Golden Bear for Brazilian Film

Director Jose Padilha collected the Golden Bear in Berlin
Congrats!!
The Elite Squad, a violent tale of corrupt drug-squad officers in Brazil, has won the Golden Bear, the top prize at the annual Berlin Film Festival.
This weekend, the Berlin International Film Festival concluded with its awards ceremony. Christina Tilmann approves the jury's decision to give its top prize to José Padilha: "Taken together, the Golden Bear for 'Tropa de Elite' [Elite Troop] and the jury prize for 'Standard Operating Procedure' turn this into a kind of Nobel Peace Prize of film.

In China The Largest Snow Sculpture Ever Created

Romantic Feelings is a staggering 115ft high and 656ft long - the largest snow sculpture ever created.

600 sculptors from 40 countries have used 120,000 cubic feet of snow and ice to create the Olympic themed landscape - a vista of Russian churches, French cathedrals, Chinese palaces and, of course, an ice Acropolis.
This sculpture is the centerpiece of the Ice And Snow Festival, held annually in the northeastern city of Harbin, China.
[from dailymail]

Stolen Paintings by Picasso, Portinari Recover in Sao Paulo

Armed with nothing more than a crow bar and a car jack, thieves took just three minutes to steal Picasso's "Portrait of Suzanne Bloch" above and


Portinari's "O Lavrador de Cafe" from the Sao Paulo Museum of Art on Dec. 20.

The Picasso painting was valued by art experts at about $50 million, and the Portinari at $5-6 million.

Global Artists Indian and Brazilian Painting of a Couple

An Indian couple, mixed media on cardboard.

R. Marinho's acrylic on canvas

Van Gogh La Roubine le Roi

Vincent van Gogh
La Roubine le Roi
1888
oil on canvas
29 x 24 in.
Christie's
$19,802,500

Pablo Picasso Figures surréalistes

Pablo Picasso
Figures surréalistes (Carnet Dinard no. 1044 p. 9)
1928
"Drawing in Space"
Richard Feigen & Co.