LONDON.- Art on the Underground announces that the renowned French artist Daniel Buren has been selected to create a new permanent installation for the upgraded Tube station at Tottenham Court Road. The rebuilding of Tottenham Court Road station is due…
Museum in Poland Acquires a Missing Collection of Composer Frederic Chopin’s Letters
WARSAW (AP).- A collection of Frederic Chopin’s letters telling of the Polish composer’s daily life, from giving lessons to the hot chocolate he drank, have gone on display in Warsaw’s Chopin museum more than six decades after they went missing. The s…
Virtual President’s Desk Enlivens JFK’s 1800s Desk
BOSTON (AP).- As a little girl, Caroline Kennedy hung out at her father’s desk while he worked in the country’s most famous office. Now the library she works with to preserve her father’s memory has introduced a way anyone can sit — virtually …
Kate’s Excellent Adventure: A Month at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry
CHICAGO (AP).- Nights at the museum aren’t always as quiet as you’d think. There are parties and corporate events. Sometimes, dozens of kids and their parents are allowed in for one big, fairly sleepless sleepover. But then the place can go from busy …
Kate’s Excellent Adventure: A Month at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry
CHICAGO (AP).- Nights at the museum aren’t always as quiet as you’d think. There are parties and corporate events. Sometimes, dozens of kids and their parents are allowed in for one big, fairly sleepless sleepover. But then the place can go from busy …
Prison Term for Monet Painting Thief in Poland
WARSAW (AP).- A court spokeswoman in western Poland says a man convicted in the theft of a Claude Monet painting valued at $7 million (euro 5.7 million) has been handed a three-year prison term. Agnieszka Weichert-Urban said that the regional court in …
Germany’s Ruhr Region Turns from Coal to European Capital of Culture
ESSEN (AP).- The Emscher river in western Germany’s The Ruhr region was one of the country’s most polluted for decades, so bad that parents spooked children with warnings they could die if they fell into the poisonous stew of sewage and chemical waste….
IVAM Celebrates Formula 1 Grand Prix with Installation by Lorenzo Quinn
VALENCIA, SPAIN –
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 V…
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…