Booker finalist Thien wins top Canada fiction prize

TORONTO (Reuters) - Man Booker Prize finalist Madeleine Thien on Monday won Canada's Giller Prize, the country's richest fiction award, for "Do Not Say We Have Nothing", about a young woman's flight from China after the Tiananmen Square protests.

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Meat Loaf serves up a glimpse of 'Bat Out of Hell' musical in London

LONDON (Reuters) - Rocker Meat Loaf's 1977 breakthrough album "Bat Out Of Hell" has inspired a passionate love story for the stage, fusing the classic catalog of songs with some previously unreleased music.

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Tim Burton hopes to inspire creativity with Hong Kong exhibit

HONG KONG(Reuters) - From childhood illustrations to items from movies he has directed, American filmmaker Tim Burton is bringing a touring exhibition of his works to Hong Kong through which he hopes to inspire others in their creative pursuits.

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Louvre Abu Dhabi opening further delayed to 2017: sources

ABU DHABI (Reuters) - The official opening of the Abu Dhabi branch of France's Louvre museum has been postponed to 2017 due to pending construction work, the latest setback for the long-delayed project, three sources said on Thursday.

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Rodchenko's 'Construction No.95' seen fetching up to $4.3 million at auction

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Alexander Rodchenko's 1919 avant-garde artwork "Construction No.95" will lead an auction of Russian art in London this month, where it is seen fetching up to $4.3 million.

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Cuba ballet festival reflects diplomatic pas de deux with U.S.

HAVANA (Reuters) - A woman in a floaty dress wrestles a minotaur who reflects her inner demons in "Errand into the Maze", one of the Martha Graham Dance Company works that made its Cuban premiere this weekend to thunderous applause at the Havana ballet festival.

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Denmark to build new Hans Christian Andersen museum

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A new museum dedicated to the life and work of Danish fairytale writer Hans Christian Andersen, author of The Ugly Duckling and The Little Mermaid, is to be built in his birthplace of Odense, local authorities said on Monday.

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