LONDON.- Christie’s will offer a drawing made by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes at its Old Master & Early British Drawings & Watercolours sale on July 5. This enchanting drawing was numbered by Goya himself as sheet 37 of an unbound series of pages, com…
Fernando Botero Colombian Landscape Leads Christie’s Latin American Art Sale
NEW YORK, NY.- Works by Colombian artist Fernando Botero and Uruguay’s Joaquin Torres-Garcia are expected to lead Christie’s Latin American sale which includes nearly 350 works by artists from 16 countries. “Colombian Landscape,” Botero’s 1986 landscap…
Albert Einstein’s Escape From Nazi Germany at Merseyside Maritime Museum Exhibition
LIVERPOOL.- Immigration documents relating to Albert Einstein’s dramatic escape from Nazi Germany have been discovered and will go on show for the very first time at Merseyside Maritime Museum. Einstein, one of the most prominent figures of the la…
Turkey Begins Dismantling Monument
ANKARA, TURKEY (AP).- Workers have begun dismantling a giant sculpture meant to promote reconciliation between Turkey and Armenia. Television footage on Tuesday showed a crane bringing down one of the two heads of the 35-meter (115-foot) stone sculpt…
A Hulking Sculpture Meant to Promote Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation Faces Demolition
ISTANBUL (AP).- A hulking sculpture meant to promote reconciliation between Turkey and Armenia became an accidental emblem of their historic enmity after workers erected scaffolding towers and began to demolish it this week. Then, the mood soured furt…
Navy Birthplace in Dispute; Five Communities Claim to Be the Navy’s Birthplace
BOSTON (AP).- The old sign near its border that proclaims the upstate New York town of Whitehall to be the birthplace of the U.S. Navy is a bit worn out, town clerk Elaine Jones admits. Residents of several other Northeast towns might describe it anoth…
Navy Birthplace in Dispute; Five Communities Claim to Be the Navy’s Birthplace
BOSTON (AP).- The old sign near its border that proclaims the upstate New York town of Whitehall to be the birthplace of the U.S. Navy is a bit worn out, town clerk Elaine Jones admits. Residents of several other Northeast towns might describe it anoth…