SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MAY 18: This combination photo shows the he toy doll Barbie in her various incarnations at Leuralla NSW toy and railway museum, as the iconic doll approaches her 50th birthhday May...
HBO's latest Game of Thrones spin-off series, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms , is kicking off next week. Alongside the new series, Penguin Random House has just released a new version of George R.R. M...
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The Adelaide Writers' Week retracted an invitation to an Australian-Palestinian author, citing the the Bondi Beach attack. Dozens, including the event's director and the former PM of New Zealand, with...
ABC News' Danny New looks back at the U.S. presidents who've taken to the canvas as painters....
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The Louvre museum and several other French cultural sites are increasing the price of entry for visitors from outside Europe. So-called "dual pricing" is quite common in less wealthy countries but rar...
A Palestinian graffiti artist in Gaza is turning destroyed buildings and collapsed walls into canvases....