Cinemagoers in the British city of Liverpool demanded refunds on tickets for Oscar favourite "The Artist" because they did not realise it is a silent movie, a cinema chain said.

Doctors should read up on Shakespeare, according to an unusual medical study that says the Bard was exceptionally skilled at spotting psychosomatic symptoms.

Just as in the Middle Ages, flocks of sheep and herds of cows made their way through Madrid city centre on Sunday, marking the centuries-old annual tradition of transhumance, in which cattle migrates from summer to winter pastures.

German contemporary artist Anselm Kiefer said Sunday he planned to snap up a mothballed atomic power plant in the belief that Germany's nuclear history should be preserved for future generations.

There's something new to see at the Microscope Gallery in Brooklyn: a newborn baby called Ajax whose mother made her pregnancy the subject of her latest exhibition.

Protesters in William Shakespeare's home county were on Tuesday to temporarily remove the writer's name from street signs in support of a campaign against a new film which suggests the Bard was "a fraud".

The Chinese society believes that having many children is a kind of blessing. It is rare to see five generations under one roof and recently, a family has set a record in the Chinese society by having six generations at a funeral to mourn the death of a 105-year-old woman in Kuala Lumpur.

Culture officials in Rome are mulling a ban on "living statues", arguing that dressing up in costume and standing on the street to solicit spare change has no artistic merit, media reported Friday.

Alexa Meade does make paintings of people, but on people.

The native town of an Italian labourer who stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum in Paris 100 years ago on Sunday in the art world's most famous heist will honour him with a play that portrays him as a patriot.