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Artists often use strange material for their creations (just take Siobhan Meow's use of cat feces or Norwegian artist Josephine Ryan's coffee paintings for example)....

There's hardly a Middle Eastern percussionist who hasn't heard of his instruments or desired one. Close imitations have failed to achieve the same exact sound quality even by copying all of its dimensions.

LOS ANGELES -- Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband will remain the ailing actress' conservator until at least August and will have to account for her assets,...

The man reported to be the world's wealthiest living artist has followed in the path of Vivienne Westwood and Sir Peter Blake by being the...

Danny Boyle won an Oscar for directing "Slumdog Millionaire," but "Trance," his latest film, doesn't even have an official U.S. release date. Which is confusing,...

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the folks at Microsoft Research showed a video of a future Xbox that, someday, could turn your...

Jack White and Conan O'Brien have an odd history together. In the late '90s, O'Brien traveled to Detroit for a "Late Night" remote bit, and...

One of ABC's most buzzed-about pilots is easily "S.H.I.E.L.D" and Paul Lee, the network's entertainment president, shared some more information about the Joss Whedon project...

-- Fun stuff to know about Thursday's Oscar nominations: GOLDEN AGE: At 85 years old, Emmanuelle Riva of "Amour" is now the oldest best...

"Girls" costume designer Jenn Rogien weighs in.

Have you ever seen Andy Warhol get excited? Well we have footage of the Pop Art master at the self-described most exciting moment of his...

Take away The Nutcracker, and what you end up with is profuse sweating, retching, agitation and massive irritability. Guess what? That time for rehabilitation is coming. Why?

The producers of Law and Order have developed a sterling reputation for basing many of their episodes on stories that were conveniently "ripped from the...

Despite ABC's decision to double up on "Happy Endings" and "Don't Trust the B---- In Apartment 23" on Sundays and Tuesdays (generally seen as a...

This week I talked with singer/songwriter Janis Ian about her latest Grammy nomination, in the Best Spoken Word category, for the 2012 audio version of her 2008 autobiography Society's Child. The book's title comes from ...

The Twitter Fiction Festival this year opened eyes to some of the literary laughs and spats and sheer innovation we might be missing on Twitter. In that spirit, enjoy this literary Twitter game: just match the 2012 tweet...

Before digital marketing and Apple Trailers, movie posters were the main hook for popularizing films. In an effort to bring back the craft of the...

The Heck-Custer Act to Promote Less Vulgar Putdowns. The Kildee-Barr Resolution to commemorate the precociousness of Davy Crockett. The Salmon-Meadows Act to promote alternative fish farming. Like many Washington area re...

Among the numerous excellent shows opening this weekend I saw several that were truly outstanding. At The Mission, Jeroen Nelemans, a somewhat recent transplant from Holland to Chicago, is presenting, fresh, intelligent,...

With less than two weeks until the inauguration, America -- or Hollywood, at least -- has come together to fully support one president. That president is Abraham Lincoln. Steven Spielberg's biopic of the 16th president a...

Andrew Schoultz: Fall Out | San Francisco-based artist Andrew Schoultz translates the motifs in his kinetic two-dimensional works into a real scale three-dimensional installation - presenting an interrelated combination ...

WARSAW, Poland -- Polish prosecutors are investigating a Swedish artist's claim that he used the ashes of Holocaust victims to make a painting, an act...