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• • 07.09.2010

    Claude Monet at the Grand Palais

    22 September 2010 - 24 January 2011 This exhibition organized by the Réunion des musées nationaux and the musée d'Orsay, reviews the entire...

  • 23.08.2010

    Eric Clapton to release star-studded studio album in September

    Guitar icon Eric Clapton is set to release a studio album in September, according to an August 18 press release. Clapton will will touch on a...

  • 16.08.2010

    John Lennon time capsule project accepting fan contributions

    What would have been John Lennon's 70th birthday is being marked with a time capsule project that will preserve Lennon's post-Beatles recordings...

  • 27.07.2010

    "Giacometti & Maeght" 1946-1966 at Fondation Maeght

    The Fondation Maeght at Saint Paul de Vence is presenting a retrospective of the work of Alberto Giacometti, Giacometti & Maeght 1946-1966. The...

  • 09.07.2010

    Salzburg classical music and opera festival

    From July 25 - August 30th, the oldest and one of the most prestigious festivals in Europe, founded right after the 1st world war in Austria, is...

  • 03.07.2010

    Art and life in China blur for photographer Mo Yi

    Mo Yi was born and raised in Tibet, the son of a man who had followed the Chinese Communist Party's call to bring the socialist revolution to the...

  • 29.06.2010

    MoMA will stay open late on Thursdays in July and August, with live music in the sculpture garden

    The Museum of Modern Art will remain open until 8:45 p.m. every Thursday in July and August, providing visitors with a relaxed atmosphere in which...

  • 25.06.2010

    Pictures of the Year International winners on display

    One of the oldest and most prestigious photojournalism awards in the world has selected winners for the 67th annual Pictures of the Year...

  • 21.06.2010

    Baalbeck music festival in Lebanon

    The Baalbeck International Festival (FIB) is the oldest and the most prestigious festival in the Middle East. Set 55 miles from Beirut, with...

  • 16.06.2010

    Louise Bourgeois exhibition in Venice (Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova)

    Thoughout the summer of 2010, the Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova will be showing the work of the late sculptor Louise Bourgeois in the...

• • 28.08.2010

    Tarantino gets roasted by Jackson, Thurman and Grier

    Following a legendary tradition, the famous Friars Club has chosen its next victim -- film director Quentin Tarantino -- for the annual honor that...

  • 17.08.2010

    Rooney Mara scores lead in adaptations of Larsson's "Millennium Trilogy"

    American actress Rooney Mara has scored a casting coup and will play the lead in three Hollywood adaptations of Stieg Larsson's wildly popular...

  • 31.07.2010

    The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today at the MoMa

    "The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today" presents a critical examination of the intersections between photography...

  • 14.07.2010

    William Kentridge at the Jeu de Paume and the Louvre in Paris

    The exhibition "William Kentridge, Five Themes", opening July 28th, brings together some forty pieces, many of them made since 2000. It...

  • 05.07.2010

    Woody Allen starts Paris shoot with Carla in the wings

    Director Woody Allen began shooting his latest movie in Paris on Monday, with French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy waiting in the wings to take...

  • 02.07.2010

    Lady Gaga leapfrogs Obama in race to 10 million on Facebook

    Facebook users are gaga over Lady Gaga and the pop star has surged past US President Barack Obama in the race to become the first person with 10...

  • 26.06.2010

    Herbie Hancock releases his new CD: "The Imagine Project"

    The platinum-selling Grammy-winning jazz legend has released The Imagine Project, an unprecedented international recording and film project...

  • 25.06.2010

    Jackson death triggers billion dollar bonanza

    Soaring music sales, a blockbuster movie and an array of commercial spin-offs: Michael Jackson's demise has lent weight to the wry showbusiness...

  • 20.06.2010

    Broadway glitz, international and a golden age of British talent for BBC Proms 2010

    Mahler's gargantuan Symphony No. 8 with more than 500 musicians, Wagner's The Mastersingers Of Nuremberg with Bryn Terfel and Verdi's Simon...

  • 15.06.2010

    Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917 at the MOMA

    On view from July 18 through October 11, 2010, Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917 is the first exhibition devoted to the work of this important...