Cannes ups the glamor with $1B facelift
Cannes’s five-star hotels are getting a $1 billion makeover to make them fit to host Hollywood’s A-listers.
Women painters take center stage at NY art auctions
NEW YORK, United States — With a new record expected for a work by Lee Krasner and another one possible for a Helen Frankenthaler, the appetite for female abstract painters, and women artists in general, is growing fast as New York gears up for its spring auctions beginning on Monday. BUY: Ninth Street Women: Lee […]
En garde! France embraces the lightsaber — as sport
It has for decades been the dream of the young and the young-at-heart to be like Luke Skywalker from Star Wars and vanquish foes with a lightsaber.
Spanish museum unveils restored Fra Angelico masterpiece
Spain’s Prado unveiled Wednesday, May 8, the restoration of “The Annunciation”, a 15th-century altarpiece by Renaissance painter Fra Angelico.
Chile’s Valparaiso, an open air graffiti and mural art gallery
Creating colorful pictures of surreal human faces, marine animals or even huge owls, hundreds of graffiti artists have turned the Chilean port of Valparaiso into a gigantic open-air art gallery. Elias Street is typical of Valparaiso with its narrow sidewalks winding up and down Cerro Alegre hill, itself a tourist attraction. There are many little […]