An Italian court is to rule Wednesday on whether Leonardo da Vinci's iconic Vitruvian Man drawing can be loaned to France's Louvre, bringing to a head a bitter cultural row. The Venice court last week suspended the loan of the world famous artwork, due to appear later this month in an...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Samuel Fisher publishing house in Frankfurt, Germany, has recently published a novel to young Syrian writer, Nazir Hanafi Al-Ali, entitled Space Without Windows. The novel monitors issues of love, war, homeland, exile and human loss between injustice in his homeland...

Warner Bros.' "Joker" laughed all the way to the box office again this weekend as it took $55.9 million in North American movie theaters, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations said Monday. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, "Joker" provides the backstory for the rise of Batman's maniacal nemesis,...

New York's heralded Museum of Modern Art reopens this month after a multi-million-dollar makeover that will allow curators to display hundreds more works every year. The museum has been closed for four months but will open again on October 21 following the latest renovations which increase...