KRASNOYARSK, RUSSIA (REUTERS).- A Russian artist in Siberia has spent a small personal fortune on over a thousand pearls for a religious painting he has made for the Queen. Clad in embroidered robes, Adam and Eve sit in thrones on a suspended Garden of…
Albrecht Dürer’s Adam and Eve Returns to Public Display at the Prado Museum
MADRID.- The Museum is once again displaying the magnificent pair of paintings of Adam and Eve (1507) by Albrecht Dürer, following two years of intensive restoration to their pictorial surfaces and supports. The work on the two panels has benefited fr…
Jeff Koons’ Infamous "Made in Heaven" Series to Go Back On View at Luxembourg & Dayan
NEW YORK, NY.- When first shown at the Venice Biennale in 1990, the paintings, sculptures and installations of Jeff Koons’ “Made in Heaven” series captured the public’s imagination to such an extent that a solo show of the works at Sonna…
Egypt’s Antiquities Department Announces Discovery of 3,500-Year-Old Oasis Trading Post
CAIRO (AP).- Egypt’s antiquities department announced Wednesday the discovery of a 3,500-year-old settlement in a desert oasis, showing the existence of vibrant desert trade routes that stretched from the Mediterranean down into Sudan from the early da…
Jeff Koons’ Infamous "Made in Heaven" Series to Go Back On View at Luxembourg & Dayan
NEW YORK, NY.- When first shown at the Venice Biennale in 1990, the paintings, sculptures and installations of Jeff Koons’ “Made in Heaven” series captured the public’s imagination to such an extent that a solo show of the works at Sonna…