Photo News » Arts news http://photoposts.info Breaking photo news, information, reviews, top stories and more. Wed, 23 May 2012 04:25:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 LA museum to unveil artist’s big rock work in June http://photoposts.info/2012/05/23/la-museum-to-unveil-artists-big-rock-work-in-june/ http://photoposts.info/2012/05/23/la-museum-to-unveil-artists-big-rock-work-in-june/#comments Wed, 23 May 2012 04:25:58 +0000 admin http://photoposts.info/2012/05/23/la-museum-to-unveil-artists-big-rock-work-in-june/ A rockin’ good time is planned next month when the Los Angeles County Museum of Art pulls the covers off artist Michael Heizer’s latest creation — a 340-ton boulder positioned to appear as though it’s floating in mid-air.

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]]> http://photoposts.info/2012/05/23/la-museum-to-unveil-artists-big-rock-work-in-june/feed/ 0 Canada museum kills masturbation video after outcry http://photoposts.info/2012/05/22/canada-museum-kills-masturbation-video-after-outcry/ http://photoposts.info/2012/05/22/canada-museum-kills-masturbation-video-after-outcry/#comments Tue, 22 May 2012 11:24:51 +0000 admin http://photoposts.info/2012/05/22/canada-museum-kills-masturbation-video-after-outcry/ OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s federal science museum has removed an animated video showing youth masturbating from an upcoming sex exhibit following a public outcry, a museum spokesman said. The Canada Science and Technology Museum will open the “Sex: A Tell-all Exhibition” on Thursday as planned despite strong criticism from Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore, who has called it an insult to taxpayers. …

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]]> http://photoposts.info/2012/05/22/canada-museum-kills-masturbation-video-after-outcry/feed/ 0 Police arrest artist setting up ‘I Love NY’ work http://photoposts.info/2012/05/21/police-arrest-artist-setting-up-i-love-ny-work/ http://photoposts.info/2012/05/21/police-arrest-artist-setting-up-i-love-ny-work/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 18:25:28 +0000 admin http://photoposts.info/2012/05/21/police-arrest-artist-setting-up-i-love-ny-work/ An artist setting up a public display featuring an “I Love New York” theme was arrested after someone called the bomb squad.

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]]> http://photoposts.info/2012/05/21/police-arrest-artist-setting-up-i-love-ny-work/feed/ 0 Mattila withdraws from new Met Opera ‘Ballo’ http://photoposts.info/2012/05/21/mattila-withdraws-from-new-met-opera-ballo/ http://photoposts.info/2012/05/21/mattila-withdraws-from-new-met-opera-ballo/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 01:25:19 +0000 admin http://photoposts.info/2012/05/21/mattila-withdraws-from-new-met-opera-ballo/ Soprano Karita Mattila has withdrawn from the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Verdi’s “Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball).”

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]]> http://photoposts.info/2012/05/21/mattila-withdraws-from-new-met-opera-ballo/feed/ 0 Warsaw fires architect of planned art museum http://photoposts.info/2012/05/20/warsaw-fires-architect-of-planned-art-museum/ http://photoposts.info/2012/05/20/warsaw-fires-architect-of-planned-art-museum/#comments Sun, 20 May 2012 08:25:49 +0000 admin http://photoposts.info/2012/05/20/warsaw-fires-architect-of-planned-art-museum/ Officials have fired the Swiss architect tapped to design an ambitious museum of modern art in Poland’s capital, throwing the whole project off track.

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]]> http://photoposts.info/2012/05/20/warsaw-fires-architect-of-planned-art-museum/feed/ 0 German baritone opera singer Fischer-Dieskau dead http://photoposts.info/2012/05/19/german-baritone-opera-singer-fischer-dieskau-dead/ http://photoposts.info/2012/05/19/german-baritone-opera-singer-fischer-dieskau-dead/#comments Sat, 19 May 2012 15:25:06 +0000 admin http://photoposts.info/2012/05/19/german-baritone-opera-singer-fischer-dieskau-dead/ FILE - In this Jan. 24, 2006 file picture German opera singer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau attends an awards ceremony in Berlin. A German opera house says renowned baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau has died. He was 86. Berlin's Deutsche Oper said the singer of opera and artistic songs died Friday May 18, 2012 at his home in Bavaria in southern Germany. (AP Photo/dapd/ Oliver Lang, File)Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the renowned German baritone who performed for more than five decades on stages in Berlin, Vienna, London and New York, died Friday. He was 86.


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]]> http://photoposts.info/2012/05/19/german-baritone-opera-singer-fischer-dieskau-dead/feed/ 0 Spirited singing fails to enliven Mozart opera http://photoposts.info/2012/05/18/spirited-singing-fails-to-enliven-mozart-opera/ http://photoposts.info/2012/05/18/spirited-singing-fails-to-enliven-mozart-opera/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 22:25:35 +0000 admin http://photoposts.info/2012/05/18/spirited-singing-fails-to-enliven-mozart-opera/ All the lovely singing fails to save the Vienna State Opera’s new production of Mozart’s “La Clemenza di Tito.”

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]]> http://photoposts.info/2012/05/18/spirited-singing-fails-to-enliven-mozart-opera/feed/ 0 Wayne Newton sued over Las Vegas home museum plans http://photoposts.info/2012/05/18/wayne-newton-sued-over-las-vegas-home-museum-plans/ http://photoposts.info/2012/05/18/wayne-newton-sued-over-las-vegas-home-museum-plans/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 05:25:44 +0000 admin http://photoposts.info/2012/05/18/wayne-newton-sued-over-las-vegas-home-museum-plans/ FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2012 file photo, Entertainer Wayne Newton performs during the 100th Anniversary celebration of Arizona's statehood, at the Capitol in Phoenix. The company that purchased the rights to convert Newton's home into Plans to turn Wayne Newton’s sprawling Las Vegas estate into a celebrity museum have shifted into an ugly legal battle citing mismanagement, animal abuse and sexual harassment.


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]]> http://photoposts.info/2012/05/18/wayne-newton-sued-over-las-vegas-home-museum-plans/feed/ 0 Book Talk: Museum conservator finds life in automaton http://photoposts.info/2012/05/17/book-talk-museum-conservator-finds-life-in-automaton/ http://photoposts.info/2012/05/17/book-talk-museum-conservator-finds-life-in-automaton/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 12:26:26 +0000 admin http://photoposts.info/2012/05/17/book-talk-museum-conservator-finds-life-in-automaton/ Author Peter Carey poses for a photograph in New York City's Soho neighborhoodNEW YORK (Reuters) – A museum conservator and horologist loses her colleague and married lover of 13 years, forcing her to use the intricate restoration of a 19th century automaton and the diaries of the man who commissioned it as the means to cope with her grief. Set in London in 2010, “The Chemistry of Tears” is the 12th novel by Australian-born Peter Carey, winner of two Booker Prizes for “Oscar and Lucinda” and “True History of the Kelly Gang”. …


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]]> http://photoposts.info/2012/05/17/book-talk-museum-conservator-finds-life-in-automaton/feed/ 0 NY’s Met Museum lets visitors climb to cloud 9 http://photoposts.info/2012/05/16/nys-met-museum-lets-visitors-climb-to-cloud-9/ http://photoposts.info/2012/05/16/nys-met-museum-lets-visitors-climb-to-cloud-9/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 19:25:39 +0000 admin http://photoposts.info/2012/05/16/nys-met-museum-lets-visitors-climb-to-cloud-9/ Artist Tomas Saraceno, from Argentina, is reflected in his structure called New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is big on bubbles.


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