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Dozens of books have disappeared from Warsaw to Paris. The police are looking into who is taking them, and why -- a tale of money, geopolitics, crafty forgers and lackluster [...]

ROME -- Silvio Berlusconi, the brash media mogul who revolutionized Italian television using privately owned channels to become the country's most polarizing and prosecuted prime minister over multiple stints in [...]

ROMA — Silvio Berlusconi, el impetuoso magnate de los medios de comunicación que revolucionó la televisión italiana con canales de propiedad privada que utilizó para convertirse en el primer ministro [...]

He defined a conservative course for the Roman Catholic Church, but his papacy was noted for his struggle with the clergy sexual abuse scandal and for his unexpected resignation. Benedict [...]

El papa emérito definió un rumbo conservador para la Iglesia católica romana, pero su papado se destacó por su dificultad para lidiar con el escándalo de abusos sexuales en el [...]

SEMUR-EN-AUXOIS, France -- Marine Le Pen, the leader of France's far-right National Rally, has worked hard during this election campaign to soften, even detoxify, her image. It seems to be [...]

V.S. Naipaul, the Nobel laureate who documented the migrations of peoples, the unraveling of the British Empire, the ironies of exile and the clash between belief and unbelief in more [...]

The article focuses on Benedict XVI, the pope emeritus described as a scholar who spent his time enforcing and defending church doctrine and the first pope in six centuries to resign in February 2013. It mentions the former pope's death at the age of 95 years in December 2022 with no cause given but citing his frail health and advanced age. It discusses Benedict's involvement in a scandal wherein he allegedly mishandled cases of minor sexual abuse between 1945 and 2019.

PARIS -- Nathan Englander's latest book and second novel, ''Dinner at the Center of the Earth,'' is both a thematic and stylistic departure from his previous work. Instead of the [...]

PARIS -- Luc Besson's latest sci-fi extravaganza, ''Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets,'' has every hallmark of his work: action, romance, sassy women packing heat, underwater scenes, special [...]

PARIS -- François Pinault's decades-long battle to place his contemporary art collection here took a leap forward this week when the Japanese architect Tadao Ando unveiled his design to turn [...]

Paris -- It was announced in November with fanfare. Jeff Koons would donate a monumental sculpture, a hand holding a bouquet of balloon tulips, to the City of Paris to [...]

ANTIBES, France -- Around 11 on Saturday night, Mary J. Blige walked into the party hosted by Vanity Fair and Chopard at the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc. Her wingwoman was her [...]

''May I just have your room number?'' the waiter at the Bellini Bar of the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes asked when I walked in around 9 p.m. on Saturday [...]

CANNES, France -- The Cannes Film Festival has always been a jarring clash of the glam and the grim, between often dark films and the stars who pose on the [...]

CANNES, France -- As controversy continued to swirl here over the presence of two Netflix titles that are playing in the Cannes Film Festival's main competition but won't appear in [...]

PARIS -- The world was just catching its breath after World War II when the Cannes Film Festival began in 1946. Since then, the festival has helped introduce the Italian [...]

CANNES, France -- France is a paradise for moviegoers, with thriving cinemas and state subsidies for new productions. Netflix is a global streaming giant founded on the concept that movie [...]

PARIS -- Facing pressure from French theater owners upset that Netflix films would go straight to streaming, the Cannes Film Festival said Wednesday that it would change its rules to [...]

PARIS -- Maybe it was the suspect timing of the leaked documents. Or the staggering amount and possibility that some were fake. Or a feeling among the French that, having [...]

VENICE -- In 2015, the Venice Biennale with Okwui Enwezor as curator sometimes felt more like a political manifesto, with readings from Marx's ''Das Kapital'' and work that touched on [...]

PARIS -- The French comedian Sophia Aram took to the airwaves of one of France's most popular morning radio shows this week. In the squealy voice of a teenage girl, [...]

New films by Sofia Coppola, Noah Baumbach, Todd Haynes, Michael Haneke and Michel Hazanavicius will be among the competitors for the Palme d'Or at the 70th Cannes Film Festival next [...]

BERLIN -- Kenda Hmeidan arrived here from Damascus, only in November. She left behind a country at war, and her family. The separation was painful, but her path was not [...]

ATHENS -- In 2013, the curator Adam Szymczyk proposed a radical reinvention of Documenta, the prestigious contemporary art exhibition held every five years in Kassel, Germany: to split the show [...]

SAINT-PAUL-DE-VENCE, France -- From 1970 until his death in 1987, James Baldwin lived and wrote in a house with an idyllic garden in this medieval village on the Côte d'Azur, [...]

BRUSSELS -- As the lights go dark in a theater here, gunfire and explosions are heard. Some in the audience gasp, including several women wearing head scarves. Onstage, a Muslim [...]

PARIS -- Dozens of museum attendants at the Louvre went on strike on Thursday to protest what they said was the museum's poor handling of crowds at a temporary exhibition [...]

PARIS -- The Italian director Saverio Costanzo has signed on to direct and to help write a 32-part television series based on the four Neapolitan novels by the author who [...]

Spencer Hays, an apparel and publishing magnate, art collector and former Bible salesman who, with his wife, Marlene, donated more than 600 paintings by Matisse, Bonnard, Vuillard and other masters [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDIt is 1969. Vera Wang is 19. Her competitive figure skating career is ending, and she is studying art history at the Sorbonne during a junior year abroad. She [...]

It is 1969. Vera Wang is 19. Her competitive figure skating career is ending, and she is studying art history at the Sorbonne during a junior year abroad. She is [...]

PARIS -- Sixty-five writers and artists have joined with the advocacy organization PEN America to send an open letter to President Trump, criticizing his executive order banning citizens from seven [...]

PARIS -- First it was the Netherlands. After President Trump vowed to put ''American first,'' a Dutch television show made a satirical case for why the president should consider its [...]

PARIS -- Michel Onfray, a best-selling French pop philosopher, was sounding pretty upbeat on the phone, even though the title of his latest book is ''Decadence: The Life and Death [...]

PARIS -- The Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar will preside over the jury of the Cannes Film Festival in May, the organizers of the event announced on Tuesday. ''For its 70th [...]

TEHRAN -- The Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, whose film ''The Salesman'' is nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign-language movie, said on Sunday that he would not attend the [...]

PARIS -- The Iranian director of ''The Salesman,'' which is nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign-language film, won't attend next month's Oscars ceremony. The Metropolitan Museum of Art [...]

PARIS -- The ability of an Oscar-nominated Iranian director to attend the Academy Awards ceremony next month has been thrown into question by President Trump's order temporarily banning citizens of [...]

PARIS -- The Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti, a co-star of ''The Salesman,'' an Iranian film up for the foreign-language Academy Award, said Thursday that she would boycott the Oscars ceremony [...]