Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has been paying his first visit to Italy, his country's former colonial ruler and now its biggest trading partner. As the BBC's David Willey reports, the image he leaves behind in Rome may not be quite what he would have wished. Imagine the scene. A thousand Italian women in high heels, wearing their smartest outfits, dressed to kill in expensive pant suits and creations of the crème de la crème of Milan fashion houses, gathered in a state of high excitement at Rome's new concert hall. Col Gaddafi has been telling Italians what to think for three...
Angel frieze cast from original Donatello sculpture returns to Davenport museum
Hartford Courant
Hartford Courant
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Davenport's old Carnegie library fell to the wrecking ball long ago, but a cherished piece of that building has returned home. A 105-year-old frieze, cast from an original sculpture of...
Hate graffiti defaces anti-Nazi museum in Italy
The Times of India
The Times of India
ROME: Vandals have defaced the walls of a Rome museum, which celebrates the resistance to Nazi occupation, with graffiti that calls the...
American International Fine Art Fair to open Tuesday; preview to benefit Norton Museum
Palm Beach Daily News
Palm Beach Daily News
The best of the best. That's what's selling, and exhibitors who can provide it are the most likely to prosper at the American International Fine Art Fair. "When everyone was buying everything, B+ work was still hard to...
Leading Italian Schools of Art and Design Education Join Laureate International Universities Network
PR Newswire
PR Newswire
Bass Museum of Art Presents Gil Morgenstern Second Concert of Reflection Series 2/24/10
The Examiner
The Examiner
The Bass Museum of Art is proud to present the second concert of Gil Morgenstern’s Reflections Series on Wednesday, February 24. Acclaimed for his innovative programming that contextualizes historical styles and...
Angel frieze returns to Davenport Museum
The Press Democrat
The Press Democrat
A 105-year-old frieze, cast from an original sculpture of cherubs by the Italian artist Donatello, has been cleaned up and reinstalled at the downtown Davenport Public Library's special collections area. The reproduction...
Toledo museum unveils a new treasure
Toledo Blade
Toledo Blade
It's a lurid tale: a city erupts into a hellacious inferno. Lot's family of four escapes but his wife dies. The boyfriends of Lot's daughters scoffed at his invitation to join them, and they perish in Sodom's flames....
Museum of art lights up downtown Tampa
The Miami Herald
The Miami Herald
TAMPA -- The $32.8 million Tampa Museum of Art, which opens to the public Saturday, rises on the historic banks of the Hillsborough River across from a Moorish, late-19th century, minaret-topped University of Tampa...
Sculpture under snow: a winter walk round Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge
The Examiner
The Examiner
Monument to Harriot Kezia Hunt, by Edmonia Lewis Jane Whitehead...
Graphic Design Show At Yale Gallery; Hygenic ART XXXI — Salon des Independants in New London
Hartford Courant
Hartford Courant

