Arts

Man arrested for defacing queen's portrait in London - 06/14/2013

LONDON- A man was charged on Friday after a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II commissioned to mark her 60 years on the throne was defaced at London's Westminster Abbey. "In an incident at lunchtime...

Controversial breast implants become works of art in France - 04/21/2013

MARSEILLE- Nestled inside flimsy black fishnet stockings that droop heavily from the ceiling, hundreds of breast implants made by a firm whose faulty products sparked a global health scare have been...

Poland probes artist's use of Holocaust victims' ashes - 01/09/2013

WARSAW- Polish prosecutors have launched an investigation into a Swedish artist's claims he used the ashes of Holocaust victims in his artwork, an official said Tuesday. The artist, Carl Michael von...

Stolen Matisse turns up in Britain - 01/08/2013

The team at the Art Loss Register quickly identified the painting as the one stolen from the Swedish museum on May 11, 1987, when a burglar broke in with a sledgehammer and made off with the artwork...

Raucous Nigeria's blossoming art scene tweaks the powerful - 01/01/2013

LAGOS, Ben Simon- With a champagne flute pressed between his fingers, the Nigerian oligarch stares out with a self-satisfied grin on his bulbous face, not bothered by the desperate masses behind him....

Pakistan gallery defies dictators - 12/28/2012

With all but the most insipid forms of visual art officially banned as "un-Islamic", architect Naeem Pasha and a group of friends decided Pakistan's artists needed a space to express themselves...

Artists lead thousands against Putin in Moscow - 05/20/2012

MOSCOW, Dmitry Zaks- Dozens of Russian artists with brooms in hand carted their most expressive works across the boulevards of Moscow on Saturday in a show of exasperation at Vladimir Putin's return...

Palestinian artist 'creates' Gaza metro - 01/15/2012

Abusala had his "vision" while observing Gaza's anarchic traffic system, a tangle of donkey carts, motorcycles, rickshaws, and dilapidated old cars, not to mention the trucks plying the 40 kilometre...

Seven United Arab Emirates through black and white photos - 11/30/2011

ABU DHABI - Marking the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the United Arab Emirates, the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH) publishes a photo book by the Emirati artist Shamma...

Performance artist gives birth in NY gallery - 10/27/2011

NEW YORK- There's something new to see at the Microscope Gallery in Brooklyn: a newborn baby called Ajax whose mother made her pregnancy the subject of her latest exhibition. Performance artist...
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