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Goya, modern masters rub shoulders in Milan

Goya, modern masters rub shoulders in Milan - 2010-03-18

MILAN- Spanish painter Francisco Goya rubs shoulders with modern masters such as Francis Bacon and Pablo Picasso in an exhibit that opened Wednesday at Milan's Palazzo Reale. "Goya and the Modern...
Claw of death is 'hand of God' at giant Paris art show

Claw of death is 'hand of God' at giant Paris art show - 2010-01-14

PARIS, Claire Rosemberg - A giant claw of death is at work and shades of the Holocaust on view at Paris' Grand Palais hall this week in the city's first big art show of the year, a "hand of God"...
Picasso's 'Absinthe Drinker' to stay with British foundation

Picasso's 'Absinthe Drinker' to stay with British foundation - 2010-01-10

WASHINGTON - The heirs of a late German-Jewish banker have relinquished all rights to a painting by Pablo Picasso, allowing a foundation set up by British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber to keep the...
Picasso painted little guitar found in Italian shoe box: reports

Picasso painted little guitar found in Italian shoe box: reports - 2009-12-30

ROME - A small wooden guitar painted by Pablo Picasso for his daughter Paloma has been found in a shoe box in the apartment of an Italian businessman in Pomezia, near Rome, Italian media reported...
Scientists retrieve Caravaggio's presumed remains

Scientists retrieve Caravaggio's presumed remains - 2009-12-22

PORTO ERCOLE - Italian scientists Monday collected from a small chapel bones that are presumed to be the remains of celebrated Renaissance artist Caravaggio who died 400 years ago. The scientists,...
British artist Richard Wright wins Turner Prize

British artist Richard Wright wins Turner Prize - 2009-12-07

LONDON, Robin Millard - British artist Richard Wright was named Monday the winner of this year's Turner Prize, one of the world's most controversial art awards, for his enormous gold-leaf fresco....

Anti-fascist sculptor Hrdlicka dies in Vienna - 2009-12-06

VIENNA - Sculptor Alfred Hrdlicka, an anti-war activist who was also one of the greatest 20th century Austrian artists, died Saturday in Vienna aged 81, gallery owner Ernst Hilger told the Die Presse...
Guantanamole anyone? Bush years in food art

Guantanamole anyone? Bush years in food art - 2009-12-03

WASHINGTON - Fancy trout a la waterboard or guantanamole with a side of Condoleezza Rice balls, followed perhaps by Wire Tapioca or Baba Rumsfeld? Those are just some of the menu options featured...
Munch artwork stolen from Oslo gallery

Munch artwork stolen from Oslo gallery - 2009-11-14

OSLO- 'Historien,' a rare lithograph by Edvard Munch worth 240,000 euros (356,000 dollars) was stolen in Oslo, police said Friday. A man wearing "hip-hop clothes and a baseball cap" according to a...
Warhol's Jackson sells for 812,500 dollars

Warhol's Jackson sells for 812,500 dollars - 2009-11-12

NEW YORK - A 1984 Michael Jackson portrait by pop-art icon Andy Warhol surpassed estimates to fetch 812,500 dollars at auction on Tuesday, but two headline pieces at the Christie's sale in New York...
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Prince Charles visits Poland's Muslim Tatars

Prince Charles visits Poland's Muslim Tatars
KRUSZYNIANY- Britain's Prince Charles, who is on an official visit to Poland, on Tuesday travelled to the spiritual home of its tiny Muslim Tatar community and tasted their traditional fare. The heir to the British throne began his visit to the...