In the news: “The Kiss” by Gustav Klimt topping the chart for most romantic painting; Egypt to reopen historical sites; Jasper Johns receives Presidential Medal of Freedom; Controversial artist Tracey Emin announces show in collaboration with late French artist Louise Bourgeois; and Caravaggio’s works exhibiting in Rome at Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza church.

Ancient mummies on the “Secrets of the Silk Road” exhibit at The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; Maria Altamann, a Jewish refugee who fought to recover Gustav Klimt paintings, died at age 94; Newark Museum now exhibiting “Posing Beauty: African-American Images from the 1890′s to the Present”; portrait of an Afghan woman won the World Press Photo award for 2010; and a Paris exhibition aims to restore Cranach’s image.

Mysteries of Mona Lisa and poetic images in word and video — sit by the fire with the latest Escape Into Life jewels!

In the news: Ludovico Carracci’s ‘The Vision of Saint Francis’ acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago; New ‘Art Exchange’, the first stock exchange for art; Bonhams to auction Eric Clapton’s guitars and amps; European Commission to charge high tax on video and light works at UK galleries and auction houses; Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer celebrating 103 years by opening museum: The Oscar Niemeyer Foundation outside Rio de Janeiro.

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