The Roman police have recovered Picasso’s Little Guitar, from a local businessman, CBC news reported. The recovered work was a toy sculpture made for the artist’s daughter Paloma.
The Carabinieri police said Picasso had given the toy to his friend, Italian artist Giuseppe Vittorio Parisi, who had lent it to the businessman two years ago to [...]

Unrelentingly cynical and sharp as a razor blade, Armando Iannucci’s In The Loop comes at audiences with the intensity of a blow to the face. At this point in the decade, when just about every critical thing that can be said about the inner workings of governments – particularly governments preparing to enter into a [...]

Jim Jarmusch’s Broken Flowers made a successful run across various festival circuits in 2005 starring Bill Murray as a man running back into his past carefully picking up the flowers strewn across failed relationships and romances. On the road trip to absolution plays the fabulous Broken Flowers soundtrack. Headlining the versatile record is Ethiopian musician [...]

“Al fin de la batalla,
y muerto el combatiente, vino hacia él un hombre
y le dijo: ‘No mueras, te amo tanto!’
Pero el cadáver ¡ay! siguió muriendo.”
“La Masa”, César Vallejo, 1937
A man enters a room while another man lies inside a tanning bed. They have an exchange about how their company is downsizing and the troubles it [...]

Glasgow-based artist Richard Wright, who created a gorgeous fresco in gold leaf, has won this year’s Turner Prize, the U.K.’s most prestigious art prize, CBC news reported on Monday. It was an unexpected choice from the Turner committee, which often chooses more outrageous art like Damien Hirst’s Pickled Sharks and Mark Wallinger’s State Britain, which [...]

India is in the throes of massive and multi-dimensional socio-economic change. That has already – in some circles at least – become cliché. Also, a lot of people are determined to call this change unqualified progress, a clear sign that India is poised to take her ‘rightful’ position at the world’s high table soon. They [...]

The title of Arnaud Desplechin’s A Christmas Tale evokes a sentimental, fairytale-like feeling. It suggests a story in which all problems are brought to heel by spirit of the holiday, sweeping away conflict and renewing old bonds. Desplechin’s film does not play out this way, but is instead a deep and complex family drama (occasionally [...]