LOS ANGELES (REUTERS).- Street artist Banksy’s first film “Exit Through the Gift Shop” is up for an Oscar — and it seems the subversive Briton may be waging an unorthodox awards campaign on the walls and billboards of Los Angeles. Several examples of …
Egyptian Antiquities Authorities Say They Found Fourth Stolen Pharaonic Treasure
CAIRO (REUTERS).- Egyptian antiquities authorities have recovered a statue of the renegade Pharaoh Akhenaten that was stolen along with eight other items during protests that brought down President Hosni Mubarak. Minister of State for Antiquities Zahi …
Egypt’s Antiquities Minister Zahi Hawass Says Some Objects Looted from Museum Found
CAIRO (REUTERS).- Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry has recovered some of the national treasures that went missing from the Egyptian Museum during an uprising which unseated Hosni Mubarak, the country’s top Egyptologist said Monday. Items including a statue…
Egypt’s Antiquities Minister Zahi Hawass Says Some Objects Looted from Museum Found
CAIRO (REUTERS).- Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry has recovered some of the national treasures that went missing from the Egyptian Museum during an uprising which unseated Hosni Mubarak, the country’s top Egyptologist said Monday. Items including a statue…
Fans Rally to Raise Money for RoboCop Statue in Detroit
DETROIT, MI (REUTERS).- Like RoboCop himself in the cult classic movie, plans for a statue of the mechanized crime fighter in Detroit may not be dead after all. On Monday, Detroit Mayor Dave Bing touched off a debate on the internet when his office rej…
Cezanne’s Card Player Paintings to Be Shown at the Metropolitan Museum in NY
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- The largest collection of Paul Cezanne’s Card Player paintings to ever be exhibited together opens on Wednesday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It includes three of five of the French master’s famous series depicting peasants o…
Exhibit at Franklin Institute in Philadelphia Offers fresh Look at Leonardo da Vinci
PHILADELPHIA (REUTERS).- If it’s hard to grasp the genius of Leonardo da Vinci, it may be because he left no working models of the drawings that showed his intimate grasp of fields ranging from engineering to botany and anatomy. But Philadelphia’s Fran…
Art from China’s Forbidden City on View at the Metropolitan Museum in New York
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- Objects and artwork from the Forbidden City’s hidden inner sanctum, a sealed off compound built in high luxury for the Chinese emperor’s retirement, will be unveiled in New York on Tuesday. “The Emperor’s Private Paradise: Treasure…
Art from China’s Forbidden City on View at the Metropolitan Museum in New York
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- Objects and artwork from the Forbidden City’s hidden inner sanctum, a sealed off compound built in high luxury for the Chinese emperor’s retirement, will be unveiled in New York on Tuesday. “The Emperor’s Private Paradise: Treasure…
Tracks of Two Prehistoric Birds Found in Alaska
By: Yereth Rosen
ANCHORAGE (REUTERS).- Fossilized tracks from two newly discovered prehistoric birds have been found in Alaska’s Denali National Park, according to findings released by an expert in Arctic paleontology. The previously unknown birds were…