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LONDON (Reuters) - The audience at London's Royal Opera House is in for a big surprise on Thursday night.

LONDON — Jonathan Harvey, a British modernist composer whose operas and other works reflected a deep engagement with spirituality, has died at age 73. Faber...

CBS has announced its midseason schedule for the 2012-2013 TV season. "Golden Boy," a new cop series starring Theo James as a talented police officer...

Traditional Irish music legend, folklorist and a man who earned his cross-cultural cred staging a show called "If It Wasn't for the Irish and the Jews," Mick Moloney has built a program around an eclectic mix of tunes ra...

A trifecta of cinema-inspired exhibitions is now playing at LACMA. Now showing: a post-renaissance painter, an iconic film director and a pop art master.

Who knew that Calder did eye patches? This was one of the quirky gems we discovered at Vernissage, the holy grail of art parties, which opened the Miami Beach Convention Center's consortium of gallery offerings Wednesday...

With Christmas right around the corner, it’s time for one of the Washington Post’s most beloved annual traditions - Carolyn Hax’s Hootenanny of Holiday Horrors. Every year we come together for the sa...

They’ve spawned thousands of blogs and given cats all over the world a taste of instant stardom. Now, the Internet’s favorite graphic format (and the 2012 word of the year) also boasts a spot at Art Basel M...

WASHINGTON — Billionaire investor David Rubenstein is giving the Library of Congress $1.5 million to fund three new literacy awards. Rubenstein of Bethesda, Md., is...

Today we commemorate the 1,000th time that The Washington Post’s illustrious masthead has been besmirched by The Style Invitational, its weekly repository for clever, pointed, sophisticated, irreverent, off-color ...

Perhaps the biggest result in the changes in San Francisco is this: Asian children growing up in the Bay Area these days do not see themselves as a minority. If anything, they see themselves playing a central role.

O come, all ye faithless: Behold a “Nutcracker” to banish ghosts of sugar-plum hangovers past. Ballet West’s production, which opened Wednesday at the Kennedy Center, fairly bursts with comfort and joy...

ROME (Reuters) - Restorers believe they may have found the initials of Giotto in a fresco attributed to the early Renaissance master in the lower basilica of St Francis in Assisi.

He may be small, but he sure grabs a mighty hammer price. This miniature version of Auguste Rodin's infamous "Le Penseur" (The Thinker) sold for...

Heroes our culture can’t stop recycling: James Bonds. Batmen. And, though you may not have thought about this one unless you’ve visited Bethesda’s Round House Theatre for a new origin story of anothe...

By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 12/05/2012 05:04 PM EST on LiveScience Paleolithic people living more than 10,000 years ago had a better artistic...

These days, our knowledge of celebrities too often originates with paparazzi images and snarky quotes by anonymous "insiders." After a while, it's easy to forget...

The list of contenders for the 55th annual Grammy Awards was announced Wednesday night, with six acts leading the list with six nominations a piece. Jay-Z and Kanye West, who have become regular contenders for the award ...

In 2003, the critic Martin Gayford began sitting for a portrait by Lucian Freud. In 2010, Gayford published his journal of the sittings as a book. Among his reflections, we get glimpses of Freud's attitudes and methods t...

Note: Do not read on if you have not yet season Season 1, Episode 8 of ABC's "Nashville, titled "Where He Leads Me." On this...

MILAN (Reuters) - Richard Wagner's "Lohengrin" kicks off La Scala's season on Friday with the renowned Milanese theatre under fire for choosing the German maestro over local hero Giuseppe Verdi on the biggest night of th...

The final "American Horror Story: Asylum" of 2012 is right around the corner, and creator Ryan Murphy has divulged a few dirty details about what's...