A recent Associated Press article reports that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is now looking into the provenance of the Ka-Nefer-Nefer mask, a 3,000-year-old Egyptian relic acquired in the late 1990s by the Saint Louis Art Museum.The mask, said to date back to the Nineteenth Dynasty (1293-1185 B.C.), was unearthed early in 1952 by an up-and-coming Egyptian archaeologist named Mohammed Zakaria Goneim. It is now at the center of a long-running ownership dispute between the art museum and
A little late on the draw here, but I couldn't let this week pass without noting the ruckus over Post-Dispatch art critic David Bonetti's review of Cindy Tower's latest work -- and her response, which has to do with flatulence. Read on. Tower, who paints scenes of complete despair over in East St. Louis, has a show ongoing at the Sheldon Art Galleries; Bonetti panned it in 334 words on March 9, writing:"Tower must realize that she doesn't cut it as a painter, because she insists that her p
You could go out this weekend and spend a wad of cash drinking like a sailor. Or, you might find yourself online or at the mall, and end up charging a ridiculous-looking thermal coat to your Visa. But why put yourself in the poorhouse (or the poky) when all the following events are just $10 or less? P.S. We've got plenty of music choices this weekend, too. Image ViaSee Bob Run premieres Friday.​See Bob Run at the ArtSpace at Crestwood Court (Opens Friday) See Bob Run, a one-woman show by Canad
