Luxury these days is a tale of two markets: consumers continue to snap up high-priced Louis Vuitton bags even as they balk at paying full price for Coach handbags. The same can be said of demand for works of art.
Graffiti-style malt liquor ads are drawing fire from parents and anti-blight advocates in a city known for its colorful murals
A water lily painting by impressionist master Claude Monet was sold for more than $80 million at auction Tuesday, kicking off a week of modern-art sales expected to reach records that defy the global economic downturn.
Catholic Bishops shut Tom Hanks, Ron Howard and the movie prequel to The Da Vinci Code out of shooting on location in Rome's churches
The largest international contemporary art fair opened Wednesday, closely watched for trends in the world market at a time of financial turbulence
Edvard Munch's masterpiece, "The Scream," went back on display Friday in Oslo, Norway -- four years after thieves pulled the painting from its frame in a daring armed robbery.
Two days, two modern art masterpieces, two record-breaking auction prices -- and one buyer: Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich.
A picture of an overweight woman lying naked on a couch, painted by the British artist Lucian Freud, set a record Tuesday night for the most money paid for any work by a living artist.
A picture of an overweight woman lying naked on a couch, painted by British artist Lucian Freud, set a record Tuesday night for the most money paid for a painting by a living artist.
Scientists have found what they described this week as the earliest oil paintings ever discovered.
Luxury these days is a tale of two markets: consumers continue to snap up high-priced Louis Vuitton bags even as they balk at paying full price for Coach handbags. The same can be said of demand for works of art.
Graffiti-style malt liquor ads are drawing fire from parents and anti-blight advocates in a city known for its colorful murals
A water lily painting by impressionist master Claude Monet was sold for more than $80 million at auction Tuesday, kicking off a week of modern-art sales expected to reach records that defy the global economic downturn.
Catholic Bishops shut Tom Hanks, Ron Howard and the movie prequel to The Da Vinci Code out of shooting on location in Rome's churches
The largest international contemporary art fair opened Wednesday, closely watched for trends in the world market at a time of financial turbulence
Edvard Munch's masterpiece, "The Scream," went back on display Friday in Oslo, Norway -- four years after thieves pulled the painting from its frame in a daring armed robbery.
Two days, two modern art masterpieces, two record-breaking auction prices -- and one buyer: Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich.
A picture of an overweight woman lying naked on a couch, painted by the British artist Lucian Freud, set a record Tuesday night for the most money paid for any work by a living artist.
A picture of an overweight woman lying naked on a couch, painted by British artist Lucian Freud, set a record Tuesday night for the most money paid for a painting by a living artist.
Scientists have found what they described this week as the earliest oil paintings ever discovered.
In the 6-1/2 years Htein Lin spent in Myanmar prisons between 1998 and 2004, he produced an estimated 250 paintings. He credits prison guards with helping to save most of his work.
The following are excerpts from the Heather Mills-Paul McCartney divorce ruling, issued by the Honorable Mr. Justice Bennett. Dollar figures are based on the current exchange rate of approximately two dollars per British pound:
Police have recovered two of the four Impressionist paintings stolen earlier this month in a daring museum heist, police in Zurich, Switzerland said Tuesday.
Two of the four paintings stolen in one of the world's largest art thefts have been recovered in an abandoned car
Steven Spielberg led the FBI straight to a stolen $700,000 Norman Rockwell painting someone snatched from a Missouri gallery. It was in his collection in California.
Zurich's E.G. BÜhrle museum was the location for the most "spectacular" theft in Swiss history
Swiss police were scrambling Monday in search of three masked men who stole four Impressionist paintings worth about $163 million (180 million Swiss francs) Sunday in a heist police characterized as "spectacular."
A row over a ban on an exhibition of art loaned from Russia has been resolved after Britain brought forward laws that will protect the paintings from seizure.
The vivid sunsets painted by J.M.W. Turner are revered for their use of color and light and for their influence on the Impressionists. But could they also help global warming experts track climate change?
AR: Hi I'm Anjali Rao. This week I'm in the Beijing studio of Zhang Xiaogang, a man who's fought his share of battles to become China's leading contemporary artist, and his work now sells for million of dollars around the world. This is Talk Asia.
For more than two decades, artist Robert Wyland -- simply known as Wyland -- has wowed people with his giant whale murals that cover the walls of city parking decks, high-rises, convention centers and hotels around the world.
It is an irony of contemporary art-museum management: Sometimes the museum that creates an exhibition doesn't get to premiere it.
Yue Minjun acknowledges that "Execution," inspired by the bloody Tiananmen crackdown in 1989, is the most politically sensitive of his work.
On the eve of what was to become the biggest sale ever of a Chinese contemporary painting, Trevor Simon wanted to get the word out about "Execution," a painting he had hidden from everybody.
In Holland, the family of Nathan Katz believes that 225 paintings should be returned to them
While contemporary works like Damien Hirst's $100 million diamond skull have dominated the headlines, a rare old master study by Peter Paul Rubens is quietly generating buzz among art collectors.
Great wealth generally finds art at some point," observes Marianne Boesky, fresh off the slopes in Aspen. She would know: As a well-known Manhattan dealer and the daughter of infamous financier Iva...
Globalization and technology are forcing artists, curators and museum directors to rethink the world of American art.
L.A. may be known for starlets and freeways, but lately art collectors are flocking to the city's galleries.
At the European Fine Art Fair this week, most of the Lucite cases hold great bunches of pale pink tulips. The art is uncaged.
It is a sign of poor relations between donor and charity when the donor's heir takes a hacksaw to the charity's filing cabinets.
THE PHOTOGRAPHS LOOK ripped from the pages of National Geographic. I'm standing upstairs at Ace Gallery in Beverly Hills, staring at five-foot-tall images of sumptuous landscapes: a pier glowing in...
Christmas at Christie's came early this year.
In December 2004, Dr. Bruce Brown and his wife, Bridget, got a call around seven in the evening from a man who had seen the sales listing for their Columbia, S.C., house. He asked if he could come ...
With a streetwise swagger, David Bailey burst onto the London scene to inspire and document the Swinging Sixties with his iconic black and white photographs.
At about midnight last July 5, the New York Police Department closed Manhattan's East 86th Street. Billionaire Ronald S. Lauder walked back and forth in the street, waiting. Employees of his boutiq...
Norwegian police have recovered one of the world's most famous paintings, the expressionist work "The Scream" by Edvard Munch, they told CNN Thursday.
Every morning around 5:30, Bill Ruprecht starts his day pretty much the same way: He pulls an egg from under a chicken's bottom.
You hear it all around you as you walk through the blond-wood-floored gallery on the Museum of Modern Art's sixth floor: "When did he 'turn?' When did the painting get strange?"
Jonathan Harr needed money.
What do the artists Millais and Rossetti both have in common?
Two portraits of George Washington by renowned artist Gilbert Stuart, one of them commissioned as a gift for Alexander Hamilton, are to be auctioned Wednesday at Sotheby's in Manhattan.
How did two pricey Van Goghs become Van Gone?
One Sunday morning last April, a somber, well-turned-out crowd of 100 or so gathered in Manhattan's Madison Square Park for a memorial service. It was a sunny day, and in an adjacent playground dad...
AROUND 1970, A RESIDENT OF LAGUNA Beach, Calif., named Ed Miracle--a Navy veteran and self-taught artist with an eighth-grade education--did a wry pen-and-ink drawing of sailing ships falling off t...
Alan Greenspan has been called a real piece of work. Now, it might be true because one woman has turned the Fed chairman into a work of art.
There's contemplative comfort waiting for you in the Museum of Modern Art's new exhibition, "Pioneering Modern Painting: Paul Cezanne and Camille Pissarro 1865-1885."
The son of a New York photographer says he has discovered 32 unrecorded works by the late American abstract painter Jackson Pollock.
Two "Dogs Playing Poker" paintings cleaned house at Doyle New York's annual Dogs in Art Auction, fetching a staggering $590,400, the auction house said.
Technology installed at the National Gallery in London means visitors can now take an even closer look at the painstaking detail at its entire collection.
Watch "The Terminal" with Tom Hanks and what is memorable about this movie? More to the point, what is not memorable? For some it is the airport interior.
Of course the art is the draw. But visitors to the redesigned Museum of Modern Art in New York this week can be forgiven for looking between the frames, reading between the lines, to glimpse the subtle effects that architect Yoshio Taniguchi's work may have on their experience.
Oslo's Munch Museum has closed for security upgrades two weeks after robbers stole its most famous exhibit, "The Scream."
Police are checking leads in the hunt for armed thieves who stole Edvard Munch's "The Scream," as new details show the robbers were more professional than first thought.
The thieves behind the brazen daytime heist of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" in Oslo may have a tough task ahead of them.
The audacious robbers who stole the nearly priceless Edvard Munch paintings, "The Scream" and "Madonna," from the Munch Museum in Oslo seem to have gotten away clean, at least so far. The big question, though, how can they turn the paintings into cash?
Norwegian police have launched a nationwide hunt for armed thieves who stole two classic paintings by Edvard Munch, including "The Scream," in a brazen daytime heist in Oslo.
Armed robbers have stolen two classic paintings by Edvard Munch, including "The Scream," in a brazen daytime heist in Oslo.
A pair of auctions in Manhattan grossed close to $170 million Wednesday night, a record evening for modern art sales that also established record prices for a number of American artists, including abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock.
A large painting of waterlilies by French artist Claude Monet sold for nearly $17 million Thursday night at Sotheby's, capping a two-day auction of impressionist and modern art that grossed $315 million.
A painting by Pablo Picasso of an adolescent boy holding a pipe has fetched all-time record price at auction in New York.
MEMORY LOSS Michela Gallagher, Ph.D. Chair, Johns Hopkins University Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Last year the second most popular museum exhibit in the world wasn't an Old Master but a young subject: "Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years," featuring dresses from the former First Lady's w...
On a Sunday afternoon in April, two days after returning from a trip to London, Detroit shopping-center developer Robert Taubman flew to New York City to see money manager Ron Baron. Taubman had ju...
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Target, Giant Sonic Train, Non Stop Lavender, Radicon: The gang of robots approaches from outer space. Their bulbous incandescent eyes flash, radiator-grille mouths spark, antenna ears spin, arms w...
The word is Schadenfreude, and it describes better than any English expression how folks in the 1990s feel about the apparent demise of the trophy wife. In short: She got what was coming to her. Sa...
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Pity the poor art aficionados who bought Sotheby's Holdings, the world's largest fine art auctioneer, at a high of $37 in 1989, just as the art market was peaking. Next thing they knew, the 1990-91...
NOW THAT the speculative bubbles have burst and dropped the collectibles market closer to earth, you may be wondering whether it's time to buy. The answer is yes -- if you know what you're doing. I...
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A century or so ago, every prosperous paterfamilias routinely immortalized himself, his family and, frequently, his real love -- a favorite dog or horse -- by commissioning lots of painted portrait...
By day Fritz Mayhew, 46, is North American design chief for Ford Motor Co. By night he is an accomplished painter whose watercolors and landscapes seem to be selling even faster than the Taurus and...
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It was a new drama for old Vic. James W. Toren, 72, the bankruptcy trustee of Sharon Steel, which has been operating under Chapter 11, claims that Victor Posner, 69, made off with the company's 14 ...
''Going, going, gone'' -- the auctioneer's cry of triumph -- may turn into the museum director's cry of despair. Now that John Whitney Payson has decided to sell Van Gogh's 1889 masterpiece Irises ...
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The stock market was never like this. Consider: In a brisk four minutes and 26 seconds of bidding this year, Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers was sold to a Japanese company, Yasuda Fire & Marine Insur...
Art fraud is probably as old as art itself. In the 14th century, Italian stonecarvers copied Greek and Roman busts and other statuary, then purposely chipped their works so they could peddle them a...
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