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PARIS (AFP) ― A French art expert Thursday unveiled evidence he says proves that a silver statuette of a “wounded woman” is an unknown work by Auguste Rodin, depicting his lover and disciple Camille Claudel. The unsigned statue, 22.5 centimeters tall, depicts a female figure, standing but stooped as if in pain, with a draped fabric over one arm and clenched between her thighs. “All the clues po...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ― Branches of the Louvre and Guggenheim art museums being built as part of an ambitious cultural district in Abu Dhabi could now open at least a year later than planned, the developer and an official with knowledge of the projects said Saturday. Questions about the future of the Saadiyat Island cultural district have swirled among contractors in the Gulf for mont...

NEW YORK (AP) ― A suicide machine belonging to Dr. Jack Kevorkian was withdrawn Friday from an auction of the assisted-suicide advocate’s possessions after failing to draw a high enough bid, while 17 of his paintings tied up in a legal dispute with a suburban Boston museum found no takers. The paintings, including one Kevorkian did with a pint of his blood, and about 100 other personal items wen...

MOSCOW (AFP) ― Russia’s historic Bolshoi Theatre will finally raise its curtain on Friday after a massive, six-year overhaul that aims to create a state-of-the-art space for its world-renowned ballet and opera troupe. Stars including prima ballerina Svetlana Zakharova and French soprano Natalie Dessay will tread the new stage at a lavish gala attended by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev as well...

NEW YORK (AFP) ― Masterworks of Islamic art will once again be on view at New York’s Metropolitan Museum, which next week reopens an exhaustive installation following an eight-year renovation. New York’s biggest and most comprehensive art museum unveils on Nov. 1 its “New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia.” Refurbished at a cost of some $5...

PARIS (AFP) ― Striking staff at Paris’ newly revamped Orsay Museum voted Tuesday to extend a protest which has kept the museum closed to thousands of would-be visitors for almost a week. Workers decided to extend their action launched last Thursday to demand 20 more people to staff the larger, renovated venue, whose world-leading impressionist collection draws three million visitors each year, t...