MONTREAL.- From September 24, 2010, to January 2, 2011, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will be presenting ROUGE CABARET: The Terrifying and Beautiful World of Otto Dix, the first North American exhibition devoted to Otto Dix (1891-1969), one of the t…
Contemporary Jewish Museum to Show Rarely Seen Old Master Paintings
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Contemporary Jewish Museum presents an exhibition of rarely seen Old Master paintings entitled Reclaimed: Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker. Reclaimed reveals the extraordinary legacy of Jacques Goudstikker, a…
Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library to Open in Indianapolis
INDIANAPOLIS (AP).- Three years after his death, pieces of Kurt Vonnegut’s life are coming together in his hometown, where a new library will chronicle the “Slaughterhouse Five” author’s harrowing World War II experiences and his works that struck a ch…
Museum to Present Major Survey Devoted to Italian Artist Michelangelo Pistoletto
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- In the fall of 2010, the Philadelphia Museum of Art will present a major exhibition devoted to the work of Michelangelo Pistoletto (b. 1933) in the Dorrance Galleries for Special Exhibitions. Widely recognized as a key figure in the …
United States Decision to Attend Hiroshima Memorial Hailed
HIROSHIMA (AP).- The site of the world’s first atomic attack swarmed with tens of thousands of people Thursday as Hiroshima prepared for a memorial that will for the first time have representatives from the United States and other major nuclear powers….
Holocaust Museum to Romania: Scrap ‘Racist’ Coin
BUCHAREST (AP).- Romania’s central bank has issued a special coin commemorating a prime minister and religious leader who stripped Jews of their citizenship before World War II. The coin has prompted protest from a director at the U.S. Holocaust Memori…
Poles Hope Deadly Knights will Now Bring Some Good
KWIDZYN (AP).- The Teutonic Knights have long been reviled in Poland, where the Germanic warriors swept in during the Middle Ages and converted pagans to Christianity at the point of a sword. Many here see them as an early incarnation of a Germany tha…
Poles Hope Deadly Knights will Now Bring Some Good
KWIDZYN (AP).- The Teutonic Knights have long been reviled in Poland, where the Germanic warriors swept in during the Middle Ages and converted pagans to Christianity at the point of a sword. Many here see them as an early incarnation of a Germany tha…
First Major Exhibition Devoted to the Work of Female Pop Artists Opens
LINCOLN, NE.- The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Sheldon Museum of Art presents “Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists,” the first major exhibition devoted to the work of female Pop artists. Pop art, more than any other post-World War II art moveme…
Winston Churchill’s Choppers Sold at Auction in England
LONDON (AP).- A partial set of dentures used by former British leader Winston Churchill — described as the teeth that saved the world — sold at auction Thursday for 15,200 pounds ($23,723.) The upper dentures, one of several sets specially ma…