Art world shivers at sale of Henry Moore statue
The massive bronze sculpture is formally known as "Draped Seated Woman," a Henry Moore creation that evoked Londoners huddled in air raid shelters ...
Tilda Swinton performs art of sleeping in NYC
Actress Tilda Swinton is performing the art of sleeping at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. A museum spokeswoman says the "Moonrise Kingdom" star ...
Iraq to revive cultural life to heal war wounds
Sewing machines buzz inside the Iraq Fashion House as dressmakers work late into the night behind concrete blast walls readying intricately ...
Alcatraz marks 50 years since closure with photos
The black-and-white photographs show a line of prisoners — some with heads bowed, others with eyes staring forlornly at the camera — as a guard leads ...
'Chinese Girl' painting coming home to SAfrica
Vladimir Tretchikoff's iconic painting "Chinese Girl," said to be one of the most reproduced in the world, is coming home to South Africa after more ...
Museum to showcase contemporary Latin American art
Long a cultural backwater, Rio de Janeiro has taken another leap toward becoming an art hot spot with this week's opening of a museum built around one ...
AP PHOTOS: A look back at 10 years of war in Iraq
The images remain fresh even as the memories fade — the blinding flash of "shock and awe" bombing, the square-jawed confidence of an American ...
American gets back art taken by Nazis during WWII
Tom Selldorff was 6 years old when he saw his grandfather's prized art collection for the last time in 1930s Vienna, before it fell into Nazi hands.
Experts: Chances of recovering Boston art good
Now that authorities believe they know who stole $500 million worth of art from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in the largest art heist in U
Henry Moore, Auguste Rodin meet in English field
Henry Moore has company on his muddy home turf. At the late British artist's former home in the English countryside, swooping sculptures sit on ...
Challenge for pope in Europe's dwindling church
The church is made of rusty steel beams separated by gaps, and its austere beauty won it an international prize. Yet the eerie desolation of the ...
Demand Media buys arts and crafts video provider
Demand Media is buying Creativebug, a provider of how-to crafty videos, as interest grows online in arts and crafts. Financial terms were not ...
FBI focusing on recovery in '90 Mass. art heist
The FBI says it has solved the decades-old mystery of who stole $500 million in artwork from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, but it is ...
Saddam's specter lives on in Iraqi landmarks
The soaring half domes of the Martyr Monument stand out against the drabness of eastern Baghdad, not far from where Saddam Hussein's feared eldest son ...
National Gallery of Art to undergo $68M renovation
The National Gallery of Art plans to close its modern art galleries for three years to complete a $68 million renovation, adding new galleries and a ...
AP NewsBreak: Dylan voted into elite arts academy
If he lived in England, he'd surely be Sir Bob Dylan. The most influential songwriter of his time has become the first rock star voted into the elite, ...
Hedge fund manager charged in US captured in Italy
A fugitive German hedge fund manager was arrested Friday at an Italian art gallery on charges filed in Los Angeles that accuse him of orchestrating ...
Art found in NY garage appraised at $30M
Works by an obscure Armenian-American abstract impressionist discovered in a New York cottage have been appraised at $30 million. In 2007, the new ...
Photographer LaChapelle sued, accused of beating
Celebrity photographer David LaChapelle has been sued for $1 million by a Montana gallery director who claims he beat and choked him. According to the ...
George Lucas proposes museum in San Francisco
"Star Wars" creator George Lucas wants to build a museum dedicated to visual storytelling in San Francisco's Presidio that would house an art ...
Glaxo donates NC Wyeth painting to Philly museum
Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline PLC has donated a painting with a mysterious past to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The work by N.C. Wyeth was ...
NYC exhibit showcases Mary Cassatt as printmaker
The New York Public Library's archive is so massive that some of the material has never been seen except on request. Beginning Friday, the library ...
Stuttgart museum returns painting sold under Nazis
A Stuttgart museum has returned a 600-year-old painting to the estate of Jewish art dealer Max Stern, who was forced to sell his collection before ...
Underworld saint becoming more popular in US
A follower in New Orleans built a public shrine in her honor. An actor in Albuquerque credits her with helping him land a role on the TV show ...
CNBC tries reality TV after business hours
Buzz-worthy reality shows are often a ticket to riches for cable networks, even when the shows seem to have little to do with the network's reason for ...
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