LONDON (AP).- Papers relating to codebreaker and computer pioneer Alan Turing will go to a British museum after the National Heritage Memorial Fund stepped in to help buy them for the nation. The government-backed fund said Friday it had donated more t…
Archive of World War II Codebreaker Alan Turing Preserved by National Heritage Memorial Fund
LONDON (AP).- Papers relating to codebreaker and computer pioneer Alan Turing will go to a British museum after the National Heritage Memorial Fund stepped in to help buy them for the nation. The government-backed fund said Friday it had donated more t…
Rare Painting of Doomed WW2 Bomb Store that was Covered Up for Years, Offered at Bonhams
LONDON.- A powerful painting of a Staffordshire bomb store by the artist David Bomberg will be offered by Bonhams in the 20th Century British Art sale on March 9th. The painting is estimated to sell for £80,000 – 120,000. As World War II broke o…
Comprehensive Retrospective Dedicated to the German Painter Eugen Schönebeck at the Schirn
FRANKFURT.- From February 23 to May 15, 2011, the Schirn presents a comprehensive retrospective dedicated to the German painter Eugen Schönebeck, which will feature almost all of his surviving paintings and his most important drawings. After devoting …
Rare Painting of Doomed WW2 Bomb Store that was Covered Up for Years, Offered at Bonhams
LONDON.- A powerful painting of a Staffordshire bomb store by the artist David Bomberg will be offered by Bonhams in the 20th Century British Art sale on March 9th. The painting is estimated to sell for £80,000 – 120,000. As World War II broke o…
Court Denies Heirs’ Claims Over Stolen World War II Art
NASHVILLE (AP).- A federal appeals court has dismissed claims against the German government by heirs of an art dealer whose collection was seized by the Nazis and sold at auction during World War II. Fred Westfield, a retired Nashville professor, fil…
Unmarked Graves Found at Veteran Cemetery in Mississippi
By: Holbrook Mohr, Associated Press
VICKSBURG, MISS (AP).- Authorities said Thursday they fear dozens of veterans could lie in unmarked graves at a Mississippi military cemetery after they found two unidentified coffins and used radar to detect other …
Statues Devastated in World War II Go on Show at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin
BERLIN (AP).- The ancient gods and fantastical creatures going on show in Berlin this week have made an unlikely comeback from near-destruction. Unearthed in present-day Syria a century ago, the 3,000-year-old basalt statues and stone reliefs in the e…
Last of Frank Lloyd Wright-Trained Architects, Edgar Tafel, Dies in New York at Age 98
NEW YORK, NY (AP).- New York City architect Edgar Tafel, an original Taliesin fellow credited with saving some of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most important works, has died. He was 98. Tafel, who was instrumental in helping save two historic interiors from a …
Last of Frank Lloyd Wright-Trained Architects, Edgar Tafel, Dies in New York at Age 98
NEW YORK, NY (AP).- New York City architect Edgar Tafel, an original Taliesin fellow credited with saving some of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most important works, has died. He was 98. Tafel, who was instrumental in helping save two historic interiors from a …