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The interactive Tomás Saraceno sculpture “Cloud City,” on the roof of the Met, is the latest example of scientific-based fun-house formalism.

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- The ex-president of Senegal won praise from around the world earlier this year when he gracefully conceded defeat, even picking up the phone to congratulate his longtime rival, a move that momentarily erased the memories of a violent election season....

One of the most revolutionary developments in the art of choreography occurred gradually and unnoticed, as the ability to select music from multiple sources, and reconstruct that music into what is essentially a new structure, became widely available through software-based edititng.

Last night Stella McCartney got back into the swing of things as she attended a pop art themed charity ball in the capital.

It’s easy to pooh-pooh Gilbert and Sullivan as dusty English relics, but as The Globe’s theatre critic observes, the operetta-writing duo are not only surprisingly influential but downright hip

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Online retail giant Amazon.com has vowed to improve working conditions at its warehouses. The change in policy comes eight months after a report surfaced from an Amazon-owned warehouse where workers were allegedly subjected to unpleasant working conditions.More than 100 protestors, headed by labor rally group Working Washington with the help of advocacy group Color of Change, crashed Amazon's s...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A shabby area of Berlin best known for its curb-crawling prostitutes and drug dealers is recovering some of the Bohemian allure of its glory days in the 1920s as low rents and its...

Exec, a mobile app that instantly gets people to do your errands, has raised $3.3 million, according to an SEC filing. The company's co-founder Justin Kan, who is also behind Justin.tv, Twitch.tv and SocialCam, is getting back to us on who invested in this round. What's Exec? It's kind of comparable to TaskRabbit, because you can call on people to run your errands from an app. But Exec doesn't...

Er sammelt Manga-Püppchen ebenso wie Roboter und Nazis aus Plastik: Der 39-Jährige Düsseldorfer Selim Varol hat die für seine Generation typische Leidenschaft für Street Art, Popkultur-Nippes und Obskures auf die Spitze getrieben - nun zeigt eine Berliner Ausstellung seine Riesensammlung.

Zum zweiten Mal in Folge stehen die Oklahoma City Thunder im Finale der Western Conference. Als Nummer zwei der Hauptrunde ist das eigentlich keine große Überraschung - die Art und Weise, wie sie auf dem Weg dahin zwei routinierte Teams wie den aktuellen Meister Dallas Mavericks (4:0) und zuletzt die Los Angeles Lakers (4:1) aus dem Weg räumten, dagegen schon. Gegen die San Antonio Spurs winkt ...

TAKE This Waltz continues Sarah Polley's mixing of art and life.

Hans Rosling ist Professor für Internationale Gesundheit am Institutionen för Folkhälsovetenskap des Karolinska Institutet in Schweden. Er hat die Gapminder-Stiftunggegründet, deren Ziel es ist, öffentlich zugängliche Statistiken aufzubereiten und darzustellen um die Welt besser verstehen zu können. Außerdem hält Hans Rosling mitreißende und faszinierende Vorträge. Über sein Lob der Wa...

Davon mal abgesehen, dass Blume der allerschnellste war, weil er den Beitrag in seinem eigenen Blog schon gestern kommentiert hat: Sehr schöner Post, und jetzt gehn wer rüber zu Blume und schauen uns an, wie er es zum zigsten Mal schafft, einen Beitrag der fast gar nichts mit seinen steilen Thesen zu tun hat, dennoch für genau diese zu instrumentalisieren......Es ist schon ein echtes Kreuz mit...

In order for a contemporary art gallery to be successful it cannot have an overt political, religious or ideological agenda, the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg said on Friday.

The Pop & Hiss run-down of the weekend's top shows has returned. Plans can be resumed. Thursday-Monday •  Lightning in a Bottle Festival  @ Oak Canyon Ranch. This long-running dance event blows up the festival-within-a-festival that is the Do Lab's little bass-thumping pocket of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Over four days in Silver...

New dates from Geißenklösterle Cave in Southwest Germany document the early arrival of modern humans and early appearance of art and music.

The Queen met 24 dames from the world of arts at the Royal Academy of Art in London. Those attending included deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie and philanthropist Jillian Sackler.

A DISPUTE about the ownership and value of art, antiques, furniture and other contents of luxury homes in Dublin and London linked to solicitor Brian O’Donnell and his family will come before the Commercial Court next month.

Two generations of artists, photographers, and graphic designers have been inspired by the original Star Wars trilogy. Here are few of our favorite arty interpretations.

Trent Bridge has become a haven for swing bowling — and there’s been no finer exponent of the art than Jimmy Anderson. Here Wisden Editor LAWRENCE BOOTH examines the theories...

A PAINTING by Cuban surrealist artist Wifredo Lam fetched a record personal price at a Latin American art sale at auctioneers Sotheby’s in New York. An unnamed South American collector paid $4.5m for Lam’s 1944 Idol (Oya/Divinite de l’Air et de la mort), well above the $2m-3m guide price. Demand was also high for Venezuelan artists, such as Armando Reveron. But Diego ...

In this exclusive sneak preview of the new National Geographic Channel show, The Link, we see the history of the humble chain drive, which was invented in ancient Greece, yet didn’t find widespread use until the 20th century when the bicycle-repairing Wright Brothers used it to help build the first powered airplane.

Das kleine Emirat Sharjah fördert die Kunst aus der gesamten arabischen Welt. Die Barjeel Art Foundation erreicht zunehmend das internationale Publikum. Von K. Pfannkuch

Sean O'Toole explores some of the portrayals of the naked black body that have elicited fierce reactions in SA's recent past.

jojo marengo shared jojo marengo's blog post on FacebookJOJO MARENGO and the World Art Foundation helped hundreds of artists grow their career.

Grapevine, Texas (ots/PRNewswire) -- Grapevine ist der einzige Ort in Nordamerika, an dem ein Uhrturm dieser Art besichtigt werden kann GRAPEVINE, Texas, 24. Mai 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Grapevine, Texas (USA) hat Zuwachs bekommen. Um diesen zu sehen, müssen Sie aber 75 Fuß in die Höhe blicken …

A new cultural movement is reinvigorating racial discourse in the US, driven by humour. Can comedy work to ease South Africa's race tensions?

Seeing as how Scarlett Johansson is always admired for her art of a body (after her talented acting, of course), we're sure everyone would feel a little insecure taking their clothes off in front of her! But let's ask Paul Brannigan, shall we?? The Scottish actor had to strip down for her in Under the Skin, where [...]

South Africa's president takes legal action against art gallery for painting that depicts his genitals.

South Africa's ruling party takes legal action to try and remove a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma from public view.

James Naughtie attended last night's jubilee celebration of British art and culture.

Animated GIFs may be the latest way to crack a joke, but at one London exhibit, they’re also an art form. Born in 1987: The Animated GIF,…

South African president brings legal action against 'outrageous' artwork defaced at Johannesburg gallery earlier this weekJacob Zuma, the South African president, is going to court to argue that a painting that depicted him with an exposed penis should be banned.Zuma's governing African National Congress (ANC) is bringing a legal action against the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg over the work...

Der Schriftsteller Gerhard Roth begleitet seit Langem die Patienten im Haus der Künstler der Nervenheilanstalt Gugging. Ein Vorabdruck seines neuen Bildbandes

D'un côté, une fervente déclaration au septième art ;de l'autre une pâle adaptation d'un chef-d'oeuvre de la littérature. À Cannes,tous les coups sont permis.Articles en rapportRythmes scolaires, 60 000 postes : Peillon décidera « fin juillet »Florence Cassez : une nouvelle accusation et... un proche espoir ŸDemandez la sortie !LE MONDE À L´ENVERSLE VISAGE

Based on a smaller design he created a few years ago, Mathias Bengtsson's gigantic Spun bench is now on display at an art gallery in Washington DC. But how can this giant installation only weigh just eleven pounds? It's made from that uber-material known as carbon fiber. More »

Ahead of the Sotheby's 'Important Canadian Art' auction, Melissa Leong took three Canadian artists shopping at the Royal Ontario Museum for their dream purchases with the Post’s imaginary credit card

A symposium was held to commemorate the 70th anniversary of a celebrated speech on art and literature delivered by late Chairman Mao Zedong at the former revolutionary base of Yan'an on May 23, 1942.

The city’s growing artistic scene plays to its multicultural and expatriate strengths, but will be tested by censorship and high living costs

Peter Gabriel The British art rock legend will return to the road in the United States this fall to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his multi-platinum album So  9/16 Quebec City QC - Colisee Pepsi 9/18 Montreal QC - Bell Centre 9/19 Toronto ON - Air Canada Centre 9/21 Philadelphia PA -...

Die Kantone müssen zum Verhandlungsmandat der Schweiz mit der EU zur Unternehmensbesteuerung Farbe bekennen

Bacterial evolution is overwhelming our antibiotic defences, says Kim Lewis. Using modern technology to replicate past success might tip the balance in our favour.

Maggie posted earlier on Romney senior adviser Stuart Stevens's description of the Obama team's Bain advertising as "performance art gibberish" -- and Democrats are already brandishing the comment as an example of rhetorical callousness. Priorities USA Action strategies Bill Burton swung hard in a statement: Mitt Romney’s clear disdain for the middle class men and women who lost everything wh...

Claribel and Etta Cone amassed an extraordinary collection of works of art that is on display at the Vancouver Art Gallery this summer. While the art is remarkable, so is the story of these sisters’ lives

Two men on Tuesday vandalised a portrait of President Jacob Zuma posing as Vladimir Lenin with his genitals exposed in a Johannesburg gallery, prompting the curator to take down the painting.

Team Sky's Michael Barry on the art of descending ahead of Wednesday's tough 17th stage of the Giro d'Italia that includes four categorised climbs including the 2,236m high Passo Giau.

Paul Simon will never record with former partner Art Garfunkel again because he does not want to "go back and visit the past".

BLACK Eyed Peas' will.i.am is transforming the Museum of Contemporary Art building into a musical instrument.

Die Art Amsterdam ist die größte Messe für zeitgenössische Kunst in den Niederlanden. In diesem Jahr ist Schluss, weil sich zu wenig Aussteller angemeldet haben.

The massive boulder that the Los Angeles County Museum of Art transported from a Riverside quarry to its Wilshire Boulevard campus will be unveiled June 24 as the main component of Michael Heizer's sculpture "Levitated Mass."

The Jasmin Vardimon dance company brings its experimental vibes to Israel for a second time.

A SOUTH African politician has bought a painting with government money by masking it as a McDonald's purchase.

Researchers have shown how to create morphing robotic mechanisms and shape-shifting sculptures from a single sheet of paper in a method reminiscent of origami, the Japanese art of paper folding.

Facebook gehört für viele Menschen schon zum Alltag. Dass sie mit jedem Eintrag Daten von sich preisgeben, die kommerzeill genutzt werden, ist vielen nicht bewusst. Regelmäßig wird die Art, wie Facebook Daten verwendet, kritisiert. Da das Unternehmen seinen Sitz in Irland hat, unterliegt es dem europäischen Datenschutzrecht. In der Realität hält sich Facebook aber nicht immer an die geltenden...

Nach der "größten Enttäuschung" seines Lebens droht Stürmer Fernando Torres Champions-League-Sieger Chelsea mit Abschied. "Sie haben mich in einer Art behandelt, die ich nicht erwartet hatte", sagte Torres der spanischen Sporttageszeitung "AS" über seine Rolle als Joker im Finale gegen Bayern München und fügte unmissverständlich hinzu: "Ich hatte eine schwierige Zeit, die schlimmste in meiner K...

Moskau (ots/PRNewswire) - ?Die Staatliche Tretjakow-Galerie zeigt die beste Investition in Russlands Moderne Künste Die grössten privaten Galerien für Moderne Kunst in Russland werden geschlossen. Die Moskauer Besitzer der Guelman Gallery, der Aidan Gallery und der XL Gallery …

Sacha Baron Cohen could be the Groucho Marx, Sid Caesar, and Lenny Bruce of his generation, if he would define and discipline his art as they did. He has a long and lanky clown’s body. He’s fearless and dangerously knowing. His comedy is as broad as . . . (Subscription required.)

Ground-breaking technology could be used to clear up art mysteries, such as the identity of the Girl with the Pearl Earring.

Archaeologists believe art scrawled on stones in sites in Sweden and Russia indicates that prehistoric man communicated with one another in a fashion similar to a modern day social networking site

Schon bei der sich abzeichnenden Niederlage der Bayern im Elfmeterschießen, verarbeiteten einige Fans ihren Zorn und ihre Enttäuschung auf unrühmliche Art und Weise.

L'Espagnol Dani Pedrosa (Honda HRC) a obtenu la pole position en MotoGP samedi au Mans, devant son coéquipier australien Casey Stoner (Honda HRC) et l'Italien Andrea Dovizioso (Yamaha Tech 3). Douzième temps pour le Français Randy de Puniet (ART).

An unorthodox table-tennis tournament played against the Bank of America building in Manhattan on Friday was part of a project by the artist Zefrey Throwell.

A LEADING London gallery is to push the boundaries of visual art with an exhibition that cannot be seen.

Only press play if you're okay with using X amount of seconds of your day and okay with straining several muscles in your face from mouthing the words "what in every God's name am I watching..." on a loop. The porn iguana Courtney Stodden should be sitting in a chair in school, but instead she's using her time to make performance art pieces like this one of her as a cat. Courtney...

Los colectivos artísticos Art Tree, de Reino Unido, y Purple Moon Art, de Gran Canaria ofrecieron ayer sus primeros talleres infantiles, en los que se están elaborando flores hechas a partir de botellas y otros materiales reciclados y mariposas de gran tamaño. La cita continúa hoy a las 11,00 y a las 16,00 en el Centro Cultural San Jorge. Mañana a las 13,00 horas habrá un desfile que saldrá de ...

Nach stundenlangen Verhandlungen gibt es eine Art Ergebnis: Die Entscheidung über den Einspruch von Hertha BSC gegen die Wertung des Relegations-Rückspiels bei Fortuna Düsseldorf fällt erst am Montag.Mehr zum Thema„Das größte Spiel unseres Lebens“ - Bengalische Fackeln beim Abschlusstraining der Bayern„Das größte Spiel unseres Lebens“ - Bengalische Fackeln beim Abschlusstraining der Bayern„Das ...

Premiums in the auto and workers compensation (ART) segments are expected to keep leading growth in Argentina's P&C insurance industry this year on the back of higher car sales and a reduction in unem...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The Barnes Foundation is no longer the greatest art collection you'll never see....

I would try to re-write Thursday’s Potomac Nationals press release about the retirement of owner Art Silber as part-time first base coach, but I couldn’t do better than the original, so here ya go: Art Silber, owner of the Potomac Nationals, Minor League Affiliate of the Washington Nationals, announced today that he will no longer coach first base. Silber, 71, who is now in his 23rd season as o...

Total global revenue from art sales hit $11.57 billion in 2011, a rise of $2 billion from 2010, the best performance of the decade.

A leading British gallery is to push the boundaries of visual art with an exhibition of works which cannot be seen.

L'Allianz ha finanziato la mostra di opere d'arte in Inghilterra e in Germania. I pezzi rimarranno esposti fino a dopo la finale di Champions League.

Deutschlands Leitartikler zeigen sich verwundert über Merkels schroffe Art bei Röttgens Zwei-Minuten-Rausschmiss, erkennen dafür aber gute Gründe. Einer sieht die alte Merkel zurückkehren.

The Queen: Art & Image, an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, opens in London, ahead of Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee

As one of the grisliest pictures he painted, Titian's The Martyrdom of St Lawrence has exerted a horrified fascination for art lovers for centuries.

It was announced only yesterday that Poland's Baltic Container Terminal would get a multi-million-pound refit. Today, it looked like someone had turned it into modern art.

With seemingly unceasing demand for Facebook's initial public offering, the banks in charge of selling the stock to investors might seem to have the easiest job in the world.

SAN FRANCISCO -- "Used to" isn't an encouraging way to describe an athlete who's 27, never had a major injury and was considered state-of-the art just 18 months ago.

Facebook ist nicht die erste Tech-Firma, deren Börsengang für Aufregung sorgt. Manche floppten, manche wurden auf leisere Art groß. Erkennen Sie die Börsenkurse?

Thirty-two mysterious pieces of a picture-puzzle were assembled by Halo fans in order to recreate Halo 4's cover art.

Unter der gTLD .secure will Artemis eine Art Hochsicherheitstrakt im Internet errichten, über den vertrauenswürdige und sichere Dienste bereitstehen sollen. Die künftigen .secure-Anbieter müssen dazu diverse Voraussetzungen erfüllen.

Luther Burbank Middle School's National Teacher of the Year talks about what makes a great teacher -- and it's not teaching to the test.The class clown from Mr. Gadberry's high school art class has made good — and how. Rebecca Mieliwocki teaches seventh-grade English at Luther Burbank Middle School in Burbank — but not next year. Instead, she'll be on the road as the National Teacher of the Yea...

FAIRFIELD , NJ—May 15, 2012— The Healthcare Businesswomen's Association (HBA) Metro Chapter is hosting its Take a Swing at MS Charity Golf and Spa Event[/...

Das ZDF-"heute journal" hat am Montagabend ein Interview der besonderen Art mit CSU-Chef Horst Seehofer gezeigt. Denn gesendet wurde auch das Nachgespräch zwischen Moderator Claus Kleber und dem bayerischen Politiker, der dann auf einmal Klartext redete.

The type of body art is called Light Fantastic.

Researchers have discovered illustrations of female anatomy in a rock shelter in France that date back 37,000 years.

LAHORE - Major solo paintings exhibition of well-known artist Mashkoor Raza kicked off at the Revivers Galleria in Gulberg on Monday.Punjab Education Minister Mujtaba Shujaur Rahman was the chief guest at the inaugural ceremony. He cut the ribbon to inaugurate the art show and then took a round along with artist Mashkoor Raza, art critic Nadeem Zuberi, Sara Anjum and other guests and highly ...

LAHORE - Major solo paintings exhibition of well-known artist Mashkoor Raza kicked off at the Revivers Galleria in Gulberg on Monday.Punjab Education Minister Mujtaba Shujaur Rahman was the chief guest at the inaugural ceremony. He cut the ribbon to inaugurate the art show and then took a round along with artist Mashkoor Raza, art critic Nadeem Zuberi, Sara Anjum and other guests and highly ...

THE symbols we use to represent numbers are, mathematically speaking, arbitrary. Now there is a way to write numbers so that their areas equal their numerical values. The font, called FatFonts, could transform the art of data visualisation, allowing a single infographic to convey both a visual overview and exact values. from New Scientist

La 65e édition de la plus grande manifestation mondiale du septième art, dont le jury est présidé par Nanni Moretti, ouvre ses portes mercredi prochain. Coup de projecteur sur dix films qui feront sensation. » INTERVIEW - Frémaux aimerait «présenter des films ­comiques à Cannes!»Articles en rapportFrémaux aimerait «présenter des films ­comiques à Cannes !»

En Bangkok, el exceso de cableado que invade la ciudad la afea, dice el creador Eiji Sumi, cuya obra se expone en la galería Koi Art de la capital tailandesa

La 65e édition de la plus grande manifestation mondiale du septième art, dont le jury est présidé par Nanni Moretti, ouvre ses portes mercredi prochain. Coup de projecteur sur dix films qui feront sensation. » INTERVIEW - Frémaux aimerait «présenter des films ­comiques à Cannes!»

I get a lot of books for review, and for the most part, they are wonderful surprises. Because I receive and read so many books, I rarely sit around saying "Hey, where's my review copy of...X?" Generally I've got a giant pile of books that I need to get to anyway, so I'm much more likely to say "Oh, I didn't realize X was out." So let us first note that I was so anxious for my review copy of...

Seit genau einem Jahr regiert Winfried Kretschmann in Stuttgart - als eine Art Bürgerpräsident. „Teufel light“ hat die Opposition ihn jüngst genannt, und das ist gar nicht so falsch. Für ein zukünftiges Modell Schwarz-Grün steht er aber nicht, auch wenn mancher das gerne hätte.

Law enforcement agents began searching the Connecticut home of an alleged mobster on Thursday. But the suspect's attorney says authorities are actually hunting for hundreds of millions of dollars in stolen art that went missing from a Boston museum more than 20 years ago.

Dans l'Olympe de la mode, elles s'apprécieraient sans doute : Elsa Schiaparelli (photographiée par George Hoyningen-Huene) et Miuccia Prada entament en tout cas un dialogue de style au Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York. Entre robes et dessins, photos et vidéos où les deux femmes semblent...

Vor dem Champions-League-Finale wartet auf die Fans ein Vorspiel der besonderen Art. Die „World All Stars“ treffen in München auf die „FC Bayern All Stars“.Foto: picture-alliance, Getty Images, dpa, WittersMehr zum ThemaJungen in Klinik missbraucht - Drei Jahre Knast für Klinik-KinderschänderBreivik-Prozess – Tag 16 - „Er trat nach der Toten, dann schoss er wieder“17 Märkte im Test - Wo sind L...

La compagnie de théâtre de rue Royal de Luxe, qui devait présenter en...

HE'S a maths teacher by trade and a self-proclaimed "professional dad", but Nathan Shields has another love - pancake art.

A male nude painting by Dublin-born artist Francis Bacon sold for $44.8 million (€34.5 million) at a Sotheby’s art auction in New York last night.

Andy Warhol's “Double Elvis” sold for $37 million and works by Roy Lichtenstein and Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei broke their own records at Sotheby's contemporary art sale on Wednesday.

Creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird's first drawing, from 1983, already has bids of over $50,000.

Das ist sicherlich nicht die netteste Art, den bevorstehenden Muttertag am Wochenende anzugehen. Der US-Zeitschrift Touch Weekly zufolge soll es einen wachsenden Graben zwischen Kim...

MARK Rothko’s Orange, red, yellow has been sold for £53.8m — the highest ever price for contemporary art

A sunset-colored painting by Mark Rothko became the world's most expensive contemporary art work Tuesday when it fetched $86.9 million in a stunningly lucrative auction at Christie's in New York.

HONG KONG (AP) -- Over the past two years Wang Wei and her husband Liu Yiqian dropped a reported $317 million on their hobby. Now they need somewhere to display the collection they've amassed. The solution: a private art museum that Wang hopes will impart some class to China's flashy nouveau riche....

All signs suggest the timing was purely coincidental, but when it comes to understanding the conflicting impulses at work with President Obama’s gay marriage evolution, Joe Biden sure picked the perfect time to open his mouth.The vice president’s comments on Sunday turned the White House’s internal discussions over when Obama should formally express his support for marriage equality into a nati...

Invitations have been arriving in mailboxes around Washington for an event that might raise eyebrows even in this invite-overloaded town. Below an image of the flag of Zimbabwe, the script on the thick-stock paper reads: “President Robert Mugabe and the Ministry of Education, Sport, Art, and Culture invite you to the Premiere of The Dictator.” Read full article >>

Sie ist die Mode-Party des Jahres in New York: Am Montag defilierten Modemacher, Hollywood-Promis und Musiker bei der alljährlichen "Costume Institute Gala" des Metropolitan Museum of Art über den roten Teppich. Gerne wurde Bein gezeigt - und mutig die Grenzen des guten Geschmacks gesucht.

Viele gewagte Kleider waren bei der diesjährigen Costume Institute Gala im New Yorker Metropolitan Museum of Art zu bewundern, auf der gefühlt ganz Hollywood vertreten war

China setzt ausländische Berichterstatter unter Druck. Eine Journalistin des arabischen Fernsehsenders Al-Dschasira wird des Landes verwiesen. Es ist der erste Fall dieser Art seit 14 Jahren.

The Costume Institute Gala held at the New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is excessively referred to as "fashion's Oscars," and the Ministry is always proud to see our Hollywood favorites bring their sartorial A-game.

TV was created to sell soap. It’s not glorious, but there it is. For most of its not very long history, television was a medium designed to get an audience to stay tuned for the next set of commercials. It’s only in the last two decades that making quality  TV -- nudged along by a trickle, and then a flood, of ambitious showrunners with explicitly artistic intentions -- has become an end unto i...

London's famous Frieze Art Fair takes on New York

Tonight, the biggest names in fashion will gather at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art for the annual Costume Institute Gala. We couldn't be more excited to see our favorite...

El 'nail art' ha convertido el embellecimiento de las uñas en un fenómeno comercial y estético.

It was started by a handful of isolated enthusiasts, gradually became a cult craze, and is now threatening to become a commercial enterprise.

From Jenson Button's pit change in Singapore to celebrating with Lewis Hamilton their second 1-2 of the season.

Expressionism and shades of pastel can rule the roost.  Auction history was made at Sotheby’s when Edvard Munch’s iconic masterpiece The Scream sold for $119,922,500 / £73,921,284 / €91,033,826 in New York, marking a new world record for any work of art at auction. The Scream is officially the most expensive artwork in the world, at $120 million, topping a Picasso sold for $106 million. The Scr...

The last few weeks were bad for documentary filmmakers in Canada, what with the federal government slicing the budgets of the CBC, Telefilm and the NFB

To commemorate the closing of the Massachusetts Mental Health Center’s old building in 2003, the artist Anna Schuleit was asked to create a work of art on the abandoned site. Some 28,000 pots of flowers were used for the “Bloom” installation.

Inaugurée jeudi, la Frieze Art Fair, une nouvelle foire d'art contemporain, prouve le dynamisme et la vitalité d'un marché qui attire des collectionneurs du monde entier. » Les enchères avec Le Figaro Enchères

by danendra jain Officers got Promotion by Window Dressing Senior bank officials working as Branch Head or Regional Head or Circle Head or Zonal Head or Central Head, all have barring some exceptions resorted to window dressing in the past and it is their mastery in art of window dressing that they continued to be blessed with  one after other promotions superseding honest performers. They ...

Einen Pokalkrimi der besonderen Art erlebten rund 50 Zuschauer im Landkreis Rottal-Inn beim Viertelfinale der A-Junioren zwischen dem SV Reut und dem ASC Simbach.

(Reuters) - Federal prosecutors are seeking to take control of five paintings - one valued at up to $50,000 - seized in one of Alaska's biggest wildlife-trafficking cases in recent years.

Foreign Affairs' 22 paintings carry symbolic value

Stella McCartney has donated a signed sketch to a charity art auction.

COURTNEY Love flashes sinewy arms at the launch of her art collection in New York

One of the art world's most recognizable images, Edvard Munch's "The Scream," sold for a record $119,922,500 at auction in New York City.

Lancaster Museum: A new Museum of Art and History to scheduled to open in Lancaster on Saturday, May 5.

ONE of the most famous paintings in the world, The Scream, is to go on sale today in New York for a lot of money.

Today's topics: Seeing black and red; the art of losing; the big DFAIT sell-off; the scrapie affair; pachydermatous plight ... and more

SHE'S known for her love of body art, having already undergone around eight tattoos, including a sprawling back inking

Au sommet de son art avec le Real, Karim Benzema peut remporter sa première Liga dès mercredi sur le terrain de Bilbao. Fêter le titre à une journée du terme, permettrait au Français de se projeter plus rapidement sur l'Euro.

Loin de tout tapage et de toute aide, certains artistes poursuivent leur chemin sans faiblesse. Michèle venard est de ceux la. Elle a fait depuis très longtemps de la lecture un grand art. Ecoutez la.          ...

The uber-rich send prices of top-end art and properties soaring. The attraction may be more a hedge against inflation or confiscation.

Album covers may be on the way to becoming a lost art form, but they're not gone yet, writes Oliver Roberts

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In Deutschland ist der Sozialdarwinismus im Kommen. Mit der Diskussion um das Betreuungsgeld geht diese Art der Politik in die nächste Runde. Ein Kind, dessen Eltern arbeiten, ist mehr wert als eines von Arbeitslosen.

Two valuable paintings in the offices of the Ukrainian government have been mysteriously swapped for replicas, it is claimed.

Journalist Gabriel Campanario, author of The Art of Urban Sketching, shares his favorite places to draw vacation memories.

Chris Traeger (Rob Lowe) is literally about to have his world rocked on Parks and Recreation. Yes, Lowe sure has mastered the art of the television tease and put these talents on display...

Im Taubenhirn haben Forscher ein Navigationssystem aus speziellen Nervenzellen aufgespürt: Diese Neuronen im Stammhirn verarbeiten erdmagnetische Infos zu einer Art GPS-System. Wo die Vögel den Sinnesreiz verarbeiten, ist unklar.

In the daily deals space, men still are being offered Brazilian bikini waxes and women are pitched discounts to the barbershop. Here's how Amazon is starting to fix that.

Showing Lowry and suburbia to Saudi art lovers

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Honda war in den vergangenen Jahren bei den Reiseenduros stark vertreten. Mit der Crosstourer gehen die Japaner neue Wege, wollen aber an alte Erfolge anknüpfen. Dabei soll nicht zuletzt eine variable Art der Schaltung helfen.Mehr zum ThemaUnfallstatistik - Mehr Verkehrstote im FebruarToyota in Peking - Studien für China und die WeltJaguar F-Type - Durchtrainierte KatzeElektromobilität in China...

Is Miguel an arty infiltrator of the mainstream or a pop dude slumming underground? It's unclear – but the music is undeniable His new EPs strike a delicious balance between pro forma R&B seduction and the Weeknd's psychedelic bedroom jams "Adorn" and "Arch n Point" are eerily beautiful with Miguel's...

A medieval art museum models the building's climate using wireless sensors to better maintain its collection.

La France a pris la troisième place ex aequo avec le Canada du...

Matt Kemp hits a two-run home run as the Dodgers overcome a shaky start by Ted Lilly to improve to 11-3 with a 3-1 victory over the Houston Astros.It is not required during the course of a season that all victories must be works of art. Mangled, difficult and uncomfortable victories, they ultimately count just the same.

THE aged care package is an exercise of doing something with nothing.

Stats: see which teams and players lead the way in the dark art of simulation this season. Liverpool fans look away now...

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. (AP) -- A West Virginia artist is charged with littering after he placed a toilet on a pedestal in a city square in what he says was a plea for more public art....

Prominently displayed in the UN’s visitor’s lobby, exhibition documents Nazi's trial through photographs, news clippings and works of art.

Listen to the soulful sounds of Esperanza Spalding. (Sat., 7 p.m., $40-$45, Webster Hall, 125 E. 11th St., 212-614-0420.)

New York doctors are singing the praises of a new laser technique that cuts the time of removing tattoos from a year to a few months.

As Italy makes budget cuts to its art and heritage sector, one museum director has found a new way to protest - setting fire to paintings, he even has the support of the artists.

NEW YORK (AP) -- The Brooklyn Museum's feminist art center is marking its fifth anniversary this year by commemorating famous women of the next millennium - placing them alongside luminaries of the past....

Hansen blue his chance to be a Kentucky Derby favorite. He finished second in the Blue Grass Stakes after a daylong art project in which the near-white colt's tail was dyed blue, only to be rinsed off before the race....

The art of building relationships has been lost through too much reliance on technical gadgets.

For all his renown as the bad boy of Chinese art, precious little of Ai Weiwei's work has been seen in the outside world. An exhibit at the Jeu de Paume aims to change that.

A Muslim-Canadian fine arts student in Kamloops, B.C., didn’t expect to find herself in the middle of a virtual hostage-taking when her photography project was hung in the hallways of the university’s art department

There's an idea at play in this rampant idiocy as well as considerable risk In trying to introduce a new generation to the slapstick art of the Three Stooges directors and co-writers Bobby and Peter Farrelly do it the hard way Instead of a standard biopic that might explain how...

  Der Künstler Christoph Niemann erklärt diese Woche im ZEITmagazin auf seine Art, wie schwer es ist, kreativ zu sein. Wir verlosen fünf signierte Siebdrucke von Christoph Niemann. Die Preisf...

Lille Art Fair, cinquième du nom, ouvre ses portes ce jeudi (à Lille Grand Palais) pour quatre jours dédiés à l'art contemporain dans toutes ses diversités, comme aime à le souligner son directeur artistique, Didier Vesse. Une cinquième édition que ses initiateurs entendent placer sous le signe du « plus » au regard des années précédentes : plus de galeries (95), plus d'espace (12 000 m²), plus...

Art Mengo nous revient en compagnie de l'actrice et chanteuse Lara Guirao. L'album « Ce petit chemin » est une promenade en duo, d'un pas léger, sur les traces de ...lire la suite

ROLLING Stone rocker puts on latest exhibition of his painting in New York gallery

The entrepreneur who secured the first Star Wars product license in Europe is entering the global adult collectable art toys market with the launch of Dudebox next month.

GUNNERS boss praised his side’s mental strength on the day City went belly-up

GUNNERS boss praised his side’s mental strength on the day City went belly-up

Perils of rural Zimbabwe life depicted in art

As a member of the Beastie Boys Mike Diamond has been an honorary member of the visual arts community for years "As somebody who's been making music most of their life I've always been interested and I've had the good fortune of meeting a fair number of visual artists" Diamond...

CHICAGO (AP) -- High technology merged with high culture Tuesday at The Art Institute of Chicago when Google Inc. announced an upgrade to its Google Art Project initiative, adding thousands of works in dozens more countries....

Google hat sein Art Project, das Internetnutzern in aller Welt Kunstwerke aus bekannten Sammlungen näherbringen soll, um drei heimische Museen erweitert: Das Kunsthistorische Museum, die Albertina sowie das Leopold Museum finden sich seit Dienstag auf der Liste von weltweit 151 Museen und Galerien aus 41 Ländern, die ausgewählte Werke hochauflösend zugänglich machen.

Google has expanded its Art Project, which users Street View images to take web users inside world famous galleries and up-close to major artworks.

Release Time:  For Immediate Release Users will be able to take an at-home 360-degree tour of the White House’s public rooms at www.GoogleArtProject.com Washington – The White House today announced the latest step in President and Mrs. Obama’s efforts to truly make 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue “The People’s House”, by working with ...

A Belgian art dealer convicted of smuggling in China has died while under surveillance and subject to travel restrictions, Belgian officials say.

Sir Alex Ferguson's reign as Man United manager has been filled with titles but along the way he also mastered the art of mind games.

“This is an international festival and it is about promoting art, it is not political," performer says.

MOTOR RACING:FERNANDO ALONSO is refusing to get too caught up in the moment, despite displaying all the brilliance that carried him to two world titles with a winning drive in a wet Malaysian Grand Prix yesterday.

Latest game from the makers of artsy title 'Flower' a work of interactive poetry

In the world of international relations and foreign policy, if you can coin a new phrase or neologism, you've hit the big time.  Think "containment," "clash of civilizations," "end of history," "Washington Consensus," and so forth.  How this happens is some weird alchemy of the term itself, the idea it encapsulates, and the receptivity of the foreign affairs community, but once it happens, it ...

On les nomme railfans aux Etats-Unis ; en France, ils sont « ferrovipathes » — quoique beaucoup réfutent cette appellation et sa connotation ambiguë — et au Royaume-Uni, trainspotters : passionnés par l'univers ferroviaire, les uns explorent la généalogie des locomotives, les autres recoupent les horaires (...) / Afrique, Japon, Art, Histoire, Transports, Géographie - 2012/02

The Tate group of galleries will next week announce that it has teamed up with the Ultimate Travel company to offer expert-led tours providing an insider's look at the world's most exciting art destinations.

Dass Hannover 96 um den Einzug ins Achtelfinale der Europa League kämpft, ist auch der Verdienst von Sportdirektor Jörg Schmadtke - und dessen unkonventioneller Art.

The Art of Video Games opens Friday at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. That puts it alongside Georgie O'Keeffe and John Singer Sargent.

IS there a secret college somewhere where they teach police commissioners the fine art of Mamparadom?

The journey of “Levitated Mass” followed a circuitous route through four counties and 22 cities, took 11 days and ended at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

The coach who has made an art form of assimilating one-and-done players insists he'd like nothing more than to change the rule that begot th ...

'12 from Number 10' at Whitechapel Gallery opens its doors to the public

S’il est une ville au monde qui a inspiré plus que toute autre le septième art, aucun doute, c’est New York......lire la suite

Prom has grown and changed over the years. Dresses are more extravagant and the way you ask someone has gotten very creative.

Les lignes de métro 2 et 6 sont à l’arrêt entre les stations Art Loi et Midi. Une personne a fait une tentative de suicide. Il a été retiré vivant et tran...lire la suitehistoires liées19:50 Lanaan souhaite plus de musique flamande à la radio19:49 Le prince Harry pique un sprint devant le champion Usain Bolt20:15 2011 a été une très bonne année pour le tourisme en Belgique20:14 L’IBPT abaisse l...

No matter what you think about the Catholic Church, the “Chimp Pope” image (at left) by figurative/narrative artist Nathaniel Gold probably holds your attention and gives you pause about the latest hullabaloo. You can see a color, glossy version of the chimp pope on page 34 of Gold’s book, The Chimp Manifesto, (Jessian Press, 2009). [...]

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar artist Nyein Chan Su's paintings have a breezy simplicity. Broad, colourful strokes and exaggerated figures, often in silhouette, capture an isolated country steeped in Buddhist culture but blighted by years of military rule.

A company wants a nice pop in its share price when it goes public. But not too nice—pricing an offering too low is bad for the company and may end up costing it some long-term investors.

The controversial move will see a 'foreign legion' of 160 or so taxmen head south to try and root out corruption and make sure national coffers are filled in a country where revenue evasion is an art form.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Director Michael Moore championed non-fiction filmmakers on Wednesday night at a pre-Oscar event honoring nominees for best documentaries, attributing a growing appetite for the art form to a public starved for the truth.

Apple looks to score a second ban on Samsung's Android smartphones, shortly

Wenn es um den Klimawandel geht, dann hören seltsamerweise auch ansonsten sehr vernünftige Menschen auf einmal auf, vernünftig zu denken. Ungeachtet aller wissenschaftlichen Tatsachen darf der Klimawandel nicht stattfinden. Und wenn, dann darf er nicht schlimm sein. Und wenn, dann darf auf keinen Fall der Mensch daran Schuld haben. Das ist natürlich eine sehr bequeme Positi...

The head of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today paid tribute to the Spanish painter and sculptor Antoni Tàpies, who has died at the age of 88, calling him an "emblematic figure in contemporary art."

[[358352]] PRAGUE (AFP) : Plus d'un demi-siècle après sa mort en France, les Tchèques redécouvrent après une longue période d'oubli Frantisek Kupka, l'un des pionniers de l'art abstrait, dont les tableaux figurent dans les collections des plus grands musées. "La continuité a été interrompue par le...

HOPES THAT Anglo Irish Bank’s art collection could help to raise significant money for the State have been dashed by the bank’s discovery that many of the paintings “have no value” – just like its once highly rated shares.

In Art. 65 des Grundgesetzes steht, dass der Bundeskanzler die Richtlinien der Politik bestimmt. Bekanntlich tun das aber seit einiger Zeit die Finanzmärkte. Wer die „Finanzmärkte" sind, weiß man nicht so genau, aber wovon sie leben, weiß man. Die Finanzmärkte leben von Geld. Irrtümlicherweise hatte man manche diese Halbweltwesen einmal als „systemrelevant" bezeichnet. Aber die anhaltenden Fina...

Federal land managers have approved a proposal to drape fabric over nearly six miles of the Arkansas river for an art project, but some local residents are not happy.

FORTUNE -- Shortly after helped to close the $46 billion deal that turned Roche Holdings into the full owner of Genentech in 2009, David Ebersman, who was chief financial officer of the biotechnology giant and something of a protégé to Chairman Art Levinson, started fielding recruiting calls from some of America's biggest companies.

PARIS (Reuters) - French art database and ad specialist Artprice.com expects sales to soar this year on the back of the launch of an online auction service, its chief executive told Reuters on Monday.

The computer coder who turns disaster into sculpture

For Kyle Williams and shellshocked San Francisco 49ers fans, it may still feel as though destiny dealt them a cruel blow in Sunday's NFC Championship Game.

More than two million Canadian students rely on loans to help fund their education, and nearly a quarter of that group struggles to pay them back after graduation

In this game you have to ensure that you have as many deals up in the air as you possibly can. Perhaps they will all come off, perhaps only one comes off or you may not have any that come off at all.

Rarement un art aura fait corps à ce point avec un homme, avec une oeuvre. Un...

Der technische Fortschritt ist auch ein Riesen-Geschäft für die Konzerne, die um Marktanteile in vielen Technologiebereichen kämpfen. 2012 werden Smartphones, Tablet-PCs und eine neue Art des Fernsehens Konsumenten, Geschäftsergebnisse und Aktienkurse bewegen.

Ein Ferrari-Medientermin der besonderen Art in Italien: Warum Fernando Alonso zu Fernando Haarlonso wurde...Foto: AFP

Es dürfte die vorerst letzte Positivmeldung dieser Art sein: Der Bund hat 2011 weitaus weniger Schulden gemacht als geplant - dank der guten Konjunkturlage. Im Jahr 2012 wird die Eurokrise aber auch beim Fiskus ankommen.

Mächtige gewöhnen sich an eine Art psychischen Vip-Zustand. Der Psychologe Hans-Jürgen Wirth erklärt, wie Politiker in den Rausch eines übersteigerten Narzissmus geraten.

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Rick Santorum's campaign appears to have mastered one political art: Book a small room so that people will pack in and create ...

Uli Hoeneß wird am Donnerstag 60 Jahre alt. Seine Weggefährten freuen sich schon auf die große Geburtstags-Party.Foto: Getty Images

WORKERS renovating the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Sydney were not protected from potential exposure to asbestos, the building union says.

Our favorite FP illustrations from 2011.

MTI graduate student Yushiro Okamoto explains the idea behind IceWall, which he and fellow architecture graduate student Kian Hiu-Lan Yam designed as part of the MIT150 Festival of Art, Science, and Technology.

As DDoS attacks become larger, more frequent and complex, being able to stop them is a must. While doing this is part science, a matter of deploying technology, there is also an art to repelling sophisticated attacks. Arbor Networks, Citrix and others make great gear, but there's no magic box that will solve all your problems for you. Human expertise will always be a crucial ingredient.

Treating war-traumatised soldiers with sculpture and writing

A CUNNING hotel guest has pulled off $15,000 art heist, successfully meeting an ad agency's challenge to steal a painting by Banksy.

PARIS (AFP) - Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s wife Anne Sinclair, who stood by the disgraced former IMF chief during his sex scandal, was named Woman of the Year in a poll for a French woman’s magazine on Monday. Sinclair, a 63-year-old French journalist and wealthy art heiress, was chosen as the woman who had most “made her mark” in 2011 in the CSA poll for online women’s magazine Terrafemina. She sc...

With a combined wealth of $10.7 trillion, Asia's wealthy have even eclipsed the $10.2 trillion held by Europe's generational millionaires.

Volunteering for a charity board can be a great opportunity - just make sure you know what’s involved

Mit Currents startet Google eine Art aktuelles Magazin für Smartphones und Tablets mit Inhalten von zunächst rund 150 Verlagen und Websites. Es erinnert an Flipboard, verzichtet aber darauf, das soziale Netz der Nutzer als Filter zu verwenden. (RSS, Google)

Ylva-Maria Thompson said she opened the international sex school for teaching people the art of being better lovers, a UK tabloid reported.

Tevez will likely wriggle free from Manchester City on a loan move in January, and by now the 27-year-old knows how to fully maximize profits from an exit.

Sarah Moon fängt den Moment ein, in dem Model und Kleid verschmelzen: Seit 40 Jahren arbeitet die Fotografin an einer stillen, berührenden Art, Mode zu inszenieren.

The amount of time it took for the art of "Tebowing" to be turned into a song and a video was not expected to be a long one.

CARACAS, Venezuela — Artists are using paint, ornaments and glitter to transform the human body into artwork at a festival in Venezuela. The annual World Meeting of Body Art involves body painting, tattoo art, performances and workshops. Participants from 18 countries are sharing their creations at the festival in Caracas. Read full article >>

Will Art Levinson change the power balance at Apple? A closer look at the new chairman Levinson: "We need to make the transition to being a big company and dealing with the hubris issue." One of the first things Steve Jobs did when he returned Apple (AAPL) in 1997 was dismiss the company's board and appoint directors more to his liking, including Genentech CEO Arthur D. Levinson. "Jobs did not ...

Véritable ode au métissage entre l'art et la technologie, Digitalife 2 est une exposition, organisée par la fondation Romaeuropa. Jusqu'au 11…

Utl.: Das Sportmagazin erscheint im November mit Top-Stories aus der Welt des Fußballs, einem Fotoprojekt der besonderen Art sowie einem Special zum Thema Freeride mit eigenem Wendecover. = Wien (OTS) - Das Freeride-Special mit Wendecover auf der U4 lässt für Ski-Fans keine ...

In der Euro-Krise wächst der Druck auf die EZB, über ihren Hauptauftrag, für stabile Preise zu sorgen, hinauszugehen. Manche sehen in den Zentralbankern schon eine Art Dauer-Krisenfeuerwehr. Dagegen regt sich Widerstand.

PARIS (Reuters) - How can mankind signal to future generations thousands of years from now that hazardous radioactive waste is buried deep underground in eastern France -- by building a giant pyramid, a museum or a site for art projects or by employing geology?

Birla Sun Life AMC has used specially designed vans to take forward its ‘Khushaali ki Gaadi’ awareness campaign. State of the art technology like mobile calculators and tablets have been extensively used.

Enthusiasts of Renaissance art in Beijing can get up close to the classics at the Central Academy of Fine Arts' Cafa Art Museum, where a major exhibition is on until Jan 23.

I just got back from an extended weekend trip to Mount Dora, Florida where Diana and I went to a huge outdoor antique and art fair. While the domain business was supposed to be left on the back burner, I couldn't resist doing some domain name evangelizing by asking several dealers if they had their own domain name and website.