http://theglobalherald.com News, Analysis & Reflection Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:13:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://theglobalherald.com/visual-representations-of-the-holocaust-and-religion/26098/ http://theglobalherald.com/visual-representations-of-the-holocaust-and-religion/26098/#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:26:04 +0000 Dr K. Hannah Holtschneider http://theglobalherald.com/?p=26098 Representations of the Holocaust have been debated for a long time, almost since the end of World War II in 1945. For some representations per se are problematic, because they aestheticise a horrible subject, because they try to convey experiences which are deemed uncommunicable, because they appropriate other people’s experiences, because they are voyeuristic of [...]]]> http://theglobalherald.com/visual-representations-of-the-holocaust-and-religion/26098/feed/ 0 http://theglobalherald.com/anna-tosney-printmaker-exhibiting-at-yorkshire-dales-national-park-uk/25764/ http://theglobalherald.com/anna-tosney-printmaker-exhibiting-at-yorkshire-dales-national-park-uk/25764/#comments Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:28:15 +0000 Entertainment Desk http://theglobalherald.com/?p=25764 Anna Tosney is a printmaker from Skipton in Northern England. Her latest collection is inspired by the landscape of the National Park near her home and struck such a chord with the people there that it is being exhibited in the offices of the National Park authority in Bainbridge. Featuring farmers, animals and the famous [...]]]> http://theglobalherald.com/anna-tosney-printmaker-exhibiting-at-yorkshire-dales-national-park-uk/25764/feed/ 0 http://theglobalherald.com/people%e2%80%99s-portraits-exhibition-at-girton-college-cambridge/23526/ http://theglobalherald.com/people%e2%80%99s-portraits-exhibition-at-girton-college-cambridge/23526/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:03:59 +0000 Girton College http://theglobalherald.com/?p=23526 From the lifeboatmen of Fowey to a hairdresser, people from many different walks of life are captured on canvas in the extraordinary People’s Portraits exhibition housed at Girton College. The collection originated as a millennial exhibition mounted by the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. After being seen by over one million people on its tour [...]]]> http://theglobalherald.com/people%e2%80%99s-portraits-exhibition-at-girton-college-cambridge/23526/feed/ 0 http://theglobalherald.com/hermione-the-egyptian-mummy-on-display-at-cambridge-university/22316/ http://theglobalherald.com/hermione-the-egyptian-mummy-on-display-at-cambridge-university/22316/#comments Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:14:03 +0000 Girton College http://theglobalherald.com/?p=22316 Girton College has a newly refurbished small museum, the Lawrence Room, now open to the public once a week. On exhibition are many fascinating objects from three major collections, namely Anglo-Saxon, Egyptian and Mediterranean. Perhaps the most interesting is the unique mummy of a schoolteacher named Hermione, who carries her name written in Greek on [...]]]> http://theglobalherald.com/hermione-the-egyptian-mummy-on-display-at-cambridge-university/22316/feed/ 0 http://theglobalherald.com/1859-sicilian-stamp-auctioned-for-1-8-million/17758/ http://theglobalherald.com/1859-sicilian-stamp-auctioned-for-1-8-million/17758/#comments Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:16:09 +0000 Entertainment Desk http://theglobalherald.com/?p=17758 An 1859 Sicilian stamp has sold at auction in Switzerland for €1.8 Million. The “Error of Colour” stamp was printed in blue instead of orange. The auctioneers, Galerie Dreyfus, claim that the stamp is the most expensive Italian postage stamp and second most expensive stamp in the world. The ½ Grana stamp has a Palermo [...]]]> http://theglobalherald.com/1859-sicilian-stamp-auctioned-for-1-8-million/17758/feed/ 0 http://theglobalherald.com/polish-president-opens-golden-times-of-the-republic-art-exhibition-in-spain/17442/ http://theglobalherald.com/polish-president-opens-golden-times-of-the-republic-art-exhibition-in-spain/17442/#comments Thu, 02 Jun 2011 12:08:53 +0000 Entertainment Desk http://theglobalherald.com/?p=17442 The President of Poland, Bronislaw Komorowski, opened an art exhibition celebrating Polish treasures on 1st June 2011. The exhibition has been prepared by the National Museum in Krakow and is present in the Palacio Real de Madrid. The highlight of the exhibition is Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece “Lady with an Ermine”, which has been in [...]]]> http://theglobalherald.com/polish-president-opens-golden-times-of-the-republic-art-exhibition-in-spain/17442/feed/ 0 http://theglobalherald.com/matthew-humphries-win-5000-naidoc-prize-for-road-to-change/16825/ http://theglobalherald.com/matthew-humphries-win-5000-naidoc-prize-for-road-to-change/16825/#comments Tue, 24 May 2011 09:14:28 +0000 Entertainment Desk http://theglobalherald.com/?p=16825 The National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee has awarded $5000 to Matthew Humphries, an indigenous artist from Mackay in Central Queensland, Australia, for his artwork “Road to Change”, which will be used in promoting the the annual celebrations of Australia’s traditional owners. 100 artists entered the NAIDOC  poster competition under the theme: ‘Change – [...]]]> http://theglobalherald.com/matthew-humphries-win-5000-naidoc-prize-for-road-to-change/16825/feed/ 0 http://theglobalherald.com/art-afghanistan%e2%80%99s-timeless-treasures/15642/ http://theglobalherald.com/art-afghanistan%e2%80%99s-timeless-treasures/15642/#comments Fri, 06 May 2011 16:54:23 +0000 Mohammad Razai http://theglobalherald.com/?p=15642 On a frigid day in December 1978, a large convoy of Russian tanks and armoured vehicles crossed into Balkh through the Temez border in the North of Afghanistan. The aim of the invasion was to shore up the flailing Marxist regime in Kabul. On that same day, 80 miles away in the ancient city of [...]]]> http://theglobalherald.com/art-afghanistan%e2%80%99s-timeless-treasures/15642/feed/ 0 http://theglobalherald.com/art-a-bronze-by-any-other-name-gian-mario-spacca-on-the-fano-bronze/14417/ http://theglobalherald.com/art-a-bronze-by-any-other-name-gian-mario-spacca-on-the-fano-bronze/14417/#comments Fri, 01 Apr 2011 19:12:59 +0000 Gian Mario Spacca http://theglobalherald.com/?p=14417 “What’s in a name?” In a brief phrase, William Shakespeare encapsulated the struggle and tragedy of his classic Italian lyrical drama pitting Capulet against Montague. Today, another unfortunate Italian fight over heart and mind pits the people of Italy against the wealthiest museum in the world, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. It [...]]]> http://theglobalherald.com/art-a-bronze-by-any-other-name-gian-mario-spacca-on-the-fano-bronze/14417/feed/ 0 http://theglobalherald.com/king-tutankhamun-statues-missing-after-egypt-unrest/11094/ http://theglobalherald.com/king-tutankhamun-statues-missing-after-egypt-unrest/11094/#comments Mon, 14 Feb 2011 02:29:43 +0000 Law Desk http://theglobalherald.com/?p=11094 http://theglobalherald.com/king-tutankhamun-statues-missing-after-egypt-unrest/11094/feed/ 0