British Author Espies a Funerary Violin Vacuum and So Fills It
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The latest manifestation of an ongoing silly season in the London literary world is ÂAn Incomplete History of the Art of the Funerary Violin,Â which seems to be an esoteric historical tome.
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A strong ensemble keeps a memory of a rooming-house childhood from slipping into sentimentality
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The Metropolitan Museumâs show of tapestry from the Baroque era is stupefying and awesome in its exacting detail.
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When Edward Dusinberre read Philip Rothâs novel âEverymanâ he was struck by what he perceived as its richly musical qualities.
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Judith Nesbitt, curator of the new Peter Doig exhibition, talks about one of her favourite works as a new retrospective of the artist opens at Tate Britain
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A rare signed first edition Harry Potter book is expected to fetch up to Â£12,000 at auction.
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The latest act by the 33-year-old curator has catapulted her into artâs tastemaking elite.
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Let his brother have that other modern museum. Leonard Lauder has transformed the Whitney into his personal domain.
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Michael Cox's book has the ornate, curlicued linguistic niceties of a Dickensian period piece.
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At a Christie&#39;s auction held in New York, a guitar once used by the Beatles George Harrison and John Lennon, fetched a staggering $570,000.
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A giant sculpture of a spider by Louise Bourgeois, similar to one, below, that has been luring the crowds to Tate Modern on Londonâs South Bank, has been donated to the gallery, the BBC reported. Vicente Todoli, the museumâs director, called the gift of the almost 30-foot-tall work, titled âMaman,â a âhistoric moment.â The steel and bronze sculpture was given to the Tate by Ms. Bourgeois and an anonymous benefactor. It is the largest of a series of spiders made by Ms. Bourgeois, now 96. The artist, who lives in New York, has described the piece as âan ode to my mother, my best friend.â She added: âLike spiders, my mother was very clever. Spiders are friendly presences that eat mosquitoes.â.
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âJerry Springer: The Operaâ  uncovers something grand within the small, squalid lives it portrays.
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British composer Colin Matthews has more reason than most to mourn the
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A lost novel by a once-famous Jewish authoress who was murdered in Auschwitz is being hailed as the literary event of the year in France, not least because of the extraordinary and moving story that has finally led to its publication.
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Visit a church near this Yorkshire  village and you will find people on a mouse hunt, searching  altars and choir stalls for the trademark of one of England&#39;s  most celebrated craftsmen.
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John Banville, an author of serious literary ambitions, has written a swirling, elegant genre novel under a pseudonym.
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Andrea Mosconi, 75, keeps some of the worldâs finest violins sounding sweet at a museum in Cremona, Italy.