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Painting featuring Zuma’s genitals defaced
By Donna Bryson | May 23, 2012 08:50 AM
Two men wielding cans of red and black paint entered a Johannesburg gallery Tuesday and defaced a painting that draws attention to the South African president’s genitals and his reputation for promiscuity.
Women unified within photography
By India Stoughton | May 22, 2012 12:06 AM
According to the United Nations Millennium Project, which aims to eradicate world poverty by 2015.
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Russian artists call for sweeping change
May 21, 2012 01:20 AM
Masses of Russian artists with brooms in hand carted their most expressive works across the boulevards of Moscow Saturday in a show of exasperation at Vladimir Putin’s return to a third Kremlin term.
From art appreciation to olive oil
By India Stoughton | May 21, 2012 04:22 PM
Ever wanted to become a wine expert, or wondered what made some olive oil “extra virgin”?
Art work: Not at all like selling bread
By Chirine Lahoud | May 17, 2012 12:09 AM
This is the latest in a series of interviews with Beirut-area gallerists about the shifting challenges and opportunities in representing Lebanese and other Arab artists.
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Archaeologists uncover 37,000-year-old wall art in France
By Jean-Louis Santini | May 16, 2012 12:13 AM
A massive block of limestone in France contains what scientists believe are the earliest known engravings of wall art dating back some 37,000 years.
 
Hong Kong fair showcases booming Asian art market
By Stephen Coates | May 16, 2012 12:12 AM
Asia’s premier art fair opens in Hong Kong, bringing artists, collectors and dealers from around the world to a city whose booming market illustrates a shift in wealth from West to East.
 
The beautiful children of a Franco-Arab affair
By India Stoughton | May 16, 2012 12:07 AM
Arab art has garnered increasing international attention over the last decade.
 
King of kitsch Jeff Koons seeks to wring emotion from so-called empty art
By Catherine Bosley | May 15, 2012 12:03 AM
U.S. pop artist Jeff Koons is seeking to fire up your emotions at a retrospective show of his work in Switzerland.
 
Biennial art festival transforms the streets of Cuba’s capital
By Peter Orsi | May 14, 2012 12:10 AM
Giant ants swarm the facade of an aging theater. White-clad, face-painted dancers and circus performers frolic on a central boulevard.
 
Outlines of the human condition
By Mirella Hodeib | May 14, 2012 12:09 AM
The medium is rectangular piece of handmade paper, something less than 6cmx29cm apiece.
 
As turmoil wracks Egypt, thieves hunt pharaonic treasures
By Hamza Hendawi | May 14, 2012 12:09 AM
Taking advantage of Egypt’s political upheaval, thieves have gone on a treasure hunt with a spree of illegal digging.
 
Going minimalist in nave of the Grand Palais
By Thomas Adamson | May 12, 2012 12:04 AM
Art lovers should expect the unexpected in the latest offering of the ground-breaking and normally roof-scraping MONUMENTA exhibit.
 
Construction sites cum artful gambling dens
By India Stoughton | May 12, 2012 12:03 AM
Large planks of wood, spotted with stains and studded with nails, adorn the walls of the Aida Cherfan Gallery these days.
 
We are the trend now
By Chirine Lahoud | May 11, 2012 12:14 AM
Andree Sfeir-Semler established Gallery Sfeir-Semler in the Germany city of Kino in 1985 before relocating to Hamburg in 1998.
 
Response slow as Casablanca’s French core crumbles away
By Omar Brouksy | May 10, 2012 12:11 AM
When the French seized Casablanca in the early 1900s, they turned the historic Moroccan port into a classic of colonial architecture.
 
A photographic journey from darkness to light
By India Stoughton | May 10, 2012 12:08 AM
Psychologist Jeffrey Goldstein suggests that most people enjoy watching horror films for three reasons. They are exciting.
 
The quest for the amusingly profound
By Jim Quilty | May 10, 2012 12:05 AM
During Israel’s 34-day siege of Lebanon in 2006, someone calling himself “Idarat Israel” took to calling Lebanese telephone numbers.
 
Christie’s seeks out art lovers with serious money to burn
May 08, 2012 12:07 AM
Setting fire to art in Christie’s posh Manhattan showrooms would usually get you arrested. But when a senior auctioneer lit up a $1 million artwork recently, that was the point.
 
Afghan museum highlights country’s Buddhist heritage
By Lawrence Bartlett | May 05, 2012 12:18 AM
Afghanistan achieved global notoriety when the Taliban blew up the ancient Bamiyan Buddhas 11 years ago.
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