
march 7, 2012
Canadian artists are making a last-ditch effort to change new copyright legislation before it goes to
PARIS — More than 70 years after it was plundered by the Nazis, a missing painting by Monet that depicts the shimmering blue rapids of the Creuse River has pitted two of the wealthiest and most prominent families in France against each other.
Ginette Heilbronn Moulin, 85, the chairwoman of the Galeries Lafayette department store chain, is pursuing a claim that the Wildenstein family, an international
Francesca Woodman, the photographer who took her own life at 22 in 1981, is as close to a true saint as the putatively secular world of contemporary art can claim. The dreamy, formally playful and disarmingly erotic pictures Woodman made — mostly of herself partly unclothed or naked — project a self surrendering
Contemporary artist Christo is best known for his dramatic, temporary public art installations — from staging thousands of yellow and blue umbrellas throughout Japanese and Californian valleys to wrapping Berlin's Reichstag in fabric to draping saffron-coloured panels through New York's Central Park.
Along with his
In case you've missed this popular video of 500 years of female portraits in the arts by Philip Scott Johnson, take a few minutes to watch this.
Music: Bach's Sarabande from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 performed by Yo-Yo Ma

march 7, 2012
Canadian artists are making a last-ditch effort to change new copyright legislation before it goes to

march 5, 2012
The Tate Modern in London announced on Monday that it had purchased one of Ai Weiwei’s famous installations of life-size, hand-painted porcelain “Sunflower Seeds.” It bought 8 million of the 100 million seeds that were