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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sotheby's staged the biggest auction in its 268-year history on Tuesday, led by a $75 million Mark Rothko and a record-setting $40 million work by Jackson Pollock at its post-war and contemporary art...

Sitting in the storage units of insurance companies around the world there are objects that have been damaged and striped of their art status. Until recently, there was no public access to these inventories.

"Where is Jack Goldstein?" It is more than an exhibition title -- it is a tease, a refrain and a haunting melody. Like Twin Peaks mantra "Who Killed Laura Palmer?" the question is not one that lends itself to an easy res...

More than forty New American Paintings' alumni are on view this month throughout the country. They range from mid-career painter, Trenton Doyle Hancock, to 2010...

New York streets never sleep, and they are just as raw, maddening, and wondrous as you've heard. Well known Street Art photographer Jaime Rojo cannot...

NEW YORK -- Rich in world-class offerings of Abstract Expressionist and Pop Art, Sotheby's contemporary evening roared to the tune of $375,205,000, the highest total...

Sure, everyone's celebrating the passage of marijuana laws in Washington and Colorado, but that doesn't mean there aren't some negative side effects to anticipate. As...

We all remember Yves Klein, right? The edgy modern artist eschewed the paintbrush in favor of the human form, painting his nude models his signature...

Robert De Niro gives one of his best performances in years in "Silver Linings Playbook," but don't tell that to A.O. Scott. The venerable New...

Before she was Julia Child, Miranda Priestly, or Sophie Zawistowska, Meryl Streep was a fresh-faced 32-year-old sporting a full mane of fuzzy blond curls and...

A beautiful girl is mysteriously murdered amid the winding canals of Venice. A handsome, arrogant anti-hero with unique powers of deduction is hired by a billionaire to investigate. No, it's not an upcoming book or movie...

Today is the birthday of French Impressionist master, Claude Monet. The plein-air devotee would turn 172 years old if he were miraculously still alive today....

University student Max Galuppo was wandering around the Philadelphia Museum of Art with his girlfriend Nikkie Curtis when they happened upon a 450-year-old painting -...

Since the last time Guillermo del Toro directed a film (2008's "Hellboy 2: The Golden Army") he's been attached to a lot of projects that...

"Breaking Amish" may not be airing this winter, but the mafia is prepared to fill its void. This December, Discovery will debut "Amish Mafia," a...

Make no mistake, despite some fine individual performances on the album, it is the leader Tom Harrell's vision that makes Number Five such a top-notch offering.

Are you in the market for a sexy slow jam inspired by your favorite meme? Then Hard 'n Phirm has the tune for you. Sung...

Watercolors just don't have long life spans in comparisons with oil paintings or sculpture. The colors fade, the paper rots or gets eaten by insects.

The Smithsonian's Under Secretary for History, Art, and Culture and Latino Center, in collaboration with units around the Institution, is engaged in several initiatives by, for and about the diverse resident Latino popul...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Paintings of boxers, gritty tenements, waterfront workers, as well as bucolic parks, portraits, and scenes of domestic tranquility form a new retrospective of the works of George Bellows at the Metro...

Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" won't be released for another month, but the full soundtrack for the upcoming fantasy-adventure film is already streaming....

Puerto Rico is a complex collection of people and ideas thriving in and out of the island. High on the list of components of the Puerto Rican concept is arts and culture: undeniably rich, prolific, diverse and with a glo...