Van Gogh

Culture Zohn: Marlene Dumas, Measuring Her Own Grave

Patricia Zohn | Posted 06.26.2008 | Entertainment


Patricia Zohn

2008-06-26-0front.jpgThough Dumas' subject may be fear, she, herself, is fearless.

Gunmen Grab $163m in Art at Swiss Museum

AP | ERNST E. ABEGG | Posted 02.11.2008 | Business


ZURICH, Switzerland — Three gunmen in ski masks and dark clothes burst into a museum just before closing time. After a quick run through the bui...

Methuselah Laughing: Liars, Suckers, and Human Mortality

Dan Agin | Posted 11.27.2007 | Living


Dan Agin

Research on aging and longevity is underfunded, not overfunded. The cost to the U.S. taxpayers of one month of the Iraq war would fund a serious war against mortality for ten years.

$5 Billion Of Masterpiece Art Locked Away In Iran

Guardian | Robert Tait | Posted 10.31.2007 | Entertainment


The Picasso masterpiece is worth an estimated £25-30m on the international art market, but its only regular contact with the human eye is the fiercel...

Sotheby's To Sell Van Gogh's Last Masterpiece

AP | Posted 09.23.2007 | Entertainment


One of Vincent van Gogh's final landscapes, "The Fields," will be auctioned in New York in November, a British newspaper reported Saturday. The paint...