ART & CULTURE

Are you ready to show your Halloween costumes to your family and friends? Only two days are left. Oct. 31 is Halloween day. Traditionally on Halloween day, children usually dress in scary or funny costumes and go door-to-door, collecting candy. However, nowadays the adults also are looking to wear costumes that are both easy to create and fun to wear. Sometimes people wear scary costumes to party and play pranks with others around them.

Placido Domingo appeared at London's Royal Opera House in Covent Garden late Thursday both as a tenor and in his new guise as a baritone.

Spanish singer Placido Domingo marked his 40th anniversary at London's Royal Opera House with a gala concert late Thursday that was greeted with one of the longest and loudest curtain calls the venue has seen in years.

The Steve Jobs biography has debuted at the top of the charts, and you can expect it to stay there for a long time.

The writer was on top of the world.

He's known as one of the world's best classical cellists, but for his latest musical effort Yo-Yo Ma has dropped Bach and picked up bluegrass.

A landscape painting by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt that had been stolen by the Nazis is expected to fetch more than $25 million when it is sold at auction next month, Sotheby's said on Thursday.

English author and bookmakers' favorite Julian Barnes finally won the Man Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday, despite once dismissing the coveted award as posh bingo.

Bette Midler's famous mermaid stage costume, the Valentino gown she wore to the 1992 Oscars and a collection of headdresses are all going up for auction in November, Julien's Auctions said on Tuesday.

English author and four-time nominee Julian Barnes, who once dismissed the Man Booker Prize for fiction as posh bingo, is favored to win it on Tuesday with his novel The Sense of an Ending.

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, whose 81-day detention earlier this year caused an international outcry, has been named the art world's most powerful figure in a new ranking.

Gerhard Richter is one of the world's most prized living artists, and one of his famous Candle series is expected to fetch 6-9 million pounds ($9-14 million) at auction in London next week.

The new Academy museum could open in the old May Company building at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as soon as three years from now, Academy CEO Dawn Hudson told TheWrap on Wednesday.

The motion picture academy has confirmed an agreement with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to locate a new museum in a former department store owned by LACMA.

A selection of Marilyn Monroe's costumes from films such as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Bus Stop are going up for sale in December, following sales of $22.8 million from an auction held earlier this year in Beverly Hills.

New York Comic Con has something its bigger, more established brother in San Diego would have killed for last summer -- an exclusive clip from The Avengers.

A city once thought to have less culture than a bowl of yogurt, Los Angeles is challenging that notion with an epic exhibition, Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980.

AFTRA's national board has given the negotators for the labor group's sound recording contract authorization to strike, the organization announced Saturday.

The closest one may ever come to being touched by a deity may be at southern California's Bowers Museum when Warriors, Tombs and Temples: China's Enduring Legacy opens this week showing off an ornate case that holds a bone from the Buddha's finger.

Works by Jeff Koons, Keith Haring and four other artists are expected to raise more than $1 million for Elton John's AIDS Foundation (EJAF) when they are sold at auction in November, Sotheby's said Friday.

A pair of 19th century paintings by Polish Impressionist Julian Falat, looted by the Nazis nearly seven decades ago, were returned to Polish authorities on Thursday in a ceremony in New York.

The public adored John Martin's apocalyptic images of destruction and chaos yet the art establishment shunned him, helping to consign the British artist's works to the storage vaults.

Russell Moore felt it was time to strike out on his own three years ago after working more than two decades at the birthplace of new American cuisine -- Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California.

Chinese piano superstar Lang Lang wowed them, Wagnerian soprano Susan Bullock got a laugh as a British Brunnhilde, but the stars of the Last Night of the BBC Proms were standing in the middle of the Royal Albert Hall.

Prize-winning U.S. author Ann Patchett has always taken research for her novels seriously -- but never more so than with her latest, State of Wonder.

The approaching tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks is casting a long shadow for U.S. Muslims, many of whom are dreading the approaching anniversary because they fear a resurgence of prejudice and hate, said author Mona Eltahawy.

Norman Mailer once advised another author to wait 10 years before writing about the attacks of September 11 because it will take that long for you to make sense of it.

Salvatore Licitra, a leading Italian opera tenor seen as an artistic heir to the late Luciano Pavarotti, died Monday from head injuries suffered in a scooter accident last month, a statement on his website said.

Hurricane Irene's impact on New York City remains to be seen, but it's a certainty that Broadway will be dark this weekend, with all Saturday and Sunday performances canceled.