Topic: Europe

Luc Tuymans, the star Belgian artist known for works on the Holocaust, 9/11 and his nation's dark colonial legacy, this week brings his life's work home -- to an almost equally "hallucinatory" political trauma."The situation in Belgium is vile, I have no ...

Ancient Brits ate dead and made skulls into cups

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Ancient Britons devoured their dead and created gruesome goblets from the skulls of their remains, according to new research published on Wednesday.Researchers from London's Natural History Museum discovered 15,000-year-old human bones in southern England which showed signs of ...

Google offers Street View art gallery tours

Art lovers will be able to stroll through some of the world's most famous galleries at the click of a mouse after Google put the venues online Tuesday using Street View technology.In a collaboration with 17 leading galleries in nine countries, the ...

Luxury shoemaker raises $34 million to save Colosseum

ROME (Reuters) - Luxury shoemaker Tod's will fund the restoration of Rome's Colosseum with a 25 million euro ($34 million) sponsorship campaign, the biggest to rescue Italy's crumbling archaeological treasures with private money."I won't put Tod's shoes on the Colosseum," the company's ...

New Florida museum has largest Dali collection outside Spain

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (Reuters Life!) - Some of Salvador Dali's most famous paintings have a new home in Florida with the opening of a $36 million museum designed to reflect the Spanish painter's surreal style.The Dali museum was officially opened on Tuesday ...

Cross-eyed opossum capturing hearts

BERLIN (Reuters) - She's middle-aged, gray-haired and stays up all night. Still, Heidi the cross-eyed opossum is Germany's biggest media sensation, and she has not even made her debut at the Leipzig Zoo.Yet Heidi appears to be the next in a line ...

Cross-eyed opossum capturing the hearts of Germans

BERLIN (Reuters Life!) - She's middle-aged, gray-haired and stays up all night. Still, Heidi the cross-eyed opossum is Germany's biggest media sensation, and she has not even made her debut at the Leipzig Zoo.Yet Heidi appears to be the next in a ...

Travel Postcard: 48 hours in Warsaw

WARSAW (Reuters Life!) - The Polish capital offers visitors a diverse cocktail of old world charm, communist heritage and state-of-the-art museums honoring two of Poland's most famous sons, Chopin and Copernicus.Reuters correspondents with local knowledge help you get the most out of ...

Exhibitions: World museums unite for Dulwich Gallery's 200th

LONDON (Reuters) - London's Dulwich Picture Gallery turns 200 in January, and the museum is in for a birthday treat of 12 masterpieces from around the world, one for every month of its anniversary year.The paintings to be loaned to the gallery ...
Getty Museum set to return Aphrodite statue, ending antiquities dispute with ItalyItaly's decade-old campaign to retrieve antiquities it says were illegally brought to California will end early next year.The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles will return to Sicily a fifth ...