Home Museum About Us Events Contact Us Journal Contents Community Arts Corner Links
OF COMINGS AND GOINGS
Bob Dylan arranged to display a collection of his artworks at a museum in Germany.
Keith Richards is working on a memoir that will be published by Little, Brown and Company in 2010.
Movies directed by women are reportedly on an upswing, with a variety of styles and personalities displayed. The struggle for equality and respect continues to manifest in art; popular culture.
There are plans for a Frederico Fellini Museum to be located in the director's home town of Rimini, on the Adriatic coast of Italy.
The National Gallery in London exhibited the largest collection of renaissance artist Titan to be shown in the United Kingdom.
According to Professor Margaret Livingstone of Harvard University, the famous smile on the face of the Mona Lisa disappears when it is looked at directly.
Prehistoric cave paintings of horses at Chauvet, in south-central France, have been dated through carbon isotope analysis of the charcoal used. A new theory of the development of art seems in order, since the paintings are 30,000 years old.
At a ceremony in New Orleans, Fats Domino was presented with replacement gold discs that were destroyed in Hurricane Katrina.
A film based on the awards winning play Frost/Nixon is in theaters. Michael Sheen transfers his stage role as David Frost into the film, with Frank Langella continuing as Richard Nixon. Ron Howard directed the movie version of the events surrounding the television interviews of the ex-president, three years after his resignation from this country's highest office.
Country Legend Porter Wagoner made a comeback and is being discovered by new generations. His TV show lasted from 1960 to 1979, and helped launch the career of Dolly Parton.
It seems that Elvis Presley impersonator, or, tribute artist, Shaw Klush, has been chosen to be Graceland managers' first official Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist. A worldwide competition had been held, and the man from Pennsylvania is in the building.
Chinese state television has a 40-part series in the works on the life of Bruce Lee.
Every year since 1949 a mysterious person (or persons) has visited the grave of Edgar Allan Poe in the early hours of the morning, having a toast of cognac to Poe's original grave marker, and leaving three roses. A 92 year old man named Sam Porpora, who led a movement to preserve the historic site, says the idea was his; he and his tour guides carried it out as a promotional stunt, not thinking it would enter Pop Culture lore.
The oldest literary award in the United Kingdom, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, was awarded to US writer Cormac McCarthy, already a Pulitzer Prize winner. McCarthy's novel The Road, about a father and son surviving in a post-apocalyptic America, was honored as the best novel of 2006.
Ringo Starr's new CD is, in his own words, "...a great representation of the stuff I've done in the last 400 years."
Viennese pathologist and forensic expert Christian Reiter has concluded that Beethoven's physician accidentally killed him with a wrong cure.
According to the journal Physics:Condensed Matter, a hi-tech garment that enables humans to scale vertical objects, spider like, or, Spider-Man like, may one day be a reality.
A 9 foot high bronze statue of former South African President Nelson Mandela was unveiled in London in Parliament Square.
According to the trade magazine Variety, director Martin Scorsese has signed to make a film about the life of George Harrison.
Liv Ullmann, the Norwegian actress who worked with director Ingmar Bergman in some of his most influential films, is supposed to appear in a film titled In a Mirror, In a Riddle which is based on Jostein Gaarder's novel. Liv will portray a grandmother.
"I am now a heavenly body," George Takei said. He is. An asteroid between Mars and Jupiter is now officially '7307 Takei,' in honor of Takei's role as Hikaru Sulu in the first Star Trek TV series and movies.
The 2007 Nobel Prize in literature went to a person whose formal schooling ended at age 13: Doris Lessing.
The Man Booker fiction prize for 2007 went to Irish writer Anne Enright for The Gathering, her portrait of a family in crisis.
Sir Roger Moore was honored with the Dag Hammarskjold Inspiration award for his work as a goodwill ambassador for Unicef. The star of the Saint TV series and James Bond movies received the award at a ceremony in New York.
The Ohio state University had a Milton Caniff exhibit. Caniff was the cartoonist who created Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon, and whose stark style influences comic artists to this day.
Ex-President Bush gave America's highest civilian honor to author Harper Lee. Her racially charged novel To Kill A Mockingbird (her only novel), won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961.
The New York Public Library has 22 boxes of papers to catalog from the theater career of Katherine Hepburn, before putting them on display for fans and scholars.
Hammer Films' restored version of their classic Dracula (US title: Horror of Dracula) was released in 2007 during Halloween.
Mel Brooks's latest musical, Young Frankenstein, opened on Broadway and is very popular.
A recent auction fetched a whopping 114,000 Lbs for a first edition of Emily Bronte's classic novel Wuthering Heights.
The birthplace of English writer Rudyard Kipling, in the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay), is being converted into an art museum.
Star Trek's Patrick Stewart won a London Evening Standard Theatre Award for the West End production of Macbeth.
A new London gallery, The Vault, displayed a unique collection of meteorites, crystals, gems and metals from around the world.
The Post Office has issued an Ol' Blue Eyes postage stamp. After Sinatra got his, can Dean and Sammy be far behind?
J. M. W. Turner's Bamborough Castle, described as "one of the finest watercolor drawings in the world" in 1837, had not been displayed in public for almost 120 years. It sold for almost 3 million Lbs.
The British Library acquired an archive of more than 150 boxes of manuscripts, letters, photographs, scrapbooks and other material of playwright Harold Pinter.
Before he died, writer Arthur C. Clarke had three wishes on his 90th birthday: for the world to convert to cleaner energy resources, for lasting peace in his adopted home, Sri Lanka, and for evidence of extraterrestrial beings.
British pop artist Allen Jones had a show in London to celebrate his 70th birthday.
The centenary of the birth of writer Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, was marked with UK postage stamps. Each stamp shows a different Bond novel cover.
Home Museum About Us Contact Us Journal Community Arts Corner Links