An interactive exhibit featuring life-size models of Leonardo da Vinci's 500-year-old inventions and machines is opening in New York City's Times Square.

The National Gallery in London, one of the world's great public collections, has put on display a seedy reconstruction of Amsterdam's Red Light District in a rare foray into contemporary installation art.

The historic Biblioteca Ambrosiana on Tuesday unveiled 280 drawings by such masters as Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci collected by a 17th-century friar that have just returned from a Florence studio where they were restored for years.

It was about fascination with big money — and the life of a couple at the center of the biggest financial fraud case in U.S. history.

Iran's greatest master of traditional music, Mohammad Reza Shajarian, always avoided open clashes with his country's ruling hard-line clerics.

Brought back from the brink of financial ruin by a philanthropist's US$30 million gift, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles celebrates its turnaround this weekend with the most ambitious exhibition of its own iconic collection.

Taipei Artist Village (TAV) , a non-government artist community run by the Taipei Culture Foundation, has announced that it will hold a two-day winter open studio event Dec. 5-6, providing an art feast for the public.

Andy Warhol's monumental silkscreen “200 One Dollar Bills” sold for US$43.76 million at Sotheby's contemporary art auction on Wednesday, quelling fears that deep-pocketed collectors remain skittish during the weak economy.

The French government has conferred its highest decoration on Tchen Yu-chiou, chairwoman of Taiwan's National Chiang Kai-shek Cultural Center, for her dedication to promoting Taiwan arts and cultural exchanges with France.

“I almost had a heart attack,” said pensioner Tarcisio De Paolis, recalling his shock on discovering faithful copies of some of Raphael's most famous frescoes in his bedroom.