Arts

News Hour: French artist Abraham Poincheval, who famously spent a week inside a rock and two weeks inside a bear sculpture, has succeeded in hatching chicken eggs after incubating them for some three weeks, reports Reuters....

News Hour: The sculptor of Wall Street’s “Charging Bull” statue is seeing red over New York City’s decision to keep in place the “Fearless Girl” sculpture that now stares it down, saying the adjacent art has...

News Hour: Documenta, one of Europe’s most important modern art exhibitions, opens in Athens on Saturday, the first time in its history it is being held outside the German city of Kassel. Documenta 14 – “Learning...

News Hour: An Andy Warhol portrait of former Chinese leader Chairman Mao Zedong has sold for $12.6 million at a Hong Kong auction, less than the $15 million it was expected to fetch. The painting was...

News Hour: From Old Masters’ self-portraits to contemporary selfies taken on phones, a London exhibition explores the creative potential of a mode of expression whose modern form is often derided as inane. The British capital’s Saatchi...

News Hour: A professor said on Thursday he had found a copy of Lithuania’s lost declaration of independence languishing in a German archive, an achievement hailed by authorities as the discovery of the nation’s “birth certificate”....

News Hour: She was Picasso’s forgotten wife, written out of history as a “neurotic”, snobbish depressive who was a drag on the great artist. But a new exhibition is shining a very different light on Olga...

News Hour: A 59.60-carat diamond known as “The Pink Star” is returning to auction next month and could fetch a record $60 million, three years since it was sold for even more – only for the...

News Hour: The German city of Trier has decided to accept a towering statue of Karl Marx from China marking next year’s 200th birthday of the founding father of communism, despite some suggestions it sends a...

News Hour: The last time the entire Sistine Chapel was photographed for posterity, digital photography was in its infancy and words like pixels were bandied about mostly by computer nerds and NASA scientists. Now, after decades...