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France To Return "Stolen" Egyptian Art After Louvre Row

AP | ANGELA CHARLTON | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

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PARIS — France's culture minister agreed Friday to return five painted wall fragments to Egypt after a row over their ownership prompted the Egy...

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Egypt Cuts Ties With France's Louvre Museum Over 'Stolen Artifacts'

AP | PAUL SCHEMM | Posted 10.08.2009 | World

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CAIRO — Egypt's antiquities czar took his campaign to recover the nation's lost treasures to a new level on Wednesday by cutting ties with one o...

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McDonald's At Louvre: Coming Soon!

AP | ELAINE GANLEY | Posted 10.05.2009 | World

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PARIS — French culture and American convenience will come together in December – thanks to plans by the McDonald's restaurant chain to han...

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McDonald's To Open A Restaurant Inside The Louvre

AP | ELAINE GANLEY | Posted 10.05.2009 | World

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PARIS — French culture and American convenience will come together in December – thanks to plans by the McDonald's restaurant chain to han...

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Long View, Slow Looking

Gershon Hepner | Posted 09.03.2009 | Living

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Gershon Hepner

Long looking, like slow cooking, should become the vogue, replacing speedy glances with which we tend to focus on the wood, instead of trees.

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Who Owns Art? Who Owns Democracy?

Karen Essex | Posted 07.20.2009 | World

Read More: British Museum, Napoleon, Louvre, Lord Elgin, Parthenon, Stealing Athena, Bernard Tschumi, New Acropolis Museum, World News
Karen Essex

If the Parthenon marbles are returned to Greece from Britain, it should not be done on the basis of returning "colonial booty." These sculptures are a unique and special case.

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GM's Own "Heritage Collection" Is Now Up for Sale

Steve Parker | Posted 01.19.2009 | Business

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Steve Parker

GM is selling off, one-by-one, piece-by-piece, memory-by-memory, the GM Heritage Collection. Finding out felt like I'd taken a punch to the gut.

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"Leave It To Beaver" Actor To Show Sculpture At The Louvre

AP | Posted 12.12.2008 | Entertainment

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LOS ANGELES — Eat your heart out, Eddie Haskell. Tony Dow, best known as the actor who portrayed The Beav's big brother, Wally, in the '50s TV s...

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Artist Angela Dufresne On Recreating History

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 06.01.2008 | Living

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Kimberly Brooks

Angela Dufresne, The Bruno S Island Acting School and the S House, Paris, France, 2006, oil on canvas, 66 by 108 inches. Courtesy of the artist and M...

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