Alex Marshall

The 11th-century tapestry will go on display at the British Museum in September. Tickets for the exhibition have already been selling rapidly.

Plus, the museum that wants you to touch the art.

Visitors at the V&A East Storehouse can book appointments with artifacts that usually aren’t on show — and can even touch many of them.

Often performing dressed as a helmeted police officer, he also co-wrote the group’s biggest hits, including “Y.M.C.A.” and “Macho Man.”

Dressed as a helmeted police officer, Willis co-wrote the group’s biggest hits including “Y.M.C.A” and “Macho Man.”

Polaroids and photocopiers also gave the artist possibilities for creating in forms vastly different from his paintings.

“Taiwan Travelogue” is the first novel originally written in Mandarin to win the major award for fiction translated into English.

Five countries boycotted this year’s contest over Israel’s involvement, but politics took a back seat once the show in Vienna got underway.

Three years after King Charles III was crowned, the Royal Opera House in London hung plush new stage curtains bearing the monarch’s insignia — but only after the old ones gave up the ghost.

Finland is the favorite for prediction markets and bookmakers, but singers from Australia, Denmark, Greece and Israel are coming for the title, too.

Exclusive voting data shows that, despite Eurovision’s assurances, an Israeli campaign could easily have influenced last year’s contest.

Israel’s efforts to influence Eurovision’s vote were broader and started years earlier than previously known.

The hottest exhibitions at the world’s major art exhibition were shuttered on Friday as part of a pro-Palestinian demonstration.

On Tuesday, Russia opened a pavilion at the Venice Biennale for the first since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine’s own exhibit is just a stone’s throw.

The jury of the world’s most important art exhibition had said it wouldn’t consider artists from countries whose leaders are accused of crimes against humanity.