'Color Blind' paints murder on the art-scene canvas
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In the 19th century, the French novelist Stendhal fainted before a beautiful Italian fresco, trademarking the extreme emotional reaction to art known today as the Stendhal syndrome.  American painter and novelist Jonathan Santlofer is trademarking his own literary syndrome by setting his critically acclaimed suspense novels in New York's cutthroat contemporary art scene.
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ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey  - In Atlantic City, the prostitutes toil not far from this gambling city's famed Boardwalk hoping to turn a trick even though many know a serial killer on the loose has murdered their sister streetwalkers.
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Hero splashes love and death in ravishing colors
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Protagonisti colori ed atmosfere esotiche
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Chelsea Cainâs protagonist is a foxy killer who Hannibal Lecterizes her way through a derivative, sadistic book that somehow aspires to the debonair.
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Bob Glaudiniâs modest, quietly moving drama offers a needed corrective to flashier, more widely disseminated depictions of the meaner streets of Manhattan.
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OSLO, Norway  - Art lovers hope that the masked  gunmen who stole "The Scream" from an Oslo museum last month  treat masterpieces more carefully than artist Edvard Munch ever  did.
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British director Peter Greenaway  attempts to unravel the riddles surrounding Rembrandt and one  of his most famous paintings in a new film, suggesting foul  play was behind his slide into penury.
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A medium breaks the bonds of time and expectation to find its inner razzle-dazzle.
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A murder &amp;#151; maybe two &amp;#151; a philandering husband, the discovery of a mysterious love child, an escape from a psychiatric hospital and a police sniper&#039;s deadly shot ending a confrontation.
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Director David Fincher is set to adapt Alexis Nolent's graphic novel "The Killer", about an assassin who develops a conscience.
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DevShed concludes their series on using the GD graphics libraries in PHP with thie new article focusing on the use of some of the simple filtering functionality the library has to offer.   In this article I'm going to demonstrate how the GD library can be used to apply some basic graphic filters (yes, like Photoshop, but much simpler) by utilizing the versatility of a brand new function called "imagefilter()". As you'll see shortly, with this function it is possible to reverse, blur and highlight the colors of a determined image, as well as convert it to its grayscale version, among other things.   They use the imagefilter function in a few different examples - altering the colors in an image, working with contrast and brightness and various other filters (like smoothing, embossing, blurring and colorizing).
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"The Anatomy of Deception" (Bantam Dell Books, 352 pages. $24), by Lawrence Goldstone: For audiences increasingly drawn to "CSI"-type murder mysteries, Lawrence Goldstone reminds them that crime fighting can be just as gripping without all the high-tech wizardry.
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The murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh by a young Muslim of Moroccan descent has shaken Holland to its very foundations. To most people, including the Dutch, the killing and its violent
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Notorious prisoners' artwork, notes and even nail clippings are hot items in online auctions. But a new law might put a stop to the gruesome trade
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The Grey Art Gallery offers a spirited display of Latin American abstraction. Working through its riches is both humbling and thrilling; you encounter your ignorance and have a chance to rectify it.
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And can blind people see colour by touch? Also in this week's column:â¦