MOSCOW, Nov 3 (Reuters) - In a film that hit cinema screens
this week, patriotic Russians despairing at the lack of a strong
leader rise up, throw out their Western overlords and make
Russia a pro...
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The movie is set, very realistically, in a fascist outpost in the mountains in 1944. Franco's troops are trying to root out the guerillas. The heroine of the movie is Ofelia, a girl of 9 or 10 whos...
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The finest bit of painting featured in Veronese’s Allegories: Virtue, Love and Exploration in Renaissance Venice, an exhibition devoted to Paolo Veronese on display at the Frick Collection, i...
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The finest bit of painting featured in Veronese’s Allegories: Virtue, Love and Exploration in Renaissance Venice, an exhibition devoted to Paolo Veronese on display at the Frick Collection, i...
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Stolen again. Last time, it was a museum curator who staged a Hollywood-worthy theft of Impressionist paintings by Monet and Sisley before landing in a French prison. This time, the five masked gun...
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French investigators recovered two Picasso paintings and a drawing that were stolen from the home of the artist's granddaughter in an overnight heist in February, a police official said.Police took...
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Rio de Janeiro (dpa) - From the origins of games of chance to the
birth of the Portuguese language to an homage to the Hunchback of
Notre Dame - an array of stories filled t...
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An artist's triptych of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, naked, stony-faced and surrounded by haunting images of the war in Iraq, is one of the arresting sights at a major London art exhibition.M...
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New hits in politics and film all tell the same story: America is still a land of religion. The candidates, particularly Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee, are displaying their beliefs. Each of three ...
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Set on a knoll overlooking an oxbow bend in the Moscow River, the hallowed ground of the Novodevichy Cemetery holds the remains of scores of engineers, artists and politicians who helped shape Russ...
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FEATURE-Action movie an allegory for Putin's Russia
