Arts

In the sprawling slum of Petare in Venezuela's capital of Caracas, a team of artists and residents led by Fabian Solymar are painting abstract murals covering up walls filled with Socialist Party political propaganda.

Author Toni Morrison, whose 1987 novel “Beloved” about a runaway slave won a Pulitzer Prize and contributed to a body of work that made her the first black woman to be presented the Nobel Prize in Literature, has died at the age of 88, her publisher said.

Ghanian artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo wants to start a dialogue on slavery with a sea of concrete heads commemorating the trauma of 400 years since the transatlantic slave trade began. Serena Chaudhry reports.

Harold "Hal" Prince, who won a record 21 Tony Awards as producer and director of some of Broadway's biggest hits, including "The Phantom of the Opera," "West Side Story" and "Fiddler on the Roof," died on Wednesday at age 91.

Theater is rooted deep in Greece's history and culture - but as the country claws its way out of financial crisis, youth unemployment is low. Now, its young actors are fighting to keep their dreams alive.

Fulu Muziki is a musical group whose members may spend as much time combing through heaps of trash in Kinshasa as they do practicing their songs. Their instruments are made out of recycled materials.

A dark musical re-make of a Greek myth grabs the spotlight at Sunday's Tony Awards show. "Hadestown" won eight awards, including best musical and best director. It was a night for Broadway to celebrate its own success, with record-breaking ticket and box office sales.

One of the 20th century's best-known architects, I.M. Pei, has died according to the New York Times. Pei was born in China but made his mark around the world with his distinctive modern aesthetic. His toughest project has turned out to be his most famous: the pyramid entrance to the Louvre Museum in Paris.

A 1986 "Rabbit" sculpture by American pop artist Jeff Koons sold for $91.1 million in New York, a record price for a work by a living artist, Christie's auction house said.

Reuters won a 2019 Pulitzer Prize in 'Breaking News Photography' for photographs of Central American migrants seeking refuge in the United States.

An Iranian musician has compiled an album that features artists from across the Middle East, in the hope the music will send a message of peace from a turbulent region.

"Olympia", a famous work of French modernist painter Edouard Manet, has been renamed "Laure", after its black model, in an exhibition on racism at Paris's Musee d'Orsay.