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Montreux unveils 2010 poster by Brazil's Britto

Reuters US Online Report Entertainment News 6 days ago

ZURICH (Reuters) - Brazilian Romero Britto has created the 2010 edition of the Montreux Jazz Festival's poster, adding to a long list of striking images by famous artists that have made the posters desirable objects among collectors. Painted in strong and fresh ...

Feisty architect Hadid challenges Rome skyline

Reuters Life! Online Report 6 days ago

ROME (Reuters Life!) - Iraq's Zaha Hadid, one of the world's most acclaimed architects, has given this ancient city that normally shuns modern intrusions another controversial building -- a new museum dedicated to contemporary design. The MAXXI -- which stands for Museum ...

Latin American art fair in the Big Apple

AP News 7 days ago

Latin American art decorates the Big Apple, breaking down cultural stereotypes The only art fair in the United States featuring works exclusively from Latin American artists is under way in New York and drawing artists, collectors and museum representatives from around the ...

Anatomical Art

AP News 7 days ago

A person walks past rare 18th-century anatomical illustrations by Dutch artist Jan Van Rhysdyk on display at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009. The drawings are scheduled to be on display until December 2010 at the hospital's medical library. (AP ...

Anatomy drawings owned by Ben Franklin on display

AP Features 7 days ago

Centuries before X-rays, CAT scans and ultrasounds gave doctors a view inside the human body, the best images medical students often had were illustrations drawn by artists of bodies in a morgue. The country's oldest hospital has unveiled a new exhibit of ...

Nissan Electric Cars

AP News 7 days ago

FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2009 file photo, Nissan Motor Co.'s Leaf is seen at a Nissan technical design center in Atsugi, near Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye, file) Copyright 2009 AP News

tim burton tribute outside

WENN 8 days ago

Mary-Kate Olsen Tribute to Tim Burton held at The Museum of Modern Art - Outside Arrivals New York City, USA- 17.11.09 Copyright 2009 WENN

Six-year jail term for Sears Tower plotter

AFP American Edition 8 days ago

A judge on Wednesday handed a six-year jail sentence to one of five men convicted of plotting to blow up the tallest building in the United States, Chicago's Sears Tower, and swearing allegiance to Al-Qaeda. US District Judge Joan Lenard found that ...

Artist Irving Kriesberg dies in NYC at 90

AP News 8 days ago

Expressionist American artist Irving Kriesberg dies in NYC at 90 American painter Irving Kriesberg has died in New York City. He combined intense abstract colors with human and animal elements. His son, Matthias, tells The New York Times his father died Nov. ...

NC Museum of Art 'tunnels' through to new building

AP News 9 days ago

NC Museum of Art 'tunnels' through to new building, uses unusual elements to move works The North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh is on the move. And it's taking about 750 works of art with it. The museum is in the ...

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