Arts
Global art market sizzles with $142 million Bacon sale
NEW YORK - The record breaking $142.4 million sale of Francis Bacon's "Three Studies of Lucian Freud" shows confidence in the art market and that the very wealthy see it as a safe haven for their money, experts said on Wednesday. | Video
Germany begins publishing works found in Nazi art stash
BERLIN/NEW YORK - Germany began publishing an online list on Tuesday of works that were discovered in a huge art stash in a Munich flat last year and believed for the most part to have been stolen or extorted by the Nazis.
Early pieces by graffiti artist Banksy added to Los Angeles auction
LOS ANGELES - Four early works of elusive British artist Banksy will go on sale at an auction in December, joining the artist's "Flower Girl" piece, Julien's Auctions said on Monday.
Insight: Secretive art world let German hoarder hide in plain sight
BERLIN/MUNICH - On the doorbell of the apartment in Munich's bohemian Schwabing district is a name once distinguished for architecture and music but infamous since the Nazi era by association with the plundering of art works owned by Jews: Gurlitt.
New evidence offered for authenticity of Pollock's purported final work
NEW YORK - New evidence of the authenticity of a drip painting said by some to be abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock's final work, was presented at a conference of art experts on Friday.
Sotheby's triumphs with $290 million Impressionist and modern art sale
NEW YORK - Impressionist and modern art achieved strong prices on Wednesday as Sotheby's held one of its biggest auctions ever, in a dramatic turnaround from two nights of disappointing sales at Christie's earlier this week.
Colombian artist Botero relives boyhood love of circus in new book
NEW YORK - Colombian artist Fernando Botero showcases his enchantment with the circus, reliving the magic he felt as a boy during his first visit to the big top, in a new book "Circus: Paintings and Works on Paper."
Bahrain police close art display on pro-democracy uprising
DUBAI - Bahraini authorities have shut and dismantled an exhibition on anti-government protests staged by the main Shi'ite opposition group al-Wefaq, saying it violates the law and incites hatred.
Banksy's latest prank on New York art world hangs in thrift shop
NEW YORK - The renegade graffiti artist Banksy snubbed the art world again on Tuesday when he dropped off one of his paintings at a New York City thrift store.
Vienna museum director quits in Nazi looted art row
VIENNA - The director of Vienna's Leopold Museum, home to extensive collections of work by Austrian artists such as Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt, has quit in a row over Nazi-looted art.
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Book Talk: London orchestra misses Titanic, gets stuck on train
LONDON - It is a part of local lore that the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) missed the maiden and only sailing of the Titanic which they were to have taken to make the first American tour of what was billed as the "world's best orchestra".
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