WARSAW, POLAND (AP).- Germany pledged Wednesday to pay euro60 million ($80 million) over the next year into a fund for Auschwitz-Birkenau to preserve the barracks, gas chambers and other evidence of Nazi crimes at the former death camp, some of which a…
Germany Announced It will Give $80 Million in the Next Year to Fix Auschwitz Memorial
WARSAW, POLAND (AP).- Germany pledged Wednesday to pay euro60 million ($80 million) over the next year into a fund for Auschwitz-Birkenau to preserve the barracks, gas chambers and other evidence of Nazi crimes at the former death camp, some of which a…
Stonehenge Gets Multimillion-Pound Grant for Major Makeover to Help Restore Dignity
LONDON (AP).- Stonehenge is getting a multimillion-pound grant that conservators say will help restore some dignity to a World Heritage site blighted by busy roads and cramped facilities. English Heritage said Friday that it now has about two-thirds of…
Colorado Goodwill Auctions Purported Dali Print
GRAND JUNCTION (AP).- A Colorado Goodwill store is auctioning off a purported lithograph of a Salvador Dali work that it received from a mystery donor. But the Grand Junction shop says it doesn’t plan to verify the work’s authenticity. A customer at …
Mystery Giver Leaves $10,000 in World Trade Center Donation Box
NEW YORK (AP).- An anonymous benefactor in New York City stuffed $10,000 in cash into a 9/11 donation box at the World Trade Center. Joe Daniels, president of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, tells the New York Post that officials found 99…
Jericho Unveils a Massive 1,200-Year-Old Carpet Mosaic Measuring Nearly 900 Square Meters
JERICHO (AP).- Visitors to ancient Jericho got a rare glimpse Sunday of a massive 1,200-year-old carpet mosaic measuring nearly 900 square meters (9,700 square feet), making it one of the largest in the Middle East. The small red, blue and ochre squar…
Most Acclaimed Rembrandt Portrait on Rare Display
AMSTERDAM (AP).- If portraits could talk, Jan Six might have much to say about his family. The merchant, poet and civic leader, painted by Rembrandt in 1654, has watched his descendants make money, marry into Holland’s best families, engage in infideli…
Most Acclaimed Rembrandt Portrait on Rare Display
AMSTERDAM (AP).- If portraits could talk, Jan Six might have much to say about his family. The merchant, poet and civic leader, painted by Rembrandt in 1654, has watched his descendants make money, marry into Holland’s best families, engage in infideli…
IVAM Celebrates Formula 1 Grand Prix with Installation by Lorenzo Quinn
VALENCIA.- The work entitled Vroom Vroom by the sculptor Lorenzo Quinn has been installed in the leveled area of the Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM) on the occasion of the Formula 1 Telefónica Grand Prix of Europe in Valencia Street Circuit…
Vintage Photographs and Shoe Shine Boxes at the Center for Visual Arts
DENTON, TX.- This will be the first venue outside of PDNB Gallery for the traveling show, SHINE. A smaller version of this exhibition debuted at PDNB Gallery last Fall. The Greater Denton Arts Council has graciously accepted this unique exhibit for the…