GENEVA (REUTERS).- Saif al-Islam, the son of Muammar Gaddafi trying to negotiate safe passage to the International Criminal Court from a refuge in the Sahara, was once on a mission to put Libya on the cultural map — by exhibiting his own paintings. Th…
Dutch Royal House criticized for ‘racist’ painting
AMSTERDAM (AP).- Critics urged the Dutch royal family Friday to get rid of a painting they say is an offensive reminder of wrongs from the Netherlands’ colonial past, but the Royal House defended the 19th-century work as an important part of the count…
First International June Newton Retrospective at Helmut Newton Foundation
BERLIN.- With the exhibition ‘Alice Springs’, the Berlin-based Helmut Newton Foundation will be presenting as of June 12th, 2010 the first retrospective of June Newton internationally. In 1970, she started her own photographic work under the pseudonym …