Louvre : The Final Curse
Business Week (Free subscription) | yesterday
The museum's director is busy raising millions. But his methods are raising hackles in French art circles
Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The world's most visited museum will have Europe's biggest purpose-built exhibition space for an Islamic art collection.
Euro Crime (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Hot off the US press is Valfierno by Martin Caparros - a fictionalisation of the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911. Synopsis: On August 22, 1911, the world was shocked by an audacious crime: Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre. Although some people suspected subversive artists like Picasso or Apollinaire of perpetrating the theft, no arrests were made. Two years later, an Italian...
Afrigator (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Paki's Corner reader and USA Eagle Owen Lentz sent us the following: "Jislaaik, you looked smoove on Mediazone at 3am for the Springbok All Black match... Jokes boet, you bought good luck with you, next time the Boks play get your arse over there again. Also here is a picture of Chad Erskine washing Todd Selleck's balls in the Louvre."
Fabsugar (Free subscription) | yesterday
Prada's new flagship store, which opened on Wednesday , is the talk of the town here in San Francisco. One walk-through and it's easy to see why. I went today and the lace bowler ($1,995) Eva Mendes carried at the Louvre in Paris instantly caught my eye. It looks gorgeous on the actress's arm but even more divine in person. The leather is buttery soft and the lace design is humble yet sophisticated....
Connecting.the.Dots (Free subscription) | yesterday
He has been to Paris and gone , four hours in the City of Light without so much as a stop in a bistro or a quick tour of the Louvre, rien but a photo op with French President Nicolas Sarkozy standing in the doorway of the Palace Eysee. “The French love the Americans,” Sarkozy enthused after a private 40-minute meeting with Barack Obama today. “The French have been following him with passion.” Obama...
Why Travel To France (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tired of climbing over the hoards of neck stretched tourists pushing their way to see the teeny tiny Mona Lisa encased in a glass prison in the Louvre? Then, check out Tania Ledger’s lawn in Croydon. She hired the 3D art expert who reconstructed the famous painting for the The Da Vinci Code film. See more [...]
Truemors (Free subscription) | yesterday
Guantanomo Bay blow-up dolls at Disneyland, a tag on the fence of the West Bank, or a smiley-face Mona Lisa into the Louvre, all the work of the mysterious Banksy, internationally-renowned graffiti artist. The elusive social activist/artist, whose pieces have commanded millions at auction, has been identified by the British Mail on Sunday as 34-year-old [...]
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
From Matt Hey yall We are in Paris and on a QWERTY keyboard. Isn't that ironic We landed tuesday morning from Joburg and hit the ground running. Vance found a laundromat while I took Rush up to Sacre Cour. We are staying in Montmartre. Everything is either up or down. Lots of stairs and our legs are in good shape now. Paris is just as expensive as London so we are looking forward to getting h
CR Blog (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Label artwork, Head 6, by Tom Price From 1st August until Christmas, bottles of Beck's beer will be adorned with the work of four emerging artists – thanks to a new scheme called Beck's Canvas , a collaboration between the German brewery and London's Royal College of Art...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Estudiando en Espana
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
"Houdon at the Louvre: Masterworks of the Enlightenment," an exhibit at Atlanta's High Museum, pays homage both to the artist, the greatest neo-classical sculptor of his time, and the institution that holds his work.
Coxsoft Art News (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
I previewed Hadrian: Empire and Conflict last Friday ( CLICK ). It opens at the British Museum in London tomorrow, and Brenda Emmanus did a piece on it for BBC London News. While Brenda was beguiling the camera, I noticed this superb head in the background. It's from the Louvre in Paris and is one of the major works of art borrowed for the exhibition. What a doll, you might think. Well ... er ... here's...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
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TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
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raimondo | 12/31/2007
Dismantling The Da Vinci Code By Sandra Miesel “The Grail,” Langdon said, “is symbolic of the lost goddess. When Christianity came along, the old pagan religions did not die easily. Legends of chivalric quests for the Holy Grail were in fact stories of forbidden quests to find the lost sacred feminine. Knights who claimed to be “searching for the chalice” were speaking in code as a way to protect
raimondo | 12/31/2007
