London Unveils Memorial to July 7 Victims British officials unveiled a memorial of 52 steel pillars in a London park Tuesday – one for each victim of the July 7, 2005, attacks on the city’s transit system. Prime Minister Gordon Brown, London Mayor Boris Johnson and the Prince of Wales and his wife the Duchess [...]

Funeral Blues by WH Auden Stop all the clocks, cut of the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead, Put crepe bows round [...]

The Roman Elvis was chiselled 1800 years ago, a marble arcoterion to decorate the corners of a sarcophagus, a stone tomb or burial chamber and will go on sale in October in London by the British auction house Bonhams.

What in the name of all that is holy was the Louvre thinking with this exhibit of a “chaotic pile of tombstones” in the same room with John Paul Rubens series on the Life of Marie de Medicis? The Brussels Journal finds at least one professor of art calls it The Vampirization of the Louvre [...]