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LA museum to unveil artist's big rock work in June
A rockin' good time is planned next month when the Los Angeles County Museum of Art pulls the covers off artist Michael Heizer's latest creation — a ...
SAfrica: Zuma seeks ban on artwork; vandals hit
South African President Jacob Zuma and his African National Congress sought a court order Tuesday to have a painting depicting the president's ...
Rivera work poised to set new auction record in NY
Mexican artist Diego Rivera's 1939 oil painting "Girl in Blue and White" is headlining Sotheby's Latin American art auction in New York. If it sells ...
LA's Old Chinatown ponders a future with Wal-Mart
On the surface, a big Wal-Mart store might seem out of place in the midst of the old-fashioned curio shops, the little dim sum eateries and the ...
Spoleto Festival celebrates Philip Glass' 75th
The Spoleto Festival USA opens its 36th season Friday and among the planned performances is an opera by American composer Philip Glass to commemorate ...
Gunter Sachs art collection to be auctioned in UK
A modern art collection, including works by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Salvador Dali, will be sold next week in London, Sotheby's said Saturday
Pa. art collection completes controversial move
The Barnes Foundation is no longer the greatest art collection you'll never see. Art aficionados and academics might never stop debating whether Dr.
Suu Kyi photo exhibit opens in hometown Yangon
A photography exhibit about Aung San Suu Kyi's successful campaign for Parliament is showing just how far Myanmar has come since ending a half century ...
S.Africa's ANC fumes over art ridiculing president
South Africa's governing party said Thursday it will demand the removal of a painting from an exhibition by one of the nation's best-known artists ...
Swift gives $4M to Country Hall of Fame expansion
Taylor Swift has taught a generation of kids to appreciate country music over the last five years. Now, she's donating $4 million to the Country Music ...
Huge Marilyn Monroe statue arrives in Palm Springs
A massive statue of Marilyn Monroe has arrived in the desert resort city of Palm Springs. The Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/Kntz4Z ) says the ...
Barnes Foundation opening in new Philly location
After years of bitter court fights, The Barnes Foundation opened its doors Wednesday for a sneak peek at its new location on the museum-studded ...
New York meets Cuba in art-fair chef exchange
Foreign art lovers are breaking bread with Cuban waiters, drivers and parking lot attendants this week in a unique experience that forces diners and ...
Curator of Georgia O'Keeffe Museum resigns
Few people in the world know as much about the life and art of Georgia O'Keeffe as Barbara Buhler Lynes, who resigned Friday after years as curator ...
Biennial art festival transforms Cuban capital
Giant ants swarm the facade of an aging theater. White-clad, face-painted dancers and circus performers frolic on a central boulevard. Cuban and ...
Eiffel or eyesore? London's Orbit tower completed
Critics say it looks like a roller coaster gone badly awry. Fans say it's a landmark to rival the Eiffel Tower. London got a towering new venue ...
Iraq arts fest: more words, less song and dance
Poetry has returned to the Triangle of Death. But dancing and singing are being left behind. In this dusty southern community, home to the renowned ...
Agents swarm reputed mobster's home in Conn.
FBI agents on Thursday searched the property of a reputed Connecticut mobster suspected of having information about the 1990 robbery of a Boston ...
Ohio man's luck changes with signed Picasso print
An unemployed Ohio man was browsing at his local thrift store for items he could restore and resell when he spotted a Picasso poster with the word ...
Van Gogh museum unveils new willow watercolor
A young Vincent van Gogh was so struck by a dead willow leaning "lonely and melancholy" over a pond near The Hague that he knew at once he had to ...
Warhol 'Elvis' fetches $37M at NYC auction
Andy Warhol's "Double Elvis" sold for $37 million and works by Roy Lichtenstein and Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei broke their own records at ...
Asia's superrich build their own art museums
Over the past two years Wang Wei and her husband Liu Yiqian dropped a reported $317 million on their hobby. Now they need somewhere to display the ...
Sales of Klein, Rothko works highlight NY auction
An iconic painting by French artist Yves Klein created with water, a blowtorch and two models has sold at a New York City auction for $36.4 million.
Coroner: Valium, alcohol killed painter Kinkade
Artist Thomas Kinkade died from an accidental overdose of alcohol and prescription tranquilizers, but his heart had grown so enlarged he had been ...
Performance artist unveils plan for NY art center
Performance artist Marina Abramovic plans to build a $15 million center in upstate New York devoted to the research and production of duration-based ...