Paris: Voodoo in the material world “Vaudou” gathers sculptures and fetishes from Africa, tangible objects reflecting the belief in a world of unseen but present spirits. The exhibition, at the Fondation Cartier through Sept. 25, has been a hit with museumgoers. Jorg von Uthmann of Bloomberg reports....

London: Amy Winehouse dead No, no, no: The troubled Grammy-winning singer was found at her north London home on Saturday afternoon, dead of a suspected drug overdose. She was 27. Adrian Thrills, Daily Mail: “... without question the outstanding vocalist of her generation. Without Amy, there would...

London: Lucian Freud dies The artist whose spare but riveting portraits of ordinary people made him, according to art critic Robert Hughes, “the greatest living realist painter,” was 88, and succumbed late Wednesday to a brief illness. Freud “put the pictorial language of traditional European...

L.A.: Wanted: Adventurous jazz He’s got no kick against smooth jazz, but Chris Barton of the Los Angeles Times finds the summer schedule for jazz performances at the legendary Hollywood Bowl short on musicians who push the envelope. For Barton, the Bowl schedule cries for concerts that present...

Life after Harry Three ambitious and visionary filmmakers have just wrapped up Warner Bros’ mammoth Harry Potter film series — at $6.4 billion and counting, the most lucrative franchise in movie history. Tim Masters of BBC News asks: What do you, and the studio, do for an encore? See MoviesPhoto:...

Antalya: 'Herakles' whole Reuniting, it feels so good: “Weary Herakles’’ has been a symbol of the art works stolen from Turkey and sold to U.S. museums. The top half of “Herakles’’ has been at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts since 1982. Now, after years of talks and debate, the MFA has agreed to send it back, implicitly admitting that it never should have let Herakles the Upper join the collection...

Paris: Winnipeg is a winner An exhibition of Canadian artists at a private gallery near the Bastille has garnered almost unanimous praise from critics entranced by the artists’ weave of elements of nature, climate and mysticism. Peter O’Neil of The National Post reports. Look at ArtPhoto: Postmedia...

Delhi: Filmmaker Mani Kaul dies The world of Bollywood mourns the death Wednesday of the director acclaimed as “one of the pioneers, along with Kumar Shahni, of a parallel cinema movement in India.” The Calcutta Telegraph reports. In MoviesPhoto: Calcutta Telegraph...

Arabs in film (myth and reality) In the world according to the movies, the Arab is locked in an amber of cinematic assumptions: sneaky, conniving, bloodthirsty, rapacious, a joyful enslaver bent on evil. On Tuesdays and Thursdays in July, the Turner Classic Movies channel will focus on the Arab...

‘Christina’s’ landmark The U.S. Department of the Interior has declared an 18th-century Maine farmhouse, the setting for Andrew Wyeth’s iconic “Christina’s World,” is a National Historic Landmark. Brian MacQuarrie of The Boston Globe reports. See ArtImage: 'Christina's World' (1948) © Andrew ...

Shabazz Up The release of Black Up, the debut full-length by Shabazz Palaces, has been the talk of the music world for months. The Seattle duo’s blend of hip-hop, jazz and a wholly original lyrical vision was much anticipated. For Eric Grandy at Pitchfork and Jeff Weiss at the L.A. Times, it...