London, Jan 5 (IANS) Social networking website Facebook censored Copenhagen’s iconic statue of the Little Mermaid for showing “too much bare skin or sexual undertones”, but reversed its decision following an appeal made by a…
Los Angeles, Jan 4 (IANS) The first Nanjing Massacre-themed museum in the United States, the L.A. Memorial Hall of American Heroes during Nanjing Massacre, has opened in Los Angeles. The memorial hall was inaugurated on…
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 3 (IANS) If all goes well, a music museum will be set up in Kerala with a collection of songs, long-playing records and song books of singers. Cultural organisation Swaralaya will set up…
Ottawa, Jan 3 (IANS) A museum in Canada’s British Columbia province has introduced a programme in an attempt to encourage people to write letters by hand, the media reported on Sunday. In doing so, the…
Beijing, Jan 1 (IANS) A 51-metre-high castle, poised to set the record as the world’s highest and largest snow sculpture, opened to visitors on Friday in China’s Heilongjiang province. Combining both Gothic and Baroque styles,…
Bhubaneswar, Dec 29 (IANS) Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik’s Santa Claus sculpture has got a place in the Limca Book of Records as the world’s largest sand sculpture. Patnaik said Limca Book senior editor Arthy Muthanna…
New York, Dec 29 (AP) Ellsworth Kelly, a painter, sculptor and printmaker whose work over seven decades made him one of America’s leading abstract artists, has died. He was 92. Kelly’s Manhattan gallerist, Matthew Marks…
New York, Dec 27 (IANS) The Philadelphia Museum of Art has put on display masterful drawings from Indian royal courts, works of contemporary photographers and woven textiles of the Zo people living along the India-Myanmar…
Bhubaneswar, Dec 24 (IANS) Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik on Thursday created a 45-feet-high sand ‘Santa ClausÂ, arguably the world’s tallest such sculpture at a beach in Puri town. The sandy Santa Claus at the state’s…
London, Dec 23 (IANS) Facebook users solved the mystery of a gilded object unearthed in Jerusalem within hours after Israel’s antiquities authority turned to the social networking site in an effort to identify it, a…
Mumbai: Over a week after artist Hema Upadhyay and her lawyer were found murdered in Mumbai, her estranged husband Chintan Upadhyay has been arrested. Chintan Upadhyay was called in for questioning late last night and…
Kolkata, Dec 21 (IANS) A rare assortment of postcards and bank notes associated with Azad Hind, the provisional government-in-exile formed by Netaji Subash Chandra Bose, and Indian National Army medals will be on display at…
London, Dec 17 (IANS) If you are a Jane Austen fan, there is more reason to cheer as her music collection has been made freely available to access online as part of a University of…
London, Dec 17 (IANS) Using new nanotechnology, researchers have reproduced a colour image of Mona Lisa which is less than one pixel on an iPhone Retina display — 50 micrometres long or about 10,000 times…
Cairo, Dec 17 (IANS) The golden burial mask of King Tutankhamun, one of ancient Egypt’s most famous artefacts, was back on display after eight weeks of restoration by an Egyptian-German team. The restored mask was…
Washington, Dec 11 (IANS) The US on Thursday returned 22 Chinese artifacts and a dinosaur fossil to China, highlighting the two world powers’ cooperation to counter illicit trafficking of archeological objects. “Their return to China…
Islamabad, Dec 7 (IANS) A Pakistani daily on Monday described as a quirky case the issue of the Koh-i-Noor diamond whose ownership is claimed both by Pakistanis and Indians. It observed that there is no…
London, Oct 24 (IANS) A humble biscuit that survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 became the most expensive nibble in the world on Saturday when it was sold at an auction in England…
London, Oct 21 (IANS) The colours of Vincent van Gogh’s famous “Sunflowers” painting at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam are changing over time because not all of the mixture of pigments used by the…