The Asian contemporary art market suffers a blow as bidders fail to buy paintings at a Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong.

Coldplay, Meat Loaf and Grace Jones are among the acts attending the Q magazine awards in London.

Meet the 12 finalists hoping for X Factor fame

US movie director Tyler Perry opens a new film and TV studio facility in Atlanta, which was attended by guests including Will Smith.

Britain is missing out on new music because there are no shows like Top Of The Pops, the culture secretary warns.

The 12 final X Factor acts, who will perform live on next Saturday's show, are selected by the judges.

Canine film Beverly Hills Chihuahua is best in show in the North American box office, according to early estimates.

Broadcaster Muriel Gray and her family are rescued after their boat sank while watching the QE2 in Greenock.

Michael Douglas is to receive the American Film Institute's lifetime achievement award in June.

Steven Spielberg's film studio agrees a joint venture with one of India's largest entertainment conglomerates.

Robbie Williams' manager says the singer may be releasing a new album next year and that it won't have an alien theme.

Diana Damrau had an impressive outing as Lucia in the Met’s revival of Mary Zimmerman’s inventive 2007 production of “Lucia di Lammermoor.”

The Toronto Symphony Orchestra gave a wrenching, full-throttle account of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11.

Department of Eagles creates graceful, surreal, inward-looking pop that finds both unadorned sorrows and elaborate, circuslike wonderment.

The Mexican ranchera star Vicente Fernández owned the stage with a studied theatricality, businesslike in his looseness.

If anything could convince a committed disbeliever to question that stance, it might be the organ music of Olivier Messiaen.

New York City Opera opened what is going to be a modest season, devoid of staged productions, with a very fine concert of notable 20th-century works at St. George Theater on Staten Island.

You know MusicSnobbery will be all over this one. After a European tour (theirs, not Chris's), Clare Muldaur and those Reasons will roll across the U.S. to close out the year with My Brightest Diamond. Here are the tour dates:

• Oct 27: The Space, Hamden CT
• Oct 28: Iron Horse Music Hall, Northampton MA
• Oct 30: Space, Portland ME
• Oct 31: Narrows Center for the Arts, Fall River MA
• Nov 2: Big Orbit's Soundlab, Buffalo
• Nov 3: Oberlin College, Oberlin OH
• Nov 5: The Ladies Literary Club, Grand Rapids MI
• Nov 6: Royal Theater, Danville IN
• Nov 7: Schubas, Chicago
• Nov 8: Orpheum Theater - Stage Door, Madison WI
• Nov 11: Cicero's, St. Louis MO
• Nov 13: Larimer Lounge, Denver
• Nov 14: Paradise Theater, Paonia CO
• Nov 15: Urban Lounge, Salt Lake City
• Nov 16: Neurolux, Boise
• Nov 17: The Red Room, Kennewick WA
• Nov 19: Triple Door, Seattle
• Nov 20: Doug Fir Lounge, Portland OR
• Nov 21: WOW Hall, Eugene OR
• Nov 22: Swedish American Hall, San Francisco
• Nov 24: Rio Theatre, Santa Cruz CA
• Nov 25: Casbah, San Diego
• Nov 26: Hotel Cafe, Los Angeles
• Nov 30: The Cooperage, Albuquerque
• Dec 3: Granada Theater, Dallas
• Dec 5: The Bottletree, Birmingham
• Dec 9: Orange Peel, Asheville NC
• Dec 10: Gravity Lounge, Charlottesville VA
• Dec 11: Rock and Roll Hotel, Washington DC
• Dec 12: First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia
• Dec 13: Le Poisson Rouge, New York

Previously:

Kneelin' to the Diamond: My Brightest Diamond @ Blender Theater

Disco Jail: Clare & The Reasons @ Joe's Pub

Damien Hirst donates three sketches to a charity auction to raise money for the new Manchester Children's Hospital.

THE classic opera The Barber of Seville is to be shown at the Edinburgh Filmhouse on Sunday.