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...bound on a concrete floor. Naked, hooded bodies lie entangled in a pile. A blindfolded prisoner stands in women's red underwear. The paintings need no titles. The scenes of abuse by U.S. military prison guards in Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad, are unmistakable, almost as much as the painter's style itself. The Colombian artist Fernando Botero is, by his own admission, best known as "the painter of fat people," and his U.S. soldiers and Iraqi prisoners are as rotund as his comic ballerinas. But there's no humor here. His 48 paintings and drawings on Abu Ghraib have...
...Emmys, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Golden Globe and an American Comedy Award, not to mention myriad nominations, including one for an Oscar for his role in the 1983 movie “Terms of Endearment.” Beyond his awards, Lithgow is also a talented musician, painter, and author...
...bought Andrea Mantegna's Adoration of the Magi for $ 10.45 million, the highest sum ever paid for a painting at auction, surpassing the $10 million paid for J.M.W. Turner's Seascape: Folkestone last year. Mantegna worked on the deeply spiritual canvas between 1495 and 1505, when he was court painter for the worldly Gonzagas of Mantua. They would have appreciated the jealousies the sale has triggered. Britain may still seek to keep the painting in the country by refusing to grant an export license. And Daniel Wildenstein, an unsuccessful bidder, howled, "I am furious not to have the picture...
...were among the victims when the buildings were totally destroyed. But on Saturday it was learned that the two bus-loads of children had left the scene safely. Many other people died. "We reached the Erika," said one fireman, "and there was nothing there. It was just gone." Explained Painter Giovanni Grandi, who had been in a nearby chalet: "I saw the Miramonti go down. It was like an enormous hand had just come to knock it down...
...Chirico's spirit is strongest in the top-floor painter's studio, which remains just as he left it at the time of his death. Dried-up paint tubes and brushes are strewn about, and his unfinished oil-on-canvas copy of Michelangelo's masterpiece The Doni Tondo is displayed on his easel. Sunlight streams through the skylights, illuminating De Chirico's library of art and philosophy books and his collection of traditional Italian good-luck charms. De Chirico's modern twist on the classical is a fresh and re-energizing dose of Roman art. Reservations must be made...