Arts News

Daughtry and American Idol runner-up Jessica Sanchez are among the musical acts performing at this year's National Memorial Day concert, which airs on PBS Sunday, May 27 at 8 p.m., from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol building.

Rollie Pemberton is a poet - in fact, he was poet laureate of his hometown, Edmonton, Alberta, for a couple of years.

The arrival of the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge has brought forth a slew of photos, both historical and modern, of the iconic span.

Veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah is delighted to team up with Bollywood diva Madhuri Dixit in Vishal Bhardwaj`s 'Dedh Ishqiya', and says he is looking forward to their working together, Zee News reports.

Ruben Alpizar never met the American collector who fell in love with his painting of a plummeting Icarus against a starry background, hanging on the wall of a Spanish colonial-era fortress across the bay from Havana.

New Jersey is often referred to as a state that has everything. Miles of ocean shoreline, mountains, cities and now, dinosaurs.

Officials say Berlin's Staatsoper opera house will not reopen until 2015 after a new problem arose at the building site in the German capital.

A TELEVISION company is seeking homeowners in Burnham and Highbridge to take part in a programme designed to add A 15,000 to their homes in just three days.

In this June 12, 2011 file photo, Robert Iger arrives at The 22nd Annual A Time for Heroes Celebrity Carnival Sponsored by Disney at Wadsworth Theater in Los Angeles.

Grammy-winning folk musician Doc Watson is in critical condition Friday at a North Carolina hospital after falling at his home in Deep Gap earlier this week.

Fifty years ago on Sunday, a fire at the town dump ignited an exposed coal seam, setting off a chain of events that eventually led to the demolition of nearly every building in Centralia - a whole community of 1,400 simply gone.All these decades later, the Centralia fire still burns.

Turkey's state-run news agency says a prosecutor has proposed charging an internationally known Turkish pianist and composer with insulting Islamic religious values in comments he made on Twitter.

NEW YORK - Someone forgot to tell Nina Stemme that the opera season here is supposed to be over.

In this photo taken Sunday, May 20, 2012, actor Amos Olutokun performs an interpretation of Shakespeare's play "A Winter's Tale" in Lagos, Nigeria.

U.S. President Barack Obama takes the stage to speak about energy during a visit to TPI Composites, a wind energy manufacturer, in Newton, Iowa May 24, 2012.

In this undated theater publicity image released by Boneau/Bryan-Brown, from left, Levi Kreis, Elizabeth Stanley, Eddie Clendening, Hunter Foster, Lance Guest and Robert Britton Lyons are shown in a scene from the musical "Million Dollar Quartet," at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre in New York.

Jonas Kaufmann says he lip synched his performance of the Champions League theme before last weekend's final in Munich.

The UK National Ballet has teamed up with a former Britain's Got Talent dance troupe for a unique performance fusing street dance, acrobatics and ballet.

A previously unknown painting by noted Indiana impressionist T.C. Steele has been found hidden behind another canvas.

A lawyer for South Africa's president broke down in tears Thursday as he tried to convince three judges that the display of a portrait that depicts the president's genitals is unlawful.