by Tom Gross, European Correspondent
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Jul 31, 2001 |
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Communist Underwear Is the Latest Art Hit! |
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ere's your chance to learn about Communist panties, bras, and corsets in intimate detail.
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Jul 03, 2001 |
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Leaning Tower of Pisa to Straighten Up |
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After 800 years the Leaning Tower of Pisa straightens up!
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May 29, 2001 |
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But is it Art? [Exhibition of Nothing] |
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Exhibiting nothing is the brain child of several British artists.
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Apr 24, 2001 |
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Mini Masterpieces Going For Millions |
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Small is beautiful. Miniature masterpieces are becoming more and more valuable.
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Mar 20, 2001 |
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Mona Lisa Goes Topless |
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The Monna Vanna, a nude version of the Mona Lisa is being shown in Milan.
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Feb 06, 2001 |
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Paying Homage to the "Other" van Gogh |
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How many of us know about the "other" van Gogh, Vincent's younger brother, Theo?
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Dec 26, 2000 |
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New Finds in Search for the World's Earliest Art |
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Two different teams of academics have presented new research suggesting that the world's first art was produced much earlier than previously thought.
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Dec 5, 2000 |
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Gulf War Artist Strikes it Rich |
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An unknown British artist has been paid over $25 million by a Saudi prince for a series of paintings commemorating the Gulf War.
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Nov 07, 2000 |
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Artists' Colony Set Up in Former Nazi Camp |
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An artists' colony is being established in Terezin, the site of a Nazi concentration camp.
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Sep 12, 2000 |
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Michael Douglas to Play Art Conman |
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Michael Douglas is to star as a charismatic English conman who fooled the global art establishment for nearly a decade.
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Sep 12, 2000 |
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Stalin's Descendants Turn to the Arts |
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Stalin banned, persecuted and even killed artists. Now his descendents embrace the arts.
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Aug 15, 2000 |
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Calls to stop the Plundering of African Art |
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London art dealers are openly selling plundered African art.
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Aug 15, 2000 |
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Aborigine Art Warning for the Sydney Olympics |
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Deceived by a didgeridoo? Bilked by a boomerang? Tourists to Australia during should be on the lookout for fakes!
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Aug 01, 2000 |
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Roman Erotica Exposed |
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Sexually explicit art from Pompeii and Herculaneum is finally open to the public (after more than 200 years) in Naples.
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Jul 18, 2000 |
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Give Us Back Our Marbles |
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Greece makes a fresh attempt to recover their 2,500-year-old Parthenon [Elgin]marbles from Britain.
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Jun 13, 2000 |
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What the Sensationalists Did Next |
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Damien Hirst's turns a plastic supermarket toy into a $1.5m colossal rip-off.
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Jun 13, 2000 |
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The Return of Art Nouveau |
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Art Nouveau is back. The biggest exhibition since its heyday has opened at London's Victoria and Albert Museum.
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May 16, 2000 |
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Missing Art |
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Austria's National Gallery of Art has finally admitted that it has "lost" paintings worth millions of dollars.
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May 5, 2000 | |
Musical Lautrec |
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A controversial artist in his day, Toulouse-Lautrec is still creating waves...this time on the London stage.
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Apr 25, 2000 |
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Big stink in Belgium |
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Worms and flies and maggots! Oh my! A new sculpture by Jan Fabre is raising a big stink in Belgium.
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Apr 04, 2000 |
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Former Power Station to Show Best in Modern Art |
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The Tate Modern is the biggest art event in Europe this year. Soaring seven stories, the new museum will rival New York's MOMA as the world's leading museum of twentieth and twenty-first century art.
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Mar 21, 2000 |
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Lenin Still Causing Controversy in 3rd Millennium |
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Just as the last Lenin statue in eastern Europe comes tumbling down, the first leader of the former Soviet empire is finding a new home...in Finland.
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Mar 6, 2000 | |
Yoko Ono's Tale of Two Cities [Israel] |
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Yoko Ono, widow of Beatle John Lennon, is holding two exhibitions in Israel, one in Jerusalem, another in the Arab town of Umm in northern Israel, in a bid to promote Israeli-Arab peace talks.
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Feb 29, 2000 |
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Artist Unrest in Haider's Austria |
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While Jorg Haider's Right-wing Freedom Party remains in the Austrian government, artists throughout the world are calling for an international art world boycott in the country.
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Feb 22, 2000 |
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Controversy at the Royal Academy |
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Here's an inside look at the controversial new exhibition at the Royal Academy in London. Entitled "1900: Art at the Crossroads," the show recreates the infamous 1900 World's Fair in Paris.
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Jan 18, 2000 |
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Thief Treats Himself to Cézanne |
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Still looking for that perfect Millennium present to bring in the New Year? How does a Cézanne, valued at over $5 million, sound?
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Jan 01, 2000 |
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Millennium Fever |
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Museums around the world are joining in the millennium fever, with several devoting special exhibitions to the theme of Time.
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Dec 12, 1999 |
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From Russia with Love |
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The financially-strapped Hermitage museum of St. Petersburg, Russia, has come up with a novel way of earning hard currency to supplement its meager supply of roubles.
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