By Agence France-Presse “L’Empire des lumieres” was sold for £59.4 million ($79.4 million, 71.4 million euros) in London on Wednesday, shattering the record for a work by Belgian artist Rene Magritte. The Surrealist work, described by London auction house Sotheby’s as “a masterpiece of 20th century art”, had a guide price in excess of $60 […]
The museum’s director said on French radio that the Putin waxwork was defaced and staff did not want to have to fix his hair and appearance every day. Source: Businessinsider.co.za | Photos show a wax figurine of Vladimir Putin being dismantled piece by piece in a Paris museum
By noreply@blogger.com (Newsrust) In the windowless conference room of the Kyiv hotel where the football stars had gathered, anxiety grew by the minute. A failed escape attempt had been a disaster. And the sounds of war – mortar fire, rocket fire, howling warplanes – provided an almost constant reminder of their precarious situation. On Saturday […]