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2013-06-18 11:13:47

Goya drawing to be auctioned off in London

2013-06-14 09:20:46

Indian author to take part in debate in Italy

2013-06-13 14:34:36

Gaitonde's painting fetches record price at Sotheby's

2013-06-07 11:49:19

Picasso paintings fetch over $6 mn at auction

2013-06-07 10:21:19

British author Tom Sharpe dies

2013-06-06 12:57:37

Spanish novelist wins Asturias prize

2013-06-03 21:36:10

Russian masterpiece sold for $7 mn at Christie's

2013-05-30 15:45:13

Unique Russian dialect found in Alaska

2013-05-28 12:07:35

Casa Indio, a graffiti artist's gallery

2013-05-27 11:27:49

Mexican writer Jose Maria Perez Gay dies

2013-05-26 09:22:07

Old museum in Britain displays master drawings

2013-05-25 11:04:16

Spanish art gets privileged space in New York museum

2013-05-23 12:06:43

Lydia Davis bags Man Booker Prize

2013-05-23 10:22:44

Lydia Davis wins Man Booker Prize

2013-05-21 13:13:14

Indian sand artist wins Danish 'grand prize'

2013-05-17 12:18:12

Paintings return to England for first time in 230 years

2013-05-17 10:24:09

First edition of `The Great Gatsby' auctioned

2013-05-16 07:13:33

Amber Room, looted by Nazis during WWII, to be recreated

2013-05-15 13:39:03

Lenin mausoleum reopens in Moscow after renovation

2013-05-10 10:28:05

There can be no power without culture: Forum d'Avignon

2013-05-08 10:40:27

Documents from Hemingway's time in Cuba come to US

2013-05-05 01:29:34

British storyteller enthrals kids at Sharjah fest

2013-05-04 11:21:27

Spanish painter creates murals for elite school in China

2013-05-03 11:17:13

Bogota book fair draws over 430,000 visitors

2013-05-03 11:19:38

Pablo Neruda suffered from cancer, show tests

2013-05-02 19:24:59

Gandhi's prayer beads, letters to go under hammer in UK

2013-05-02 10:44:54

Exhibition reveals Van Gogh's secrets

2013-05-01 12:44:45

Picture books can boost your child's vocabulary

2013-04-29 11:52:21

Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik bags another laurel

2013-04-29 10:18:15

Firearms turned into musical instruments in Mexico

2013-04-24 18:13:13

Ancient mirror workshop found in China

2013-04-24 14:13:06

E-books challenge traditional reading: Chinese survey

2013-04-24 09:51:01

Exhibition looks at Dali's work with designer Rabanne

2013-04-23 10:04:48

Exhibition seeks to show the range of Dali

2013-04-18 15:09:48

Visual treat of Indian handicrafts, calligraphy in Cairo

2013-04-18 12:47:52

US returns stolen 16th-century tapestry to Spain

2013-04-16 12:27:13

Velazquez portrait makes US debut

2013-04-14 15:33:22

Indian sarangi player Lakha Khan wows US audiences

2013-04-12 10:56:15

Contemporary art fair held in Mexico City

2013-04-12 10:56:17

J.M. Coetzee rails against censorship

2013-04-11 11:22:09

Germany returns painting taken by Nazis

2013-04-10 11:11:46

Spanish writer Jose Luis Sampedro is dead

2013-04-10 11:05:47

Sarmento holds first exhibition in Mexico

2013-04-09 11:25:41

Pablo Neruda's remains exhumed

2013-04-09 09:47:30

Spain marks 40th anniversary of Picasso's death

2013-04-07 07:51:00

Russian art museum honours its cat guards

2013-04-06 12:48:51

Lorca's manuscript returns to Big Apple

2013-04-06 12:37:01

EU approves merger of Penguin, Random House

2013-04-02 12:05:23

Opera director collapses during performance

2013-03-29 10:24:19

Rembrandt's `Night Watch' returns to Rijksmuseum

2013-03-28 11:06:06

Warhol Museum not to exhibit Mao paintings in China

2013-03-28 10:40:18

Japan's `Outsider Art' arrives in London

2013-03-23 10:22:04

Afro-Cuban jazz artist Bebo Valdes dies

2013-03-23 09:02:10

5,000-carat emerald found in Russia

2013-03-21 09:32:03

Rare Lenin print sold for over $200,000

2013-03-19 16:42:06

Bolshoi Theatre mulls response to pimping claims

2013-03-14 05:10:02

Museum vandalised ahead of Nabokov's 'Lolita' show

2013-03-13 10:44:02

Sorolla painting to be auctioned

2013-03-08 11:10:04

Picasso Museum celebrates 50th anniversary

2013-03-07 11:10:03

Warhol auction brings in nearly $2.3 mn

2013-03-07 10:26:02

Gabriel Garcia Marquez `very happy' on 86th birthday

2013-03-06 11:42:15

Louvre opens its doors to Mexican masterpieces

2013-03-06 07:38:02

Solzhenitsyn exhibit to open in small US town

2013-03-02 18:12:03

Preserving cultural heritage of UP music village with British help

2013-03-01 09:48:04

Agent 007 is 45 and living in London in next Bond novel

2013-03-01 07:48:02

Japanese cultural event held in Sharjah

2013-02-27 10:16:04

Paris museum showcases Soto's work

2013-02-26 10:24:02

John Berger examines Picasso's fame and loneliness

2013-02-25 10:26:06

Spain wins four awards for best wine books

2013-02-23 11:30:03

Young Egyptians want revolution in society, family too: Egyptian writer

2013-02-14 12:44:01

Ethiopia to host exhibition of private art collection

2013-02-11 10:07:37

Double Grammy for late Ravi Shankar

2013-02-11 08:58:25

Sitar legend Ravi Shankar wins Grammy

2013-02-11 08:18:12

Sitar legend Ravi Shankar wins an Emmy

2013-02-09 11:58:03

Woman damages famous painting in French museum

2013-02-08 11:14:04

David, Venus replicas scandalise Japanese town

2013-02-07 10:54:02

Man Ray's avant-garde photography on display in London

2013-02-06 12:40:02

Picasso painting sells for $44.9 mn in London

2013-02-04 16:48:06

Historic Moscow sauna demolished

2013-02-01 12:42:04

Spanish museum exhibits work of Chinese dissident

2013-02-01 13:08:03

Goya painting goes unsold at New York auction

2013-01-31 14:22:03

Unesco to help protect Mali's heritage

2013-01-29 10:22:05

Madrid museum puts spotlight on 19th-century art

2013-01-26 09:22:02

Juanes to publish his first book

2013-01-25 10:30:02

Swiss exhibition showcases role of windows in art

2013-01-24 22:52:02

Roman skeleton found with freak pelvic tumour

2013-01-23 12:16:08

Change is an idea in Chanakya's new manifesto (IANS Book Review)

2013-01-23 10:28:04

Paedophile admits abuse in autobiography, jailed

2013-01-21 22:02:02

Roman nobleman's face recreated using 2,000-year-old skull

2013-01-21 13:42:03

French Revolution book popular in China

2013-01-18 20:00:04

Mountbatten's James Bond-style pen gun now on auction

2013-01-11 15:54:04

Touching upon the source of black money (Book Review)

2013-01-04 19:30:05

'Aristotle' sex manual banned for 200 years now on sale

2013-01-03 18:26:08

Forbidden City catalogues its vast collections

2013-01-01 19:16:09

Dickens' last wishes defied, hometown to install his statue

2012-12-30 17:14:17

3,500 kg ancient coins found in China

2012-12-29 13:18:15

A gripping work of mystery (Book Review)

2012-12-23 13:34:13

Why spirit can never be conquered (Book Review)

2012-12-21 18:34:23

'Gangnam Style' enters dictionary

2012-12-21 09:12:03

Anecdotes, not quite stories (Book Review)

2012-12-20 11:24:10

China's largest private art museum opens

2012-12-19 12:58:41

Photos of lost Russian crown jewels found in US library

2012-12-15 20:32:07

Beijing 2013 Book Fair to host 650 publishers

2012-12-15 09:40:05

Style, adventure lift weekend bookshelf

2012-12-14 12:20:32

First Andersen fairytale discovered in Denmark

2012-12-13 09:46:06

Ravi Shankar gets Lifetime Achievement Grammy

2012-12-12 15:42:14

Ravi Shankar could not withstand surgery, says family

2012-12-12 10:50:14

Sitar maestro Ravi Shankar is no more

2012-12-12 11:02:10

Sitar legend Ravi Shankar is dead (Third Lead)

2012-12-12 10:14:10

Ravi Shankar is dead

2012-12-12 10:18:09

Sitar maestro Ravi Shankar is dead

2012-12-12 10:30:16

Russian soprano is dead

2012-12-11 09:14:16

Mo Yan awarded 2012 Nobel Prize for literature

2012-12-10 10:12:04

Design Miami brings together art, decoration and design

2012-12-08 14:56:19

Short stories win the weekend bookshelf (IANS Books this Week)

2012-12-08 12:36:06

I will continue telling my stories: Chinese Nobel laureate

2012-12-07 13:42:10

Rock art goes haute at 45-day festival

2012-12-05 16:10:25

Dali painting goes under hammer

2012-12-02 17:06:15

Manuscript of 212-year-old dictionary of Indian languages found

2012-12-02 15:56:07

Palace found inside Chinese emperor's tomb

2012-11-29 21:26:07

Oscar Wilde home on sale

2012-11-29 17:52:11

Indonesia students get a taste of Indian culture

2012-11-27 20:08:14

Gutted Tibetan palaces restored in Forbidden City

2012-11-26 16:28:03

World's biggest sculpture to come up in Abu Dhabi

2012-11-26 15:56:22

Famous Egyptian singer attends 'Glimpses of India' event

2012-11-26 15:31:00

Tagore's bust unveiled at Indonesian temple

2012-11-26 09:14:07

Sharjah Islamic Bank to host 6th National Carnival

2012-11-17 12:58:11

Facts win over fiction on bookshelf (IANS Books this Week)

2012-11-07 19:06:05

Sri Lankan handicrafts on sale in Delhi

2012-11-06 11:22:06

Spanish explorers present book on Himalayas

2012-11-04 10:52:21

Dead Mexican author's novel to be published

2012-11-02 23:20:11

Sharjah to host art exhibition

2012-11-01 12:59:08

Former Chinese vice premier's book launched

2012-11-01 10:56:15

Spanish writer Fernando Diaz-Plaja is dead

2012-10-17 13:28:47

Mo Yan's new book debuts

2012-10-17 05:15:42

Picasso, Monet paintings stolen

2012-10-17 03:37:13

Hilary Mantel wins Man Booker Prize

2012-10-16 10:51:00

Llosa wins inaugural Carlos Fuentes Prize

2012-10-13 12:21:06

Mo Yan's new book to debut next week

2012-10-12 12:38:20

Mo Yan's books sold out

2012-10-12 11:10:07

Is Nobel to Mo a move to placate China, asks daily

2012-10-12 05:19:11

Mo Yan 'surprised' by Nobel Prize win

2012-10-11 20:24:24

Chinese Nobel winner 'surprised, delighted'

2012-10-11 19:26:09

Chinese congratulate Mo Yan for Nobel Literature prize

2012-10-11 17:06:06

Mo Yan draws on youthful experience in writing

2012-10-11 17:23:15

China's Mo Yan wins 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature

2012-10-11 16:37:10

Chinese wins 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature

2012-10-08 11:03:21

Bets on Chinese author Mo for Nobel Prize

2012-10-06 22:22:38

500-year-old skulls found in Mexico

2012-10-03 15:08:24

Gandhi in Tahrir Square: Poster competition in Cairo (With Image)

2012-10-03 10:09:25

'30s-themed art exhibit opens in Spain

2012-10-02 10:32:55

Ebooks dearer than hardback versions

2012-10-01 13:58:21

J.K. Rowling told to stay away from village

2012-10-01 13:05:36

Indian musicians dominate Warsaw Cross-Culture Festival

2012-10-01 10:16:05

Isabel Allende gets Andersen literature prize

2012-09-26 18:19:15

Google brain teasers test your job skills

2012-09-26 17:47:02

Harry Potter author Rowling writes adult book

2012-09-26 15:38:58

Bikinis with 200-year-old opera designs upset Chinese

2012-09-26 15:13:42

Neil Patrick Harris to write his memoirs

2012-09-26 14:40:08

An ancient flute and Genghis Khan's descendants

2012-09-19 14:58:19

Scholars compile dictionary on ancient Egyptian life

2012-09-13 18:39:09

Did King Tut die of disease that gave him breasts?

2012-09-07 15:59:02

Will.i.am songs inspired 'Fifty Shades of Grey'

2012-08-20 20:45:26

UAE to take part in London book conference

2012-08-24 10:44:07

Internet play with malicious codes comes to Manhattan

2012-08-24 19:48:18

Hindi originated in Turkey?

2012-08-28 10:23:05

Dominican woman uses her body for advertising

2012-08-15 16:32:33

China to elevate 600-year-old religious site

2012-08-07 07:49:24

2,000-year-old Roman ship found

2012-08-06 16:25:47

Book downloads overtake print sales

2012-08-01 14:27:50

Shanghai to welcome 300 authors

2012-07-29 14:23:57

Cultural relics found in South China Sea

2012-07-26 11:26:40

India's Mughal era artistic legacy on display in US

2012-07-18 11:22:58

Artist uses trash to create `art with a conscience'

2012-07-17 22:42:23

Kids' bodies recovered from 700-year-old Mexican grave

2012-07-13 14:46:43

Chinese netizens target nudes in classics

2012-07-11 09:57:03

Chinese ancient liquor breweries eye heritage list

2012-07-09 09:06:25

700 year-old gold coins found in Israel

2012-07-07 11:11:57

100 works of renaissance artist Caravaggio found

2012-07-07 10:15:18

Garcia Marquez suffering from dementia, says brother

2012-07-03 10:19:53

Art neglected and works dying in Pakistan, laments daily

2012-06-23 17:39:33

George Washington's constitution copy sold for $10 mn

2012-06-20 10:06:01

Picasso painting vandalised in US

2012-06-19 18:53:54

Erotic novel puts Harry Potter in shade

2012-06-14 08:58:03

Ancient Tibetan scripture found in Lhasa

2012-06-12 06:57:04

Rare Napoleon letter sold for $400,000

2012-06-07 10:42:54

Udaipur's Mewar gets UN award for saving India's living heritage

2012-06-03 17:02:08

Tintin cover fetches record price

2012-05-29 23:45:09

Abu Dhabi varsity to promote multicultural harmony

2012-05-19 23:24:08

Sharjah marks International Museums Day

2012-05-18 15:58:37

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