academy Awards -- "The Artist" and "The Iron Lady" -- surpassed the $20 million mark at the box office this weekend. The company's "W.E.," directed by Madonna, meanwhile, opened to a run-of-the-mill $45,000 at four locations. IFC's horror-thriller …

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles County Coroner's examiners have completed an autopsy on the body of artist Mike Kelley but have not yet determined a cause of death pending further tests, a spokesman said on Friday. A friend found Kelley, 57, dead in the bathtub of his home in the Los Angeles suburb of South Pasadena …

In an era of overthinking directors, intricate stage movements and concept productions that transport operas through time and locale, there is an argument for Verdi the way it used to be.

BERLIN (Reuters) - A blindingly white room filled with a single wave of sound contrasts with a dark room that is pierced by a cone of light in the first German solo exhibition of Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda. Ikeda, known for his electronic sound compositions and audiovisual installations, created the works specifically …

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Oscar nominee and SAG best actor winner Jean Dujardin is in the midst of a tempest over salacious French posters for a new movie in which he appears. Dujardin, who is nominated for Best Actor for "The Artist," appears in an upcoming French anthology called "Les Infideles," a sketch comedy about …