Influential Australian art critic and writer Robert Hughes dies in New York after a long illness, aged 74.

The US government settles its legal case against the iconic Gibson Guitar company over use of illegal timber from Madagascar.

The Tony award-winning writer Mark O'Donnell, who co-wrote musicals Hairspray and Cry-Baby, has died at the age of 58.

Children are invited to complete a previously unknown unfinished work by writer MR James to mark the anniversary of his birth.

Baz Luhrmann's 3D adaptation of The Great Gatsby will not be released until summer 2013, film studio Warner Bros announces.

Andrew Lloyd Webber says he was wrong to predict a 'bloodbath' for London theatre during the Olympics, as figures show takings have risen by 25 per cent since the Games began.

Russian prosecutors ask for three years' prison for three women musicians accused of inciting religious hatred by protesting in a cathedral.

The composer Marvin Hamlisch, who wrote the scores for films and shows including The Sting and A Chorus Line, has died in Los Angeles aged 68.