LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Dad has gone off with a Hollywood star, Mom is faking cancer, the kids are sexting, drinking and making mischief on social networking sites, and an elite New York school is opening a helicopter pad on the roof. Full Story »
CHENGDU, China (Reuters) - Chinese performer He Hongqing can change his facial expressions, and make up, on stage in a flash, but it's not due to skills learned at drama school. Full Story »
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sotheby's hopes that the fervent mood at an auction this week in London of important Old Master paintings will travel overseas when several rare art works will be auctioned next month. Full Story »
PARIS (Reuters) - France handed back four fragments of an ancient tomb mural to Egyptian antiquities authorities on Friday and President Nicolas Sarkozy will return the fifth piece next week, the French culture ministry said. Full Story »
MILAN (Reuters) - Nobel Laureate Dario Fo presented Italian "Gomorra" author Roberto Saviano with an honorary degree and heaps of praise on Thursday for his courage in daring to expose the mafia. Full Story »
LONDON (Reuters) - A Rembrandt painting unseen in public for nearly 40 years sold for a record 20.2 million pounds ($33.2 million) at auction in London on Tuesday, the highest ever paid at auction for the 17th century artist. Full Story »
ROME (Reuters) - A collection of Futurist paintings and other works of art owned by Italian air carrier Alitalia has raised 1.2 million euros ($1.77 million) under the hammer, the auction house said on Wednesday. Full Story »
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Screen-to-stage adaptations have become a theatrical staple in recent years, and leave it to the Brits to do it with far more imagination than we. Full Story »
LONDON (Reuters) - A painter of abstract designs who wants none of his work to survive his death was awarded one of the world's top contemporary art prizes on Monday. Full Story »
MILAN (Reuters) - Georges Bizet's "Carmen," a tale of love, jealousy and murder, opened the season on Monday at Milan's La Scala to applause for the singers but boos for the creator of its sparse staging, Emma Dante. Full Story »
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