After a year of intense medical care, doctors and nurses celebrated the loosening of COVID-19 restrictions in Israel Tuesday with a concert in the lobby of Ichilov hospital at Tel Aviv's Sourasky Medical Center.

Tel Aviv hospital celebrates lifting of COVID-19 restrictions

Brazilian artist Eduardo Srur reproduces works by renowned masters without using a drop of paint - just recycled shreds of plastic picked up from city streets and rivers.

Brazilian conjures works of art from plastic bags

Twice a week, dozens of Mozambican children gather under the shade of a mango tree for what looks at first glance like a community play date. But they are not there for fun, rather for solace and healing after witnessing shocking atrocities committed by jihadists in the north of the country over the past three years.

Sketching out trauma: art, puppets heal children of Mozambique conflict

Countries usually fight on land, water, airspace, fish and more of such things. In the middle of the pandemic, some are fighting over vaccines. However, Peru and Bolivia are fighting over something totally different.

Dance battle: Peru and Bolivia fight over origin of 'La Morenada'

Auction house Christie's unveiled on Monday (April 19) what it called "the highest-estimated Asian artwork" to ever go under the hammer, a Xu Beihong painting called "Slave and Lion," which it expects to fetch between $45-59 million.

Christie's to auction 'highest-estimated Asian artwork' in Hong Kong

Spanish freediver and dancer/choreographer Ariadna Hafez performed a breathtaking tango ten metres underwater for Tang'O, a three minute film directed and produced by Frenchman Bastien Soleil.

Underwater Tango: Spanish dancer freedives for breathless performance

French actors Etienne Coquereau and Isabelle Cagnat are pining to get back on stage once the pandemic is over, but on Sunday (April 11), they had to be content with performing from behind the windows of a fashion boutique.

French actors deprived of stage perform behind store window

The curtain finally came up on Broadway on Saturday (April 3) as NY PopsUp showcased Tony-award winning dancer Savion Glover offering a tribute to front line workers with his feet, and fellow Tony award winner Nathan Lane performed a new monologue called "Playbills" which was written for the occasion.

The curtain finally comes up on Broadway

Hadija Haruna-Oelker, a Black journalist, has just produced the German translation of Amanda Gorman’s “The Hill We Climb,” the poem about a “skinny Black girl” that for many people was the highlight of President Joe Biden’s inauguration.

Amanda Gorman’s poetry united critics; it’s dividing translators

A Vincent Van Gogh painting of a Paris street scene fetched 14 million euros ($16.47 million) at auction on Thursday (March 25), only to be put back under the hammer and sell for a lower amount.

Van Gogh's 'Street scene in Montmartre' goes under hammer twice at auction

A Banksy painting showing a young boy playing with a toy nurse as a superhero rather than Batman or Spider-Man sold for more than $20 million on Tuesday (March 23), setting an auction record for the elusive British street artist.

Banksy NHS tribute sells for record $20 million at auction

Work by British artist Sacha Jafri consisting of the world's largest painting on canvas has been sold for $62 million at an auction in Dubai, organisers said on Tuesday.

'Journey of Humanity', largest art canvas sells for $62 million

Odisha, a great destination for anyone interested in handicrafts, handlooms, art, and culture. We showcase some of the best that the state has to offer in 'Discover Odisha, India's best-kept secret'. Exploring the handicrafts, handlooms, art, and culture of the state with us on WION.

Discovering Odisha | Exploring the handicrafts, handlooms, art, and culture

Urging the Metropolitan Opera to compensate its artists “appropriately,” the company’s music director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, sent a letter to leaders at the Met on Thursday saying that the many months its orchestra and chorus had gone without pay during the pandemic had become “increasingly unacceptable.

Met Opera’s music director decries musicians’ unpaid furlough

For German artist ANTOINETTE, lockdown is a financial calamity, but not all bad: the cancellation of public events has allowed her an extended stay in the east German castle of Merseburg where she has been working on her massive mural.

One year into pandemic, the art world adapts to survive

An unlikely fusion of Irish dance and hip-hop music is flying high on the internet as a young dreadlocked African-American dancer blends her passions in viral videos of herself in quarantine.

Black American brings new face to Irish dancing

Paintings by Pablo Picasso, Rene Magritte and Joan Miro as well as Banksy's tribute to Britain's National Health Service are among a selection of artworks going under the hammer this month at auction house Christie's 20th Century Art sale.

Picasso, Miro, Magritte as well as Banksy for sale at auction

Eitan Asraf's cellphone snapshots are anything but mundane - a style the Israeli artist attributes to his near-drowning, in 2016, after his powered parachute crashed in a wastewater reservoir.

Brush with death inspires Israeli artist's surreal cellphone snaps

Known for his monumental frescoes made with biodegradable painting on lawns and beaches in different parts of the world, Saype arrived at Benin's village of Oudiah to finish the tenth step of the 'Beyond Walls' project.

Artist spray paints human chain on Benin coast

A digital-only artwork was sold for $70 million on Friday by auction house Christie’s. The auction house on Friday also shared the name of the buyer - a crypto asset investor known as “Metakovan” - a pseudonym.

Buyer of digital-only art worth $70 million made by Beeple revealed

The street artist Banksy may have been at work again in the UK. A new painting appeared on the side of a former prison in Reading overnight on Sunday (February 28).

Street artist Banksy may have scaled prison wall for latest work

A Japanese dance company is using an innovative style of performance to promote social distancing, where the audience sits in separated cubicles and watches an avant-garde production through mail slots and peepholes.

Japanese dance company offers new viewing experience

This story contains spoilers for the seventh episode of 'WandaVision.' If you are a fan of the Disney+ Marvel series “WandaVision,” there are five words that have been stuck in your head for the past week: “It was Agatha all along.

Meet the songwriters behind the 'WandaVision' hit 'Agatha All Along'

A painting of a Paris street scene by Vincent Van Gogh is to be shown to the public for the first time, after spending more than a century behind closed doors in the private collection of a French family.

Van Gogh painting to be shown in public for first time

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