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Olympia Museum Theft Worse Than Originally Reported

AP | Posted 04.21.2012

ATHENS, Greece — Police in Greece say 77 artifacts were stolen by armed robbers last week at a small museum in Ancient Olympia – the birth...

You'll Never Believe How This Art Theft Went Down!

Posted 01.23.2012

In a scene straight out of the movies, thieves stole two artworks from a gallery in Olympia, Washington over the weekend. Though the art world has see...

PHOTOS: Top 10 Artists' Muses and Mistresses

Posted 11.15.2011

The old saying tells us that "Behind every great man there is a great woman," but oftentimes artists keep their beauties right where they can see them...

Huffington Post Exclusive Music World Premiere: On The Twentieth Anniversary Of Nevermind, SPIN Curates A Tribute Album (Audio)

Michael Vazquez | Posted 09.17.2011

Michael Vazquez

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What's In a (Painting's) Name? Quite a Lot, Actually

Daniel Grant | Posted 08.06.2011

Daniel Grant

In 1871, James McNeill Whistler painted what would become his most famous work, which he titled "Arrangement in Grey and Black" and submitted the foll...

PLAY > SKIP: New Music for Oct. 26

Shawn Amos | Posted 05.25.2011

Shawn Amos

This Halloween week, the cast of Glee do the time warp, Sean Lennon goes acoustic, Bryan Ferry comes close to a Roxy Music reunion, Anne Sofie von Otter and Brad Mehldau fall in love, and Madlib's medicine show makes a stop at a '60s soul party.

Nation's Morons March On Washington State

The Onion | The Onion | Posted 05.25.2011

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OLYMPIA, WA—"More government accountability, and transparency, and accountability!" shouted grade-A moron Tammy Caldwell, 37, addressing no one ...

Referendum 71: US Supreme Court Judge Blocks Release Of Names In Gay Rights Ballot Fight

AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has temporarily blocked Washington state officials from releasing the names of people who sig...

Magritte Painting Stolen By Armed Thieves In Daylight Raid

Times Online | David Charter, Brussels and Nico Hines | Posted 05.25.2011

Thieves stole a painting by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte today in an armed daylight raid on a museum dedicated to his life and works. ...

"First We Take Manhattan...Democracy is Coming to the U.S.A."

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Vivian Norris

The Leonard Cohen concert at the Olympia in Paris last night was better than I could have imagined it to be...and it made so much more sense as I list...