A new film about the artist Vincent Van Gogh claims that he was murdered rather than having shot himself. “At Eternity’s Gate” starring Willem Dafoe as the tortured genius, was…

Prize-winning South Korean author joins Margaret Atwood and David Mitchell as a contributor to Future Library project The world’s most secretive library, currently housed only in the minds of its…

Author Neil Gaiman is among the four writers shortlisted for a substitute for this year's Nobel Literature Prize. Alongside the British writer are Japan's Haruki Murakami, Guadeloupean author Maryse Conde…

He has been held up as a quintessential artist unappreciated in his own lifetime, a tortured genius selling just a solitary painting before his suicide. In fact, Vincent Van Gogh…

Abu Dhabi Art has announced the third in its series of gallery exhibitions in Abu Dhabi presenting contemporary artworks for sale. As part of its year-round public programming, the latest…

Tributes are pouring in from actors, fellow playwrights and other celebrities for Neil Simon, the American theater’s most successful and prolific playwright in the second half of the 20th century.…

Always enthusiastic to participate in various regional and global cultural events, the Emirates Publishers Association (EPA) took part in the 25th edition of the Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF), which…

All mines need regular reinforcement against collapse, and Hallstatt, the world's oldest salt mine perched in the Austrian Alps, is no exception. But Hallstatt isn't like other mines. Exploited for…

Event will take place at Jumeirah Mosque and will continue till October-end Dubai Culture on Saturday launched a photo exhibition about the ‘Mosques of the World’, in cooperation with Hamdan…

The Life to Come author says that even in tumultuous political times, literature has an important role to play The first time Michelle de Kretser won the Miles Franklin literary…