Posted in: Arts, Featured by Miruna Sfia | February 16th 2011 | no comments
The mistery concerning the change of shading in some of Van Gogh’s paintings has been revealed. Apparently, the deterioration of the pieces is due to a chemical reaction having to do with the UV and sunlight.
Some of the Dutch master Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings curiously changed their colors, as bright yellow turned to brown. In order to be able to stop the transformation, scientists had to [...]
By Iohana Georgescu | June 25th 2010 | no comments
Michael Jackson fans from all around the world are celebrating today the first anniversary from the music legend’s death. Thousands of people are expected to gather at the Los Angeles cemetery where the musician was buried while monuments and tributes are being dedicated to the ‘King of Pop’ worldwide. A commemoration of Michael’s life will be taking place in New York at the [...]
By Iohana Georgescu | June 25th 2010 | no comments
After the great disappointment experienced during the Oscars, the highest budget movie of the year, Avatar, by James Cameron, finally got some serious appreciation at the 2010 Saturn Awards, greatly surpassing 'The Hurt Locker' and scoring a total of 10 awards. The film was named the Best Science Fiction film but also got Best Actor and Actress (Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana), Best [...]
By Iohana Georgescu | June 25th 2010 | no comments
Jazz saxophonist Fred Anderson, well known for his smooth playing style as well as his Chicago Club, the Velvet Lounge, has died at the age of 81.Fred Anderson was born on March 22, 1292 in Monroe Louisiana. He learned to play the saxophone by himself during his teenager years. Later on he studied music formally at the Roy Knapp Conservatory in Chicago. His ability to blend old and [...]
By Iohana Georgescu | June 25th 2010 | no comments
The world famous Cirque du Soleil, founded in Montreal, Canada, was finally fined based on the death of its acrobat, Oleksandr Zhurov, that occurred in October 2009. Quebec’s occupational health and safety board issued two fines that had a total worth of $1915. Their spokesman, Alexandra Reny claimed that Cirque du Soleil had already taken measures to decrease the risk of accident in [...]
By Iohana Georgescu | June 24th 2010 | no comments
Since the very invention of motion pictures, nothing was more exciting than IMAX, the motion picture film format that introduced, first of all, higher quality of movies (having the capacity to record and display images of greater size and resolution) and secondly, 3D movies that are the new step in evolution, it seems. According to Reuters, IMAX and Disney have recently signed a [...]
By Iohana Georgescu | June 24th 2010 | no comments
While masterpieces from Picasso or Monet have the habit of being sold for outrageous sums of money, photographs are generally less interesting to a public of any kind. Still this generalization has been blatantly broken this week when Polaroid managed to raise an amazing $12.5 million from an auction that included photographs from their collection.
The auction included more than 1000 [...]
By Iohana Georgescu | June 24th 2010 | no comments
Edward Scissorhands : The Stage Adaptation is a new play version of Tim Burton’s film. The romantic fantasy film starring Johnny Depp tells the story of an artificial man, Edward. Edward is an uncommon man that has scissors instead of hands. His creator was meaning to finish him yet died right before replacing Edward’s scissor hands with actual ones, therefore leaving him a [...]
By Iohana Georgescu | June 24th 2010 | no comments
An autopsy revealed that the bassist from heavy metal band Slipknot, Paul Gray, died because of an accidental overdose on morphine and fentanyl. The musician was discovered dead in his hotel room in Iowa. Paul Gray was also known as nr. 2 or ‘the pig’. He died at age 38.
Gray has played for the entire career of Slipknot, up until now. He relocated from Los Angeles to Des Moines, [...]
By Iohana Georgescu | June 24th 2010 | no comments
Picasso’s Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto depicts a young Spanish artist sitting in a bar with a glass of absinthe. De Soto, the young man in the painting was Picasso friend, usually described as passionate about drinking and partying. The two men met in 1899. While not obvious at first the portrait also illustrates Picasso’s kind of lifestyle and his circle of friends.
The 1903 [...]
By Iohana Georgescu | June 24th 2010 | no comments
Former State Secretary Madeleine Albright has revealed that she’s working on a ‘part memoir and part cautionary tale’ about Europe from 1937 to 1948.
The first woman to become A United States Secretary of State, appointed in December 1996, was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Her birth name was Marie Jana Korbelova. Her father, Josef Korbel, was a Jewish Czech diplomat and [...]
