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Sotheby's Sells Giacometti for Record $104.3 Million
A 1960 Alberto Giacometti sculpture sold for £65 million ($104.3 million) at Sotheby's, setting a record price for a work of art at auction and signaling a potential resurgence in the art market.
Ramayana Casts Its Ancient Spell
SINGAPORE — With numerous heroes and villains and its powerful feel-good message of good triumphing over evil, the Ramayana has been one of the great epic poems of Indian culture for centuries. Originally attributed to the Hindu Sanskrit poet Valm...
$1.1M Degas artwork stolen from French museum
French police were searching Friday for a Degas painting stolen from a Marseilles museum a day earlier.
Japanese university plans huge 'manga' library
TOKYO — In a move to promote serious study of Japanese manga, a university in Tokyo plans to open a library with two million comic books, animation drawings, video games and other cartoon industry artifacts.
The throne clones: How the British Royal Family inherited more than just their titles
You may think that Princess Beatrice has her father's face and her mother's hair. But as the pictures below show, she also bears a striking resemblance to a young Queen Victoria. And she's not the only royal to share an uncanny similarity with a r...
Unrecognised Leonardo da Vinci portrait revealed by his fingerprint
The ghost of a fingerprint in the top left corner of an obscure portrait appears to have confirmed one of the most extraordinary art discoveries.
G-20 spouses to take in Warhol art, arts education
PITTSBURGH — From the pop artistry of the late Andy Warhol to the work of student performers, a display of arts was in store for the spouses of world leaders on the final day of an international economic summit.
Portrait Artist Rejects Offer For $1.8 Million On One-Of-A-Kind Michael Jackson Homage
Dick Zimmerman, famed portrait artist and creator of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" cover and Painter of his Homage to Michael Jackson titled HOMAGEKOP8/15, which was recently unveiled Friday, September 18th nationally on Entertainment Tonight, has ...
Japanese women celebrate pregnancy with maternity nudes
Three years ago, a poster of a nude and heavily pregnant Britney Spears sparked concern in Japan before it was displayed in Tokyo's subways because it was considered "too stimulating" for young commuters.
Posters of American President Barack Obama which shows him as Heath Ledger’s Joker from the latest Batman sequel has covered the streets and highways of Los Angeles and numerous American web sites are reporting about them.