Mercedes-Benz Builds Online Brand World

It's a whole new "brand world" for Mercedes-Benz site: Mercedes-Benz Builds Online Brand World

Mercedes-Benz has launched a multimedia "brand world" on its Web site that features related content, including a virtual tour of the automaker's new museum in Stuttgart and a presentation on automotive technology innovations, in addition to sections marketing its models.

Guggenheim expands into Emirates

Architect Frank Gehry is to design the Guggenheim Foundation's largest museum in the United Arab Emirates. The museum, which will cover 30,000 square metres, will be built in the capital city of Abu Dhabi. > Guggenheim expands into Emirates

Guggenheim's flagship museum for modern and contemporary art is in New York but there are branches in Bilbao, Berlin, Venice and Las Vegas.

US architect Gehry also designed the Bilbao Guggenheim in Spain. The Abu Dhabi museum should be built by 2011.

God, She's Hot

If there was no Goddess Temple of Orange County, someone would have to invent one > God, She's Hot

Conservators at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University in Atlanta are in the process of reuniting a Roman marble statue of “Goddess of Love” Venus (or Aphrodite, to you Greeks) with—for possibly the first time in 170 years—her head.

The High Court in the East Indian city of Calcutta has quashed a case against leading Bengali writer Sunil Gangopadhyay for allegedly defiling a Hindu goddess, Saraswati. Gangopadhyay testified that he was joking when he said he kissed an idol of the “Goddess of Learning” to satisfy his desire.

An Ipswich, Massachusetts, toymaker has released The Goddess Dolls, which “symbolize the positive and empowering aspects of the Goddess tradition, such as love, wisdom and compassion.”

Museum buys 55 Van Gogh letters

Fifty-five letters written by Vincent van Gogh which have been out of public view for 60 years have been bought by the Van Gogh Museum in the Netherlands.

Museum buys 55 Van Gogh letters > The letters, including some sketches, were written between 1881 and 1885 to fellow Dutch artist Anthon van Rappard.

Design museums build themselves up

Design and architecture buffs have two new spaces in which to explore their passion — although neither venue is exactly new and each employs a certain latitude in using the term "museum."

Design museums build themselves up Still, after planning to run their own bistro next door, the two ended up renting out the space for the new restaurant Wilson, named for chef Michael Wilson, former chef at the now-defunct 5 Dudley in Venice and nephew of Beach Boy Brian Wilson.

As for the gallery, shows will rotate every few months and will range from painting and sculpture to exhibitions of unsung architects and even, Pali and Fekete hope, thematic shows in which several designers tackle a common theme.

Tomb contains oldest paintings in Western culture

According to Italian officials a Tomb contains oldest paintings in Western culture

The remains of a tomb carved into the hillside in a barley field 20 kilometres north of Rome, near the town of Veio, is adorned with vibrantly coloured frescoes estimated to be 2,700 years old.

Mercedes museum more than a car show

Kings and queens, presidents and popes, chancellors and czars have owned them or been chauffeured in them.

So have Elvis, Elton John, Pablo Picasso, Al Jolson, Grace Kelly, Errol Flynn, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and countless other celebrities.

In The ChronicleHerald.ca article you will discover that the Company’s history is as fascinating as cars are beautiful.

World's oldest bird fossils

Five beautifully preserved headless fossil skeletons discovered in China suggest modern birds evolved from aquatic duck-like ancestors.

These are propably the World's oldest bird fossils. Several of the specimens are so exquisitely preserved that the remains of feathers and even webbing in the foot can be seen clearly.

In the Pteroducktyl - the missing link, Ornithuran fossils "are relatively rare in the Cretaceous, which is part of what makes Gansus so exciting", said a co-author, Dr Matthew Lamanna of Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

Michelangelo's midnight extension

The British Museum is to open until midnight for the first time to satisfy demand for an exhibition of drawings of the Italian master Michelangelo.

During Michelangelo's midnight extension the works on display come from collections in the British Museum, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and the Teyler Museum in Haarlem in the Netherlands.

It is the British Museum's first Michelangelo exhibition in 30 years.

Getty to display religious icons from Mt. Sinai

In a feat of international diplomacy and long-term planning, the J. Paul Getty Museum has arranged to bring a trove of Byzantine devotional objects from an Egyptian monastery to Los Angeles.

Fifty-three objects from the Holy Monastery of St. Catherine at Mt. Sinai — home of the world's finest collection of Byzantine icons and manuscripts — will go on view Nov. 14 in an exclusive 16-week engagement at the Getty Center.

MUSEUMS - Getty to display religious icons from Mt. Sinai Established in the 6th century by Byzantine emperor Justinian, at the foot of the mountain where Moses is said to have received the Ten Commandments, St. Catherine's is the oldest continuously operating Christian monastery in existence. At this article you can preview some of the Byzantine icons.