Andes News

It's not exactly breaking news that we live in a celebrity culture. To watch the Golden Globes or the Oscars, not to mention the red carpet pregame shows and nightly doses of "Access Hollywood," you'd be forgiven for wondering whether television and the movies are the only significant outlets for human achievement, whether George Clooney should run ... (more)

In this Jan. 12, 2012 photo, Morrison Heckscher, center, the chairman of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, raises his piece from the ceremonial ribbon cutting, in New York.

"The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak," by Albert Bierstadt, left; "Washington Crossing the Delaware" by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, center; and "Heart of the Andes," by Frederic Edwin Church are displayed in the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, Thursday, Jan.