By: Oskar Garcia, Associated Press Writer
LAS VEGAS (AP).- Workers on Thursday demolished the tower of the first racially integrated casino in Las Vegas, one day after city officials turned down an appeal of its owners’ demolition permit. The white tow…
Yevtushenko Gives House, Art to Russia
By: Khristina Narizhnaya, Associated Press Writer
PEREDELKINO (AP).- Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russia’s most renowned living poet, has given his house along with an extensive art collection to the state as a museum. The two-story museum in the writer’s colo…
Mountains Inspire in North Cascades Art Courses
By: Shannon Dininny, Associated Press Writer
DIABLO, WASH. (AP).- For their 10th wedding anniversary, Kori Crane’s husband handed her a check and told her she could only spend it on an art class. Not just any art class. Crane designed and painted silk …
Moscow Curators Say their Trial is Political
By: Khristina Narizhnaya, Associated Press Writer
MOSCOW (AP).- Two prominent Moscow art curators facing the prospect of three years in prison for an exhibit that offended the Russian Orthodox Church said on Thursday their trial has been a political sh…
Art Helps Student Who Lost Eye in Gaza Protest
By: Lauren Sausser, Associated Press Writer
POTOMAC, MD (AP).- The left lens of Emily Henochowicz’s black-framed eyeglasses is covered in tape that bears a black-and-white pattern she drew in marker. The design obscures her eye socket, but a faint scar…
Artists Design Sheep Wagon for the 21st Century
By: Ivan Moreno, Associated Press Writer
DENVER (AP).- Colorado artists want to give a futuristic makeover to the rustic sheep wagons used by immigrant workers across the West. Immigrants from Peru, Chile, Mexico and Nepal who come to the U.S. sometime…
Bill Hudson, Civil Rights Era Photographer, Dies
MIAMI (AP).- Bill Hudson, an Associated Press photographer whose searing images of the civil rights era documented police brutality and galvanized the public, died Thursday in Jacksonville, Fla. He was 77. Hudson was in Birmingham, Ala., when black dem…
Rare Edgar Allan Poe Portrait Fails to Sell
BALTIMORE (AP).- A rare portrait of Edgar Allan Poe has failed to sell at auction. The small watercolor by A.C. Smith is one of just three surviving portraits of the author and the only one that shows him as a writer. Poe looks robust and lacks the m…