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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

Listening to: October Project's "Take Me As I Am" (video)

Posted by kluciole at 3/8/2010 10:03 AM | Add Comment

Photo: slap-sole shoes, probably Italian, mid-17th century, are seen on display in the "On a Pedestal: From Renaissance Chopines to Baroque Heels" exhibition in Toronto

Posted by kluciole at 3/7/2010 12:55 PM | Add Comment

Painting: "Witch Hill," or "The Salem Martyr" -- Oil painting by New York artist Thomas Slatterwhite Noble, 1869

Posted by kluciole at 3/6/2010 6:45 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Photo: a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) volunteer adjusts her lettuce dress in Mumbai

Posted by kluciole at 3/6/2010 6:27 PM | Add Comment

Mysterious image of snake appears on 400-year-old painting of Queen Elizabeth I

Posted by kluciole at 3/4/2010 7:03 PM | Add Comment

Wonderful new video for dear Luciole friend/contributor Ellyn Maybe's track "City Streets" from Rodeo for the Sheepish!

Posted by kluciole at 2/28/2010 3:39 AM | Add Comment

Congrats to dear Luciole friend/contributor S.A. Griffin! Article in The Guardian: "For this poet, bombing at a reading won't be bad"

Posted by kluciole at 2/28/2010 3:31 AM | Add Comment

Van Gogh experts authenticate unusual VG painting

Posted by kluciole at 2/24/2010 4:00 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a man holds a painting entitled "Orion" by actor Sir Anthony Hopkins on sale at Gallery 27, London

Posted by kluciole at 2/17/2010 1:26 PM | Add Comment

Ancient Arabic inscription found in Jerusalem dated to 910 CE

Posted by kluciole at 2/17/2010 1:19 PM | Add Comment

There's quite a story behind the Olympic flowers

Posted by kluciole at 2/17/2010 1:14 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Secrets of Egypt's Tutankhamun set to be unveiled

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2010 2:43 PM | Add Comment

Giant 1,400-year-old wine press discovered in southern Israel

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2010 2:39 PM | Add Comment

Happy Year of the Tiger!!

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2010 1:39 PM | Add Comment

Secretive urban artist Banksy shows film in Berlin

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2010 1:34 PM | Add Comment

A worthy cause!! S.A. Griffin, creator of The Poetry Bomb, has posted an appeal for his project

Posted by kluciole at 2/13/2010 8:27 PM | Add Comment

Fantastic Art!! Take a look at Diana Bonebrake's online studio sale and drink in the lovely skies...

Posted by kluciole at 2/13/2010 8:17 PM | Add Comment

RIP Alexander McQueen. Two articles, including "How Alexander McQueen became 'the most influential designer of his generation'"

Posted by kluciole at 2/11/2010 11:30 AM | Add Comment

Lord Of The Rings prequel made by actress Kate Madison for £25,000 -- "Born of Hope" has scored 500,000 views on the internet (see it here)

Posted by kluciole at 2/10/2010 3:49 PM | Add Comment

Photo: an installation of laser lights is seen in Vancouver

Posted by kluciole at 2/7/2010 7:57 PM | Add Comment

Never-before seen photos of Marilyn Monroe with poet Carl Sandburg go up for sale (shot by Len Steckler)

Posted by kluciole at 2/6/2010 2:46 AM | Add Comment

Mystery of missing painting by Rolf Harris now center of court battle over its possession

Posted by kluciole at 2/1/2010 7:10 PM | Add Comment

Film editor Karen Schmeer ("The Fog of War") struck and killed by car in NYC

Posted by kluciole at 1/30/2010 9:31 PM | Add Comment

New exhibit at the Alida Ivanov Gallery in Stockholm: Mikael Ellingsen, "The Invisible Thread," Feb. 6- Mar. 14, 2010

Posted by kluciole at 1/28/2010 6:18 PM | Add Comment

Elderly couple discover vase used as umbrella stand is a 270-year-old Chinese masterpiece worth £500,000

Posted by kluciole at 1/28/2010 11:15 AM | Add Comment

Photo: John Galliano flanked by models at his presentation for Dior in Paris

Posted by kluciole at 1/26/2010 5:40 PM | Add Comment

From Luciole friend/contributor Ellyn Maybe: her CD "Rodeo for the Sheepish" is on a Top 10 list at KALX Berkeley

Posted by kluciole at 1/26/2010 5:30 PM | Add Comment

Photo: terracotta warriors made of chocolate, on display in Beijing

Posted by kluciole at 1/22/2010 10:28 PM | Add Comment

Egypt announces find of 2,000-year-old ancient Bastet (cat goddess) temple

Posted by kluciole at 1/19/2010 5:25 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a model parades a dress complete with table attached at Sao Paulo Fashion Week

Posted by kluciole at 1/19/2010 5:13 PM | Add Comment

Rembrandt piece found in bathroom cabinet goes on view in new exhibit

Posted by kluciole at 1/12/2010 1:06 PM | Add Comment

PBS "Great Performances" to Air "Passing Strange"

Posted by kluciole at 1/9/2010 3:31 AM | Add Comment

I am going on vacation; I have set up updates for the blog so there will be something new each day. Check out the new Winter 2010 Issue of Luciole!

Posted by kluciole at 1/4/2010 4:22 AM | Add Comment

Muslim-Hindu punk rock bands part of new movement

Posted by kluciole at 1/2/2010 11:25 AM | Add Comment

Celebrate the new year early with the newly published Winter 2010 Issue of Luciole Press! Here is the Table of Contents

Posted by kluciole at 12/31/2009 3:04 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Artist's impression of a giant gas planet with an Earth-like moon, similar to Pandora in the new movie "Avatar"

Posted by kluciole at 12/27/2009 10:27 PM | Add Comment

TIME article: Why Indie Directors Are Releasing Movies Online -- For Free

Posted by kluciole at 12/26/2009 6:59 PM | Add Comment

Cool art! Danish artist Peter Callesen creates dainty models using glue, a scalpel and just one sheet of paper

Posted by kluciole at 12/24/2009 8:21 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Luciole contributor/friend Jeaneth Patricia Skaugvold's photos of Northern Norway for the Autumn 2009 Issue

Posted by kluciole at 12/23/2009 6:15 PM | Add Comment

Snowflakes, the coolest shapes on the planet, are even more beautiful close up

Posted by kluciole at 12/22/2009 3:45 AM | Add Comment

The Real Science of 'Avatar'

Posted by kluciole at 12/22/2009 3:36 AM | Add Comment

Photo: an image of an elephant appears during Odaiba water illumination show in Tokyo

Posted by kluciole at 12/21/2009 2:13 PM | Add Comment

Against nudity ban, gallery in Ashland, Oregon takes it all off

Posted by kluciole at 12/20/2009 4:55 AM | Add Comment

Can eco-friendly fashion be just as stylish?

Posted by kluciole at 12/20/2009 4:50 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Monument lifted from Cleopatra's underwater city; pylon once stood at the entrance to temple of Isis

Posted by kluciole at 12/17/2009 6:08 PM | Add Comment

Etched by trucks in the desert sand: At 9 miles around, gargantuan circle is the world's largest artwork

Posted by kluciole at 12/16/2009 8:07 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Brought to my attention by Lena, new book! "Quills of Fire" by Marilyn Campiz and Lena Vanelslander

Posted by kluciole at 12/12/2009 6:40 PM | Add Comment

Former Met museum director Thomas Hoving dies; with his bold risk-taking, Hoving "transformed the museum world"

Posted by kluciole at 12/12/2009 6:37 PM | Add Comment

Photo: students in Massachussets light luminary candles to celebrate 2009 and offer hope for 2010

Posted by kluciole at 12/11/2009 6:49 PM | Add Comment

The Alida Ivanov Gallery of Stockholm presents a new exhibit: John Rydberg "Ett bättre liv"/ "A Better Life" ... the Alida Ivanov Gallery will be featured in the Winter Issue of Luciole Press

Posted by kluciole at 12/10/2009 2:44 PM | Add Comment

Quote from Luciole friend/contributor Ellyn Maybe (I posted it on LP's facebook page awhile ago)

Posted by kluciole at 12/9/2009 8:47 PM | Add Comment

Photos (Art): Copenhagen's statue of the Little Mermaid is backdropped by "The Survival of the Fattest," a sculpture created by Danish artist Jens Galschiot

Posted by kluciole at 12/9/2009 8:38 PM | Add Comment

WWII vet returns art book he stole from Hitler's home

Posted by kluciole at 12/9/2009 8:28 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a sculpture of an iceberg with a stranded polar bear on the River Thames, to raise awareness of melting ice caps

Posted by kluciole at 12/8/2009 4:59 PM | Add Comment

Exceptional artist Pär Strömberg: check out his blog and a wonderful interview. Pär will be featured in the Spring Issue of Luciole Press

Posted by kluciole at 12/7/2009 5:00 PM | Add Comment

From Luciole friend/contributor Geraldine Green: ~ Poetry In Aid of Cumbria Flood Recovery ~

Posted by kluciole at 12/7/2009 4:57 PM | Add Comment

Lines of art blur between Rembrandt and his pupils, as experts contend many works credited to him were actually done by his students

Posted by kluciole at 12/6/2009 8:04 PM | Add Comment

New branch of the Louvre Museum, the Louvre-Lens, inaugurated at an abandoned coal mining site

Posted by kluciole at 12/6/2009 7:58 PM | Add Comment

Swedish store pulls plug on N. Korean jeans

Posted by kluciole at 12/5/2009 6:22 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo: Flamenco dancer Sara Baras performs during the filming of "Flamenco, Flamenco", directed by Carlos Saura

Posted by kluciole at 12/5/2009 6:12 PM | Add Comment

Italian police seize secret stash of masterpieces "by Van Gogh, Picasso, Cezanne and other giants of art"

Posted by kluciole at 12/5/2009 6:04 PM | Add Comment

Rare copy of Poe's first book "Tamerlane and Other Poems" sells for $662,500 in NYC

Posted by kluciole at 12/4/2009 6:51 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Photo: the world's largest fingerpainting, created on the International Day of Persons with Disabilities in India

Posted by kluciole at 12/4/2009 6:23 PM | Add Comment

From Luciole contributor/friend S.A. Griffin: Submit to The Poetry Bomb!!

Posted by kluciole at 12/3/2009 7:47 PM | Add Comment

From Amanda Oaks: "words dance is open for submissions!"

Posted by kluciole at 12/3/2009 7:42 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

From catwalk to laptop, fashion houses embrace web

Posted by kluciole at 12/3/2009 7:26 PM | Add Comment

Swahili Fashion Week celebrates Tanzania's kanga fabric: "Just as India has saris and Japan has the kimono, we have the kanga"

Posted by kluciole at 12/1/2009 3:50 PM | Add Comment

"Vivid pink" diamond sells for record $10.8 million

Posted by kluciole at 12/1/2009 3:44 PM | Add Comment

Flash mob ballet for charity: 50 dancers from the Paris Opera Ballet astound Louvre museum-goers, leave behind slippers with children's medical charity address

Posted by kluciole at 12/1/2009 3:16 PM | Add Comment

Broadway shows returning to New Orleans

Posted by kluciole at 11/30/2009 4:31 PM | Add Comment

Music: Reykjavík concert with Luciole friend/contributor Thomas Brorsen Smidt and The Esoteric Gender (plus Ljósvaki)

Posted by kluciole at 11/30/2009 4:20 PM | Add Comment

The SeaOrbiter, a giant leap for ocean exploration: what the world's first 'space station of the sea' will look like

Posted by kluciole at 11/29/2009 10:15 PM | Add Comment

Prison theatre drama an escape for Romanian inmates

Posted by kluciole at 11/28/2009 12:04 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Couture comes to the tea cup through luxury blends

Posted by kluciole at 11/27/2009 6:48 PM | Add Comment

Exhibitionist: The best art shows to see this week in the U.K.

Posted by kluciole at 11/27/2009 6:37 PM | Add Comment

Video: Igor Stravinsky conducts The Firebird Suite (created for ballerina Tamara Karsavina)

Posted by kluciole at 11/26/2009 8:21 PM | Add Comment

History in the making: The 100 museum pieces that trace mankind from its origins to the present day

Posted by kluciole at 11/26/2009 1:28 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

French artist Paul Delaroche's painting "Charles I Insulted by Cromwell's Soldiers," thought to have been destroyed during WWII German air raid, found and in good condition

Posted by kluciole at 11/26/2009 1:10 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

1,500 years after she was buried alive in Korea, scientists reconstruct a 16-year-old servant girl's image

Posted by kluciole at 11/25/2009 1:16 PM | Add Comment

Artist Henri Matisse: the true revolutionary who "anticipated minimalist abstraction"

Posted by kluciole at 11/21/2009 6:14 PM | Add Comment

Taiwanese fashion designer Colin Lin uses recycled paper in shoemaking

Posted by kluciole at 11/21/2009 6:02 PM | Add Comment

Luciole friends and contributors Ellyn Maybe and S.A. Griffin reading at Beyond Baroque this Sunday with Yama Lake -- tribute to artist Mark Cheka

Posted by kluciole at 11/20/2009 9:57 PM | Add Comment

Photo: the Galaxy Dress has thousands of LED lights (featured at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry; it uses the same amount of electricity as two light bulbs)

Posted by kluciole at 11/19/2009 8:24 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Photo: Christmas lights decorate Berlin's famous shopping road Kurfuerstendamm

Posted by kluciole at 11/19/2009 7:30 PM | Add Comment

The Alida Ivanov Gallery (to be featured in the next issue of Luciole Press) presents a one night performance by artist Nadine Byrne, "Dream State Family Magic”

Posted by kluciole at 11/17/2009 2:50 PM | Add Comment

Exene Cervenka's In-Store Free Show @ Amoeba Music Hollywood

Posted by kluciole at 11/16/2009 6:34 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a Sadhu (Hindu holy man) rests on the stairs leading to the banks of the River Ganges

Posted by kluciole at 11/16/2009 4:57 PM | Add Comment

Photo: "Going Rouge: The Sarah Palin Rogue Coloring & Activity Book"

Posted by kluciole at 11/16/2009 4:03 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

New literary star Marie NDiaye takes on France's old guard; she is the author of "Trois femmes puissantes" ("Three Powerful Women")

Posted by kluciole at 11/13/2009 6:52 PM | Add Comment

Photo: the Chocolate Room, by artist Edward Ruscha; at MOCA Grand Avenue in Los Angeles

Posted by kluciole at 11/13/2009 6:17 PM | Add Comment

Love the imagery in this video: "Meet Me Halfway" by the Black Eyed Peas

Posted by kluciole at 11/12/2009 1:21 AM | Add Comment

Israel displays coins from ancient Jewish revolt

Posted by kluciole at 11/12/2009 1:17 AM | Add Comment
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