Bruce Nauman at the Venice Biennale

Over the last four decades, American artist Bruce Nauman has been hugely influential on artists all around the world.
Now, Nauman is the subject of this year’s American pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale.
Of the 33 Naumans on view at the Biennale, there’s only one that captures Nauman at his most disruptive. First shown in 1993, [...]

North Korea Sentences 2 US Journalists to 12 Years

The Korean Central News Agency said Monday that the court found the two women guilty of committing an unspecified “grave crime” and illegally crossing into North Korea.
Last Thursday, North Korean state media announced the start of the trial of Euna Lee and Laura Ling, reporters for the U.S. media company Current TV.

Obama’s Inauguration Rocks the Web

As the early numbers pour in, the inauguration of President Barack Obama is shaping up to be a Web video event like no other.
On Jan. 20 CNN.com Live served more than 18.8 million live video streams globally from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. EST, at which time Obama had been sworn in and had delivered [...]

Google founder signs up for space trip

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has paid $5 million to secure a seat on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, officials said Wednesday.
Brin’s seat will be on a future orbital space flight, Eric Anderson, CEO of Space Adventures Ltd., said at a news conference.
In a statement, Brin credits Space Adventures with helping “open the space frontier to [...]

Nobel Spurs Gore

Former Vice President Al Gore’s new status as a Nobel Peace Prize winner is encouraging some of his political supporters in the United States to urge him to run for president next year. But as VOA National correspondent Jim Malone reports from Washington, most political experts doubt Gore will make a run for the [...]

Bin Laden tape urges U.S. To embrace Islam

Six years after orchestrating the deadliest terrorist attacks in U.S. history, Osama bin Laden resurfaced yesterday in a videotape in which he brags about altering the course of U.S. history and warns that the only way to end the war in Iraq is for Americans to convert to Islam.The 25-minute message marked the first time [...]

Texas museum to show Lucy fossil amid criticism

Reuters - Lucy, the world’s most famous human
ancestor, will go on public display for the first time in the
United States this week amid criticism that her 3.2 million
year old bones are too fragile to withstand an 11-city tour.