Arts and Culture

New York parking garage collapses, at least one dead and four injured

New York, United States | AFP | Tuesday 4/19/2023 At least one person died and four were rushed to hospital…

AI work sparks fierce debate after winning photo award

Paris, France | AFP | Tuesday 4/18/2023 ADDS new statement from awards organiser, detail A German artist has sparked an…

Michael Jordan sneakers fetch auction record $2.2 mn

NEW YORK, United States (AFP) -- A pair of sneakers worn by NBA superstar Michael Jordan sold for $2.2 million…

Mexican TikToker shares Maya language with new generations

by Sofia Miselem Agence France-Presse OXKUTZKAB, Mexico (AFP) -- Santos Tuz bids his followers farewell with a smile in Maya…

Basquiat-Warhol: a rare artistic duo, reunited in Paris

by Eric Randolph and Sandra Biffot-Lacut Agence France Presse Paris, France (AFP) -- There are vanishingly few great collaborations in…

Danish artist hatches epic global troll hunt

by James BROOKS Copenhagen, Denmark (AFP) A Danish artist famous for his towering wooden trolls sent fans on a worldwide…

Artists fight AI programs that copy their styles

by Julie JAMMOT Agence France-Presse San Francisco, United States (AFP) Artists outraged by artificial intelligence that copies in seconds the…

Vienna museum tilts paintings to illustrate climate change threat

Vienna, Austria (AFP) Gustav Klimt's well-known Attersee lake painting tilted by two degrees, Egon Schiele's painting of a tree in…

Kenzaburo Oe: novelist who won Nobel with ‘poetic force’

  by Etienne BALMER / Kyoko HASEGAWA Nobel-winning Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe, a leading liberal voice who defended the disenfranchised…

Peru returns seized Roman coins to Italy

LIMA, Peru (AFP) -- Peru on Thursday returned a collection of 73 Roman coins, some from the second and fourth…

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