VENICE (AFP) ― Fifty-two drawings by Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci are going on show in Venice from Thursday, including the famous but rarely seen Vitruvian Man charting the ideal proportions of the human body.The show in the city’s Galleria dell’Academia displays works from the museum’s own archives as well as from the collections of the British Royal Family, the Ashmolean Museum, the British Museum and the Louvre.“Leonardo da Vinci: The Universal Man” charts his artistic and scientific

NEW YORK (AP) ― Nederlander Worldwide Entertainment on Wednesday agreed to manage and produce a live show in a specially built $65 million theater in central China that will celebrate the world famous Terra Cotta Warriors, a high-profile step for America’s live theater giant into the world’s most promising consumer market.The heads of Nederlander group and the Shaanxi Qinhuang Grand Theater Performing Arts Company signed the contract at the Minskoff Theatre on Broadway as two actors in elaborate

LONDON (AFP) ― The auction of works by Banksy, the world’s most infamous graffiti artist, has angered residents of looted London neighborhoods and “embarrassed” the artist as the sale of street art becomes a lucrative enterprise.Hollywood A-listers Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are fans of the British artist’s stencilled designs, known for their irreverent humour and political activism.One of his most famous works is painted on the Israeli separation wall and depicts a young girl flying away whil

LONDON (AFP) ― “Twerking,” the raunchy dance that set tongues wagging when enthusiastically performed by Miley Cyrus at the MTV awards, is one of the new terms to make the latest Oxford dictionary update.The former Disney child star, now 20, left audience members gobsmacked when she bent over and gyrated provocatively with singer Robin Thicke on his song “Blurred Lines.”The moves, borrowed from U.S. hip-hop culture, have been colloquially known as twerking for around 20 years, but the term has n

NEW YORK (AP) ― Don’t get your heart set on anything more than the 90-second ’N Sync reunion seen on the MTV Video Music Awards. It was their first performance together in 11 years ― and the last time they’ll do it, at least for a while.“It would be lovely to do it, but we got nothing planned,” Lance Bass told the Associated Press between breaks while doing his Sirius XM show “Dirty Pop with Lance Bass.”Part of the reason is that Justin Timberlake begins his solo tour this fall, and the closest