The $120 million, 1,600-ton, 30-foot-tall white granite memorial to Martin Luther King that President Barack Obama is unveiling on the Mall in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011, depicts the great Civil Rights leader with a stern countenance and arms crossed.
To celebrate the centennial of artist and Studio Museum of Harlem cofounder Romare Bearden, who was born on Sept. 2, 1911, the Metropolitan Museum of Art presents the artist’s famous six-panel collage The Block, 1971, Aug. 30, 2011-Jan. 2, 2012.
Michael Bakwin, the victim of a more than 30-year-old residential art theft in Massachusetts -- the largest in the state’s history – has been awarded $3.1 million in a civil suit against the man who harbored six paintings stolen from Bakwin’s Berkshires home in 1978, the Boston Globe reports.
Egypt Prime Minister Essam Sharaf has appointed Mohamed Abdel Fattah, of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, to replace Zahi Hawass, the embattled antiquities minister who lasted just months in the position after allegations of corruption and a too-cozy relationship with ousted leader Hosni Mubarak, the New York Times reports.
