Until last week. Under pressure, Austrian state governor Jorg Haider is having Nazi artwork removed from the state parliament buildings. But instead of painting over the fresco, he's having a new museum built for it so it can be restored to its former glory. Seventy American artists including Chuck Close, Robert Rauschenberg and Roy Lichtenstein have donated artwork to raise money for the Democratic National Committee. Some 1,500 works will be put up for sale on a web art auction .
Shipwrecks are a rich source of history and our artistic past.
There are thousands of wrecks in international waters that have yet to be found. Yet, more than a half-century after his death, the dance world is still endlessly fascinated with the dancer and choreographer s work and bizarre life. For years, filmmakers here have tried to make a movie based on Kahlo's gripping and tragic life story, but they have found their projects derailed by bickering parties, mediocre scripts, lack of financing and controversy about casting decisions. They involve some of the biggest Latino names in filmmaking. Gustav Mahler was always after the bigger better thing.