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The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has appointed Gary Garrels senior curator of painting and sculpture. As of Sept. 1 he will replace Madeleine Grynsztejn, who left SFMOMA earlier this year to become director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago....

The apocalypse came early to the Cannes Film Festival this year, filling screening rooms with snarling dogs, bursting bombs, shouting men and screaming women.

Child kings and queens land in a Jacobean tragedy with "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian."

Terrific performances and droll dialogue light up an otherwise humdrum story of depressed middle-aged men, says Tim Robey.

Sukhdev Sandhu reviews Barbet Schroeder's chilling documentary about the controversial defence lawyer Jacques Vergès.

Geoffrey Norris reviews the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marin Alsop at the Lighthouse, Poole.

THE film world has had its first glimpse of the £11 million movie being made by an award-winning French animator in Edinburgh.

Joseph O'Neill's stunning new novel set in post-9/11 New York provides a resonant meditation on the American Dream.

"Man vs. Wild," in the second chapter of its sophomore season on the Discovery Channel, returned two weeks ago as the most elitist of television's nature-combat shows.

At one New York City elementary school, kids learn theater from the pros -- starting in kindergarten