Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Daily art news

 Carmen Tita Cervera, widow of industrial magnate Baron Hans Heinrich von Thyssen-Bornemisza, poses in front of a painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir titled "Woman With a Parasol in a Garden" during the media inauguration of the exhibition "Impressionist gardens" at Madrid's Thyssen-Bornemisza museum November 15, 2010. 


WASHINGTON.- Gary Hevel, a museum specialist at the Smithsonian Institution, examines a specimen tray of tropical long-horned beetles at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington November 15, 2010. These iridescent beetles, native to South America, represent only a small fraction of the more than 35 million specimens of insects in the Smithsonians entomology collection.


Beatles tracks to be sold on iTunes.The band's surviving members Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, and the widows of John Lennon and George Harrison, have so far held out against making their music available digitally but are finally ready to embrace the digital age, according to reports. The band, who refused to sell their songs on CD until 1987, have finally agreed to allow digital releases exclusively through iTunes, the Financial Times reported. 

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