Modern art

INTERVIEW Silviu Biris: Being born in Bucharest was a blessing

In an interview to AGERPRES, actor Silviu Biris says having been born in Bucharest is a blessing, calling his boyhood an 'amalgamation of happy happenings.'

In his interview under the 'MY CITY, BUCHAREST' project, Biris says foreigners should come here to discover the locals, first of all.

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Recovered Matisse shown in Venezuela after mystery theft

A painting by Henri Matisse stolen more than a decade ago in Caracas and later recovered in an FBI sting is on display again in the Venezuelan capital.
      
The "Odalisque in Red Pants", worth around $3 million, was exhibited Tuesday for the first time in more than a decade at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
      

Van Gogh Ear Replica Displayed in German Museum

Karlsruhe's Center for Art and Media is exhibiting a genetic copy of the left ear of Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh, which he cut off in 1888.

Museum officials are quoted by the Huffington Post Germany as saying the genetic "reconstruction" was created by Diemut Strebe, who used cells of an heir to Van Gogh, namely his brother's great-great-grandson, Theo.

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