Tourists flock to see botched Jesus painting restoration in Spain
About the only thing the original fresco shares with Cecilia Jimenez’s touch-up is the wall it is painted on.The work, called Ecce Homo, or Behold the Man in English, is now referred to as the Monkey...
View ArticleExpert says Rotterdam art heist likely an inside job, linked to drug trade
Breaking into an art museum with works worth tens of millions of dollars should be harder than stealing from a Walmart. Perhaps not.Last week, thieves stole an estimated $130 million of art from...
View ArticleCambodia trying to reassert ownership of potentially looted cultural artifacts
“Imagine how effective this massive guardian figure must have been when it originally protected a major temple in Cambodia,” the Norton Simon Museum’s audio guide intones. “There’s a look of menace on...
View ArticleNew exhibition at N.Y.'s Met looks at roots of photo manipulation
Jerry Uelsmann is a giant of surreal photomontage — in the 1960s, he was a leading figure in the new field of Pop photography. And he still works in that labor-intensive way. Don't even talk to him...
View ArticleArchitect proposes natural-inspired rethink of New York City waterfront
Hurricane Sandy has made it clear that flooding is not only a New Orleans problem in the United States.Some of the country’s densest population centers are also extremely vulnerable to rising sea...
View ArticleCan creativity be measured with a score?
The man nicknamed “the father of creativity” was psychologist E. Paul Torrance.In the 1940s he began researching creativity in order to improve American education. In order to encourage creativity, we...
View ArticleNew play about Isaac Newton tells story of time he supposedly put a needle in...
Most plays about historical events and figures take liberties with the facts — you probably couldn’t write a good play if you didn’t.Audiences, though, can be distracted by wondering whether some...
View ArticleProvocative artist Charles Krafft goes public as Holocaust denier
A story that broke last month in Seattle’s weekly, The Stranger, got a lot of people in the contemporary art world asking this question about the sculptor and painter Charles Krafft.Krafft, 65, has...
View ArticleTom Hanks says he aspires to appear in a completely silent movie
Tom Hanks is one of the most likable men in Hollywood.He’s had not one but many iconic roles as a truly decent person who holds up under duress, from Big to Forrest Gump, from Saving Private Ryan to...
View ArticleIrish actress plays singular role in Broadway's Testament of Mary
The Irish actress and director Fiona Shaw stars as Mary, the mother of Jesus, in a one-woman show opening this week on Broadway.The Testament of Mary, which Colm Tóibín based on his own novel, presents...
View ArticleNew York's Museum of Modern Art 'acquires' @ for its permanent collection
The digital age has made a celebrity of the “at” sign, but the symbol’s roots go back far beyond the launch of the Internet.According to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as long as the 5th or 6th...
View ArticleNew York's Museum of Modern Art reconsiders decision to raze neighbor
New York's Museum of Modern Art, one of the city's most popular museums, had plans to raze a nearby building considered to be a classic example of modern, contemporary design.What were fans of the...
View ArticleYoung musical director mashes history with music to create entertaining show
The director Alex Timbers is young, but in the last few years he’s carved out a unique niche as a director of historical mashup musicals.He directed Gutenberg! The Musical! as well as the critically...
View ArticleSarah Sze set to represent U.S. at art's Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale is like the Olympics of the contemporary art world.Every two years, countries around the world send their best and brightest to an art fair that nearly takes over Venice. The list...
View ArticleIona Rozeal Brown creates Afro-Japanese art mashup
The defining medium of our time has to be the mashup.There are mashup videos, mashup songs, mashup literature — wherever there’s a will to combine disparate bits of entertainment or art, there’s a...
View ArticleWest Bank’s only ballet school offers refuge for Palestinian kids
Schoolgirls leap into the dance studio on the upper floor of a stone building in the Old City of Ramallah, the de facto capital of the Palestinian territories.Several of the kids are wearing pink...
View ArticleApple seeks to chart new course with rollout of iOS 7 software
Design seldom makes front-page news, but Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference is always a big story.The company, which once stood head and shoulders above the rest for its attention to both hardware...
View ArticlePainter Eric Fischl bares his soul in new memoir
When Eric Fischl was first described as a painter of the suburbs, it wasn’t really meant as a compliment.But he says he's grown to embrace it, even, "wear it proudly.”Fischl grew up on Long Island,...
View ArticlePainter draws inspiration from Walmart's shelves
When Brendan O’Connell set out to paint everyday life, he wanted to paint real everyday life.That is, he went shopping. And he found in America’s biggest big box store a source of artistic inspiration...
View ArticleDetroit's Mobile Homestead welcoming above ground, ominous below
In downtown Detroit, among office buildings, vacant lots, and abandoned factories, sits a suburban home — a gleaming white single-story ranch with blue shutters sitting on lush mowed grass.In this...
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