News on Visual Arts

Top art heist rattles investigators 20 years on

2010-03-15T12:30:18Z

<div id="subtitle">Even after 20 years, biggest art heist in history rattles investigators in Boston</div><div><p>It remains the most tantalizing art heist mystery in the world.</p><p>In the early hours of March 18, 1990, two thieves walked into Boston's elegant Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum disguised as police officers an...

oscar de la hoya

2010-03-12T17:48:11Z

Oscar De La Hoya The boxing legend posing for a portraiture in Leicester Square. London, England- 12.03.10

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High End Interior Design Projects and Fields

2010-03-12T22:25:50Z

High end interior design is considered an art that designers will have to somehow master. A designer must able to balance the color, light, detail and scale carefully in a three world dimension. Just like the sculptors and painters, designers in the field are operating from an idea or inspiration that will help them edit or select the elements for composition appropriately. It may come in characteristics of art.<br><br>Anyway, before we proceed what is interior design really? This...

Creative Studies in Web Design

2010-03-12T20:49:57Z

It is very important for a web designer to know exactly how to create and master pages of a web site. There should be a proper balance in the amount of graphic inputs and information provided. Also the web site should not look like a page out of Wikipedia. It should be attractive and informative at the same time. It should have an aesthetic design. Moreover, it should also be kept in mind that the web site shoul...

Oil magnate makes huge donation to Swiss museum

2010-03-12T10:16:31Z

<div><p>An Egyptian-born magnate behind a recent sale of huge West African and Iraqi oil interests to China pledged 20 million Swiss francs to expand Geneva's art and history museum, authorities said Friday.</p><p>Addax chief Jean Claude Gandur's donation (18.6 million dollars, 13.6 million euros) would double other private and public funding to revive a plann...

Gauguin work on sale for 25 million euros at Dutch fair

2010-03-12T09:16:51Z

<div><p>The world's biggest antique fair opened its doors Friday to collectors and the curious in the southern Dutch city of Maastricht with a rare Paul Gauguin painting in the spotlight, organisers said.</p><p>Some 260 art and antiques dealers from 17 countries are to display nearly 30,000 paintings, sculptures, items of furniture, jewelry, porcelain, clothes and m...

Sotheby's to offer Corot painting taken by Nazis

2010-03-12T06:00:34Z

<div><p>LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Sotheby's will auction a painting by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot worth around $1.5 million after it was returned to the heirs of the original owners, Jewish bankers forced to flee Europ...

NETHERLANDS NEW VAN GOGH

2010-03-11T08:32:26Z

This image released by Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Thursday, March 11, 2010, shows a painting entitled "The Bedroom", by Vincent van Gogh. One of van Gogh's most famous paintings, "The Bedroom," has been taken away for restoration, but art lovers don't ha...

Van Gogh work 'The Bedroom' undergoes restoration

2010-03-11T08:17:39Z

<div id="subtitle">Famous Van Gogh work 'The Bedroom' undergoing restoration before museum blog's cameras</div><div><p>One of Vincent van Gogh's most famous paintings, "The Bedroom," has been taken away for restoration, but art lovers don't have to miss it. They can follow the cleanup on a blog, the Van Gogh Museum said Thursday.</p><p>...

Masterworks from Ohio museum summer in New York City

2010-03-11T07:46:14Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - One museum's renovations are another's exhibition. Thus, 20 masterworks from Oberlin College's Allen Memorial Art Museum in Ohio will summer at Italy (Reuters Life!) - Six possible descendants of Baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, have been DNA-tested in the hopes they can help unveil the mystery surrounding the painter's death.</p><p>The cause of death in 1610 and the ...

Free Programs to Help Build a Website on Your Computer

2010-03-11T10:43:55Z

Creating a website isn?t hard; any one can do it. You don?t need a specific degree in order to build you website. Even if you only know the very basics of HTML, creating a complete web site is still within your reach. It?s all thanks to free programs to help build a website on your computer. With these powerful tools at your disposal, you can design web pages whether it?s for business or pleasure.<br><br>There are a lot of free programs to help build a website on your computer. Si...

Masterpieces, jewels sparkle in Sotheby's HK sales

2010-03-10T20:15:13Z

<div><p>HONG KONG (Reuters Life!) - Chinese collectors still have an appetite for classical Chinese art, jewels and rare artifacts, auction house Sotheby's said as it revealed the line-up of its Hong Kong sales, expected to net $221 million dollars.</p><p>With some once red-hot seg...

Calif. art patron's collection to be sold in NYC

2010-03-10T12:45:14Z

<div id="subtitle">Calif. art patron's collection heading for NYC auction, includes works from Picasso, Matisse</div><div><p>A late philanthropist's modern art collection featuring a rarely seen work by Pablo Picasso is being auctioned in New York City.</p><p>The seminal painting by Picasso is c...

Milwaukee museum to show Raphael painting

2010-03-10T11:45:43Z

<div id="subtitle">Rarely seen Italian Renaissance painting will be on view at Milwaukee Art Museum</div><div><p>Rarely lent from the Pitti Palace in Florence, Italy, Raphael Sanzio's painting "The Woman with the Veil" is making its last ...

MoMA Celebrates The "Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present" Exhibition

2010-03-09T21:31:36Z

NEW YORK - MARCH 09: Artist Marina Abramovic (in red) performs during the "Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present" exhibition opening night party at The Museum of Modern Art on March 9, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

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Annie Leibovitz

2010-03-09T08:48:36Z

FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2009 file photo, U.S. photographer Annie Leibovitz poses for the media, prior to a media tour through her exhibition "Annie Leibovitz - A Photographer's Life 1990 - 2005", at Kunsthaus Gallery in Vienna. Leibovitz has entered into an agreement with a private investment firm to help manage he...

Ethan Allen Recalls Roman Shades

2010-03-09T00:15:45Z

<div><p> Ethan Allen has added its name to the retailers joining the voluntary recall in December 2009 of all Roman shades. The shades pose a strangulation risk to young children. </p><p>The recall includes about 163,000 sets of Ethan Allen Roman shades. </p><p> </p><p>Strangulation can occur when a child places his or her neck between the exposed inner cord and the fabric on the ...

oscars elton john party 3

2010-03-08T19:01:49Z

Katie Price 18th Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards (Oscars) Viewing Party - Arrivals held at the Pacific Design Center West Hollywood, California - 07.03.10