Topic: London
Reunion of ancient scroll fragments illuminates missing link in Bible's evolution Two parts of an ancient biblical manuscript separated across centuries and continents were reunited for the first time in a joint display Friday, thanks to an accidental discovery that is helping ...
LONDON (Reuters Life! ) - London's Victoria & Albert Museum unveiled a major new 32-million-pound ($53 million) project on Monday comprising 10 galleries containing medieval and renaissance art spanning more than 1,000 years.The galleries occupy an entire wing of the museum and ...
Michael Jackson's personal items to go on display in London when album, movie are releasedThe official exhibition of rare Michael Jackson memorabilia will go on display in London this week.The exhibition is a documentation of his musical legacy, said curator Robert Santelli. ...
The rousing, patriotic sweep of Elgar's Nimrod, the mournful tones of Nessun Dorma and the urgent eight-note allegro con brio opening to Beethoven's fifth & "We tend to see in some situations that elephants don't cope well with captivity just because they ...
An image of an overawed girl at her second birthday party is among four photographs shortlisted today for the first Schweppes portrait prize, an international competition with & The new prize attracted more than 3,000 images from 1,212 professional and amateur photographers ...
Who was J. Morrison of London and why was he wandering round Norfolk with the 3,000-year-old corpse of an Egyptian woman? Bear and tiger and mummy remain in silent companionship in the vast building that is Norwich Castle Museum, but great changes ...
You can get an instructive lesson in good and bad art by comparing two large-scale sculpture installations on view in London. Go to Tate Modern and see the new work in its Turbine Hall by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. You don't have to do ...
The British Museum has had its most successful year since it started counting visitors - and probably since its foundation in 1753. "The 6.049 million total number of visitors - up by more than a million on the previous year - means ...
Cultural venues that stay open after normal hours are seeing a visitor boom. Galleries, museums and libraries are now competing with traditional evening venues, such as pubs.In London, the Design Museum saw an 800 per cent rise in visitors for the show ...
Jennifer Sutton's heart almost killed her. On Tuesday she got her first look at the culprit. Three months after the defective organ was cut from her body, the 23-year-old transplant patient came to contemplate a mass of pink and yellow tissue suspended ...
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