Fine art

Sculptor Sow in last French show before Senegal homecoming - 06/16/2013

BESANCON- Senegalese sculptor Ousmane Sow, considered one of Africa's foremost artists, inaugurated a retrospective in Besancon on Saturday, his last exhibit in his adoptive France before moving all...
Stolen tapestry returns to Spain after 34 years

Stolen tapestry returns to Spain after 34 years - 04/26/2013

MADRID- A 16th century religious tapestry which police suspect was stolen by one of Europe's most prolific art thieves from a cathedral in Spain in 1979 has returned to the country after an odyssey...
Michelangelo enlisted to help deter youth crime in Italy

Michelangelo enlisted to help deter youth crime in Italy - 04/08/2013

ROME- Michelangelo's art might help deter Italian youths from a life of crime, the interior minister said Monday, praising the loan of a drawing by the Renaissance master to a school in a rough...
Cutting edge art movement emerges in Ethiopia

Cutting edge art movement emerges in Ethiopia - 03/30/2013

ADDIS ABABA, Jenny Vaughan- Under a canopy of trees in a park not far from Addis Ababa's National Museum, home of many of Ethiopia's historic national treasures, a contemporary art revolution is...
Hopper outstrips Picasso on Paris home turf

Hopper outstrips Picasso on Paris home turf - 02/05/2013

PARIS, Pascale Mollard-Chenebenoit- A major Edward Hopper retrospective has pulled in more than three-quarters of a million visitors, outstripping even a blockbuster collection of the works of...
Aboriginal art exhibition scores major hit in Paris

Aboriginal art exhibition scores major hit in Paris - 01/22/2013

PARIS- An exhibition of the largest collection of modern Aboriginal paintings to have gone on display outside of Australia has been a major hit with art lovers in Paris. The exhibition, "The Sources...
Dubai-based artist showcases 'bleeding Syria' map

Dubai-based artist showcases 'bleeding Syria' map - 12/04/2012

DUBAI, Lynne Nahhas- A popular map on social networks depicting a "bleeding" war-torn Syria has emerged as the centrepiece of an exhibition in Dubai by digital artist Tammam Azzam. The artwork --...
Da Vinci's Lady with an Ermine back on show in Poland

Da Vinci's Lady with an Ermine back on show in Poland - 05/15/2012

WARSAW- Leonardo da Vinci's Lady with an Ermine is back on show at a castle in southern Poland's Krakow, after going on tour to Madrid, Berlin and London. The renown artwork painted by da Vinci...

Pollock masterpiece loaned from Iran for 1st time - 03/23/2012

TOKYO- A masterpiece by US artist Jackson Pollock is being exhibited at a Tokyo museum in its first trip outside Iran in more than three decades.The Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art is holding an...

Intricate 'noh' masks for Japan's tsunami lost - 03/02/2012

TOKYO- An amateur carver of the ornate masks used in traditional "noh" theatre took visitors on a tour of his works Thursday, in an exhibition mounted in memory of family who died in Japan's...
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Shanghai opens star-packed film festival

Shanghai opens star-packed film festival
SHANGHAI- Shanghai on Saturday opened its annual film festival packed with star power in acknowledgement of China's role as the second largest box office in the world. The government-backed Shanghai International Film Festival is mainland China's...