LONDON (Reuters) – One of contemporary art‘s most prestigious awards is announced later on Monday, and members of the Turner Prize jury must decide between the first performance artist to be nominated, two filmmakers and the creator [...]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Honda Motor Co introduced its redesigned Civic sedan only a year-and-a-half after a major model change of the best-selling compact car in the United States. Even Honda admits that the 2012 Civic, introduced in the [...]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Honda Motor Co introduced its redesigned Civic sedan only a year-and-a-half after a major model change of the best-selling compact car in the United States. Even Honda admits that the 2012 Civic, introduced in the [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A young model was either insane, or a calculating, quick-thinking murderer who feigned mental illness when he killed and castrated his lover, a prominent Portuguese journalist, in their New York hotel room last year, [...]

BEIJING (AP) — Pop icon Elton John publicly dedicated his only concert in Beijing to Chinese artist and political critic Ai Weiwei, sending a murmur of shock through an audience accustomed to tight censorship of entertainment. Minutes into [...]

BEIJING (AP) — Pop icon Elton John publicly dedicated his only concert in Beijing to Chinese artist and political critic Ai Weiwei, sending a murmur of shock through an audience accustomed to tight censorship of entertainment. Minutes into [...]

DEAR ABBY: My wife and I have been married for five years. I recently discovered that she made between 10 and 20 porn videos when she was 19. We got married when she was 27. We have four kids from two previous marriages.I am devastated. When [...]

DEAR ABBY: My wife and I have been married for five years. I recently discovered that she made between 10 and 20 porn videos when she was 19. We got married when she was 27. We have four kids from two previous marriages.I am devastated. When [...]

SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Art Museum is restoring a 1947 Jackson Pollock painting that was altered in the 1970s with a coat of varnish. Work started last summer in the museum’s conservation studio on “Sea Change.” It’s [...]

SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Art Museum is restoring a 1947 Jackson Pollock painting that was altered in the 1970s with a coat of varnish. Work started last summer in the museum’s conservation studio on “Sea Change.” It’s [...]

DEAR ABBY: My wife and I have been married for five years. I recently discovered that she made between 10 and 20 porn videos when she was 19. We got married when she was 27. We have four kids from two previous marriages.I am devastated. When [...]

DEAR ABBY: My wife and I have been married for five years. I recently discovered that she made between 10 and 20 porn videos when she was 19. We got married when she was 27. We have four kids from two previous marriages.I am devastated. When [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — An upcoming auction of over 300 historical documents includes rare letters written by Vincent van Gogh, George Washington, John Lennon and other iconic figures. The property of an anonymous American collector is being offered [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — An upcoming auction of over 300 historical documents includes rare letters written by Vincent van Gogh, George Washington, John Lennon and other iconic figures. The property of an anonymous American collector is being offered [...]

VIENNA (AP) — Two tenors in the same role at the same time — what could have been a recipe for disaster turned instead into a delightful operatic performance of Christoph Willibald Gluck‘s “Alceste,” with Joseph Kaiser‘s [...]

VIENNA (AP) — Two tenors in the same role at the same time — what could have been a recipe for disaster turned instead into a delightful operatic performance of Christoph Willibald Gluck‘s “Alceste,” with Joseph Kaiser‘s [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Colombian artist Fernando Botero‘s “Horse” sculpture was the highlight of Christie’s Latin American auction, which also set a record for Cuban-born artist Tomas Sanchez. Botero’s [...]

“Saul Steinberg: A Biography” (Doubleday/Nan A. Talese), by Deirdre Bair When New Yorker cartoonist Saul Steinberg was honored in 1974 by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the architect Philip Johnson puzzled out loud over [...]

“Saul Steinberg: A Biography” (Doubleday/Nan A. Talese), by Deirdre Bair When New Yorker cartoonist Saul Steinberg was honored in 1974 by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the architect Philip Johnson puzzled out loud over [...]

KFAR SHUBA, Lebanon (Reuters) – The Lebanese army dismantled two rockets in southern Lebanon on Monday that security sources said were aimed towards Israel, which is launching air strikes on the Gaza Strip. The unfired rockets, on launchers, [...]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It’s art that tempts you. All those “do not touch” signs are essential. You want to poke at Jud Nelson‘s “Hefty 2-Ply” to confirm that the full trash bag really is carved from marble. [...]

LONDON (Reuters) – Zeng Fanzhi may be one of the world’s most feted and valuable living artists, but the Beijing-based painter says he has little time for the publicity such stature brings. Presenting a new showcase [...]

LONDON (Reuters) – Zeng Fanzhi may be one of the world’s most feted and valuable living artists, but the Beijing-based painter says he has little time for the publicity such stature brings. Presenting a new showcase [...]

Whoa, trouble in TriBeCa! It seems that the tony downtown Manhattan neighborhood’s two most famous residents, The Adventures of Rocky Bullwinkle actor Robert De Niro and Beyoncé’s husband Jay-Z, recently had something of a public [...]

Whoa, trouble in TriBeCa! It seems that the tony downtown Manhattan neighborhood’s two most famous residents, The Adventures of Rocky Bullwinkle actor Robert De Niro and Beyoncé’s husband Jay-Z, recently had something of a public [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington’s International Spy Museum is opening a new exhibit commemorating 50 years of James Bond films and their villains. “Exquisitely Evil: 50 Years of Bond Villains” opens Friday at the museum. The [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington’s International Spy Museum is opening a new exhibit commemorating 50 years of James Bond films and their villains. “Exquisitely Evil: 50 Years of Bond Villains” opens Friday at the museum. The [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The art auctions ended with a big bang on Wednesday as Christie’s staged the most successful sale of post-war and contemporary art in history, taking in $412 million as new records were set for Jeff Koons and [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The art auctions ended with a big bang on Wednesday as Christie’s staged the most successful sale of post-war and contemporary art in history, taking in $412 million as new records were set for Jeff Koons and [...]

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 Metropolitan Museum [...]