Alex Marshall

“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.

The BBC said that entry to the country was being denied to the rapper formerly known as Kanye West. The concert promoter behind Wireless, the festival he was due to headline, said that the event wa...

The board terminated Markus Hinterhäuser’s contract early, leaving the leadership of the world’s largest classical music festival in limbo for now.

By hosting a pavilion again this year, Russia continues its efforts to shed its status as a cultural and sporting pariah.

The awards show didn’t mention racist slurs when it told the audience that a man with Tourette’s might make “involuntarily noises.”