News on Visual Arts

Gehrys View Vegas

2010-03-21T12:46:04Z

In this photo taken March 17, 2010 architect Frank Gehry's latest creation, the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, is pictured in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)

Kid Photographer

2010-03-20T12:16:21Z

In this March 18, 2010 photo, ten-year-old photographer Jackson Potts II poses with a computer showing his photographs in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

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Amsterdam's prostitutes inspiration for 1980s artwork

2010-03-18T12:18:41Z

<div><p>The prostitutes of Amsterdam's famous red-light district are the inspiration for a real-life, walk-through artwork on display from Saturday just a few hundred metres from the real thing.</p><p>"This artwork has made a tour of the world, but this will be its first exhibition in Amsterdam," the curator of the city's Historical Museum, Annemie de Wildt, t...

Top architect Jean Nouvel shelves Paris skyscraper project

2010-03-18T12:18:40Z

<div><p>French star architect Jean Nouvel said Thursday that plans to build a high-tech skyscraper on the edge of Paris were put on hold after investors hard-hit by the global slowdown grew nervous.</p><p>Nouvel won the contract to build the modern concrete, glass and steel Signal Tower in 2008 as part of an ambitious plan to rejuvenate La Defense, the drab bu...

Top architect scraps Paris skyscraper project

2010-03-18T11:16:33Z

<div><p>French star architect Jean Nouvel has scrapped plans to build a high-tech skyscraper on the edge of Paris after the project failed to attract investors, officials said Thursday.</p><p>Nouvel won the contract to build the modern concrete, glass and steel Signal Tower in 2008 as part of an ambitious plan to rejuvenate La Defense, the business district on...

UK artist calls for postage stamps of Iraq war dead

2010-03-18T07:15:15Z

<div><p>LONDON (Reuters Life!) - British artist Steve McQueen, a Turner Prize winner and acclaimed filmmaker, has called for portraits of soldiers killed in the Iraq conflict to be turned into postage stamps.</p><p>Presenting his installation made as offic...

TV Trump Apprentice

2010-03-17T14:33:40Z

FILE - In this Aug. 19, 2009 file photo, Donald Trump attends the screening of "The September Issue " at The Museum of Modern Art, in New York. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, file)

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Goya, modern masters rub shoulders in Milan

2010-03-17T14:16:08Z

<div><p>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.</p><p>"Goya and the Modern World" brings together 184 paintings, drawings and engr...

Goya and modern masters exhibit opens in Milan

2010-03-17T12:17:40Z

<div><p>An exhibit comparing Spanish painter Francisco Goya with modern masters such as Francis Bacon and Pablo Picasso opened on Wednesday at Milan's Palazzo Reale.</p><p>"Goya and the Modern World" brings together 184 paintings, drawings and engravings.<...

Dutch police arrest 2 suspects in 2009 art heist

2010-03-17T08:45:35Z

<div id="subtitle">Dutch police arrest 2 suspects in museum art heist; stolen paintings still missing</div><div><p>Dutch police say they have arrested two men suspected of involvement in an art heist last year in which masked and armed men snatched two paintings, including one by Salvador Dali, from a museum.</p><p>The robbers stole "Adolescence," a 1941 gouache by Dali and "La Musicienne," an oil paint...

BRITAIN ART PICASSO

2010-03-17T08:17:08Z

Giovanna Bertazzoni, right, Christie's auction house head of Impressionist and Modern Art department, poses for the photographers in front of a 1903 Pablo Picasso painting entitled 'Portrait of Angel Fernandez ...

APTOPIX BRITAIN ART PICASSO

2010-03-17T08:17:04Z

Caravaggio investigation result seen in May

2010-03-17T07:45:17Z

<div><p>MILAN (Reuters Life!) - Italian anthropologists expect to have a definite result in their investigation into Baroque artist Caravaggio's death in May, hopefully unveiling a centuries old mystery.</p><p>Italy's National Committee for Cultural Heritage has been wo...

Christie's brings in the bids as art market stirs

2010-03-16T16:00:15Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Auctioneers Christie's said its mid-season sale of 20th century decorative art and design generated strong interest from U.S. and foreign bidders in New York Tuesday in a sign the struggling ar...

Auctioneer plans $15 million emerging nations sale

2010-03-16T10:00:29Z

<div><p>LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Around 450 works of art from emerging powers Brazil, Russia, India and China will be offered for sale in London next month and auctioneer BERLIN - MARCH 16: The hand of the photographer rests on a touch-sensitive screen showing the Anvar-i-Suhayli ("Lights of Canopus") collection of 15th century fables at the 'Treasures of the Aga Khan Museum - Masterpieces of Islamic Art' exhibition at Martin-Gropius-Bau on March 16, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. The Berlin exhibit...

Logo Design Creation of Your Company Image

2010-03-16T10:11:36Z

Creation of the company, including your company and the symbol is known. You choose his name, of course, but even if you have any ideas on what should be a star, you must still create a symbol or a logo design on paper.<br><br>Good advice, you can get is to use a professional designer to create your own logo and unique. This may be cheaper to just the files available on the web and use it, but some copyrighted photos and other people that can not be used. The same happens to them ...

Despite woes, optimism for LV culture grows

2010-03-16T02:15:28Z

<div><p> On paper, the Las Vegas arts scene looks grim. In less than two years weÕve lost the Las Vegas Art Museum and two important downtown galleries, Naomi Arin Contemporary Art and Michele C. Quinn Fine Art Advisory. The Las Vegas Philharmonic nearly collapsed; Ne...

Boston art heist rattles investigators 20 years on

2010-03-15T19:45:11Z

<div id="subtitle">Even after 20 years, biggest art heist in history rattles Boston investigators</div><div><p>It remains the most tantalizing art heist mystery in the world.</p><p>In the early hours of March 18, 1990, two thieves walked into Boston's elegant Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum disguised as police officers and b...

oscar de la hoya

2010-03-12T17:48:11Z

Oscar De La Hoya The boxing legend posing for a portraiture in Leicester Square. London, England- 12.03.10

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