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TV, Boomers and Asia: Film trends to watch post-Cannes

What films will we be watching in the near future, and how will we be watching them? Here's a snapshot of trends that emerged in the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, a weathervane of the movie industry: -- TV, NOT CINEMA: Hollywood's grip on big movies is being broken by TV, to which big-time directors, actors and money are migrating. Dark, offbeat critical and commercial successes like "The Wire," "Mad Men," "The Sopranos" and "Game of Thrones" show what happens when bold programming and video-on-demand (VOD) come together.

TV, Boomers and Asia: Film trends to watch post-Cannes

What films will we be watching in the near future, and how will we be watching them? Here's a snapshot of trends that emerged in the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, a weathervane of the movie industry: -- TV, NOT CINEMA: Hollywood's grip on big movies is being broken by TV, to which big-time directors, actors and money are migrating. Dark, offbeat critical and commercial successes like "The Wire," "Mad Men," "The Sopranos" and "Game of Thrones" show what happens when bold programming and video-on-demand (VOD) come together.

5,000 cave paintings discovered in Mexico

Archeologists have found nearly 5,000 cave paintings made by hunter-gatherers in a northeastern Mexico mountain range where pre-Hispanic groups were not known to have existed. The yellow, red, white and black paintings depict humans, deers, lizards and centipedes, suggesting that the groups hunted, fished and gathered food, according to the National Anthropology and History Institute (INAH). They also painted religious, astronomical and abstract scenes and most of the images are very well preserved.

5,000 cave paintings discovered in Mexico

Archeologists have found nearly 5,000 cave paintings made by hunter-gatherers in a northeastern Mexico mountain range where pre-Hispanic groups were not known to have existed. The yellow, red, white and black paintings depict humans, deers, lizards and centipedes, suggesting that the groups hunted, fished and gathered food, according to the National Anthropology and History Institute (INAH). They also painted religious, astronomical and abstract scenes and most of the images are very well preserved.

Spanish art gets privileged space in New York's Met museum

New York, May 24 (EFE).- New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has reopened its European paintings galleries after a two-year renovation, giving a privileged space to Spanish masters Velazquez, El Greco and Goya. Prior to the overhaul, the Met's large collection of works by Velazquez, Goya, Ribera, Murillo and El Greco had been distributed in different galleries organized either by artistic movement or thematically. But as of Thursday, this museum now has a dedicated space for Spanish art.

Wine labels created by Picasso and Andy Warhol to get museum

Chateau Mouton Rothschild has announced plans to permanently open a museum that will house its collection of wine labels rendered by artists such as Picasso, Chagall, Andy Warhol and Prince Charles. After traveling the world, the exhibition "Mouton Rothschild: Paintings for the Labels" will find a permanent home on the chateau estate in Pauillac in the Medoc alongside the existing Museum of Art in Wine, reports wine publication Decanter. The chateau is currently undergoing major renovations and is expected to open to the public in June.

Wine labels created by Picasso and Andy Warhol to get museum

Chateau Mouton Rothschild has announced plans to permanently open a museum that will house its collection of wine labels rendered by artists such as Picasso, Chagall, Andy Warhol and Prince Charles. After traveling the world, the exhibition "Mouton Rothschild: Paintings for the Labels" will find a permanent home on the chateau estate in Pauillac in the Medoc alongside the existing Museum of Art in Wine, reports wine publication Decanter. The chateau is currently undergoing major renovations and is expected to open to the public in June.

Vatican marks anniversary of 1972 attack on Michelangelo's Pieta

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Forty-one years ago, a crazed Hungarian named Laszlo Toth jumped an altar railing in St. Peter's Basilica and dealt 12 hammer blows to Michelangelo's Pieta, severely damaging the Renaissance masterpiece. To mark the attack on May 21, 1972, the Vatican Museums held a day-long seminar on Tuesday on the statue, the incident, and what subsequently became one of the most delicate and controversial art restorations in history.

NY art dealer tied to alleged forgeries charged with tax fraud

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors on Tuesday charged a New York art dealer with tax fraud in connection with the sale of paintings she claimed to be the works of celebrated abstract expressionists, but some of which the government said were fakes. Glafira Rosales, 56, faces three counts of filing false tax returns and five counts of concealing a Spanish bank account from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.

Man climbs onto dome of St Peter's to protest Italian politics

ROME (Reuters) - A man climbed onto a ledge on the dome of St Peter's Basilica on Monday and unfurled a banner protesting against a "political horror show", an apparent reference to Italy's embattled coalition struggling with recession and high unemployment. Identified by police as Marcello Di Finizio, the man unfurled a white banner reading "Stop this massacre! The political horror show is continuing," in English, scrawled in black and red ink, with "Help us Pope Francis" in Italian.
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