Visual Arts
New York's Metropolitan Museum to open 7/7
Mar 21, 2013 17:20 EDT
For the first time in four decades New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art will open seven days a week starting this July, the director announced Thursday.
Major hyperrealist painting show opens in Madrid
Mar 21, 2013 11:38 EDT
An exhibition of 50 paintings by hyperrealist artists whose works depict shop windows, camper vans, street views and other everyday scenes in such painstaking detail that they resemble photographs opens Friday in Madrid.
Russian artist who impersonated Monroe, Putin dies
Mar 21, 2013 10:51 EDT
Top Russian artist, Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe, who painstakingly transformed himself to resemble Adolf Hitler, Marilyn Monroe and Vladimir Putin for avant-garde photo performances, has died at 43, Russian news agencies reported Thursday.
Famed French cave paintings on exhibit in Chicago
Mar 20, 2013 16:59 EDT
Stunning reproductions of the famed cave paintings of Lascaux are being displayed for the first time outside of France at an exhibit in Chicago opening on Wednesday.
Starman: London show hails rock icon David Bowie
Mar 20, 2013 13:28 EDT
Outrageous costumes and hand-scrawled lyrics are among hundreds of items going on show in a major London retrospective tracing David Bowie's relentless self-reinventions over five decades.
Famed French cave paintings on exhibit in Chicago
Mar 19, 2013 22:21 EDT
Stunning reproductions of the famed cave paintings of Lascaux are being displayed for the first time outside of France at an exhibit in Chicago opening on Wednesday.
Boston art thieves got away with it: US authorities
Mar 18, 2013 16:53 EDT
The FBI said Monday that they finally know who conducted a daring art heist in Boston exactly 23 years ago -- but the thieves can no longer be prosecuted.
Rembrandt self-portrait confirmed at Devon stately home
Mar 18, 2013 09:12 EDT
A painting hanging in a British stately home has been confirmed as a self-portrait by Rembrandt worth tens of millions of dollars, the National Trust heritage body announced on Friday.
UK police investigate death of Hockney 'assistant'
Mar 18, 2013 07:50 EDT
A young man who was at the home of world-renowned British artist David Hockney has died in mysterious circumstances, police said on Monday.
Melbourne plans tallest building in southern hemisphere
Mar 18, 2013 03:13 EDT
Australia's second-largest city Melbourne could possibly have the tallest building in the southern hemisphere after approval Monday for a new 388-metre (1,280 foot) apartment and hotel complex.
Japanese architect wins top award
Mar 17, 2013 23:18 EDT
Architecture's highest honor has gone to Toyo Ito, a Japanese who has designed many innovative homes and public buildings in his country.
Britain's Charles and Camilla in Qatar
Mar 13, 2013 14:21 EDT
Britain's Prince Charles and his wife Camilla arrived on Wednesday in the Gulf state of Qatar on a regional tour that has also seen the royal couple visit Jordan.
Online museum project unearths Van Dyck masterpiece
Mar 09, 2013 08:16 EST
A filthy oil painting locked away in a museum in the northeast of England was on Saturday revealed to be an original masterpiece by Van Dyck.
Spain museums adapt to survive budget cuts
Mar 08, 2013 16:13 EST
Spain's top museums are raising entry prices, opening for longer hours and sending works abroad in touring exhibitions in a scramble for new revenue to offset steep government cuts to their budgets.
Romanian police arrest mother of Dutch art heist suspect
Mar 08, 2013 13:33 EST
Romanian police on Friday said they had made another arrest linked to the spectacular 2012 art heist at Rotterdam's Kunsthal museum, detaining the mother of one of the male suspects.
Controversial H.K. fortune teller 'gives up feng shui'
Mar 07, 2013 01:44 EST
A Hong Kong fortune teller who once advised Asia's richest woman but was later embroiled in a high-profile legal battle over her fortune has renounced feng shui for Christianity, a report said Thursday.
Tibetan self-immolators inspire Chinese painter
Mar 07, 2013 01:13 EST
Stacked up in Liu Yi's studio dozens of China's most sensitive subjects stare out from thick black-and-white oil paintings, from victims of Tiananmen Square to Tibetans who have set themselves on fire.
Online Warhol auction raises $2.3 million
Mar 06, 2013 20:33 EST
An online-only auction of a trove of Andy Warhol's lesser, but often hitherto unavailable works, raised $2.3 million at Christie's, with a lithograph of Marilyn Monroe's lips coming out on top.
Centennial New York Armory Show opens
Mar 06, 2013 17:28 EST
The centennial Armory Show, a major annual hub for art dealers, artists and collectors, got rolling in New York on Wednesday.
'Brainpainting' draws crowds at world's top tech fair
Mar 06, 2013 12:37 EST
A computer programme enabling paralysed patients to create artwork using just the power of their brains drew big crowds on Wednesday at the CeBIT, the world's top IT fair.
