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The "ultimate" gallantry medal – the only double Victoria Cross from the Great War – has been bought by Tory peer Lord Ashcroft for a world record price of nearly £1.5 million. By Andrew Alderson, Chief Reporter Captain Noel...
Some of the most famous outfits worn by Grace Kelly, the most elegant leading lady of her era, are to go on display in a new exhibition at the V&A museum in London. Roya Nikkhah, Arts Correspondent Grace Kelly: Among the...
Berry, Aretha, Stevie and Kid whoop it up at museum benefit Kimberly P. Mitchell / Zuma Press Kid Rock performs with Stevie Wonder at the Motown 50 Golden Gala Live it Again Weekend in the Renaissance Center in Detroit on...
A new contemporary arts and architecture museum designed by Iraqi-born Zaha Hadid is slated to open in Rome. The $223 million Maxxi cultural center was scheduled to be open this weekend for a limited run before its full-fledged...
Nigel Dickson's photograph of the late jazz giant Oscar Peterson, part of a show on view at the Royal Ontario Museum until March. Nigel Dickson Ian Brown considers what a government that nixes a national portrait gallery is...
By Sinikka Tarvainen. Madrid, Spain, 10:00 AM IST One of the world's top private art collections could become the object of a legal dispute as a Spanish baroness is being challenged by a wayward son over his inheritance rights....
AFP/File – A Pakistani man looking at Buddha sculptures at a museum in Peshawar in October 2009. Archaeologists … by Sajjad Tarakzai Sajjad Tarakzai – 24 mins ago TAXILA, Pakistan (AFP) – Archaeologists warn that the Taliban...
'We all the know the joys of degradation," Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk wrote in an essay on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Notes From Undergound included in Pamuk's 2007 collection of nonfiction, Other Colors.
From prehistoric times ... Brian Sherman has brought the Australian Museum into the present day. Since Sherman is president of the Australian Museum, he was doubly amazed. None of them knew about a theft either, though rumours...
By Virginia Culver The Denver Post Jeremy Hillhouse could come up with "elegant and beautiful designs on a bare-bones budget," said Ronald Otsuka, Asian arts curator at the Denver Art Museum. Hillhouse, who died Nov. 10 at age...
