Nan Hoover, video artist, dies in Berlin at 77
Berlin - Nan Hoover, a New York born pioneer of video art, has died in the German capital Berlin at the age of 77, her website and her agent Rene Schmitt said Sunday in Frankfurt. Hoover's funeral would take place Monday, seven days after her death. ...
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Archaeologists in Jordan unearth 'first church in world'
Amman - Archaeologists in Jordan have discovered what they claimed to be the first church in world at Rihab, 40 kilometres north-east of Amman, the Jordan Times reported Monday. We have uncovered what we believe to be the first church in the world...
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2008-06-09 ] Category : [
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Loud music, high-heels damaging ancient sites in Greece
Athens - Archaelogists have warned that stage productions, loud music, high-heels and chewing gun are inflicting irreparable damage on ancient sites across Greece, media reports said Friday. The Central Archaeological Council has accused the Hellenic...
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2008-05-30 ] Category : [
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Picasso's Guernica gets a new setting at Spanish museum
Madrid - Guernica, Pablo Picasso's 1937 large anti-war painting, has been given a new illumination and will be repositioned at Madrid's Reina Sofia museum of modern art, Spanish press reports said Friday. The black-and-white painting measuring 3.5 x ...
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2008-05-23 ] Category : [
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Recovered Munch painting redated on eve of Oslo exhibit
Oslo - Restoration work on The Scream, one of two famous works by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch stolen in 2004, has helped experts determine that it was painted 17 years later than previously believed, the Munch Museum said Wednesday. The museum in O...
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