Spirited singing fails to enliven Mozart opera

In this photo taken Monday, May 7, 2012, Chen Reiss in the role of Servilia and Serena Malfi as Annio, from left, perform during a dress rehearsal for the opera All the lovely singing fails to save the Vienna State Opera's new production of Mozart's "La Clemenza di Tito."


German baritone opera singer Fischer-Dieskau dead

FILE - In this Jan. 24, 2006 file picture German opera singer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau attends an awards ceremony in Berlin. A German opera house says renowned baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau has died. He was 86. Berlin's Deutsche Oper said the singer of opera and artistic songs died Friday May 18, 2012 at his home in Bavaria in southern Germany. (AP Photo/dapd/ Oliver Lang, File)Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the renowned German baritone who performed for more than five decades on stages in Berlin, Vienna, London and New York, died Friday. He was 86.


Warsaw fires architect of planned art museum

Officials have fired the Swiss architect tapped to design an ambitious museum of modern art in Poland's capital, throwing the whole project off track.

Book Talk: Museum conservator finds life in automaton

Author Peter Carey poses for a photograph in New York City's Soho neighborhoodNEW YORK (Reuters) - A museum conservator and horologist loses her colleague and married lover of 13 years, forcing her to use the intricate restoration of a 19th century automaton and the diaries of the man who commissioned it as the means to cope with her grief. Set in London in 2010, "The Chemistry of Tears" is the 12th novel by Australian-born Peter Carey, winner of two Booker Prizes for "Oscar and Lucinda" and "True History of the Kelly Gang". ...


'Newsies' choreographer draws on his background

In this March 29, 2012 photo provided by Disney On Broadway, choreographer Christopher Gattelli attends the opening night of the musical Seventeen young dancers stop horsing around on the Nederlander Theatre stage as Christopher Gattelli approaches.


Telemann's 'Orpheus' given staging by NYC Opera

In this May 10, 2012 photo provided by the New York City Opera, Nicholas Pallesen is in the role of Pluto, with Catherine Miller as Thanatos at a dress rehearsal of the New York City Opera's Orpheus, at El Museo del Barrio in New York. (AP Photo/NYC Opera, Pavel Antonov)No longer a major institution and now a shrunken, vagabond company, New York City Opera is ending its first season since departing Lincoln Center with a handsome staging of Georg Philipp Telemann's "Orpheus," a work premiered in 1726 that was long lost before it was rediscovered in 1978.


NY's Met Museum lets visitors climb to cloud nine

People visit a structure by Tomas Saraceno called Go ahead. Poke your head in the clouds.


NY's Met Museum lets visitors climb to cloud 9

Artist Tomas Saraceno, from Argentina, is reflected in his structure called New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is big on bubbles.


Santa Fe festival will honor Navajo artist

In this April 18, 2012 photo, Navajo artist Tony Abeyta poses for a photograph in his studio in Santa Fe, N.M. The 46-year-old painter and jewelry designer is being honored as a Artist Tony Abeyta just can't help himself.


Up on the roof of NY's Met museum in "Cloud City"

Up on the roof of NY's Met museum in NEW YORK (Reuters) - Argentine artist Tomas Saraceno combines art, architecture and science in a striking installation on the rooftop garden of The Metropolitan Museum of Art that gives visitors a different perspective of the sky, clouds and the city around them. "Cloud City," which opens on Tuesday and runs for six months, is a giant jumble of interconnecting modules, measuring 54 feet long and 28 feet high, that rises to varying levels and incorporates reflective materials, mirrors and glass with New York's skyline and Central Park as the backdrop. ...


Curator of Georgia O'Keeffe Museum resigns

Few people in the world know as much about the life and art of Georgia O'Keeffe as Barbara Buhler Lynes, who resigned Friday after years as curator and director of the research center at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe.

Artist Kapoor finds beauty in London's Olympic orbit

The designers of the ArcelorMittal Orbit, Cecil Balmond and Anish Kapoor, pose for photographs at the top of the ArcelorMittal Orbit in the London 2012 Olympic Park in east LondonLONDON (Reuters) - Turner prize-winning artist Anish Kapoor said on Friday that Britons would grow to love his spiraling red tower on London's Olympic Park, just as people had come to appreciate other structures initially loathed, including the Eiffel Tower. The 115-metre tall structure, higher than London's Big Ben and New York's Statue of Liberty has divided opinion, with some describing it as resembling a carnival slide or a water pipe. ...


Estonia to open maritime museum in seaplane hangar

A British-built submarine dating from the 1930s is on display in a maritime museum to be unveiled in Tallinn, Estonia, Friday, May 11, 2012. Estonia is set to open the Baltic states' largest maritime museum in a hanger once used by Charles Lindbergh. The unique concrete hangar housing the museum was built in 1916-17 when Estonia was part of czarist Russia. Its most famous guest was U.S. aviator Charles Lindbergh, who flew there from Moscow in 1933 as part of his tour around Europe. (AP Photo/Timur Nisametdinov)Estonia will open the Baltic states' largest maritime museum in a hangar once used by Charles Lindbergh.


Jeff Koons seeks to wring emotion from "empty" art

U.S.artist Koons poses beside his sculpture 'Michael Jackson and Bubbles' during a media preview of his exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler in RiehenBASEL, Switzerland (Reuters) - U.S. pop artist Jeff Koons is seeking to fire up your emotions at a retrospective show of his work in Switzerland. Although some critics regard his work as empty kitsch, Koons has put 30 years of sculpture - including his famous Balloon Dog - into his first museum show in Switzerland along with the admission that his art is in eye of the beholder. Visitors to the Fondation Beyeler in Basel are met by a giant globe-like sculpture made of thousands of flowers. ...


Warhol 'Elvis' fetches $37M at NYC auction

FILE - This undated image provided by Sotheby's shows Andy Warhol's portrait of Elvis Presley depicted as a cowboy. The painting, with a silver background, “Double Elvis [Ferus Type]” is estimated to sell for between $30 million to $50 million at Sotheby’s in New York on Wednesday May 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Sotheby's, File)Andy Warhol's "Double Elvis" sold for $37 million and works by Roy Lichtenstein and Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei broke their own records at Sotheby's contemporary art sale on Wednesday.


Warhol, Lichtenstein, Bacon head to auction in NY

FILE - This undated image provided by Sotheby's shows Andy Warhol's portrait of Elvis Presley depicted as a cowboy. The painting, with a silver background, “Double Elvis [Ferus Type]” is estimated to sell for between $30 million to $50 million at Sotheby’s in New York on Wednesday May 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Sotheby's, File)Paintings by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Francis Bacon and a work featuring one ton of handmade porcelain sunflower seeds by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei are among the artworks leading a Wednesday night contemporary art sale at Sotheby's.


American soap opera 'Bold' is big hit in Italy

In this photo released Wednesday, May 9, 2012 by Bell Phillip Television Productions Inc., Ronn Moss, who plays Ridge, background, takes photos of Kim Matula, who plays Hope, right, sitting on small truck during the shooting of TV soap opera With sunglasses and spike heels, makeup artists and wardrobe experts, the American soap opera "The Bold and the Beautiful" has landed in Italy.


Chicago Symphony Orchestra to tour Mexico, Asia

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Riccardo Muti plan trips to New York, Asia and Mexico for the 2012-2013 season.

Warhol painting of Elvis heads to auction in NY

FILE - This undated image provided by Sotheby's shows Andy Warhol's portrait of Elvis Presley depicted as a cowboy. The painting, with a silver background, “Double Elvis [Ferus Type]” is estimated to sell for between $30 million to $50 million at Sotheby’s in New York on Wednesday May 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Sotheby's, File)An Andy Warhol portrait of Elvis Presley as a cowboy is being sold at a New York City auction.


The Met Costume Institute Gala 2012

Stylish celebs gather for fashion's biggest night at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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