Author Carlos Fuentes died on Tuesday at a Mexico City hospital at the age of 83, the National Council for Culture and the Arts has confirmed. Mexico’s best-known novelist was celebrated for his writings on the failures of the Mexican revolution.
Today in the arts segment, Sean Rose takes us to the world’s largest museum, the Louvre, not to see the Mona Lisa but a selection of paintings by famous French stage and film-director Patrice Chéreau. Every autumn, the Louvre gives carte blanche to a celibrity from the art or literary world, and this year’s special guest Patrice Chéreau has chosen pictures from the Louvre and other museums across France on the theme of “Faces and Bodies”.
Today, our art correspondent Sean Rose takes us to BOZAR: the Centre For Fine Arts in Brussels. The centre is currently hosting Gilbert & George's latest exhibition "Jack Freak Pictures". Sean Rose tells us more about the famous British pair.
Today with our art critic Sean Rose, we’re going back five centuries. We’re heading for the Grand Palais to see “France 1500: between Middle Ages and Renaissance”. This is an exhibition about French cultural identity and the emergence of French style.
Eleven Egyptian officials including the head of the culture ministry's fine arts department were convicted of negligence and jailed for three years Tuesday, after a $50 million dollar Van Gogh painting was stolen in August from a Cairo museum.
The Egyptian government has prohibited nine Culture Ministry officials from leaving the country after a $50 million dollar Van Gogh painting was stolen on Saturday from a Cairo museum, an Egyptian state-owned newspaper said on Monday.
Egypt confirmed Sunday that two Italians arrested for the theft of a $50 million Van Gogh painting had been released, and that the search for the masterpiece was still on.
An exhibition of North Korean art in Vienna offers a rare glimpse into the isolated country’s art scene. But critics have slammed the lack of background information, calling the show a blatant example of political propaganda.
Following on from the success of the previous YSL/Berge auction, Pierre Berge, partner of the late legendary designer Yves Saint Laurent, is putting up for sale further pieces from the pair's chateaux on the French Normandy coast.
Iconic Paris photographer Willy Ronis died on Saturday at the age of 99. He was one of France's giants of photography, particularly famous for his images of post-war Paris in the 1940s and 1950s.
