Italy’s Nadia Santini named world’s best female chef
(Reuters) – Nadia Santini, the head chef of the Michelin-starred Dal Pescatore restaurant in a village in northern Italy, was named Best Female Chef by...
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Museums vie for £100,000 Art Fund Prize
A Pembrokeshire museum that reopened in 2012 after being closed for nine years is among 10 venues in the running to be named the UK’s...
Chinese Girl portrait sale nears £1m mark
Vladimir Tretchikoff’s painting of the Chinese Girl, thought to be the world’s most reproduced print, has sold at auction in London for £982,050. The sum,...
Louvre museum returns Nazi-looted artwork
Seven paintings taken from their Jewish owners in the 1930s are being returned to their surviving relatives as part of an ongoing French effort to...
Rushdie says local government did not allow visit to Indian city
(Reuters) – British author Salman Rushdie accused local authorities on Friday of making it impossible for him to visit the Indian city of Kolkata to...
Library prank sends Armstrong books to fiction section
(Reuters) – A prank note in an Australian library declaring that disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong’s books would be moved to the fiction section has gone...
New Dan Brown novel “Inferno” due out May 14
(Reuters) – “Da Vinci Code” author Dan Brown’s new novel will be published on May 14, his publisher Doubleday said on Tuesday after a social...
Comedian Katt Williams arrested in LA
LOS ANGELES—Katt Williams, the comedian who has repeatedly found himself on the wrong side of the law, is out on bail after being arrested in...