KRASNOYARSK, RUSSIA (REUTERS).- A Russian artist in Siberia has spent a small personal fortune on over a thousand pearls for a religious painting he has made for the Queen. Clad in embroidered robes, Adam and Eve sit in thrones on a suspended Garden of…
Many Scientists Believe Hunters May Have Delivered Fatal Blow to Mammoths
CHERSKY, RUSSIA (AP).- During the last Ice Age, shaggy mammoths, woolly rhinos and bison lumbered across northern Siberia. Then, about 10,000 years ago — in the span of a geological heartbeat, or a few hundred years — the last of them disapp…
The Amazons: Mysterious Warrior Maidens Explored in New Exhibition
SPEYER.- For the past three centuries, the exploits of the Amazon tribe have become the stuff of legend. These implacable female warriors are supposed to have battled before Troy and laid siege to Athens. To this day, scholars have searched the world f…
New Works by British Artist Darren Almond at White Cube
LONDON.- White Cube Mason’s Yard presents an exhibition of new works entitled ‘The Principle of Moments’ by British artist Darren Almond. Known for works that meditate on notions of time, landscape and travel, as well as political and historical memory…
Yevtushenko Gives House, Art to Russia
By: Khristina Narizhnaya, Associated Press Writer
PEREDELKINO (AP).- Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russia’s most renowned living poet, has given his house along with an extensive art collection to the state as a museum. The two-story museum in the writer’s colo…