The latest in Visual Arts

TV Trump Apprentice

2010-03-17T14:33:40Z

FILE - In this Aug. 19, 2009 file photo, Donald Trump attends the screening of "The September Issue " at The Museum of Modern Art, in New York. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, file)

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Goya, modern masters rub shoulders in Milan

2010-03-17T14:16:08Z

<div><p>Spanish painter Francisco Goya rubs shoulders with modern masters such as Francis Bacon and Pablo Picasso in an exhibit that opened Wednesday at Milan's Palazzo Reale.</p><p>"Goya and the Modern World" brings together 184 paintings, drawings and engr...

Goya and modern masters exhibit opens in Milan

2010-03-17T12:17:40Z

<div><p>An exhibit comparing Spanish painter Francisco Goya with modern masters such as Francis Bacon and Pablo Picasso opened on Wednesday at Milan's Palazzo Reale.</p><p>"Goya and the Modern World" brings together 184 paintings, drawings and engravings.<...

Dutch police arrest 2 suspects in 2009 art heist

2010-03-17T08:45:35Z

<div id="subtitle">Dutch police arrest 2 suspects in museum art heist; stolen paintings still missing</div><div><p>Dutch police say they have arrested two men suspected of involvement in an art heist last year in which masked and armed men snatched two paintings, including one by Salvador Dali, from a museum.</p><p>The robbers stole "Adolescence," a 1941 gouache by Dali and "La Musicienne," an oil paint...

BRITAIN ART PICASSO

2010-03-17T08:17:08Z

Giovanna Bertazzoni, right, Christie's auction house head of Impressionist and Modern Art department, poses for the photographers in front of a 1903 Pablo Picasso painting entitled 'Portrait of Angel Fernandez ...

APTOPIX BRITAIN ART PICASSO

2010-03-17T08:17:04Z

Caravaggio investigation result seen in May

2010-03-17T07:45:17Z

<div><p>MILAN (Reuters Life!) - Italian anthropologists expect to have a definite result in their investigation into Baroque artist Caravaggio's death in May, hopefully unveiling a centuries old mystery.</p><p>Italy's National Committee for Cultural Heritage has been wo...

Christie's brings in the bids as art market stirs

2010-03-16T16:00:15Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Auctioneers Christie's said its mid-season sale of 20th century decorative art and design generated strong interest from U.S. and foreign bidders in New York Tuesday in a sign the struggling ar...

Auctioneer plans $15 million emerging nations sale

2010-03-16T10:00:29Z

<div><p>LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Around 450 works of art from emerging powers Brazil, Russia, India and China will be offered for sale in London next month and auctioneer BERLIN - MARCH 16: The hand of the photographer rests on a touch-sensitive screen showing the Anvar-i-Suhayli ("Lights of Canopus") collection of 15th century fables at the 'Treasures of the Aga Khan Museum - Masterpieces of Islamic Art' exhibition at Martin-Gropius-Bau on March 16, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. The Berlin exhibit...

Logo Design Creation of Your Company Image

2010-03-16T10:11:36Z

Creation of the company, including your company and the symbol is known. You choose his name, of course, but even if you have any ideas on what should be a star, you must still create a symbol or a logo design on paper.<br><br>Good advice, you can get is to use a professional designer to create your own logo and unique. This may be cheaper to just the files available on the web and use it, but some copyrighted photos and other people that can not be used. The same happens to them ...

Despite woes, optimism for LV culture grows

2010-03-16T02:15:28Z

<div><p> On paper, the Las Vegas arts scene looks grim. In less than two years weÕve lost the Las Vegas Art Museum and two important downtown galleries, Naomi Arin Contemporary Art and Michele C. Quinn Fine Art Advisory. The Las Vegas Philharmonic nearly collapsed; Ne...

Boston art heist rattles investigators 20 years on

2010-03-15T19:45:11Z

<div id="subtitle">Even after 20 years, biggest art heist in history rattles Boston investigators</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 and b...

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...