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The great Rolling Stones are marking a half century of existence The official line is “we’ll see.” But the Rolling Stones seem in such fighting trim, clear-eyed and focused, that it’s hard to believe there’s not more cooking beyond the current flurry of activity surrounding the band’s 50th anniversary. The archetypal rock ‘n’ roll band […]
Avant-garde composer Elliott Carter, who won the Pulitzer Prize twice in a career spanning nearly eight decades, has died in New York at the age of 103, a music publisher said on Nov 6. Carter had composed 158 works, from early pieces like Symphony No. 1 (1942) and Holiday Overture (1944) to this year’s Dialogues […]
A $9.99 Goodwill find turned out to be a $27,000 famous painting. When North Carolina artist Beth Feedback, who specializes in portraits of cats, came home back from Goodwill with a $9.99 painting she thought that she thought that she has fund the right size of canvas to upcycle for her own work. But once […]
An elderly Spanish lady,in her 80s decided to give a 19th-century Spanish fresco a facelift by attempting to restore it – but failed. Cecilia Gimenez stepped forward this week to claim responsibility for disfiguring a century-old fresco in Santuario de la Misericordia, a Roman Catholic church in Borja, near the city of Zaragoza. Without prior […]
Italian archaeologists believe that they have found the real skeleton of Mona Lisa. For years people have been wondering about the secret behind Mona Lisa’s smile. Some people believe that it was Leonardo Da Vinci who put the smile on her face by using his painting techniques, some people believe that it was Leonardo Da Vinci […]