Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei talks on his mobile phone as he walks near the entrance to his studio in Beijing June 20, 2012. Credit: Reuters/David GrayBEIJING | Mon Mar 11, 2013 6:47am EDT BEIJING (Reuters) - Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei

A visitor looks at a ten-piece set paper screenprint of Mao Zedong by Andy Warhol, which is part of Warhol's series of the late Chinese leader, displayed at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre during Christie's 2008 Spring Sales May 26, 2008.

SYDNEY | Tue Mar 12, 2013 10:17am EDT SYDNEY (Reuters) - When Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec sketched his celebrated portraits of the Parisian demi-monde, even he could never have imagined his work would one day be displayed to new admirers amid the scorching

Fri Mar 15, 2013 7:32pm EDT n">(Reuters) - BP launched its promised appeal against "fictitious" and "absurd" oil spill compensation payouts on Friday and asked a judge to temporarily halt to those made on a so-called business economic loss basis.In

By Georgina ProdhanVIENNA | Mon Mar 11, 2013 8:21am EDT VIENNA (Reuters) - The famed Vienna Philharmonic has acknowledged that many of its musicians were Nazi party members during Hitler's rule and that its director may have delivered a prestigious