Collins Dictionary’s word of the year is a confident, messy way of life
Collins Dictionary’s word of the year is a confident, messy way of life
November 01, 2024Collins Dictionary’s word of the year is a confident, messy way of life
November 01, 2024How Luther Vandross documentary director Dawn Porter let the late singer speak for himself
November 01, 2024Jodi Picoult's “Nineteen Minutes” has topped a list compiled by PEN America of the books most often pulled from school shelves
November 01, 2024Thieves have blown open the door of an art gallery in the southern Netherlands and stolen two works from a famous series of screen prints by American pop artist Andy Warhol
November 01, 2024A museum in Virginia has nearly finished restoring the nation’s oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children
November 01, 2024Country Bay Music Festival is returning to Miami for its second year, with organizers hoping the event can earn a permanent spot in the city's music scene alongside events like Ultra and Rolling Loud
November 01, 2024An unknown artist placed a bronze replica of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk – topped with an emoji-like poop, the size of a basketball – along the National Mall near the US Capitol just a week before Election Day. CNN's Gabe Cohen explains.
October 31, 2024More anti-Trump statues are popping up across US. Anonymous artist attached to the project says there could be more
October 31, 2024It was a single photograph that started Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen on the journey to make “Blitz.”
October 31, 2024Scientists find new piece in puzzle of America’s oldest tombstone
October 31, 2024Quentin Tarantino's handwritten script for “Pulp Fiction” is the stuff of moviemaking legend
October 31, 2024Radiohead’s Thom Yorke walks off stage after being heckled by pro-Palestinian protester
October 31, 2024The enduring allure of Tim Burton’s macabre world
October 31, 2024A Tudor warship sank nearly 500 years ago. The bones of its crew reveal what life was like
October 31, 2024She was condemned to death in 1685. But England’s last ‘witch’ may have survived
October 31, 2024Fifty years after ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre,’ is the classic slasher film dead, or just waiting in the shadows?
October 31, 2024Prominent hip-hop producer Metro Boomin has been accused of rape in a lawsuit
October 30, 2024Field Museum uses CT scans on mummies to see inside them for first time
October 30, 2024How an 1884 painting at Chicago's Art Institute saved Bill Murray's life
October 30, 2024Apple on Wednesday unveiled new MacBook Pro models that feature more powerful processors for tasks such as photo and video editing, aiming to bolster its appeal among creative
October 30, 2024Meet five inspiring people who found unique ways to help others
October 30, 2024Should a rap album be counted as a scholarly work? We asked a scholar who makes hip-hop and hit the recording studio to earn his Ph.D.
October 30, 2024Art historian and curator Alayo Akinkugbe on reframing Blackness
October 30, 2024For Nigerian artist Nengi Omuku every painting has two sides
October 30, 2024Archaeologists in Cambodia have unearthed a dozen centuries-old sandstone statues in a “remarkable discovery” at the Angkor World Heritage Site near the city of Siem Reap
October 30, 2024Perched on two fingers on the roof of an art gallery in Wellington, New Zealand, the giant sculpture of a hand has loomed over the city for five years
October 30, 2024Filipino artist connects with his "Lola" through collaborative watercolors
October 30, 2024Archeologists in Mexico have discovered a huge, lost Mayan city, which they named Valeriana, hidden deep in the southern jungle of Campeche -- a sprawling, urban settlement,
October 29, 2024Political art mysteriously pops up in DC ahead of Election Day
October 29, 2024Dave Matthews Band announce benefit concert for Helene and Milton victims
October 29, 2024Francis Ford Coppola will receive the 50th AFI Life Achievement Award, the American Film Institute announced Tuesday
October 29, 2024San Jose woman continues Halloween decoration tradition in honor of her son
October 29, 2024A handful of new films don’t just deal with video games, they’re set inside them
October 29, 2024Ralph Yarl’s aunt crafts bracelets to support families impacted by gun violence
October 29, 2024Students discover and publish unexpected proof for 2,000-year-old mathematical theory
October 29, 2024'It's really inspiring': SCAD Film Festival inspires students looking to break into the industry
October 29, 2024Lost Chopin music unearthed nearly 200 years after composer’s death
October 29, 2024Jason Caron has delivered one of the most remarkable performances of the year
October 29, 2024Folklorists created a through line from the Celtic pagan festival of Samhain to Halloween. But the Halloween we know today has more to do with the English, a 9th century pope and American consumerism.
October 29, 2024Kwon Young-doo, owner of a private art gallery in Seoul's historic Bukchon Hanok Village, is concerned about an impending curfew policy aimed at
October 29, 2024Rao’s will have its first-ever float in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
October 28, 2024‘The chief objection to Michigander is that it inspires idiots to call a Michigan woman a Michigoose and a child a Michigosling,’ the American essayist H.L. Mencken wrote in 1947.
October 28, 2024A criminal court in Paris has postponed French actor Gérard Depardieu’s trial on charges of sexually assaulting two women on a film set because of concerns about his health, shifting the start of the proceedings to March
October 28, 2024Once illegal, this Japanese alcohol is making a comeback
October 28, 2024Actor Timothée Chalamet made a surprise appearance at his own look-alike contest in Lower Manhattan
October 27, 2024Art professor paints playful animals to encourage people to vote
October 26, 2024Witches walk among us — but they’re not like the fictional ones you grew up with
October 26, 2024Phil Lesh, a founding member of the Grateful Dead whose nuanced bass playing made him an architect of the band's otherworldly sound, died on Friday at age 84, his
October 25, 2024Grammy-winning rapper Lil Durk has been arrested on suspicion of ordering the murder of a rival in 2022 from his position as leader of the Chicago-based rap collective
October 25, 2024Florida women help families save photo albums damaged by recent hurricanes
October 25, 2024Grateful Dead founding member Phil Lesh has died at age 84
October 25, 2024From friendly aliens to warring cardinals, here’s what to watch this weekend
October 25, 2024There is a new temporary statue attracting attention near the U.S. Capitol: a brass-colored desk with poop on top of it.
October 25, 2024Khatia Buniatishvili has been one of the most well-known classical musicians for more than a decade
October 25, 2024There are so many Hollywood stars either on New York theater stages or on the way that you might want to level up your stargazing game
October 25, 2024Tiny house with elaborate – and erotic – frescoes unearthed at Pompeii
October 25, 2024Kate Bush is ‘very keen’ to make a new album
October 25, 2024French authorities say they have charged seven individuals in connection with a cyberbullying campaign targeting Thomas Jolly, the artistic director behind the Paris Olympics’ opening and closing ceremonies
October 25, 2024This viral banana artwork on sale again — and it could now be worth $1.5 million
October 25, 2024The grand opening of new modern art museum designed by the American architect Thomas Phifer is taking place in the Polish capital, Warsaw
October 25, 2024The New Orleans City Council has rejected plans to turn a historic home connected with the life of civil rights movement leader Oretha Castle Haley into a museum
October 25, 2024The undead, Medieval-themed suburban restaurants, the mall
October 24, 2024Archaeologists in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have uncovered a richly decorated but uncommonly small house with finely preserved frescoes of mythological scenes, the site said
October 24, 2024Renovation of Wisconsin bar leads to discovery of massive 140-year-old circus art
October 24, 2024Tim Burton is a ‘technophobe’ who would rather look to the sky than the internet
October 24, 2024Paul Jebara examines the uncharted beauty of the world's most underrated national parks for GetYourGuide.
October 24, 2024Louis McCartney who starred in the play “Stranger Things: The First Shadow” in London will reprise his creepy monster on Broadway
October 24, 2024France should charge visitors a small fee to see the Notre-Dame cathedral to help the country keep its world-famous churches and cathedrals in shape, the culture
October 24, 2024Good storytelling relies on sound writing, believability, creativity and lived experience. AI has become skilled at the first two but still falls short on the second two.
October 24, 2024Singapore's heritage board will assess if founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew's home should be preserved as a national monument, the culture ministry said on
October 24, 2024The imagination of Tim Burton has produced ghosts and ghouls, Martians, monsters and misfits
October 23, 2024MusiCares, an organization that helps music professionals who need financial, personal or medical assistance, will honor the Grateful Dead as its 2025 Persons of the Year
October 23, 2024Brazilian street artist Mundano's latest work incorporates ash from forest fires and mud from flooding in Brazil to create a giant mural
October 23, 2024A new history of the USS Intrepid will be co-written by Montel Williams, a former Navy man otherwise known for his long career as a daytime television host
October 23, 2024Customarily, Simchat Torah is one of the most joyous days of the Jewish calendar, highlighted by exuberant dancing around a Torah
October 23, 2024Polish police investigating after treasure trove of Bronze Age artifacts mysteriously surfaces
October 23, 2024South Carolina is preparing to put up the first individual statue of an African American on its Statehouse lawn
October 23, 2024Before the National Toy Hall of Fame inducts a new class each fall, curators at the upstate New York attraction have to figure out how to showcase the honorees
October 23, 2024Musicians from ABBA, Radiohead and The Cure have joined actors and authors in signing a protest letter against the mining of their artistry to build artificial intelligence tools
October 22, 2024'JESUS SAVES' was unknowingly written into homes after cement work was done
October 22, 2024Sometimes, it really does help to have all that money
October 22, 2024Dead anchovies fill Santa Cruz Harbor
October 22, 2024In his posthumous memoir “Patriot,” Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny tracks the boredom, isolation, exhaustion, suffering and absurdity of prison life, while commenting on everything from French literature to Billie Eilish
October 22, 2024A new film adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘Salem’s Lot’ swaps in an owl for the book’s haunting whip-poor-wills, showing how species loss is also tied into cultural loss.
October 22, 2024Photo portraits of King Charles are available in Australia under a little-known government policy that says every citizen there can request, and receive, a portrait of their monarch
October 21, 2024Stacker identified 20 music legends from the '70s who still perform today. All acts included either performed in 2024 or have a show scheduled for 2025.
October 21, 2024Glenn Close is set to receive AARP The Magazine’s Movies for Grownups Awards career achievement honor
October 21, 2024A building-sized sculpture popular with tourists in Manhattan is open again with new safety features meant to prevent people from jumping off its viewpoints
October 21, 2024The family of the prolific Finnish conductor and composer Leif Segerstam says he will be remembered in a tribute event at the Finnish National Opera following his funeral next month
October 21, 2024President Joe Biden has honored acclaimed filmmakers, writers and others who have made their mark on American culture, awarding the prestigious National Medals of Arts and National Humanities Medals to 39 recipients
October 21, 2024Stars shine at Academy Museum gala
October 21, 2024Polish musician and teacher Janusz Olejniczak, who played the piano parts in the 2002 Oscar-winning movie “The Pianist,” has died aged 72
October 21, 2024Idris Elba is building an entertainment industry in Africa
October 20, 2024Horror movies topped the domestic box office charts and the Oscar contender “Anora” got off to a sparkling start this weekend
October 20, 2024Yehuda Bauer, one of Israel’s foremost Holocaust scholars who shaped the way people around the world study and learn about the Holocaust, has died in Jerusalem
October 20, 2024‘What has happened online actually dwarfs what Magnus has done’: Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura on chess’ streaming revolution
October 20, 2024Family of missing ‘Hamilton’ dancer expands their search area
October 19, 2024Hollywood stars Julia Roberts and Zendaya bookended Saturday’s inductions into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, giving a little stardust to an eclectic lineup that included pop icon Cher, heavy metal’s Ozzy Osbourne, hip-hop soul queen Mary J
October 19, 2024A museum dedicated to barbecue is opening soon
October 18, 2024Dog spotted hanging out on top of ancient pyramid in Egypt
October 18, 2024Hit musical "The Lion King" is celebrating its 25th anniversary in London's West End this weekend with a special gala performance on Sunday, after first opening its
October 18, 2024A Russian state museum is mounting an exhibit of artwork by the daughter of slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, dedicated to her father's memory.
October 18, 2024Scary movies and haunted houses can actually be a coping mechanism that helps you survive.
October 18, 2024Singer Liam Payne, who shot to fame as a member of boy band One Direction in the early 2010s, died on Wednesday after falling from the third floor of his hotel
October 17, 2024Colorado artist keeps colcha embroidery tradition alive, new exhibit on display at University of Denver
October 17, 2024This year’s National Book Awards 75th anniversary ceremony won’t only be a celebration of literature
October 17, 2024100-year-old artifacts kept inside Kansas City time capsule are revealed at World War I museum
October 16, 2024Someone edited the ‘Wicked’ movie poster to look more like the musical’s version. Cynthia Erivo called it ‘deeply hurtful’
October 16, 2024The upcoming film “Rumours,” starring Cate Blanchett, starts off criticizing world leaders in a way most political satires would — and then it turns down the wit and turns up the absurdity
October 16, 2024Kristen Bell reveals the salty joke snuck into ‘Frozen’
October 16, 2024Barry Diller has a memoir coming out next spring, covering a life that could fill multiple volumes
October 16, 2024Jerry Seinfeld says he no longer thinks the ‘extreme left’ has broken comedy
October 16, 2024Prada and Axiom Space unveil spacesuit designs for NASA’s Artemis III moon mission
October 16, 2024The hidden annex where the young Jewish diarist Anne Frank hid from Nazi occupiers during World War II is heading to New York
October 16, 2024Made Trade compiled a brief history of women and textiles in the United States, drawing on historical museum documents, interviews, and research.
October 15, 2024It’s a pop hit like many others, with an ascending chorus, an addictive hook, a warm rhythm
October 15, 2024Tim Heidecker is working through his existential dread
October 15, 2024Sean Baker's “Anora” is by wide consensus one of the year’s best films and a best picture contender at the Oscars
October 15, 2024The long-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum will partially open its main galleries Wednesday, showcasing 12 halls that exhibit aspects of ancient Egypt
October 15, 2024One’s got a big appetite, the other’s a bit of an introvert. China’s new panda diplomats touch down in DC
October 15, 2024Male artists ‘peak in their 40s,’ Tracey Emin says
October 15, 2024Lowrider enthusiasts say the predominantly Latino cultural expression may be on the verge of a renaissance
October 15, 2024Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Tori Amos is working on a children’s book she hopes will help young people forge their own paths of inspiration
October 15, 2024Why pop culture’s love of Joan of Arc endures
October 15, 2024Theatre company unveils interactive art installation to honor Lenape tribe
October 14, 2024Blood River Drive: Couple builds a free haunted house for their neighborhood
October 14, 2024A Minnesota horticulture teacher has remained the reigning champion of an annual pumpkin-weighing contest in Northern California
October 14, 2024A California school has planted a tree that’s out of this world
October 14, 2024Jamie Foxx returns to the stage and finds ‘pure love’
October 14, 2024Like the Japanese atomic survivors who were awarded the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, Godzilla has a message to share.
October 14, 2024Canadian drink company tastes controversy after Simu Liu raises cultural appropriation questions
October 14, 2024How Hurricane Katrina and an off-script remark by Kanye West shifted culture
October 13, 2024China’s censorship is among the toughest in the world. So why did it let Kanye West play?
October 12, 2024Neighborhood embraces community through art
October 12, 2024Exclusive: Chappell Roan on the surprising Grammy award she really wants to win
October 11, 2024South Koreans have reacted with joy and astonishment after learning that homegrown writer Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in literature, an unexpected moment that stoked national pride about the country’s growing cultural influence
October 10, 2024Han Kang wins Nobel Prize in literature for ‘intense poetic prose’ confronting human fragility
October 10, 2024Jason Mott’s first novel since “Hell of a Book” is a kind of meta-sequel to his award-winning meta-narrative about a Black author’s haunting promotional tour
October 10, 2024South Korean author Han Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature for "her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes
October 10, 2024The Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang for what the Nobel committee called her “intense poetic prose.”
October 10, 2024Flour Bluff's accidental time capsule includes photos, old notes and more between late 70s to early 2000s
October 09, 2024All of Broadway’s marquees will dim to honor the life of Gavin Creel following an outcry by theater fans when only a partial dimming was proposed after the 48-year-old Tony Award-winner’s death last month
October 09, 2024Shari Redstone says CBS leaders made ‘bad mistake’ with handling of Ta-Nehisi Coates interview fallout
October 09, 2024Auction house withdraws shrunken heads and other human remains from sale following outcry
October 09, 2024The theme of the next Met Gala and its celebrity chairs have been announced: Pharrell Williams, Lewis Hamilton, Colman Domingo, A$AP Rocky and LeBron James will help the museum celebrate Black style in menswear over the centuries
October 09, 2024A woman with dwarfism, Judy-Lynn del Rey founded the imprint that put out fantasy hits such as ‘The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever’ and ‘The Sword of the Shannara.’
October 09, 2024Louisiana’s Cajun and Creole heritage will take center stage when the Festivals Acadiens et Creoles marks a half-century of honoring and celebrating the culture through music, arts, food and community
October 09, 2024In a thrilling rematch, the winner of Fat Bear Week 2024 is …
October 09, 2024Philly AIDS Thrift at Giovanni's Room providing LGBTQ+ literature a voice to people worldwide
October 08, 2024Teen brings joy of music to underprivileged children through community initiative
October 08, 2024Television morning show interviews often don't stray beyond celebrities and food segments
October 08, 2024The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is about to rectify a wrong that some rock fans may celebrate with their lighters up in the air — the band Foreigner will be finally welcomed in
October 08, 2024Wilmer Valderrama memoir, titled “An American Story: Everyone’s Invited” chronicles his family’s journey as Venezuelan immigrants in the United States
October 08, 2024The Metropolitan Opera is preparing to stage a Flamenco-infused production of an opera about Spanish author Federico Garcia Lorca
October 08, 2024Adobe said on Tuesday it will offer a free web-based app starting next year, aimed at helping the creators of images and videos to get credit for their work used in AI systems.
October 08, 2024Oprah Winfrey has chosen Lisa Marie Presley’s posthumous memoir as her next book club selection
October 08, 2024A 10-month project to restore the giant bronze-and-wood canopy in the middle of St Peter's Basilica is nearing completion, and the work will be unveiled to
October 08, 2024Before his highly anticipated Benin City homecoming concert, Nigerian singer Rema tells CNN's Larry Madowo why his hometown will always have his heart.
October 08, 2024Lore Segal, an esteemed Austrian American author and translator, has died at 96
October 07, 2024Cissy Houston, a two-time Grammy-winning singer who performed alongside superstar musicians like Elvis Presley and Aretha Franklin and the mother of Whitney Houston, has died
October 07, 2024As two of the most in-demand actors of their generation, Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield have transformed themselves into all kinds of roles
October 07, 2024Kathy Bates shocked she forgot this moment in her 1991 Oscars speech
October 07, 2024Ryan Miller, lead singer of alternative rock band Guster, has a new gig that even he’s a little surprised about: Musical theater songwriter
October 07, 2024Although “The Room Next Door” is Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature, Tilda Swinton says it’s in the director’s inimitable style
October 07, 2024Andrew Garfield recalls awkward moment when he and Florence Pugh didn’t hear ‘cut’ while filming love scene
October 06, 2024Donald Glover has canceled the remaining dates of Childish Gambino’s North American and European tour
October 06, 2024The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat named Singapore’s Pan Pacific Orchard the world’s best new tall building. The 347-room hotel stacks four open-air terraces with different themes, highlighting a unique approach to high-density urbanism.
October 06, 2024‘Hotel in nature’: Inside the world’s best new skyscraper
October 06, 2024Renowned Greek musician and composer Mimis Plessas has died just a week before his 100th birthday
October 05, 2024A well-known Asheville musical tradition has returned in a sign of hopefulness a week after Helene battered the mountain city
October 05, 2024Jurors who will be picked for the trial of a man who severely injured author Salman Rushdie in a knife attack likely won’t hear about the fatwa that authorities have said motivated him to act
October 04, 2024Lady Gaga says she had to ‘do away’ with her usual onstage ‘bravado’ for her take on Harley Quinn in ‘Joker’ sequel
October 04, 2024RZA’s hoarding habit led to his newest adventure in music: a ballet and surprisingly traditional classical music album he calls “A Ballet Through Mud.”
October 04, 2024Sarah Michelle Gellar is ‘here’ to fill in for the late Shannen Doherty in potential ‘Mallrats’ sequel
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