Arts News

For 32 years, a portrait of a serene Mary Todd Lincoln hung in the governor's mansion in Springfield, Ill., signed by Francis Bicknell Carpenter, a celebrated painter who lived at the White House for six months in 1864.

David Harlan has taken the concept of theater-in-the-round to the next level. He's converted an old grain silo in this college town into a live theater space.

She started off with supporting roles and now with 'London, Paris, New York', Aditi Rao Hydari is set for her first lead role.

When Bradley Cooper appeared on Bravo's "Inside the Actors Studio" last year, he couldn't help but be nervous.

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra says its latest "Live from Orchestra Hall" webcast has drawn the largest audience of any live online performance by a U.S. symphonic group.

Angelina Jolie says she's nervous and excited about the upcoming premiere in Sarajevo of her Bosnian war movie "In the Land of Blood and Honey." The film, which is showing at the Berlin International Film Festival on Saturday, is set to make its full debut in the Bosnian capital on Feb.

Bollywood's biggest star Amitabh Bachchan underwent abdominal surgery on Saturday and was recovering well in a Mumbai hospital, his son said.

A new exhibit about the 1980s is opening at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, featuring interpretations of icons like Ronald Reagan, Andy Warhol and Jesse Jackson, along with pieces that reflect on important issues from the decade: drug use, nuclear proliferation, AIDS and feminism.

General view of a 2-meter-tall wax heart Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, outside Prague's National Theater.

Whether the third time will be the charm for "Hugo" Oscar-nominated screenwriter John Logan is yet to be seen.

In 1872, a dissatisfied opera-goer who had attended a performance of Verdi's "Aida" in Parma, Italy, wrote to the composer asking for his money back.

Philip Glass' "The Perfect American," imagining the final months of the life of Walt Disney, will have its world premiere at Madrid's Teatro Real on Jan.

Brian Patrick Flynn, who designed this room, claims that designers and decorators hold well-layered spaces in high regard since, just like personalities, multiple layers make a room more complex, one-of-a-kind and require skill and experience.

In this Nov. 8, 2011 file photo, Jean Dujardin holds his co-star Uggie the dog arrive at the AFI gala screening of "The Artist" at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles.

The arts-ification of downtown Orlando isn't waiting for the arts center to get here.

Placido Domingo will take on another baritone role when the Los Angeles Opera presents its first performances of the Verdi rarity "I Due Foscari" to open its 2012-13 season.

Robert Lepage's technologically advanced new staging of Wagner's Ring cycle comes to an epic climax with "Gotterdammerung" The production will be broadcast live for only one day on Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 12:00 PM ET / 9:00 AM PT in select movie theaters.

Kodak is exiting the digital camera business and it will instead license its brand name to other camera manufacturers, the company announced Thursday.

A funeral held for Nobel-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska drew more than 1,000 people to a snowy cemetery on Thursday, and Poland's president praised her for producing verse that allowed readers to see the "tiniest particles of beauty" in everyday life.

In a series of posts, Midnites for Maniacs curator-host and Academy of Art film-history teacher Jesse Hawthorne Ficks reports on the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.