LONDON (AP).- One of Margaret Thatcher’s famous handbags fetched 25,000 pounds ($39,953) at a London charity auction Monday. The boxy black leather Asprey bag, owned by the former British prime minister for more than 30 years, was sold to a private bu…
Photographs by Thomas Hoepker and Daniel Biskup at the German Historical Museum
BERLIN.- For the first time the German Historical Museum presents a selection of largely unknown photographs from the work of the two photojournalists that has never before been shown in this form. The exhibition is on view from May 11 through October …
Historic Celebration of British Artist Henry Moore Begins at Leeds Art Gallery
LEEDS.- The display covers both the pre-war and post-war era concentrating on British loans as it challenges the familiar image of Henry Moore (1898-1986) as an artist. It features works loaned from Tate Britain, the Henry Moore Foundation, private col…
Metro Pictures Presents Croatian Artist David Maljkovic’s Latest Works "Recalling Frames"
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Croatian artist David Maljkovic’s latest works, Recalling Frames, are photomontages that interweave still images from Orson Welles’ film The Trial, shot in Zagreb in 1962, with the artist’s own contemporary photographs of the filming lo…
Tacheles: Berlin’s Alternative Scene Fights for Survival
BERLIN (REUTERS).- Txus Parras, who has been squatting in the Tacheles building in downtown Berlin since the wall fell two decades ago, says he won’t leave it without putting up a fight. Tacheles is one of many forums for alternative culture in the Ger…
Tacheles: Berlin’s Alternative Scene Fights for Survival
BERLIN (REUTERS).- Txus Parras, who has been squatting in the Tacheles building in downtown Berlin since the wall fell two decades ago, says he won’t leave it without putting up a fight. Tacheles is one of many forums for alternative culture in the Ger…