The monuments in Bamiyan province had stood for 1,500 years but their destruction was ordered in 2001 by that regime -- already infamous then after banning television and imposing ultra-strict rules governing the conduct of women -- for being against the Muslim faith.

Originally known as Posingford Bridge, it captured the imaginations of children as "Poohsticks Bridge" where the honey-loving teddy bear invented one of the most famous children's games.

But as a new exhibition in Paris marks the magazine's 100th birthday, times are troubled at the fabled magazine. 

Fearing a crackdown on music by the country's new leaders, a total 101 members of Afghanistan's top musical institute landed in Doha on Sunday evening, Ahmad Sarmast said.

Paris Fashion Week wraps up Tuesday after days of innovative experiments that showed how the industry is embracing technology and new approaches for a post-pandemic future.

The two-part or diptych canvas depicts a small child letting go of a heart-shaped red balloon and was painted by the elusive wall dauber in 2005.

Deftly parrying her son with a bamboo cane, Meenakshi Amma belies her 78 years with her prowess at kalari, thought to be India's oldest martial art.

Jens Haaning, a Danish artist, ended up pocketing the 534,000 kroner ($84,000) that the museum loaned him and sending blank canvasses with a new title: "Take the Money and Run".

The song ‘Genjer-Genjer’ is often associated with a scene of brutal slaughter in the Indonesian pseudo-docudrama Pengkhianatan G30S/PKI.

The tape, featuring the song "Radio Peace", was recorded on Jan. 5, 1970 by four Danish boys who had succeeded in getting a interview with the couple for a local school magazine.

A Dutch court sentenced a man to eight years in jail Friday for stealing two paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Frans Hals from small museums.

Can our art industry, a sector that relies heavily on live performances, survive the pandemic? 

What separated the often-reclusive artist from his peers was his achievements beyond the conventions with Chinese ink and his naturalist painting style development.

Released 30 years ago this week, Nevermind was a generation-defining milestone that sold 30 million copies and made a tragic icon of Kurt Cobain.

Two days after the Taliban seized Kabul last month, 26-year-old artist Sara took the terracotta plates she'd painted and hurled them to the ground.

The job drought experienced by Indonesia’s working musicians during the pandemic shows the lack of support the country’s creative workers have always had.

France's Notre-Dame cathedral is finally ready to undergo restoration work more than two years after a blaze ravaged the heritage landmark.

The 21 reliefs, which were only recently discovered, are heavily eroded and were initially estimated in 2018 to be some 2,000 years old based on similarities with artworks found in Petra in Jordan. 

The line-up at the Louis Vuitton Foundation's new exhibition in Paris reads like a who's who of artistic giants from the Belle Epoque: Van Gogh, Picasso, Monet, Matisse, Cezanne... 

Workers on harnesses spent several days enveloping the 50-meter, 19th century arch in a silvery blue, recyclable plastic curtain, a project first imagined decades ago by the late Bulgarian-born Christo.

Art exhibition Mukti Negeriku! highlights the creative processes behind a lasting masterpiece that narrates history.

Baroque, jazz, rap: centuries of musical heritage intertwine to tell the tale of a mixed-race family in a new opera being premiered in Brussels based on an epic novel of America's troubled 20th century.

Theatre director Robert Wilson helped transform the way opera is seen around the world, but as he turns 80, it is still Europe that comes calling, while he remains largely ignored back home in the US.

The crowd of some 400 actors, athletes, poets and performers -- all of whom were either vaccinated or had tested negative for Covid-19 -- was largely maskless on the cream carpet, defying the global coronavirus pandemic that forced the cancellation of last year's event. 

An Indonesian dance veteran has experienced everything from working with Madonna to creating his own routines

After weeks of preparations, the final stage of the art installation has begun, with a silver-blue sheet unfurled from the top of the imposing war memorial at the top of the Champs-Elysees. 

A meteorite salvaged from a 2018 fire at Rio de Janeiro's National Museum symbolizes resistance to the destruction of culture in times of darkness.

The 62 year-old actress said the secret to her success in the horror genre is that she was scared easily.

The film, an adaptation of the Broadway production, stars Tony Award winner Ben Platt reprising his role as a high school student with social anxiety who gets caught up in a lie. Julianne Moore, Amy Adams and Kaitlyn Dever are among the cast.

The first auction will feature iconic works such as Warhol's silkscreen portraits of Marilyn Monroe, an enormous tritone painting by Mark Rothko, and a seascape by Gerhard Richter.