SINGAPORE (REUTERS).- Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands will open the world’s first ArtScience museum in February, the latest attraction at its $5.5 billion gambling complex built by U.S. casino giant Las Vegas Sands. With a form reminiscent of a lotus flow…
Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands Casino to Launch World’s First ArtScience Museum
SINGAPORE (REUTERS).- Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands will open the world’s first ArtScience museum in February, the latest attraction at its $5.5 billion gambling complex built by U.S. casino giant Las Vegas Sands. With a form reminiscent of a lotus flow…
Exhibitions: Pablo Picasso Zurich Exhibition Recreates Landmark 1932 Show
ZURICH (REUTERS) .- In September 1932, already a world-famous artist, Pablo Picasso drove from Paris to Zurich for the opening of a mega-exhibition of his works that was to mark a turning point in Western cultural history. Although he curated the exhi…
Goddess of Love Emerges into Foaming Cypriot Row
NICOSIA (REUTERS).- She may be the ancient Greek Goddess of Love, but a picture of a nude Aphrodite on the new passport of Cyprus has set more than hearts racing. Cypriot diplomats are furious with the interior ministry for failing to consult with the …
Reagan Memorial Idea Splits Berlin Long After Wall
BERLIN (REUTERS).- A dispute over whether Berlin should honor late President Ronald Reagan for his 1987 speech urging the Soviet Union to tear down the Berlin Wall has divided the German capital. Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg and other co…
City of Boston Targets Tax-Exempt Non-Profit Organizations to Help Fill Budget Hole
BOSTON (REUTERS).- Boston moved on Wednesday to ask hospitals, universities and other tax-exempt nonprofit organizations to pay more to support basic services like fire-fighting, police and road maintenance. The city, whose property tax accounts for so…
Graffiti Art Brightens War-torn Afghan Capital
By Michelle Nichols
KABUL (REUTERS).- A group of women in burqas rises from the sea to symbolize cleanliness, while further down a factory wall a bus with no wheels and crammed with passengers is a stark comment on war-torn Kabul’s appalling public tra…
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art Determines Painting by Velázquez is Authentic
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- Experts at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art have determined that a 1624 portrait previously attributed to a follower of the Spanish painter Velazquez was done by the master himself. The museum said the portrait of King Philip …
Michael Jackson Photo by French Photographer Arno Bani Sells for Just Under $35,000
PARIS (REUTERS).-A photograph of Michael Jackson posing as an Egyptian pharaoh sold for 26,000 euros ($34,880) Monday at an auction featuring four never-before-seen portraits of the “King of Pop.” The portrait of the late “Thriller” singer as a pharaoh…
Michael Jackson Photo by French Photographer Arno Bani Sells for Just Under $35,000
PARIS (REUTERS).-A photograph of Michael Jackson posing as an Egyptian pharaoh sold for 26,000 euros ($34,880) Monday at an auction featuring four never-before-seen portraits of the “King of Pop.” The portrait of the late “Thriller” singer as a pharaoh…