Fine art

Madrid's Prado to stage Sorolla exhibition - 05/22/2009

MADRID - Madrid's Prado Museum opens a retrospective next week of impressionist-inspired artist Joaquin Sorolla, 102 works that include his most famous paintings of children on beaches under bright...

Painter David Hockney reveals new medium -- his iPhone - 05/03/2009

LONDON - British painter David Hockney revealed Thursday how he uses his iPhone to paint pictures, as a new exhibition of works he produced on his computer opened in London. "I like to draw...

Art-lovers despair as lights go out for Vegas museum - 04/18/2009

LAS VEGAS, Steve Friess - Museums dedicated to neon, Liberace and pinball machines remain, but Las Vegas's more high-brow cultural scene has achieved a new nadir: Sin City is now the largest...

Looted Nazi art returned to Holocaust descendants - 04/10/2009

LOS ANGELES- Three paintings at California's Hearst Castle which were looted by the Nazis from a Jewish couple who later died in the Holocaust are to be returned to their family, it was confirmed...

Poland's forgotten El Greco languishes in obscurity - 04/06/2009

WARSAW, Maja Czarnecka- It was discovered more than 40 years ago in a rural Polish parish. But today the El Greco masterpiece, the Ecstasy of St Francis, still awaits the recognition worthy of a...

Ancient and modern worlds meet at Rome exhibition - 04/03/2009

This ancient Italian city bowed to the 21st century Thursday, kicking off a three-day show of modern and sometimes unsettling art in some of its most celebrated palazzos. A total of 60 galleries...

Art Nouveau master Mucha on show in Vienna - 02/16/2009

Alfons Mucha, who seduced early 20th century Paris with his art nouveau style and posters of actress Sarah Bernhardt, brings a splash of colour to Vienna with a new exhibit at the Unteres Belvedere....

Edgar Degas' dancer sells for 13.3 mln pounds in London - 02/03/2009

LONDON (AFP) - A bronze edition of the famous sculpture of a young ballet dancer by Edgar Degas sold at auction in London on Tuesday for a record 13.3 million pounds, auctioneers Sotheby's said....

Realist painter of rural America, Andrew Wyeth dies - 01/17/2009

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US realist painter Andrew Wyeth, whose paintings depict rural life in America, has died at his home in Pennsylvania at the age of 91, a spokeswoman from a museum that has an...

Louis XIV's heir takes Versailles to court over Koons exhibit - 12/25/2008

PARIS (AFP) - A French heir of Louis XIV has taken the current management of his ancestor's palace to court to ban an exhibition by modern US artist Jeff Koons that he feels dishonours his family's...
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