At vastly different screening parties on Wednesday, three "Top Design" contestants saw themselves on television for the first time.

The Toronto International Film Festival got going with a face-smashing, belly-laughing gangster caper from a director best known as Madonna's husband.

In a culture seething with moving images, painting that asks us to take it seriously must acknowledge its own inertia. New York painter and former Bay Area resident Sarah Walker understands this, to judge by her involving new work at Gregory Lind Gallery....

For the next four months, two Bhutanese monks will perform daily rituals at the Rubin Museum of Art to safeguard the artworks included in "The Dragon's Gift: The Sacred Arts of Bhutan," an exhibition opening on Sept. 19.

FOUR months after axeing grants to several traditional Scottish music and dance organisations, the Scottish Arts Council has found £300,000 of funding for "strategic issue

Italian director Ermanno Olmi picks up lifetime achievement award in Venice. By Suzi Dixon and agencies.

A galaxy of stars and the three major networks in the U.S. united in a rare televised fundraising event to "stand up" to cancer.

Neuroscientists and musicians have learned that looking at the brain on music can yield valuable insights into how the mind works. Yet, University of Arkansas music theorist Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis cautions that such research has produced some unintended consequences, such as the mistaken notion that listening to Mozart in particular boosts brainpower.

For the 10th time in the past 13 years, Kansas Public Radio has been named the Station of the Year by the Kansas Association of Broadcasters.

The director brings his signature horror flick The Fly to the Los Angeles Opera