FILE PHOTO: A man stands on the deck of the brightly painted former pilot ship The Edmund Gardner at the Albert Dock in Liverpool, northern England, June 11, 2014. REUTERS/Phil Noble/File Photo CARACAS (Reuters) – Carlos Cruz-Diez, a Venezuelan artist who shaped the field of kinetic and optical art during …

LONDON (Reuters) – The world’s biggest celebration of the performing arts begins on Friday in Edinburgh, with its most international line-up yet grappling with issues every bit as weighty as those that set the tone for the city’s first festival in 1947. Performers hand out flyers on the The Royal …

The artist Eid Al Salwaawi paints murals about the holy Kaaba and the rituals of the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, in Cairo, Egypt, July 17, 2019. REUTERS/Hayam Adel CAIRO (Reuters) – Eid Al Salwaawi, 69, paints murals of the rituals of the haj pilgrimage on the walls of a house …

FILE PHOTO: Greek sculptor Takis is seen at an Athens’ metro station during the opening of his exhibition in Athens, Greece, January 29, 2001. Stratos Havalezis/Eurokinissi via REUTERS ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek sculptor Takis, whose kinetic artworks were admired at major art museums around the world in a career spanning …

MADRID (Reuters) – A Spanish businessman has bought a statue symbolizing women forced to work in Japanese military brothels which was removed from an exhibition in Japan after organizers received threats over the piece. Photo taken by Kyodo in Nagoya, Japan, August 3, 2019, shows a statue symbolizing “comfort women,” …

David Crombie, Senior Paintings Conservator at the National Museums, Liverpool carries out restoration work on the painting ‘Am Not I A Man And A Brother’, one of only 2 known paintings of its type in existence in Liverpool, Britain, July 30, 2019. REUTERS/Phil Noble LONDON (Reuters) – Ahead of the …

NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City rules limiting the number of art and book vendors in four popular Manhattan parks are constitutional, a state appeals court ruled on Tuesday, overturning an injunction against the rules. FILE PHOTO: A man sits on a bridge inside Central Park in New York …

Stocks plunged on Friday after President Donald Trump ordered that U.S. manufacturers find alternatives to their operations in China. Apple led the way lower. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 623.34 points lower, or 2.4% at 25,628.90. The S&P 500 slid 2.6% to close at 2,847.11. The Nasdaq Composite dropped …

FILE PHOTO: Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan attends the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 22, 2019. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann (Reuters) – Bank of America Corp (BAC.N) Chief Executive Officer Brian Moynihan on Wednesday played down fears of a potential U.S. recession, saying strong consumer spending …

Chinese shipping containers are stored beside a US flag after they were unloaded at the Port of Los Angeles in Long Beach, California on May 14, 2019. – Global markets remain on red alert over a trade war between the two superpowers China and the US, that most observers warn …