Arts News

Time is short this morning - jury duty continues - so I'm simply going to give you the press release direct from the Boston Symphony Orchestra with all the plans for next summer's Tanglewood season, including the return of Seiji Ozawa, the jazz fest and two James Taylor/Carole King shows that will sell out so fast it will warp the space/time ...

When the apocalypse comes, China will save the world. Or at least that's how Chinese audiences are interpreting '2012,' Hollywood's latest blockbuster disaster movie.

Although best known for painting the masterpiece "Mona Lisa," da Vinci also designed a fantastical array of futuristic flying machines, robots, weapons and mechanical devices.

Actor Robin Williams arrives at the premiere of Magnolia Pictures' 'World's Greatest Dad' at The Landmark Theater on August 13, 2009 in Los Angeles, California.

Nutritional analysis of popcorn servings at some of America's biggest cinema chains has found mind-boggling calorie counts that may surprise consumers who think of the snack as a relatively healthy treat.

Bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit is all set to essay the role of former Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi in a two-part biopic by filmmaker Krishna Shah.

Aamir Khan, Javed Akhtar and Ranbir Kapoor on the same platform? That's the line-up for a discussion organised by the Tehelka magazine on Bollywood and other social phenomena Saturday in New Delhi.

Colum McCann's "Let the Great World Spin," a novel about daring, luck and mortality in 1970s New York, won the fiction prize Wednesday night at the 60th annual National Book Awards.

I moved into Indianapolis about 19 years ago because I loved the idea of living close to the cultural center of a region among a diverse group of people.

Funnyman Will Ferrell and British actor Ewan McGregor headed a Forbes.com list of Hollywood's most overpaid stars when looking at the financial returns of their movies.

Stories of rich and poor are common themes among Wednesday night's nominees for the National Book Awards.

Walter Bishop follows in a long line of mad scientists. An unbalanced genius like Bishop going at it in his lab is a pop-culture staple.

The P.C. Richard and Son Theater in Manhattan was more packed than it has ever been, and for good reason.

Vigilant mothers warn their teenage daughters, "Don't play with trash, hear, it gets in yah eyes, baby." But some daughters don't listen.

Deborah Martin stars as a photographer who moves with her husband and son into a home with a dark past.

There will be a new Kander and Ebb musical _ off-Broadway. Vineyard artistic director Doug Aibel says "The Scottsboro Boys" will have its world premiere March 10 at the small nonprofit theater.

Adam Lambert knows how to shock, how to sing and how it feels to "lose" TV's top singing competition.

The Botticelli had happily hung in the North Carolina Museum of Art for more than a quarter-century, moving only a few feet over the years.

MacArthur "genius" grant recipient, upstart playwright, woman, wife, mother - has arrived at her Broadway moment with an electrifying effort that uses a big, buzzing box to explore some of humankind's most dangerous places: real intimacy, life-transforming technology and the limitless nature of medical science.

Lowe's Cos., the No. 2 home-improvement retailer, said Monday third-quarter profit fell 30 percent as consumers worried about jobs and home values spent on smaller projects like painting but held back on larger jobs.