Venice Biennale opens to public
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The 52nd Venice Biennale, the world's oldest art exhibition, opens to the public in northern Italy.
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An exhibition of contemporary art owned by the billionaire heir of a Nazi-era arms supplier opened to the public Wednesday with none of the controversy that accompanied the decision to show the collection in Berlin.
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An exhibition of papal portraits from the Renaissance to Pope John Paul II will open in Rome at the end of this month, the organisers announced.
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The architecture biennale filling two vast exhibition spaces in Venice looks for a new era, but shies from debating the broader responsibilities of architects.
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Fingerprint sensors, gadgets to pry open doors and transmitters to spy on unsuspecting targets were among the wizardry on show at the opening of Italy's biggest technology fair on Thursday.
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NEW YORK, NY - Thousands of people lined the streets of New York City over the weekend to take in the reopening of the Museum of Modern Art.
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VENICE, Italy  - Anti-globalization protesters on  Thursday vowed more disturbances at Venice's most ambitious  film festival in years to protest against Hollywood's wealth  and reach after featuring as uninvited guests at its gala  opening.
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Venice's St Mark's Square will be transformed into a giant cinema for the premiere of animation Shark Tale.
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"We think of the exhibition as a medium, a move away from representation toward production"  Documenta, the world's largest contemporary art show that is held every five years, opens for the 12th time this weekend, boasting more than 500 works from 113 artists.The $25.3 million show opens Saturday in the central German city of Kassel, and runs for 100 days.It brings together disparate works of modern artists, including a photo series by Palestinian artist Ahlam Schibli focusing on the lives of her people. There is also a performance art piece by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei that will see 1,001 Chinese people _ including farmers, workers and police officers _ fly to Germany and then walk through the streets of Kassel for a week. Read more
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Tom Hanks opens the Venice Film Festival with a screening of Steven Spielberg's The Terminal.
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Hundreds of Salvador Dali paintings are going on display in Venice to mark the centenary of his birth.
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With banner-toting protesters outside and so many lawyers inside they could not all fit in the court, the first legal proceedings in Italy to arise from the Parmalat scandal began yesterday in Milan.
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Foto e manifesti epoca da archivio Museo Nazionale Cinema
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A spectacular exhibition of contemporary art opened in Berlin yesterday, amid a picket by Jewish protesters, with its billionaire owner accused of exploiting art to redeem his family&#39;s Nazi past.
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Actress Scarlett Johansson will launch the Venice Film Festival with the world premiere of The Black Dahlia.
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An exhibition of art treasures which was almost prevented from going ahead opens in London.
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Flowing fabric the color of sunrise was unfurled Saturday as "The Gates" &#151; a vast public art installation along the miles of footpaths in Central Park &#151; opening a 16-day project expected to lure art connoisseurs and the merely curious to the heart of Manhattan.