Madrid's Reina Sofia Museum opens Friday a major retrospective of works by Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dali which explores how his experiments with painting, cinema and advertising have influenced art.

Secret passages high up in the rafters of Siena Cathedral have opened for the first time after decades of restoration, offering a rare view of midnight-blue ceilings and the Tuscan panorama.

Two naked seductresses separated by three centuries of history went face to face for the first time in Venice on Wednesday in an exhibition devoted to French painter Edouard Manet with his “Olympia” alongside Titian's “Venus of Urbino.”

Most people know Rotary International for the charities and social engagements it organizes, not Rotarians' artistic side. Members of Rotary International District 3480 recently put together an art exhibition, displaying works created by 19 Rotarians from various Rotary clubs in Taiwan and Japan.

A 400-year-old masterpiece that only came to light during a renovation at Paris's Ritz hotel has been sold for 1.44 million euros (US$1.88 million) to New York's Metropolitan Museum, auction house Christie's said on Thursday.

The head of the Beijing Palace Museum arrived in Taiwan yesterday as part of an exchange between the museum and Taipei's National Palace Museum (NPM, 故宮博物院).

Renowned sculptor Ju Ming's (朱銘) latest exhibition, Living World Series — The Urban Silhouette, opened yesterday at the Farglory Financial Center (遠雄金融中心).

Songwriter George Jackson, co-author of “Old Time Rock and Roll” and hundreds of other soul, rock and rhythm and blues tunes, has died. He was 68.

In a chaotic auction repeatedly interrupted by protests, dozens of Native American tribal masks were sold Friday after a French court ignored the objections of the Hopi tribe and the U.S. government.

One day, the world will speak of Cambodia without defining it by the raw, recent history of the “killing fields” and the Khmer Rouge.