Topic: Museums
The Louvre said Thursday it has teamed up with Nintendo to hand out 3D game consoles to guide visitors through its vast art collections, as part of a stepped up digital drive at the Paris museum.Starting in March, the world's most visited ...
Spain's Prado museum on Monday put on display for the first time a canvas painted by the 16th-century Flemish master Pieter Bruegel the Elder which was discovered last year.The painting, The Wine of St Martin's Day, shows about 100 peasants, beggars, thieves ...
Fifty-five tapestries created by the French royal Manufacture des Gobelins and by contemporary artists like Picasso and Miro went on display from Friday in Bucharest, in a world premiere."A selection of tapestries of such scope and quality is unprecedented," said Bernard Schotter, ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Stroll the grimy backstreets of Dickensian London and experience for yourself the sights and sounds which inspired one of the greatest writers in English literature.Computer tablet users can now travel to the darker side of London as Charles Dickens ...
The British Museum announced on Tuesday it had acquired an exceptional set of Pablo Picasso's "Vollard Suite", comprising 100 etchings produced by the artist between 1930 and 1937.Complete sets of the suite are very rare, held only by a handful of museums ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Artist Damien Hirst's diamond-encrusted skull sculpture will go on display as part of the first major retrospective of his career to be staged in his native Britain."For the Love of God," which fetched the then equivalent of $100 million ...
The famed French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson loved travels and paradoxes, two themes brought together in a new exhibit at the Kunsthaus gallery of Vienna.Spanning half a century from the 1930s to the late 1970s, some 200 pictures on display retrace Cartier-Bresson's many ...
The Libyan war, the Greek debt crisis and the Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal have all been rich fodder this year for news junkies -- but is today's information overload healthy?A Swiss clinic has set out to help those who feel overwhelmed by such ...
Once fashion accessories rather than tools for confronting the weather, fans and gloves as old as 700 years are getting their day in the sun with a new exhibit at Vienna's Museum of Applied Arts (MAK)."Gripping Diversity" retraces the history of both ...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Phil Mickelson will be inducted into the Golf Hall of Fame next year with one of the sport's most powerful administrators describing the American as a perfect role model.The 41-year-old four-times major winner was announced as the latest member ...
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Stolen Museum Piece
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