Architect Ricardo Legorreta, who combined vibrant color with geometric shapes, dies at 80

MEXICO CITY.- Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta has died at the age of 80. Legorreta’s best-known work is Mexico City’s Camino Real hotel, which was built in 1968. He also oversaw the remodeling of Los Angeles’ Pershing Square in 1993. The hallmark of Legorreta’s work was the use of color. He placed a 10-story purple bell tower in the middle of Pershing Square and covered the Camino Real’s front exterior walls in pink and yellow. Mexico’s Foreign Relations Department and National Arts [...]

Celebrities Gather to Celebrate Staffordshire Hoard Acquisition

LONDON.- On June 1, celebrities including Dame Judi Dench, Michael Palin, David Starkey and Tristram Hunt gathered at the British Museum for an Art Fund ‘thank you’ event for major supporters of the Staffordshire Hoard campaign. The Art Fund hosted the event to thank major donors and high profile figures that supported the £3.3m appeal to save the most valuable Anglo-Saxon treasures ever found on UK soil. After a welcome address from the Art Fund’s director Stephen Deuchar, Ed Vaizey, [...]