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Original Asterix cover fails to find buyer after legal challenge
AFP, Published on 11/12/2023
» BRUSSELS - An original cover painting from the 1963 comic book "Asterix and Cleopatra" went under the hammer Sunday but failed to find a buyer after a legal challenge from the artist's daughter.
Original Asterix cover for auction despite legal challenge
AFP, Published on 10/12/2023
» BRUSSELS - An original cover painting from the 1963 comic book Asterix and Cleopatre was to go under the hammer on Sunday despite a legal challenge from the artist's daughter.
Swiss museum shows controversial Nazi-era art collection
AFP, Published on 07/11/2023
» ZURICH - A top Swiss museum has run into trouble showing an art collection acquired in questionable circumstances during World War II, with some saying its attempt to put it "in context" does not focus enough on the fate of the art's former Jewish owners.
Austria celebrates last surviving shock ‘actionist’ artist
AFP, Published on 28/09/2023
» VIENNA - Several shows are recognising Guenter Brus, the last surviving key member of Vienna's famed "actionists", who turned 85 this week and whose radical movement broke new ground using the body to make art.
Paris Fashion Week promises drama and departures
AFP, Published on 25/09/2023
» PARIS - Milan Fashion Week was not even over and the fashionistas were already heading to Paris on Monday for another 100-plus shows in the hectic womenswear season.
Freddie Mercury's private collection goes on show in UK
AFP, Published on 04/08/2023
» LONDON: From fanciful costumes and working drafts of "Bohemian Rhapsody" to ashtrays and art, hundreds of items Freddie Mercury owned go on show in Britain on Friday before being sold next month.
Row in Germany over Benin bronzes
AFP, Published on 10/06/2023
» BERLIN: In a move that many hailed as a salve for the historic wounds between Europe and Africa, Germany last December returned 22 artefacts, looted during the colonial era, to what is now Nigeria.
'One Million Years BC' actress Raquel Welch dies at 82
AFP, Published on 16/02/2023
» LOS ANGELES - Raquel Welch, the US actress who became an international sex symbol after appearing in a deerskin bikini in "One Million Years BC," died Wednesday, her manager said. She was 82.
Let's-a-go (to Hollywood)! First US 'Super Mario' theme park to open
AFP, Published on 19/01/2023
» LOS ANGELES: Nintendo's first theme park outside of its native Japan will open in California next month, just weeks before Mario gets the big-screen treatment in a major new Hollywood film.
'Safari for sound': New York Philharmonic fine-tunes new home
AFP, Published on 23/09/2022
» NEW YORK: The New York Philharmonic is tuning up to open their brand-new performance space next month -- and it's not only the instruments that need to strike the perfect pitch.