- Museum to open balcony where MLK was shot AP - Fri, Nov 2, 2012
The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis plans to open the balcony where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to the public. More »Museum to open balcony where MLK was shot
The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis plans to open the balcony where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to the public.
- "A Late Quartet" Review: classical-music drama gets soapy but actors avoid the false notes Alonso Duralde - Reuters - Wed, Oct 31, 2012
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "A Late Quartet," as it turns out, has more than one meaning: The film's musicians spend most of the movie grappling with Beethoven's Opus … More »"A Late Quartet" Review: classical-music drama gets soapy but actors avoid the false notes
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "A Late Quartet," as it turns out, has more than one meaning: The film's musicians spend most of the movie grappling with Beethoven's Opus 131, the String Quartet No. 14 in C# Minor, which was one of the composer's "late quartets," completed the year before his death. But the title also refers …
- Two plead guilty in Miami to trying to sell stolen Matisse Reuters - Wed, Oct 31, 2012
MIAMI (Reuters) - A man and woman have pleaded guilty to charges of trying to sell a stolen painting by French master Henri Matisse worth $3 million nearly 10 years after … More »Two plead guilty in Miami to trying to sell stolen Matisse
MIAMI (Reuters) - A man and woman have pleaded guilty to charges of trying to sell a stolen painting by French master Henri Matisse worth $3 million nearly 10 years after it went missing from a Venezuelan museum, authorities said on Wednesday. FBI undercover agents arrested Pedro Antonio Marcuello Guzman, 46, of Miami, …
- Will Ferguson wins Canadian literature award AP - Tue, Oct 30, 2012
Will Ferguson has won one of Canada's most prestigious literary awards for a novel about a Canadian family's entanglement in a Nigerian email scan. More »Will Ferguson wins Canadian literature award
Will Ferguson has won one of Canada's most prestigious literary awards for a novel about a Canadian family's entanglement in a Nigerian email scan.
- Iran orchestra finale rings of hard-line pressure BRIAN MURPHY and NASSER KARIMI - AP - Tue, Oct 30, 2012
It was a VIP audience for what was likely the last performance of the venerable Tehran Symphony Orchestra. Watching from the front row in late August was Supreme Leader … More »Iran orchestra finale rings of hard-line pressure
It was a VIP audience for what was likely the last performance of the venerable Tehran Symphony Orchestra. Watching from the front row in late August was Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in what was seen as an endorsement from the ruling theocracy, which once tried to stamp out all music as a violation of Islamic …
- Musicians: Iran's national orchestra disbanded ALI AKBAR DAREINI - AP - Tue, Oct 30, 2012
The Iranian national symphony orchestra has been disbanded for lack of funds, musicians said Monday, another sign of the effects of Western economic sanctions.. More »Musicians: Iran's national orchestra disbanded
The Iranian national symphony orchestra has been disbanded for lack of funds, musicians said Monday, another sign of the effects of Western economic sanctions..
- Police seeking help in traffic death of R&B; artist AP - Mon, Oct 29, 2012
Authorities are trying the figure out why R&B; artist Natina Reed was in a street when she was struck by a car and killed, two days shy of her 33rd birthday. More »Police seeking help in traffic death of R&B; artist
- Early Inness work uncovered at Dallas art museum JAMIE STENGLE - AP - Fri, Oct 26, 2012
An unsigned painting that has been in the Dallas Museum of Art's collection for more than eight decades and was long-believed to have been composed by another artist … More »Early Inness work uncovered at Dallas art museum
- Italy's top bank turns vaults into Milan art museum Lisa Jucca - Reuters - Fri, Oct 26, 2012
MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's biggest retail bank has turned its historic headquarters in Milan's central La Scala square into a majestic modern art museum displaying Italian … More »Italy's top bank turns vaults into Milan art museum
MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's biggest retail bank has turned its historic headquarters in Milan's central La Scala square into a majestic modern art museum displaying Italian post-war works from the likes of Lucio Fontana and Renato Guttuso. Palazzo Beltrami, a superb Milanese building which blends Neoclassical style with eclectic …
- Gallery show for accused Picasso vandal raises ire JAMIE STENGLE - AP - Thu, Oct 25, 2012
A Houston art gallery has raised the ire of the local art community by staging a show of works by a 22-year-old who's been on the lam since being charged with spray-painting … More »Gallery show for accused Picasso vandal raises ire
- Ballet about Holocaust battles intolerance CHRIS TOMLINSON - AP - Thu, Oct 25, 2012
Within a small rectangle of light, nearly a dozen dancers writhed and convulsed on the stage, pressed together by imaginary walls denoting some kind of death chambe … More »Ballet about Holocaust battles intolerance
- Ballet about Holocaust battles wider intolerance CHRIS TOMLINSON - AP - Thu, Oct 25, 2012
Texas' Ballet Austin is taking a performance about intolerance and the Holocaust on an international tour, visiting Miami, Washington and Israel over the next year. More »Ballet about Holocaust battles wider intolerance
- BBC arts editor explains modern art ANN LEVIN - AP - Wed, Oct 24, 2012
"What Are You Looking At?: The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art" (Dutton), by Will Gompertz More »BBC arts editor explains modern art
- Pulitzer prize board adds New Yorker writer, playwright and newspaper editor Alexander C. Kaufman - Reuters - Tue, Oct 23, 2012
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Columbia University has added three jurors to the board that chooses winners of the Pulitzer Prize. New Yorker writer Steve Coll, playwright … More »Pulitzer prize board adds New Yorker writer, playwright and newspaper editor
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Columbia University has added three jurors to the board that chooses winners of the Pulitzer Prize. New Yorker writer Steve Coll, playwright Quiara Alegria Hudes and Miami Herald executive editor Aminda Marquez Gonzalez will join the 19-member board that selects those who will earn American journalism's …
- Washington's Corcoran museum seeks lifeline, sale an option Ian Simpson - Reuters - Tue, Oct 23, 2012
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Corcoran Gallery, Washington's oldest art museum, would seem to have an unbeatable combination with its top collection, a landmark building … More »Washington's Corcoran museum seeks lifeline, sale an option
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Corcoran Gallery, Washington's oldest art museum, would seem to have an unbeatable combination with its top collection, a landmark building and tourist-friendly site near the White House. But behind its Beaux Arts facade, which houses works from a 17,000-piece collection that include artists Winslow …
- Munch's 'The Scream' going on view at MoMA in NYC AP - Tue, Oct 23, 2012
The Museum of Modern Art in New York City is presenting a special six-month exhibition of Edvard Munch's "The Scream," which sold for nearly $120 million at auction … More »Munch's 'The Scream' going on view at MoMA in NYC
- Dutch art heist museum says security system in order Thomas Escritt - Reuters - Mon, Oct 22, 2012
ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands (Reuters) - The Dutch art gallery at the center of an audacious heist last week said that the electronic locks on its doors were disarmed before … More »Dutch art heist museum says security system in order
ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands (Reuters) - The Dutch art gallery at the center of an audacious heist last week said that the electronic locks on its doors were disarmed before thieves made off with paintings by Picasso, Monet and others worth tens of millions of dollars. The seven stolen works - which also include a Gauguin, …
- Penn Museum unwraps mystery of mummy conservation KATHY MATHESON - AP - Mon, Oct 22, 2012
The Penn Museum is unwrapping the mystery of mummy conservation, giving the public an unusual close-up of researchers' efforts to preserve relics from ancient Egypt … More »Penn Museum unwraps mystery of mummy conservation
- Nigeria opens museum to "Afrobeat King" Fela Kuti Sharon Atseyinku and David Sani - Reuters - Mon, Oct 22, 2012
LAGOS (Reuters) - When he was alive, Fela Kuti electrified Nigerians and many music lovers the world over with his hip-shaking and strangely hypnotic blend of jazz, funk … More »Nigeria opens museum to "Afrobeat King" Fela Kuti
LAGOS (Reuters) - When he was alive, Fela Kuti electrified Nigerians and many music lovers the world over with his hip-shaking and strangely hypnotic blend of jazz, funk and West African folk rhythms. His legendary sexual exploits with dozens of women, marijuana smoking and fearless critiques of Nigeria's then corrupt and …
- SF Opera: A whale, a swan and 2 lovers MIKE SILVERMAN - AP - Sun, Oct 21, 2012
A whale, a swan, a pair of star-cross'd lovers: It made for an eclectic week at the San Francisco Opera. More »SF Opera: A whale, a swan and 2 lovers
- Vienna platform launches opera live stream AP - Sun, Oct 21, 2012
Vienna's opera scene is going live on the web for the first time with the launch of the first Internet-based platform for streaming classical productions from the Austrian … More »Vienna platform launches opera live stream
Vienna's opera scene is going live on the web for the first time with the launch of the first Internet-based platform for streaming classical productions from the Austrian capital.
- Hit soap opera ends in Brazil, but no blackouts STAN LEHMAN - AP - Fri, Oct 19, 2012
Brazilians plopped down in chairs gathered around sidewalk TVs and sat down to meals with sets looming over their tables Friday night as the country settled in for the … More »Hit soap opera ends in Brazil, but no blackouts
- Brazil fears power outages for soap opera finale STAN LEHMAN - AP - Fri, Oct 19, 2012
Brazil's national electricity grid braced for possible power outages Friday night during the television broadcast of the final chapter of a smash soap opera that enthralled … More »Brazil fears power outages for soap opera finale
Brazil's national electricity grid braced for possible power outages Friday night during the television broadcast of the final chapter of a smash soap opera that enthralled Latin America's biggest country for months.
- Last episode of soap opera grips Brazil STAN LEHMAN - AP - Fri, Oct 19, 2012
Brazil's national electricity grid is bracing itself for possible power outages Friday night as television airs the final chapter of the smash soap opera has enthralled … More »Last episode of soap opera grips Brazil
Brazil's national electricity grid is bracing itself for possible power outages Friday night as television airs the final chapter of the smash soap opera has enthralled Latin America's biggest country for months.
- Louvre, Versailles Palace weigh in on French art tax row Reuters - Thu, Oct 18, 2012
PARIS (Reuters) - Top Paris art galleries and the Palace of Versailles have weighed in against an unpopular push to extend wealth tax to art, complaining in a letter … More »Louvre, Versailles Palace weigh in on French art tax row
PARIS (Reuters) - Top Paris art galleries and the Palace of Versailles have weighed in against an unpopular push to extend wealth tax to art, complaining in a letter to the government that such a move could drive historic collections out of France. The daily Liberation printed an excerpt from a letter it said was signed …
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