March 27, 2019 Trump appoints Jon Voight, Mike Huckabee as Kennedy Center trustees President Trump has appointed 10 people to serve on the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the White House announced in a statement Tuesday. The appointees include actor Jon Voight and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, whose daughter Sarah Sanders is the White House press secretary.
March 20, 2019 OxyContin producer’s $1.3M donation dropped by UK’s National Portrait Gallery amid US opioid crisis lawsuit debacle London’s National Portrait Gallery announced Wednesday it will not proceed with a $1.3 million grant from the Sackler family, whose company Purdue Pharma produces opioid prescription painkiller OxyContin, amid controversy over the company’s involvement in the U.S. opioid crisis.
March 14, 2019 Italian church, cops dupe art thieves by swapping out original $3M masterpiece for fake A small Italian church is getting the last laugh on a group of art thieves who stole a Flemish master’s painting of the crucifixion only to learn cops had swapped out the original for a fake after being tipped off that a heist was in the works.
February 5, 2019 Hitler's drawings, watercolors go on sale in Germany; draws interest from Iranian, Chinese buyers Auktionhaus Weidler in Nuremberg, Germany, is auctioning 31 drawings and watercolor landscapes of rural Germany attributed to Adolf Hitler.
January 17, 2019 Nebraska college student builds 84 snowmen in one night Some people count sheep when they can’t fall sleep. Others apparently build snowmen – dozens of them.
January 17, 2019 Banksy-style artwork of rat holding umbrella at Tokyo rail station could be artist's latest A Banksy-style artwork of a rat holding an umbrella at a rail station in Japan could be the elusive British artist’s latest discovered work, local officials claim.
January 16, 2019 Calligraphy relic sparks outrage in China after Taiwan loans it to Japan museum A 1,200 calligraphy masterpiece that has been loaned by Taiwan’s National Palace Museum for an exhibition in Japan is sparked widespread outrage in China.
January 15, 2019 ‘Michelangelo’ painting stolen from Belgian church days before experts were to authenticate it A 16th-century painting has been stolen from a church – days before it was to be examined by experts to see if it was created by Michelangelo.
December 5, 2018 'The Wiz' fails to wow theater-goers in Louisville; some seeking refunds, report says Audience members in Louisville say they were left "distraught" by a problematic production of the musical "The Wiz," and were demanding their money back, a report said Tuesday.
November 20, 2018 Stolen Picasso worth $1M 'found' buried in Romania may be elaborate hoax A Pablo Picasso artwork that was stolen six years ago in a museum heist that was reportedly found buried in the ground in Romania appears to be nothing more than an elaborate hoax by a Belgian theater company.
