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Prominent Chinese artist Ai Weiwei said on Saturday he had been put under house arrest in connection with an argument with the government over the planned demolition of his studio in Shanghai.

The Broadway theater where “The Lion King” is playing dimmed its lights Tuesday night in honor of an 11-year-old actress from the show who lost her battle with leukemia.
 

A painting by Amedeo Modigliani (ah-mah-DAY’-oh moh-deel-YAH’-nee) has sold in New York City for more than $68.9 million, an auction record for the artist’s work.
 

An 11-year-old girl who played young Nala in “The Lion King” on Broadway has died after a battle with leukemia. Katharina Harf, co-founder of the bone marrow donor center DKMS, says Shannon Tavarez died Monday in New Hyde Park, N.Y.
 

A century after Harry Houdini thrilled audiences with daring escapes from handcuffs, straitjackets and watery tombs, the legendary magician has conjured a major art museum exhibition that explores his enduring legacy.

Leo Cullum, a cartoonist whose drawings helped define the look of The New Yorker magazine in recent decades, has died. He was 68.

The playwright who turned a classic Yiddish short story into the hit Broadway musical “Fiddler on the Roof” and later wrote the screenplay for its successful movie adaptation has died.

As listeners and angry citizens complained to NPR and public radio stations across the country over the firing of Juan Williams, the news analyst kept up his own criticism of his former employer as he began a bigger role with Fox News Channel.
 

NPR and its public radio stations around the country got an earful from listeners and angry citizens in the middle of pledge season Friday over its firing of commentator Juan Williams.
 

Ousted NPR analyst Juan Williams said Friday that he believes his former employer had been looking for a reason to fire him and used comments he made this week about Muslim airline passengers as an excuse to do so. Meanwhile, a U.S. senator said he would start the ball rolling to cut federal funding to [...]

The fired NPR analyst, who has served as a regular contributor on Fox News since 1997, reportedly is getting a pay hike that will net him close to $2 million a year over three years.
 

“I’m not a bigot,” the longtime news analyst said. Then he talked about getting nervous on a plane when he sees people in Muslim dress. Fair game for one of his employers, Fox News Channel, but a firable offense for the other, NPR.

A jury of the world’s leading pianists awarded this year’s Chopin Piano Competition to Russian Yulianna Avdeeva, the first woman to win the prestigious classical music competition in 45 years.
 

A statement issued by the Guccione family says he died Wednesday at Plano Specialty Hospital in Plano after a long battle with cancer.