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PARIS (Reuters) - The broadest-ever retrospective of Salvador Dali, opening in Paris this week, seeks to move beyond the shameless self-promotion that the 20th century Surrealist was often derided for and stress his inde...

Confirming that it was his expert opinion that Fletcher owned the first Doig painting to be sold, Bartlow set out to have the painting authenticated by Peter Doig himself. And that's where the story gets weird.

Each installment in the Beautiful/Decay book series is capable of standing alone while continuing to investigate the delicate intervening aesthetic space between the gorgeous and the grotesque.

Parsnips are a quintessential cold weather vegetable. They look like carrots but are white and somewhat sweeter, characteristically starchy with a hint of citrus. Click to Continue »

NEW YORK — With the right singers and musicians, opera doesn't need sets and costumes to be convincing. British baritone Simon Keenlyside, soprano Angela Denoke...

"CSI" and "CSI: NY" will crossover in a two-part episode. A kidnapping case will bring the two "CSI" shows together in a February 2013 episode....

Recess at the Watari primary school: Children live a kind of half existence, never really able to enjoy the outdoors because they are limited to a maximum of three hours outside each day. Next to our house in California ...

Judd Apatow is the latest guest to sit down with Conan O'Brien on "Serious Jibber-Jabber," his hour-long online chat show, but perhaps the most interesting...

A TV show DVD set represents more than a holiday gift that's easy to wrap. It also demonstrates respect: you know the recipient is mentally...

The discussion this day though was what had happened following the storm. There was talk of the difficulties faced in doing business and troubles with cell phone coverage; but mostly about the damage the storm had done t...

Former taxi driver Will Kern dipped into his experiences to pen Hellcab in the early '90s. Now, in an ambitious 20th anniversary production, Hellcab's showing us that its wheels are still very much on fire.

Leonardo da Vinci bears the burden of great expectations. The undeniable breadth and depth of his genius means there was, it seems, no intellectual feat of which this original Renaissance Man was incapable.

As the cold slowly starts settling in, it also starts seeping in -- I find places in my home that are extra chilly and not quite as cozy as I want them to be. Here are five easy ways to combat the chill as our days grow ...

Most of us are probably familiar with Norman Rockwell's famous Thanksgiving painting. But few realize that it traces its inspiration to an address that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt made to Congress on January 6, 1...

At 7 p.m. on the day the storm hit, 65-year-old Ronnie Landfield climbed down the ladder to the basement of his building on Desbrosses street, one block away from the Hudson River in downtown Manhattan. It was bone-dry. ...

-- From mental illness and adultery to football obsession and competitive dance, "Silver Linings Playbook" follows a wily and winding path that consistently defies...

Ten months after Chapel Hill's food truck rules went into effect, the Town Council is considering changes to encourage more vendors to set up shop. Click to Continue »

To celebrate both the reelection of President Obama and the release of restored versions of the great filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini's Trilogy of Life, I offer a poem, "Many Dreams: Or Persistence."

In his cell phone movie, Mark Amerika uses extensive subtitles to pay homage to the art-house films that inspired him and act to create a liminal space wherein the imaginative operations of the viewer's mind are revealed...

In a brazen act of theft and vandalism, ancient petroglyphs were cut from cliffs near Bishop, California, gouged out with power saws from where they...

Matter has managed to capture dance in a way I have never quite seen it before. It's fresh and fun, and it really must have been something to be involved in the shoots pictured in this book. Let's take a peek behind the ...

Tattooing is unquestionably forbidden in the Torah, and there are still people alive whose arms are carved with the Nazis' enumeration of our destruction.