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Santa Gourds back at this year's Autumn ArtistryTuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 12:17PMStory created Sep 07, 2010 - 11:35:19 CDT. While some of the artists who will display their handiwork at Autumn Artistry dabble in a variety of different mediums, Jean King of Charles City focuses on just one: Santa Gourds.

Egypt Cracks Down on Arts Officials After Van Gogh TheftTuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 10:53AMEgyptian authorities have been unable to recover the $50 million van Gogh that was stolen in broad daylight from Cairo's Mahmoud Khalil Museum last month, but they have certainly wasted no time in finding scapegoats for the embarrassing theft. Eleven people in the country's arts establishment, including a senior culture minister and the head of the museum, are now set to be tried in court on ...

Egyptian papyrus found in ancient Irish bogMonday, September 6, 2010 @ 10:32AMIrish scientists have found fragments of Egyptian papyrus in the leather cover of an ancient book of psalms that was unearthed from a peat bog, Ireland's National Museum said on Monday.

Neues Museum in Berlin Welcomes One Millionth VisitorThursday, September 2, 2010 @ 9:04PMHarald Fuchs, Claudia Fuchs und Friederike Seyfried vor der Nofretete im Neuen Museum (v.l.n.r.) © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; Foto: Achim Kleuker. BERLIN.-

Ghosts in our machines: Fiction from a century of hi-tech life – and deathThursday, September 2, 2010 @ 6:20PMEverything changes," sighed that great ironist, the French poet Paul Valéry, "except the avant-garde". In Britain, we are nearing the notional centenary of an avant-garde moment at which modern life – or so its artistic cheerleaders supposed – made a nonsense in all its velocity, complexity and relativity of the old ways of depicting it. Speaking in 1924 about new means of portraying people in ...

Glenn Beck puts on his tin-foil art critic's hat -- againThursday, September 2, 2010 @ 10:49AMBeck brought his traveling demagoguery circus to the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, and in the process restored, if not honor, then at least his reputation as a slippery and ill-inform Beck brought his traveling demagoguery circus to the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, and in the process restored, if not honor, then at least his reputation as a slippery and ill ...

Tix on 6Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 2:24AMLook here each week for information on tickets and event times and locations. Shows will be added as ticket announcements are made.

Communicating TranslationTuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 9:17AMThis month, the Johnson Museum opened it's new exhibit, Tarjama/Translation . Co-curated by Cornell interim Chair of the Department of Art, Iftikhar Dadi, Leeza Ahmadi and assistant curator Reem Fadda, the exhibit features a variety of artists from the Middle East, each dealing with issues of translation, culture and displacement. read more

Paul B. Farrell: Seven lean years: No recovery till 2016Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 11:26PMSummer of recovery? Dead. How dead? Remember Genesis? The Seven Lean Years? Add seven years to the handoff from Bush to Obama in early 2009 and you get no recovery till 2016.