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An ancient masterpiece: 50 million-year-old Patagonian sunflower fossil evokes memories of Van Gogh painting

Posted by kluciole at 9/26/2010 1:49 PM | Add Comment

New comicbook superhero on the way, a Muslim boy in a wheelchair who has superpowers

Posted by kluciole at 9/26/2010 1:36 PM | Add Comment

Spectacular view of thousands of Munkiana Devil Rays as they mass off the Californian coast scoops top photography prize

Posted by kluciole at 9/23/2010 8:27 PM | Add Comment

Photos: 2,000-year-old Hellenistic wall paintings in a cave complex nicknamed 'Little Petra'

Posted by kluciole at 9/19/2010 7:44 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Art lovers enraptured by 'prehistoric' cave paintings

Posted by kluciole at 9/12/2010 9:43 PM | Add Comment

'Pregnant nun' ice cream ad faces ban in Catholic outcry

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2010 5:17 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

My parents' favorite song: 'What a Wonderful World' songwriter Weiss dies

Posted by kluciole at 8/26/2010 1:32 AM | Add Comment

Michelangeo's "David" Gets Dragged into an Italian Proxy War

Posted by kluciole at 8/20/2010 12:33 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Luciole friend and artist Johanna Maria Elisabeth Bergh has a new exhibit!

Posted by kluciole at 8/18/2010 9:14 PM | Add Comment

Scarlett's dresses in bad shape, need repairs

Posted by kluciole at 8/11/2010 11:30 AM | Add Comment

Israeli art show's portrayal of FM as a pig sparks protests

Posted by kluciole at 8/9/2010 7:39 PM | Add Comment

Court orders 'Bookseller of Kabul' author Aasne Seierstad to pay damages

Posted by kluciole at 7/29/2010 3:11 AM | Add Comment

Rare 3D film shows Warsaw devastated after WWII

Posted by kluciole at 7/29/2010 3:04 AM | Add Comment

Painting at center of Caravaggio mystery unveiled; the "Martyrdom of St. Lawrence" will now be subjected to tests

Posted by kluciole at 7/28/2010 12:43 AM | Add Comment

Women's empowerment fuel economic hopes and fashionable dreams in Pakistan's turbulent Baluchistan

Posted by kluciole at 7/19/2010 9:40 PM | Add Comment

Scary Queen Mary advert banned; featured image of Tudor Queen Mary I turning into a flesh-eating zombie

Posted by kluciole at 7/19/2010 9:32 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Russian curators anger church, but escape jail

Posted by kluciole at 7/13/2010 12:59 AM | Add Comment

Archaeologists unearth 4,300-year-old Egyptian tomb of father and son at the Saqqara necropolis

Posted by kluciole at 7/10/2010 12:22 AM | Add Comment

UK treasure hunter finds 52,000 Roman coins. Circa 286 CE, they were buried in a jar and weighed 350 pounds

Posted by kluciole at 7/8/2010 9:26 AM | Add Comment

Earliest illustrated Christian bible discovered at Ethiopian monastery

Posted by kluciole at 7/6/2010 5:39 PM | Add Comment

Greece lightning: Ancient Parthenon lit from above as storm breaks over Athens

Posted by kluciole at 6/28/2010 3:21 PM | Add Comment

Movies that scare for life: viewers left with fears for years

Posted by kluciole at 6/27/2010 4:01 PM | Add Comment

Photo: "In Flight Astro (ii)" at the Serpentine art gallery

Posted by kluciole at 6/26/2010 10:09 PM | Add Comment

Opinion article: "Art Is Fundamental -- and Fundamental to Support" by Maria Shriver

Posted by kluciole at 6/26/2010 9:53 PM | Add Comment

"Edward Scissorhands," Tim Burton's Dark Fairy Tale, Tested as a Play in Brooklyn

Posted by kluciole at 6/24/2010 5:35 PM | Add Comment

4th century icons of Peter and Paul found in Rome

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2010 6:58 PM | Add Comment

Barcelona's beacon of light: Spectra Barcelona, a light sculpture by Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda

Posted by kluciole at 6/20/2010 1:05 PM | Add Comment

Photo: people place stickers on the wall at the Temporary Art Gallery, Berlin

Posted by kluciole at 6/19/2010 2:08 AM | Add Comment

HBO works to get film on Iranian dissident Neda Agha Soltan seen by as many people as possible within Iran as anniversary of her death approaches

Posted by kluciole at 6/19/2010 1:27 AM | Add Comment

Library of Congress places Bob Hope's joke file (85,000 pages) on public view

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2010 9:24 AM | Add Comment

Modigliani sculpture sets artist record in Paris

Posted by kluciole at 6/16/2010 5:34 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a visitor walks inside a polytunnel at the opening of Basel's Art fair in Switzerland

Posted by kluciole at 6/16/2010 5:28 PM | Add Comment

Prabal Gurung: the fashion designer from Nepal who cracked New York

Posted by kluciole at 6/13/2010 10:51 PM | Add Comment

Historic Polaroid collection going to NYC auction

Posted by kluciole at 6/12/2010 2:00 PM | Add Comment

Show unveils Andy Warhol's Catholic, abstract side

Posted by kluciole at 6/11/2010 9:20 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a model presents a creation by Mel Simon at Haute Caribbean night during Fashion Week Trinidad and Tobago

Posted by kluciole at 6/9/2010 9:50 AM | Add Comment

Review: 'Winter's Bone' is a backwoods masterpiece

Posted by kluciole at 6/9/2010 9:45 AM | Add Comment

Photo: giant matchsticks on display at the Nord Art exhibition in Buedelsdorf, near Hamburg

Posted by kluciole at 6/9/2010 9:44 AM | Add Comment

75 long-lost silent movies being returned to US, including only known copy of drama by director John Ford and a period drama starring 1920s screen icon Clara Bow

Posted by kluciole at 6/8/2010 3:10 PM | Add Comment

London art auctions target Russian middle class

Posted by kluciole at 6/7/2010 7:49 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Sotheby's technicians pose with pair of Nicholas I Imperial Porcelain Vases, created in 1841

Posted by kluciole at 6/5/2010 8:45 PM | Add Comment

Prescott, Arizona elementary school to 'whiten' image of child in mural

Posted by kluciole at 6/4/2010 5:29 PM | Add Comment

Golden Girls star Rue McClanahan dies at 76

Posted by kluciole at 6/3/2010 3:49 PM | Add Comment

Stephen Hawking honored at NYC science, arts gala World Science Festival

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2010 9:03 PM | Add Comment

Experts find Michelangelo code hidden in the Sistine Chapel (anatomical illustrations)

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2010 9:02 AM | Add Comment

Artist Louise Bourgeois dies in NYC at 98; "her sculptures explored women's deepest feelings on birth, sexuality and death "

Posted by kluciole at 6/1/2010 5:29 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a performer spins sparks in a traditional fire show in Minsk, Russia

Posted by kluciole at 5/30/2010 8:26 PM | Add Comment

Tomb of Ancient Egyptian mayor found near Cairo a century after it was lost

Posted by kluciole at 5/30/2010 8:19 PM | Add Comment

Catch "Special Relationship" on HBO if you can; just watched it and enjoyed it. Much food for thought.

Posted by kluciole at 5/29/2010 10:20 PM | Add Comment

Park de Triomphe - the day French farmers turned the Champs-Elysees into a garden

Posted by kluciole at 5/23/2010 5:25 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

57 ancient tombs with mummies unearthed in Lahoun, Egypt

Posted by kluciole at 5/23/2010 5:13 PM | Add Comment

I highly recommend Luciole friend/contributor artist Pär Strömberg's new book "Darkness Visible"

Posted by kluciole at 5/20/2010 6:28 PM | Add Comment

Luciole friend/contributor Scott Wannberg has alerted me to his upcoming radio appearance! "Voices Of The Lady With Guest Scott Wannberg" Saturday, May 21st

Posted by kluciole at 5/20/2010 6:22 PM | Add Comment

Poem by Emily Brontë: "A Day Dream"

Posted by kluciole at 5/20/2010 5:21 PM | Add Comment

Cyprus: crews stumble on 2-millennia-old coffins in Protaras

Posted by kluciole at 5/19/2010 4:12 PM | Add Comment

Muslim anger prompts Pakistan to block Facebook amid anger over page encouraging users to post images of Islam's Prophet Muhammad

Posted by kluciole at 5/19/2010 4:00 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a turtle and a mermaid display team from Florida in a tank at the Sea Life London Aquarium

Posted by kluciole at 5/15/2010 2:05 PM | Add Comment

Jean Paul Gaultier unveils first collection in Russia

Posted by kluciole at 5/14/2010 5:49 PM | Add Comment

Photo: painting by Bartolome Esteban Murillo, entitled Saint Rufina, c. 1665 (among the millions of artworks Nazis Germany stole from Jewish families)

Posted by kluciole at 5/14/2010 5:46 PM | Add Comment

Italians say they may have found artist Caravaggio's bones

Posted by kluciole at 5/14/2010 5:35 PM | Add Comment

Photo: French artist Christain Boltanski's "No Man's Land," composed of 30 tons of discarded clothing

Posted by kluciole at 5/14/2010 5:22 PM | Add Comment

Last Broadway Ziegfeld Follies Girl, Doris Eaton Travis, dies at 106

Posted by kluciole at 5/11/2010 10:35 PM | Add Comment

Make It Work: Chicago 'Aida' Producers Create Design Competition

Posted by kluciole at 5/8/2010 12:34 PM | Add Comment

Check Luciole friend/contributor S.A. Griffin's Poetry Bomb Schedule and see if he will be coming to a place near you! Tour of Words 2010

Posted by kluciole at 5/8/2010 12:16 PM | Add Comment

Finnish Savonlinna Opera Festival invites you to create new opera

Posted by kluciole at 5/6/2010 2:36 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a visitor touches illuminated rods symbolising a bamboo forest inside the Chinese pavilion at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai

Posted by kluciole at 5/4/2010 6:17 PM | Add Comment

From Luciole friends: Aine MacAodha blogs about the wonderful new issue of Pirene's Fountain, brought to you by publisher Ami Kaye and her dedicated team! Great job, everyone!

Posted by kluciole at 5/4/2010 4:56 PM | Add Comment

Luciole Press friend/contributor Artist Johanna Maria Elisabeth Bergh is featured in a showdown for votes at Saatchi Gallery! * Vote for Johanna *

Posted by kluciole at 5/3/2010 2:15 PM | Add Comment

Beautiful new poem from Luciole friend/contributor Stacey Mangiaracina: "E.U."

Posted by kluciole at 5/3/2010 2:11 PM | Add Comment

Muslim-inspired fashion shown in Chechnya

Posted by kluciole at 5/3/2010 12:06 AM | Add Comment

Heavy metal dinosaurs Hevisaurus rock the kiddie crowd in Finland

Posted by kluciole at 5/3/2010 12:00 AM | Add Comment

Photo: the new high-tech design of the $100 bill is unveiled in Washington

Posted by kluciole at 5/1/2010 11:29 AM | Add Comment

Luciole Press Spring/Summer Issue 2010 is here

Posted by kluciole at 4/26/2010 6:31 PM | Add Comment

New at the Alida Ivanov Gallery in Stockholm: Simon Mullan, "M, Eine Hymne an die Kraft" (May 6- June 6 2010)

Posted by kluciole at 4/26/2010 6:25 PM | Add Comment

Quote about living from Agatha Christie; painting, "Moon" by Alphonse Mucha

Posted by kluciole at 4/25/2010 3:49 PM | Add Comment

Artist Pär Strömberg's book launch and new exhibition opens Tuesday April 27th in Stockholm. Pär will be featured in the next issue of Luciole Press

Posted by kluciole at 4/21/2010 4:50 PM | Add Comment

Artist Johanna M. E. Bergh will be featured in the next issue of Luciole Press. Her new exhibition opens Saturday April 24th at Galleri Korn in Stockholm

Posted by kluciole at 4/21/2010 4:49 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Police carry figurine excavated from a destroyed temple in earthquake-hit Gyegu town, China

Posted by kluciole at 4/21/2010 4:38 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Muslim group warns 'South Park' creators could face violent retribution for depicting the prophet Muhammad in a bear suit

Posted by kluciole at 4/21/2010 4:32 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Pioneering film editor Dede Allen dies at 86

Posted by kluciole at 4/18/2010 2:03 PM | Add Comment

Visitors experience the conceptual artwork 'Crawling From The Wreckage' in Hong Kong

Posted by kluciole at 4/18/2010 1:51 PM | Add Comment

Poem: "Love's Justification" by Michelangelo, translated by William Wordsworth

Posted by kluciole at 4/17/2010 3:46 PM | Add Comment

Painting, "Saint John the Baptist Bearing Witness," could be lost work of Michelangelo -- now worth over $200 million

Posted by kluciole at 4/17/2010 3:37 PM | Add Comment

Photo: 6th century clay doll attached to a pot, excavated from an ancient tomb of Silla Dynasty in South Korea

Posted by kluciole at 4/17/2010 3:34 PM | Add Comment

Carolyn M. Rodgers dies at 69: the Chicago poet helped found Third World Press (one of the country's oldest and largest black-owned book publishers)

Posted by kluciole at 4/14/2010 4:45 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a dancer performs a flamenco dance in Bunyola, Mallorca

Posted by kluciole at 4/14/2010 4:27 AM | Add Comment

Greco-Roman mummy, tombs uncovered in Egypt's Bahariya Oasis

Posted by kluciole at 4/12/2010 7:09 PM | Add Comment

Paris retrospective for fashion genius Saint Laurent

Posted by kluciole at 4/3/2010 1:48 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a 30,000-year-old handprint from Chauvet Cave in France

Posted by kluciole at 3/30/2010 11:27 PM | Add Comment

Fashion photographer Peter Gowland dies at 93

Posted by kluciole at 3/29/2010 12:05 AM | Add Comment

The Alida Ivanov Gallery of Stockholm (featured in this issue of Luciole Press) presents a screening of "Our Global Behaviour is Psychopathic," a film by Virlani Hallberg and Jennifer Rainsford

Posted by kluciole at 3/24/2010 1:16 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a girl dressed up as a Japanese Manga character at the Leipzig Book Fair in Germany

Posted by kluciole at 3/20/2010 7:50 PM | Add Comment

Slightly older article -- Fashion's latest fixation: 3D

Posted by kluciole at 3/18/2010 3:59 AM | Add Comment

Picasso's "Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto," once center of dispute, for sale

Posted by kluciole at 3/17/2010 3:19 AM | Add Comment

Culture clash: European art provokes Muslims

Posted by kluciole at 3/14/2010 6:20 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a giant sculpture of a stockinged leg at The Magnificent Innovations for Women exhibition in Budapest

Posted by kluciole at 3/13/2010 5:42 AM | Add Comment

Ultraviolet rays shine new light on masterpieces by 14th century artist Giotto di Bondone, considered one of the founders of the Italian Renaissance

Posted by kluciole at 3/10/2010 7:27 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a creation by designer Cesar Arellanes at exhibition to mark bicentenary of Mexican independence

Posted by kluciole at 3/9/2010 3:30 PM | Add Comment

Photo: hundreds of people watch the lighting of the falla 'Literato Azorin' in Valencia

Posted by kluciole at 3/8/2010 10:26 AM | Add Comment

Japanese dolphin hunters bitter as 'The Cove' wins Oscar

Posted by kluciole at 3/8/2010 10:07 AM | Add Comment
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