Wrists bent and fingers curled, the immaculately dressed dancers perform a series of gestures that, according to ancient custom, carry the wishes of the Khmer kings to the heavens.

The director of China's biggest box-office hit says “Lost in Thailand” succeeded by showing a rarely seen subject: modern Chinese life.

Fleeing from a burning, volcanic cloud, the people of Pompeii and Herculaneum had little time to pack, snatching a lamp, some cash or the house key as they tried to run to safety.

Tens of thousands of photographs and negatives from a large collection of Hollywood images will be sold during a two-day auction in New York next month, Guernsey's auction house said on Monday.

The National Palace Museum (NPM) was unable to find five accessories belonging to antiques during an inventory check that it completed in 2012, its director said yesterday, but added that the losses do not decrease the value of the antiques themselves.

The massive bronze sculpture is formally known as “Draped Seated Woman,” a Henry Moore creation that evoked Londoners huddled in air raid shelters during the Blitz.

A rare portrait of the wife of Henri Matisse by artist Andre Derain and a monumental work by Jackson Pollock could each sell for US$20 million or more in spring auctions in New York, auction houses said on Friday.

“The Burghers” are back. After months of work to remove years of discoloration and damage from acid rain and pollution, Auguste Rodin's monumental bronze sculpture “The Burghers of Calais” was returned to its pedestal at the Rodin Museum on Friday.

Long a cultural backwater, Rio de Janeiro has taken another leap toward becoming an art hot spot with this week's opening of a museum built around one of the world's premier collections of contemporary Latin American art.

Beautiful landscapes have always been a source of inspiration across all the art forms. Senior Taiwanese photographer Wu Tung-shin (吳東興) experiences exactly this, converting inspiration from his scenic travels around the country into a string of magnificent images.