Choreographer Merce Cunningham, one of the most important figures in modern dance, has died at age 90, his dance company announced Monday.
A Pablo Picasso sketchbook with 33 pencil drawings disappeared from a locked glass case in a museum in Paris overnight, the French Ministry of Culture announced Tuesday.
Memorial Day weekend has arrived: the symbolic, if not the official, beginning of summer.
The past week's impressionist and modern art auctions at Sotheby's and Christie's didn't go well. But they were far from dreadful. The same is expected at this week's contemporary auctions.
I don't do dogs and I don't do yoga.
With year-round sunshine, Johannesburg is the perfect city for outdoor events, but it also hosts an array of cultural happenings. Here are some the city's best annual events.
Truly appreciating the beauty of Paris is a pleasure that can't be hurried.
Men talk to me all the time about sex, which is only natural, since I'm a sex therapist and I make my living talking to people about their sex lives. But it's funny how many guys like to talk to me when I'm not working, when I'm pushing my sons in their double stroller or watching them at the playground.
Prosecutors unveiled an additional money laundering charge Tuesday against New York lawyer Marc Dreier, now claiming he defrauded clients of nearly $700 million.
China has criticized Christie's auction of two Qing dynasty bronzes looted by invading French and British forces in 1860, saying the sale would hurt the auction house.
Choreographer Merce Cunningham, one of the most important figures in modern dance, has died at age 90, his dance company announced Monday.
A Pablo Picasso sketchbook with 33 pencil drawings disappeared from a locked glass case in a museum in Paris overnight, the French Ministry of Culture announced Tuesday.
Memorial Day weekend has arrived: the symbolic, if not the official, beginning of summer.
The past week's impressionist and modern art auctions at Sotheby's and Christie's didn't go well. But they were far from dreadful. The same is expected at this week's contemporary auctions.
I don't do dogs and I don't do yoga.
With year-round sunshine, Johannesburg is the perfect city for outdoor events, but it also hosts an array of cultural happenings. Here are some the city's best annual events.
Truly appreciating the beauty of Paris is a pleasure that can't be hurried.
Men talk to me all the time about sex, which is only natural, since I'm a sex therapist and I make my living talking to people about their sex lives. But it's funny how many guys like to talk to me when I'm not working, when I'm pushing my sons in their double stroller or watching them at the playground.
Prosecutors unveiled an additional money laundering charge Tuesday against New York lawyer Marc Dreier, now claiming he defrauded clients of nearly $700 million.
China has criticized Christie's auction of two Qing dynasty bronzes looted by invading French and British forces in 1860, saying the sale would hurt the auction house.
As you might expect, Miami's calendar of seasonal events makes the most of the Florida sunshine, but it also includes some top-notch cultural happenings.
Years ago, in a simpler time, teams had two looks: one at home and a second for the road. But over the last decade, clubs have been adding flair to the wardrobe with some regularity.
On Day 2 of the fall auction season, a Russian masterpiece expected to sell for up to $3 million at auction did not find a buyer Wednesday
The hit movie Beverly Hills Chihuahua is just the latest mark the little dogs have made on Hollywood
Plus, his formaldehyde sculpture The Golden Calf sold for $18.4M at Sotheby's auction
Three armed robbers stole two Pablo Picasso prints from an art museum in downtown Sao Paulo on Thursday, the city's second high-profile art theft in less than a year
An alleged scheme involving the production and sale of counterfeit prints by artists including Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali and Marc Chagall resulted in the indictments of four Americans, two Italians and a Spaniard, federal authorities said Wednesday.
Police have recovered two of the four Impressionist paintings stolen earlier this month in a daring museum heist, police in Zurich, Switzerland said Tuesday.
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."
We don't know where to look first. The massive pillars, looking like tree trunks, stone chameleons, tortoises and turtles, help support the columns. The sheer size of the place is amazing. Some of the towers soar more than 500 feet. Even jaded teens, like my 13-year-old niece, Erica Fieldman, can't help but be impressed.
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 stunning sale of a tiny antiquity has increased interest in the market for ancient coins, sculpture and pottery
Appreciation: In the 1970s and '80s, when painting appeared to be a dying art, she found a new direction
On the 30-year anniversary of George Lucas's milestone film, would-be Wookies are joining the celebration in LA
We've all emptied our wallets to tee it up at a trophy course only to spend the day hacking up the place like an Irish turf cutter. And there's nothing like a daylong pass on the bogey train to focus your mind on the expensive greens fee. Sea Island Resort in Georgia, long one of the Southeast's premier golf destinations, offers a perfect compromise: eye-opening instruction from the game's top teachers, and three quality courses to gradually test your new swing.
FBI agents have recovered a 1778 painting by famed Spanish artist Francisco de Goya that was stolen en route to an exhibition earlier this month, according to FBI Special Agent Jerri Williams.
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.
See: Stockholm reflects Swedes' obsession with style, design and culture. To get a sense of the importance of all three, visit the Kulturhuset, a stunning 1970s building dedicated to art, design, fashion, photography and multimedia exhibitions that is described as "Stockholm's Sitting Room."
Pablo Picasso and other renowned artists will take centerstage this week as Kmart begins auctioning off a wealth of fine and rare art from its Michigan headquarters.
Kmart shoppers accustomed to hunting for bargains on dishracks and bath mats can also take home works of art by Pablo Picasso and other renowned artists starting this week.
Paris was spurned in its bid for the 2012 Olympic Games, but you wouldn't know it amid the bustle of construction along the Seine. This spring, the city is positively abloom with museum openings and renovated architectural treasures.
What's the key to the early-19th-century mystery of the Bell family of Red River, Tennessee, so traumatized by a ghost (or something) that one family member died? "An American Haunting" suggests an answer, not to be spilled here except to say that men are E-V-I-L and women are victims. (Ooh, that old truism.)
Sotheby's largest shareholder has sold its stake in the art auction house, a move that suggests the booming art market may be cooling, according to a report published Wednesday.
Forget the stock market, oil fields and roulette wheel, if you want to make some serious cash, pick up a brush and get painting.
In popular imaginations, artists are a passionate bunch, driven by basic needs such as throaty French cigarettes, inexpensive hooch and, as they fly in the face of society's constraints, plenty of ... well, you know what.
Check out our recommendations for the Swedish capital and send us your ideas and suggestions.
A good piece of art can mean much more than just a pretty picture on a wall.
Check out The Scene's recommendations for the Spanish capital and send us your ideas and suggestions below.
Conservative taste rules at Marshall Field's Home Store in the affluent Minneapolis suburb of Edina. Patterns are discreet. Colors are subdued. Painting subjects range from ships to flowers. Everyt...
Along with household appliances and hardware, Costco is making a name for itself in the world of fine art.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - If you are media-savvy about marketing, like entertaining crowds and can speak at breakneck speed without sacrificing clarity, you have some of what it takes to be an auctioneer.
If you're a certain kind of moviegoer -- my kind -- then the announcement that Paul Schrader's prequel to "The Exorcist," was being shelved after it had been fully shot and edited only stoked your desire to see it.
Computer scientists at the University of Bath in England have come up with a way to make even the dullest of holiday snaps, quite literally, animated.
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.
It may seem like toilet humor, but a porcelain urinal -- signed by an artist almost 90 years ago -- has been voted the most influential work of modern art.
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.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) -The Depression-era bank robber Willie Sutton famously targeted banks because "that's where the money is."
Who says crime doesn't pay? nearly three years ago venerable auction houses Sotheby's and Christie's pleaded guilty to colluding to fix commission fees during the 1990s. The two firms paid more tha...
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.
A painting by Pablo Picasso of an adolescent boy holding a pipe could bring a record price for the artist's work at auction Wednesday evening in New York.
It was bad enough when the Nasdaq tanked and obliterated your kid's college fund. So why did colleges have to compound the injury by jacking up tuition?
My friend Mike is a government lawyer, so he often has reason to be in a lousy mood. But I know how to cheer him up. All I do is utter the word "Iridium," and in a perfect Pavlovian reaction he eru...
Feb. 1-9 John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon Named for a 19th- century Chippewa, this grueling, 420-mile race around the north shore of Lake Superior ranks second in stature only to Alaska's Iditarod...
Once famous for its incandescent Strip and the ladies who worked it, Las Vegas has tried to remake its image by trading vices for family values. Good news, though, for fans of 24/7 gambling and gou...
The Vegas Strip has come to resemble a dockyard of gaudy cruise ships: You leave one oversized hotel/ship only to find yourself at another with a different theme. The 3,005-room Bellagio is no diff...
Chaplin, Lindbergh, and Sigmund Freud
There are no second acts in American lives, only second lives in American ads: Ever more often the dead walk among us, Wearing Khakis, Just Doing It, generally Thinking Different. In the spirit of ...
When Sally Ganz and her husband, Victor, plunked down $7,000 for a canvas called Dream back in 1941, they knew it was a good buy. The artist was an acknowledged master, and the painting, a portrait...
One of the world's biggest financial scandals was the looting of Paris-based Credit Lyonnais and the bank's role in the near bankruptcy of fabled film studio MGM. The aftershocks are intensifying: ...
Armed with his billion-dollar checkbook and a keen vision of the oncoming digital age, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates began courting the world's major museums in 1989. But when he asked for the digi...
If you're in a mood to purchase one of the world's most expensive paintings, you're in luck: Three of the top four are due back on the market. One warning, though: Acquiring a pricey picture seems ...
Last year, the typical American family spent about $282 on furniture, though even at that level, sales totaled $26.8 billion. This year, the big drop in interest rates -- almost a point since Elect...
The price of real Van Goghs plunged with the Tokyo stock market, but the market for genuine imitations of Old Masters is thriving. They're going like hot fakes at Bonhams, the London auction house....
Does what used to be East Germany teem with valuable art? That's the hope of Sotheby's, the auction house that set up shop in Berlin in October. H. Josef Konig, head of the new office, says he has ...
Amazing organ, the brain of a Congressman. All those billions of neurons responding frantically to sensory impulses emanating on the PR plane, all those nerve fibers in the outer cortex working tir...
Not a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. In late April a seat changed hands for $1 million, the highest price ever until the next day, when another seat sold for $1.1 million. It may not mean muc...
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