1 hour, 13 minutes ago MOSCOW (AFP) - Chess legend turned Kremlin critic Garry Kasparov called Wednesday on Russians to save a museum devoted to the memory of Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov. "People are afraid to help the museum," Kasparov, a leader of the Other Russia opposition movement and an outspoken critic of former president Vladimir Putin, told a press conference....
Van Gogh painting is worth up to $150m, claimant says
The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
NEW HAVEN - A Van Gogh painting at the center of a dispute between Yale University and a man who believes the artwork was stolen from his family during the Russian Revolution is worth $120 million to $150 million, the...
William Eggleston 21st Century, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
The Independent
The Independent
William Eggleston's photographs contain some of the most luminescent colour that you can hope to lay your eyes on in a printed picture. What's even more surprising is that Eggleston finds such colour in dumpsters,...
The 10 best museum websites
The Times
The Times
Museums are rarely able to exhibit more than a fraction of the material they own, and even then the best stuff is too often sealed off behind glass or mobbed by school parties. There are no such problems on museum...
Dinner auction and art auction for The Valley Rescue Mission
The Examiner
The Examiner
The Valley Rescue Mission is offering two key events to raise funds for its ministry to the San Fernando Valley's homeless....
Designers Nathalie Rykiel, Marc Jacobs made knights in French order of arts and letters
Star Tribune
Star Tribune
Art Technology posts jump in 4Q earnings; new stock offering sends shares lower
Star Tribune
Star Tribune
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - E-commerce software maker Art Technology Group Inc. said Monday that improved sales and cost containment helped lift its fourth-quarter profit by 49 percent. The company earned $5.2 million, or 4 cents...
Frances Lerner paints puppets that puzzle
San Fransisco Chronicle
San Fransisco Chronicle
There's something tender and disturbing about Frances Lerner's mysterious new paintings. Puzzled, sealed-mouth puppet figures appear in old industrial settings and strange rural landscapes. An East Bay artist who's been...
Iran to Cut Ties With Museum Over Artifact
CBS News
CBS News
Tehran Claims British Museum Reneged on Agreement to Loan Ancient Babylonian Document on Human Rights for Exhibit Font size Print E-mail Share 0 Comments The Cyrus Cylinder, a 6th century B.C. clay tablet which features...

