Click to read:Ailing Artist's Dilemma: Her Art or Health Jul 22, 2009
Researchers believe Van Gogh and Michelangelo could have had problems like Alison's. Nothing could be done for them and the longer Alison waits for treatment the greater the risk of seizures or stroke or maybe death. (CBS News)
Art.view: Renaissance for the Renaissance Jul 19, 2009
To give some idea of how de Montmorency s wealth, cultivation and connections found expression here, a portico was added in around 1550 to the castle to shelter Michelangelo s Slaves. The statues were a gift from Henri II, who often stayed there with his Italian queen Catherine de Medici. (The Economist)
Sex on the Desert Jul 15, 2009
Was Zabriskie PointMichelangelo Antonioni's biggest flopjust misunderstood ... Hailed as a master youth-culture anthropologist after 1967's , his supremely chic ode to Swinging London, Michelangelo Antonioni went looking for the soul of a dramatically divided America. (Slate)
From overwhelming to energetic Jul 15, 2009
The orange, fleshy forms twisting diagonally across the foreground of After the End of the Beginning recall the hands of God and Adam in Michelangelo s The Creation of Adam. They tumble over a ground of mauve and turquoise, sinister with shifting shadows. (Boston Globe)
Quentin over Fellini? "Annie Hall" over Antonioni? Jul 15, 2009
L'Avventura (1960) Michelangelo Antonioni Andrew O'Hehir. Friday, July 10, 2009 15:11 EDT. (Salon)
Peter Laird: from geek to comic-book superstardom Jul 14, 2009
The first comic book featuring the crime-fighting turtles known as Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello came out in May 1984, and the 3,000 copies sold out instantly. (You can find one on eBay for about $800. (Boston Globe)
Are Business Executive Overpaid and Corrupt? Jul 10, 2009
This huge frozen effigy, incongruously modeled on the classical Michelangelo sculpture of the Biblical David, served as the dominant decoration in a laughably lavish birthday bash for the new wife of Dennis Kozlowski, hard-charging CEO of giant health care and electronics conglomerate Tyco. Kozlowski had first met his adored soul-mate Karen Mayo while she worked as a waitress in Rons Beach House, a high-end watering hole near corporate headquarters in Exeter, New Hampshire. (Townhall.com)
Berkeley Rep director heads to Broadway. Again. Jul 3, 2009
I'd put Michelangelo very near the top of my list. He's been a longtime obsession of mine. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Possible Michelangelo self-portrait revealed Jul 3, 2009
VATICAN CITY The restoration of Michelangelo's frescoes in the Vatican's Pauline Chapel may have produced a special prize a previously unknown self-portrait of the artist. Chief Vatican restorer Maurizio De Luca said Thursday that the face of a man on horseback in the artist's "The Crucifixion of St. Peter" could well be the artist, though he told AP Television News that nobody will ever know "with absolute certainty that the face is Michelangelo's." ... The frescoes were commissioned by Pope... (Yahoo News -- Politics)
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Possible Michelangelo self-portrait revealed - Yahoo ... Possible Michelangelo self-portrait revealed ... VATICAN CITY The restoration of Michelangelo's frescoes in the Vatican's Pauline Chapel may have produced a special prize a previously unknown self-portrait of the artist. (Yahoo News -- Politics)
Unplugged: Rohit Bal Jun 28, 2009
- Gudda would want to be reborn as the Italian Renaissance painter, architect, poet and engineer, Michelangelo Buonarroti. - Very emotional, he cries endlessly, without reason. (India Times, India)
Archive: Michael in the mirror Jun 26, 2009
If I could stand face to face with Walt Disney or Michelangelo, would I care what they do in their private life. I want to know about their art. (USA Today -- Life)
Pound slides on political turmoil Jun 6, 2009
Inquiry over 'Michelangelo' work. WATCHED/LISTENED. (BBC News -- Business)
LETTER: Denying their rights won't get rid of gays Jun 3, 2009
The Question wrote on Jun 2, 2009 7:00 AM:" If you were to retroactively withdraw the accomplishments of gay people from history, you'd find yourself somewhere back in the Dark Ages, at least.Subtract the achievements of these: Alexander the Great, Socrates, Hadrian, Richard the Lionhearted, Edward II, Saladin, Francis Bacon, Frederick the Great, Byron, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Willa Cather, E.M. Forster, Tchaikovsky, Marcel Proust, Cole Porter, Leonard Bernstein, Julius Caesar, Pope Julius... (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
New on DVD: Yankees highlights, 'Zabriskie Point' May 29, 2009
A languorous folly but a frequently glorious one from director Michelangelo Antonioni, indulging deep MGM pockets made possible by the grosses from his 1966 Blow-Up. Back story: Compromised by vapid leads Mark Frechette (later found dead in prison) and Daria Halprin, this box-office catastrophe is still a hypnotic audio-visual mix that always attracted robust crowds when I was a film programmer. (USA Today -- Life)
'ZABRISKIE POINT' GETS 2ND LIFE ON DVD May 27, 2009
MICHELANGELO Antonioni's "Zabriskie Point" (1970), one of the most controversial and notorious flops in Hollywood history, is getting another chance on DVD.. The most spectacularly unsuccessful attempt by a studio to cash in on the "youth market" it thought was created by "Easy Rider," this indictment of American society was savaged by critics and returned just 900,000 on MGM's 7 million investment. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Fire and future May 25, 2009
Page last updated at 08:21 GMT, Sunday, 24 May 2009 09:21 UK. Hello clouds, hello sky, hello future. (BBC News -- Business)
Human skulls found in India pond May 25, 2009
Page last updated at 07:14 GMT, Monday, 25 May 2009 08:14 UK. Authorities in northern India are digging out a pond in which hundreds of human skulls have been discovered. (BBC News -- South Asia)
US sex-abstinence drive 'flawed' May 25, 2009
Page last updated at 02:13 GMT, Friday, 1 December 2006. US sex-abstinence drive 'flawed. (Yahoo News -- Birth Control)
Middle age spread link to frailty May 25, 2009
Page last updated at 23:02 GMT, Sunday, 24 May 2009 00:02 UK. Emma Wilkinson Health reporter, BBC News. (BBC News -- Health)
Sikh man dies after Vienna clash May 25, 2009
Page last updated at 04:58 GMT, Monday, 25 May 2009 05:58 UK. Please turn on JavaScript. (BBC News -- Europe)
Dubious origins May 25, 2009
Controversy over 'Michelangelo' sculpture ... The Italian art world is in a messy "is it or isn't it" debate over a wooden sculpture that may or may not have been made by Michelangelo ... This is not a tale about fakery or imitation - everyone says the statue is a Renaissance piece of art from around 1495, when Michelangelo would have been 20. (BBC News -- Europe)
Kirkbride faces more claims May 25, 2009
Page last updated at 10:18 GMT, Sunday, 24 May 2009 11:18 UK. Expenses row MP faces more claims. (BBC News -- Europe)
UK ministers 'in tax advice claims' May 25, 2009
Page last updated at 04:34 GMT, Monday, 25 May 2009 05:34 UK. Ministers 'in tax advice claims. (BBC News -- Europe)
Reshaping Poland May 25, 2009
Page last updated at 07:17 GMT, Monday, 25 May 2009 08:17 UK. In search of Europe: Poland. (BBC News -- Europe)
British actors dominate TV Globes May 25, 2009
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DVD Report: This week's new releases (May 24) May 24, 2009
Michelangelo Antonioni's impressions of Flower Power-era America - and his eye for Death Valley's stark grandeur - get no-frills DVD treatment. (Warner, $19. (Boston Globe)
Tragic Hero: A Majestic Francis Bacon Show May 24, 2009
Francis Bacon did for despair what Michelangelo did for faith. He made it majestic. (Time.com)
* Texas museum acquires disputed Michelangelo May 15, 2009
Texas museum acquires disputed Michelangelo ... The Fort Worth, Texas, museum bought the painting, titled The Torment of Saint Anthony, believed to be by Michelangelo ... A work of art believed to be Michelangelos first painting X completed when he was 12 or 13 years old X has been acquired by a museum in Texas in a move that leaves other big galleries standing. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Texas museum acquires Michelangelo's 1st painting May 13, 2009
FORT WORTH, Texas - The Kimbell Art Museum will soon be the only U.S. museum to display a Michelangelo painting after acquiring his earliest known work, a rare treasure that was tucked away and doubted as authentic for more than a century ... Museum experts said they determined it not only was Michelangelo's - based on similarities to his other works and the artist's stories of the piece as told to biographers - but also that it was his earliest work - based on its age and details in the... (Anchorage Daily News)
Why poetry will never leave us May 9, 2009
You will meet Italians of quite humble education who know the difference between Michelangelo and Raphael, and in the gallery at the opera during La Boheme you will see a truck-driver mouthing all the words of Rodolfo's first aria along with the tenor, and somewhere in the country there is always somebody, an accountant or a librarian, who can recite the whole of the Divine Comedy. Today's poets include hip hop and spoken word exponents. (BBC News -- UK)
HAMMER COMES CRASHING DOWN ON 'NAILS' May 8, 2009
Other plaintiffs in the latest dust up are Wayne McLean, restaurateur Marco Canora -- who owns East Village hot spot Hearth, as well as the Insieme Restaurant in the Michelangelo Hotel on the West Side -- and Mitchell Shostak, who runs a design studio that was involved in the launch of the magazine when it was still being produced by the now-bankrupt Doubledown Media. Sources said that Dykstra threw a 400,000 launch party at the Mandarin Hotel in Manhattan to introduce The Players Club. (New York Post -- Business)
Chronicling the counterculture May 1, 2009
Influences include Michelangelo Antonioni's The Red Desert, John Cassavetes's Shadows and Robert Kramer's Ice. The film features four of Mann's older friends in a story about political talk and apathy. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Ninja Turtles back in (live) action Apr 28, 2009
Project, targeted for release in 2011, would mark the fifth bigscreen outing for the sewer-dwelling heroes Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael as well as their master Splinter. News coincides with the Turtles' 25th anniversary celebration, which kicks off Thursday in New York as the first "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" film unspools at the Tribeca Film Festival. (Variety)
Cannes Fest names 20 films in competition Apr 28, 2009
HO / ReutersThe poster of the 62nd Festival de Cannes is a work by Annick Durban, a cinema poster artist, inspired by Michelangelo Antonioni's film "L'Avventura". The festival runs May 13-24. (MSNBC -- Movies)
AUDIO: TEXAS GOV. SAYS STATE CAN LEAVE THE UNION IF IT WANTS... Apr 16, 2009
Texas Politics: Perry says Texas can leave the union if it wants to. Blogging politics, elections and the Capitol with the Austin bureau. (The Drudge Report)
George Adams, 64; engineer helped save Capitol frescoes Apr 13, 2009
Brumidi, dubbed by fans as the "Michelangelo of the Capitol," based his work on frescoes in the Vatican, where he lived and worked before immigrating. His masterpiece, "The Apotheosis of Washington," a colorful fresco in the eye of the Capitol dome, took 11 months to paint in 1865. (Boston Globe)
Exhibits highlight two great colorists' different methods Apr 12, 2009
When Michelangelo went to visit Titian, the great Venetian painter who was in Rome working for Cardinal Farnese, Titian had just finished painting his lustrous nude "Dana?." ... Michelangelo and Titian were the two greatest artists alive ... Michelangelo praised "Dana?" warmly ("as one would do with the artist present," recounts Giorgio Vasari, who was there). (Boston Globe)
Terrorist eludes U.S. in Iraq Apr 6, 2009
He's been described as a "genius." The "grandfather of bomb makers." A "Michelangelo." Or as one former Pentagon official said, "Dr. Frankenstein." His infamous career stretches back decades. He has been linked to several terrorist organizations, including Black September and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. (Pocatello Idaho State Journal, ID)
Man charged with destroying statue of Moses in Worcester courthouse Apr 4, 2009
Police charged a Tyngsborough man with toppling a 148-year-old copy of Michelangelo's Moses in a fit of rage over an unpaid parking ticket ... For decades, the Moses statue, a replica of the Michelangelo sculpture that sits in a Roman basilica, was a fixture in the city's old Main Street courthouse, where it sat in an unobtrusive alcove in the courthouse lobby. (Boston Globe)
Pop Culture Icon Turns 25 Apr 2, 2009
A special lighting ceremony will take place at 10:00 AM atop the Empire State Building that day where the TMNT will flip a light switch; and once night falls, the city of New York will be cast in a green glow to shell-ebrate Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo. Later that evening, the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival will host an outdoor screening of the original TMNT movie, open to 10,000 filmgoers, all invited to participate in a world record-breaking event for most people... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Dead body of knowledge Mar 28, 2009
Doctors have shared this experience for centuries, ever since Vesalius, Da Vinci and Michelangelo defied religion and government, stole bodies from graves and churches, and dissected by candlelight in an audacious pursuit of knowledge about the human body. The process is what you would expect: messy and smelly, tedious and time-consuming, emotionally and physically difficult. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
Graffiti artists hold panel with old nemeses in blue Mar 22, 2009
"Did Michelangelo have permission?" he asked rhetorically. "No? Then he gets arrested."). (International Herald Tribune)
Egyptian impact on Giacometti displayed Mar 20, 2009
It left him more impressed than anything else in the "city of Michelangelo." After studying more Egyptian pieces in Rome's Vatican museum, he felt convinced that such art as unsurpassable. "For me, the most beautiful statue is neither Greek nor Roman and certainly not from the Renaissance it is Egyptian," he wrote his parents from Rome in an enthusiastic letter. (Yahoo News)
KISS guitarist knows how to wield a paint brush Mar 17, 2009
The artists work hopscotches from style to style, influenced, he says, by everyone from Picasso to Michelangelo to Warhol to numerous other painters he admires. But that doesnt mean, OMahoney says, that the result doesnt reflect a unique vision. (MSNBC -- News)
Renaissance Art Exhibitions 2009 Mar 15, 2009
Michelangelo: Drawings and Attributions. The exhibition considers the attribution of Old Master drawings by emphasizing those of Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), who never signed his works on paper and burned many of them before his death ... The show features works by Raphael (1483-1520), Michelangelo Buonarroti, Titian (ca. (Suite101.com)
An MFA exhibit highlights the battle between three Renaissance artists, and the works it inspired Mar 13, 2009
Titian's early career was a series of struggles for ascendancy, first with his teachers Giovanni Bellini and Giorgione and later with Pordenone and the great Florentine, Michelangelo (a major influence on Tintoretto). By the time the rivalry between our three heroes here got going, Titian was already established as the preeminent artist in Venice. (Boston Globe)
Darwin worship Mar 6, 2009
His foamy white beard cascades down in the familiar Michelangelo Old Testament style. He speaks to mankind of ancient origins and end times. (BBC News -- Science)
Snap up art at a discount Feb 26, 2009
That includes pieces by Michelangelo Pistoletto (dropped from $40,000 to $24,000), Barbara Broughel (from $16,000 to $12,000), and Yayoi Kusama from $6,500 to $4,500). Though there has been a slowdown, many collectors are continuing to acquire art. (Boston Globe)
The Almanac -- weekly Feb 24, 2009
They include Italian painter and sculptor Michelangelo in 1475; French dramatist Cyrano de Bergerac in 1619; English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1806; Union Army Gen. Philip Sheridan in 1831; humorist and short story writer Ring Lardner in 1885; Texas swing bandleader Bob Wills in 1905; comic actor Lou Costello (Abbott and Costello) in 1906; TV personality Ed McMahon in 1923 (age 86); symphony conductor Sarah Caldwell in 1924; former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan in 1926... (Yahoo News -- Auto Racing)
Public invited to hear Pakay discuss his work Feb 19, 2009
I was very taken by [filmmakers Francois] Truffaut, [Jean Luc] Godard, [Eric] Rohmer and [Michelangelo] Antonioni. In 1970 he returned to Istanbul with a movie camera to record Baldwin in motion. (Hudson Register Star, NY)
UGA sex poster upsets Catholic League Feb 19, 2009
The poster featured Michelangelo s image of the hand of God giving life to Adam except that between the two fingers, one mortal and one not, was a condom ... To defend the graven image painted by Michelangelo to depict G-d is just one more clear example of the false religion their engine for enslaving mankind employs ... Michelangelo created the Sistine Chapel not the Catholic Church. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
The little gold man in a new blue world Feb 18, 2009
He is as comfortable analyzing the sparkle of the 92,000-Swarovski-crystal curtain to frame the Oscar stage as he is waxing rhapsodic about Michelangelo's Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome, the paving of which will be reincarnated as colorful, shifting patterns of light on the Oscar floor. (Brangelina, meet Michelangelo. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 Feb 18, 2009
- 1564, artist Michelangelo died in Rome. - 1861, Jefferson Davis was sworn in as provisional president of the Confederate States of America in Montgomery, Ala. (Yahoo News -- Auto Racing)
How would philistines approach the Sistine? Feb 15, 2009
If Cullen had been living at the time of Michelangelo, he probably would have condemned him for defiling the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel with graffiti, and would have preferred the more prosaic choice of hiring Joe the Painter to decorate it the normal way, with a roller. Berge TatianStoneham. (Boston Globe -- Editorial)
Low estimates and high profiles buoy the contemporary art market Feb 13, 2009
A painted collage by Michelangelo Pistoletto in 1969 - consisting of a cut-out color photograph of a woman standing, with the name of the artist well in evidence on a brochure that she holds - realized 241,250. Given the material flimsiness of the support - tissue-paper - and the greater flimsiness of the art, this price is amazing. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Love in Brooklyn; death in Naples Feb 12, 2009
If James Gray often cites mid-period Fellini ("La Strada," and especially "Nights of Cabiria") as his inspiration, Garrone reaches for another problematic Italian genius, Michelangelo Antonioni, to help him frame this interlocking, multi-stranded drama about the infamous Neapolitan mob known as the Camorra. With tentacles reaching into every area of Italian life, and an estimated three-decade death toll of 4,000, the Camorra is much more than an organization of drug dealers, loan sharks and hit... (Salon)
10 engaging spots for popping the question Feb 10, 2009
Piazzale Michelangelo, FlorenceThis 19th-century terrace with a sweeping view of Florence, framed by the Arno River and the Tuscan countryside, is one of the most romantic sites in a country full of them ... Guidebooks suggest riding local bus No. 13 to Piazzale Michelangelo, but it's better to go by foot; it's a romantic 30-minute stroll through a charming part of Florence's Oltrarno district that you wouldn't otherwise visit. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Alex Rodriguez, Android Feb 8, 2009
When Boras orchestrated A-Rod's first mega-contract in 2000, he distributed a 70-page booklet to interested teams that put Rodriguez's statistics alongside quotes from Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo ... A-Rod might be Michelangelo in the body of Hank Aaron, but fans loathed him because they knew him as nothing more than a self-interested punkas Sports Illustrated put it, "a Narcissus who found pride and comfort gazing upon the reflection of his own beautiful statistics.". (Slate)
