I don’t know how many wonders of the world there are by now, but it is possible that the Google Art Project will someday join the list. Read More…
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An Online Art Collection Grows Out of Infancy April 30, 2012
‘Samurai’: Art in focus April 26, 2012
Posted at 02:07 PM ET, 04/12/2012 TheWashingtonPost ‘Samurai’: Art in focus By Michael O’Sullivan “Samurai: The Warrior Transformed” features swords and sword-handle guards (or tsuba) as well as several suits of armor. (Rebecca Drobis/National Geographic) Two sides of the samurai are on view at the National Geographic Museum, where an exhibition on the transformation of [...] Read More…
Offering of the Angels: Treasures from the Uffizi Gallery come to James … April 25, 2012
DOYLESTOWN – Beginning April 21 and running through August 10, the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown will have the distinct honor of hosting an art exhibition of 45 paintings and tapestries titled Offering of the Angels: Treasures from the Uffizi Gallery.This exhibition is on generous loan from the renowned Uffizi Museum in Florence, [...] Read More…
‘Avengers’ Director Outlines The Art Of The Superhero Fight April 25, 2012
Avengers Director Outlines The Art Of The Superhero Fight Writer/director Joss Whedon talks to MTV News about the challenges of putting Captain America and Thor in the same brawl. By Kara Warner (@karawarner) Read More…
Bobby Petrino Understands The Art Of Sexting April 22, 2012
When someone invents new technology intended for mass consumption, the first thing people do is figure out how to use it for sex. During our early days as a species, when culture began emerging, prehistoric painters probably said, Why paint animals when we could be drawing naked girls? Erotic literature came with the written word, [...] Read More…
Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day April 20, 2012
Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day is crammed with enough melodramatic incident for three movies, all of them seemingly scripted by Tyler Perry in a very foul mood. This hysterically overwrought soul sister to Woman Thou Art Loosed slaps that 2004 pics title on the lurid tale of an abducted child, a mother [...] Read More…
Stephen Fry to Star in New Art Heist Film for ITV called Doors Open April 17, 2012
Stephen Fry and Dougie Henshall star in new ITV drama Doors Open ‘Not only a crime with no victims but one that appears never to have been committed’ A self-made millionaire, an art professor and a banker come together to undertake an audacious art heist in Doors Open, a fast paced, warm and witty drama [...] Read More…
Art Van Furniture looking at Chicago April 17, 2012
WARREN, Mich. — Art Van Furniture, which announced plans earlier this year to franchise its full-line stores in second-tier Michigan markets, now has its eye on Chicago.The Warren, Mich.-based Top 100 company has been advertising on the business-oriented social media site LinkedIn for a vice president-regional general manager-Chicago position. According to the ad, more than [...] Read More…
Jewish Art Dealer’s Heir Settles Nazi-Era Claim With Bonn Museum April 13, 2012
A Bonn museum settled a claim for a painting by Paul Adolf Seehaus with the heir of Alfred Flechtheim, one of Germany’s most prominent modern-art dealers until he fled Berlin and the Nazis in 1933. The Kunstmuseum in Bonn said in a statement today it will pay half the estimated market value to keep the [...] Read More…
Guggenheim Project Challenges ‘Western-Centric View’ April 13, 2012
In an effort to reach beyond the Western art world the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is embarking on a five-year program to work with artists, curators and educators from South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa. In addition to bringing curators from those parts of the world to the Guggenheim [...] Read More…