The writer Junot Diaz is back with a new collection of stories titled "This Is How You Lose Her." They feature several characters from his first novel, "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," which won the Pulitzer Prize for…

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A screen displays scientific tests made on the "Isleworth Mona Lisa," left, and the Louvre's version of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece on Thursday.

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This fall readers can find a shelf full of new books by big name authors, from Junot Diaz to Zadie Smith to Salman Rushdie to Orhan Pamuk. But not even books by Pulitzer, Orange, Booker and Nobel Prize winners, respectively,…

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Employees of the Centre Pompidou modern art museum in Paris sweep around a bronze sculpture by Algerian artist Adel Abdessemed of the headbutt given by former French soccer player Zinedine Zidane to Italian player Marco Materazzi during the 2006 World…

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Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

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A fire dancer performs during the first ever Backstreet Festival in Alexandria, Egypt, which runs through Saturday. An initiative of the International Association for Creation and Training, the festival celebrates art in non-traditional spaces.

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We here at Art Beat enjoy a good contest. So today we unveil the Tuesday Cutline, a contest in which you come up with a caption to a photo and win a prize.

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Hugh Martin recently won the Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award from The Iowa Review for his poetry. His upcoming book, "The Stick Soldiers," received the A. Poulin Jr. First Book Prize from BOA Editions. Hugh served in Iraq for 11 months.

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Ray Suarez talks with Roger Weisberg, the director of the film, "Money and Medicine."…

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Dancers from the Spanish dance company Cie Delreves perform Sunday on the facade of Bulgaria's national palace of culture during Sofia Dance Week. Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images.

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