December 10, 2015 Nobel Literature winner too sick to accept prize The Swedish Academy says Nobel literature prize winner Alice Munro won't travel to Stockholm to collect her award because of poor health.
December 4, 2015 $5 million stolen Rembrandt found in France after 15 years A stolen Rembrandt masterpiece valued at more than $5 million has been found in Nice and returned to its rightful owners after 15 years in the wilderness.
December 3, 2015 German government wants faster identification of art stash possibly stolen by Nazis As Jewish groups, art experts and others piled on the pressure, the German government announced Monday it will push for faster identification and publication of details of a recovered trove of some 1,400 pieces of art, many of which may have been stolen by the Nazis.
November 23, 2015 Andy Warhol portrait of Farrah Fawcett worth $12 million, appraiser says An Andy Warhol portrait of Farrah Fawcett currently held by actor Ryan O'Neal is worth an estimated $12 million, an appraiser told a jury Friday.
July 31, 2015 Hollywood loves Obama, but does Obama love it back? Hollywood loves Barack Obama and it has expressed this this in every way it knows how, from celebrity endorsements and campaign appearances to huge donations. In the 2012 presidential race, show biz folks gave Obama more than six million dollars, five times as much as Romney got. It has even been announced that a biopic of Obama’s first date with Michelle—dinner and a Spike Lee movie--is on the way. Without spoiling the plot I can reveal that the it has a happy ending.
May 7, 2015 Met Opera’s ‘Klinghoffer’: The musical bastardization of a cold-blooded terrorist murder New York’s Metropolitan Opera premiered “The Death of Klinghoffer” Monday night. The Washington Post describes the opera as “based on the brutal murder in 1985 of Leon Klinghoffer, an elderly Jewish tourist shot by Palestinian terrorists and pushed into the sea from the deck of the cruise ship Achille Lauro.”
January 13, 2015 Turkey museum shuts down Juan Miro exhibit citing fakes A Turkish art gallery says it has closed down an exhibition in Istanbul of the works of Joan Miro after directors of the Spanish surrealist painter's estate said some of the pieces were fakes.
January 8, 2015 Monet painting found in German collector's suitcase The task force looking into the late German collector Cornelius Gurlitt's long-hidden art trove says officials have found a landscape by Claude Monet in a suitcase that he took to a hospital.
