Arts News

Kingston has renamed part of a downtown street Tragically Hip Way.

Biographies of Canada's first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, and one of the most controversial, Pierre Trudeau, are vying for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.

The East Room of the White House was transformed into an intimate blues club on Tuesday night for a concert featuring blues all-stars of the past, present and future — and the president himself.

Soul singer Adele followed up her Grammy Awards triumph with a double win at the U.K.'s Brit music awards Tuesday, for best British female and best British album.

Pierre Juneau, who championed Canadian content on radio and TV as the first chair of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, has died. He was 89.

Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot is being inducted into the New York-based Songwriters Hall of Fame.

The Gemini Awards, which celebrate the best in Canadian TV, have changed the rules to put big-budget co-productions such as The Tudors and The Borgias in a separate category.

Two veteran American fiction writers – Don DeLillo and Russell Banks – are competing for the 2012 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction.

Antonio Banderas will channel cubist master Pablo Picasso in the forthcoming film 33 Days, portraying the iconic painter during the period he produced his legendary Guernica.

A sneak peek of a statue celebrating Northrop Frye's centennial birthday was unveiled Monday at Moncton's Capitol Theatre along with a list of authors and literary critics who will be attending this year's Frye Festival.

Bridesmaids and other films featuring partying and drinking may be Hollywood money makers, but a new study suggests alcohol in movies is having a negative social impact: it's prompting young people to drink.

British band Queen have confirmed that American Idol contestant Adam Lambert will serve as frontman at a concert this summer at the U.K.'s Sonisphere festival.

Join CBC reporter and film critic Eli Glasner here on Tuesday at 1 p.m. ET as he runs through his predictions for the 2012 Academy Awards

The Scream, Edvard Munch masterpiece, will be sold at a New York City art auction this spring.

South African-born opera singer Elizabeth Connell, who won global acclaim in roles by Wagner, Strauss, Beethoven and others, has died. She was 65.

Oscar-winning actress Judi Dench says she's been diagnosed with macular degeneration and has to struggle to read scripts and recognize faces.

A new deal on foreign film access to the Chinese market clears the way for more North American fare to open in China, especially Imax and 3D films.

The same day Whitney Houston was laid to rest in a New Jersey cemetery, a celebrity auctioneer was preparing to auction off a gown and earrings she had worn in The Bodyguard.

Lindsay Lohan, whose career has been on hiatus while she straightens out her personal life, is beginning a comeback with an appearance on Saturday Night Live.

Woody Allen's romantic fantasy Midnight in Paris and Alexander Payne's family drama The Descendants have won top screenplay honours from the Writers Guild of America.