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

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

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

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

Scarlett's dresses in bad shape, need repairs

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

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

Rare 3D film shows Warsaw devastated after WWII

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

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

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

Russian curators anger church, but escape jail

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

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

Earliest illustrated Christian bible discovered at Ethiopian monastery

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

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

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

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

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

4th century icons of Peter and Paul found in Rome

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

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

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

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

Modigliani sculpture sets artist record in Paris

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

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

Historic Polaroid collection going to NYC auction

Show unveils Andy Warhol's Catholic, abstract side

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

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

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

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

London art auctions target Russian middle class

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

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

Golden Girls star Rue McClanahan dies at 76

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

57 ancient tombs with mummies unearthed in Lahoun, Egypt

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

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

Poem by Emily Brontë: "A Day Dream"

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

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

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

Jean Paul Gaultier unveils first collection in Russia

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

Italians say they may have found artist Caravaggio's bones

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

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

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

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

Finnish Savonlinna Opera Festival invites you to create new opera

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

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!

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

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

Muslim-inspired fashion shown in Chechnya

Heavy metal dinosaurs Hevisaurus rock the kiddie crowd in Finland

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

Luciole Press Spring/Summer Issue 2010 is here

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pioneering film editor Dede Allen dies at 86

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

Paris retrospective for fashion genius Saint Laurent

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

Fashion photographer Peter Gowland dies at 93

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

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

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

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

Culture clash: European art provokes Muslims

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

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

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

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

Japanese dolphin hunters bitter as 'The Cove' wins Oscar

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

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

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

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

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