houston, texas, experience old art at the dynasty and divinity, ife art in ancient nigeria at the museum of fine arts. >>> now here's an early look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. at least one legal issue is resolved for lindsay lohan. the actress has reportedly settled her $100 million lawsuit against e-trade. lohan accused the firm of making fun of her in a super bowl commercial. >>> meanwhile, a judge has issued an arrest warrant and set a friday hearing to determine if the actress violated probation after failing a court-ordered drug test. >>> lady gaga is going from pop to politics, again. the eccentric singer visited maine monday to urge lawmakers to repeal the don't ask don't tell policy ahead of today's senate vote. >>> channeling his early golden gekko, michael douglas showed no difficult signs at the debut of "wall street" despite battled stage four cancer. >>> a writer for the late show with david letterman says the host was in on the joke with wa keen phillips and the infamous exchange. i sort of feel like i can sleep better at night knowing this. >> i don't know. >> they re

russia's largest museum of fine arts was ready for evacuation. crates for exhibits and being brought into this building on the embankment of the of the very start of the. priority was given to paintings and objects from the collection of antiques to wagons with paintings and sculptures was sent to the urals but another wagon was left behind as the city became encircled the museum's valuables was stored in its basements. just empty frames hung empty. despite the hardships of the blockade. and science conferences to inspire the people remaining in the city. and. museum director. says that quite often participants were brought in on stretches unable to walk themselves because they were too weak from some of the. poets translators and scientists were brought in from the front it was a formidable task. to people here. imagine people coming from the. front line though where the city's fate was being decided that's a whole different story. a historian and a blockade survivor as vivid memories of those events. in the spring of one nine hundred forty two l

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of >> it is right there! >> james buchanan, the fine arts museum director. , and i was weeping. weeping. because i stood in front of this painting. this painting. you will also be weeping it is so beautiful and it is the van gogh " starry night " we're the only museum in the world! >> we're so lucky. and with some restoration of galleries >> the musee d'orsey in paris and the director of the paris museum as it would like this? and of course! some of the classic impressionists. now, the we have part two. van gogh, gauguin, and beyond! the post impressions. and the impressions that reinvented themselves, monet, degas, and i cannot believe! it is just, really. >> and look at gauguin. >> that is one of my favorites, between torn between christianity. and that pagan from tahiti. fed >> look of his sneaky eyes when you see that in person is amazing. >> and this is cezanne and picaso the great wonderful comparison between a great picasso and madame cezanne he was from provence, the south of france and painted, continually. and representative of the exhibition. is a

fine arts museum. >> the other thing is the other shoe dropping, part two of the treasures at the museum. they are at the deyoung. this is the fifth anniversary of the new deyoung this year. they are now number five among american art museums, i think largely because of the programming that they engineered. the part 1 of the show was fantastic and i'm looking forward to this. >> what is this? >> this was post impressionism. van gogh, people who came after monet, basically. >> that show? >> that opens the end of september. >> the symphony opened. >> right. >> apparently the maestro is in for unusual things. >> they have unusual things. one of the things, they are doing the four last songs by strauss with a young singer, elda, a product of the adler program. she is terrific. and at the moment they are all in europe. they have gone to europe for a european tour, they opened the season and left town. >> the very next day? is that usual? >> not usual but you know, it works out that way. they'll be back soon. >> then looking at dance. >> dance the big deal is a dance, odc, which has been around