10/23/2006. NEW ORLEANS.- The New Orleans Museum of Art presents the exhibit Carnival, Carnaval, Carnevale—What is the origin of these words and the rowdy festivals associated with them? The earliest mention of a Carnival celebration is recorded in ...

08/25/2008. BEIJING.- The competition came to an end Sunday at the Beijing Olympics. The Olympic flame, which had burned for 16 days was extinguished during a lavish closing ceremony at the National Stadium. With a carnival-themed extravaganza, China c...

09/25/2011. BERLIN.- Galerie Max Hetzler presents the third solo exhibition of Beatriz Milhazes, featuring four large scale paintings and a mobile, which were the subject of her solo show at Fondatio...

12/07/2011. LONDON (REUTERS).- Booming art prices have produced plenty of "treasures in the attic" of late, and this week could see another when a painting first valued at 300 pounds is set to fetch up to three million after Bonhams discovered it was by V...

03/04/2012. TORONTO, ON.- For 50 years, Canadian artist IAIN BAXTER& has been radically redefining the role of the artist, integrating photography, installation, sculpture, painting, drawing and performative aspects into his work. An exhibition at the <a ...

06/19/2012. LONDON.- Sotheby’s London will present an outstanding selection of rare and important masterpieces in its Old Master and British Paintings Evening Sale on July 4th 2012. The sale will,...

07/01/2012. LONDON.- Sotheby’s London will present an outstanding selection of rare and important masterpieces in its Old Master and British Paintings Evening Sale on July 4th 2012. The sale will,...

01/14/2015. The Yale School of Art launches its 2015 season at the 32 Edgewood Avenue Gallery with “Side Show,” an exhibition devoted to the “believe it or not” world of the American sideshow...

02/10/2016. From 10 February to 25 September 2016, The Olympic Museum celebrates Rio with a programme wholly dedicated to the culture and flavour of the city and of Brazil, host of the Olympic Games. ...

02/18/2017. The grandeur of Venice comes to America’s most historic city in “A Life of Seduction: Venice in the 1700s”, an exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art February 16 – May 21. NOMA i...

02/27/2017. Thousands of people poured onto the cobblestone streets of a northern Italian town Sunday to throw oranges at a makeshift monarchy, a tradition dating back more than 150 years. The juicy battle in Ivrea is part of the town's yearly carnival, which...

04/09/2017. Yorkshire Sculpture Park welcomed an extraordinary assembly of 80 sculptures by British-Trinidadian artist Zak Ové. Black and Blue: The Invisible Man and the Masque of Blackness, a mass of identical ...

02/25/2019. Venice Carnival kicked off on Sunday with not one but two traditional "flight of the angel" ceremonies, a highlight of the festival before thousands of onlookers in the Italian Renaissance city's St Mark's Square. Each first Sunday of the carnival...

12/03/2019. The Belgian city of Aalst near the capital Brussels has pulled its annual carnival from the UNESCO world heritage list, after an uproar from Jewish groups and the EU, the mayor said on Sunday. The row erupted in March after Mayor Christoph D'Haese...

06/28/2020. As part of ONE: A Global Sale of the 20th Century on 10 July 2020, Christie’s will offer seminal paintings by Adrian Ghenie and Cecily Brown as leading highlights in London. An extraordinar...