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  • A Minute With: Street artist Mark Jenkins (Reuters)

    Reuters - American street artist Mark Jenkins's human sculptures staged in provocative poses in the middle of cities have proved so uncannily life-like they have sparked calls from passersby to the ambulance service or the police.

  • Christie's 2011 art sales hit record (Reuters)

    Reuters - Christie's shrugged off the euro zone crisis and slowing economic growth in 2011 to post record revenues, selling art worth 3.6 billion pounds, or nine percent more than in 2010.

  • Legend, Kennedy Center program honor Marvin Gaye (AP)

    FILE - In this Feb. 24, 2011 file photo, singer John Legend performs during the White House Music Series saluting Motown in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Legend is joining the Kennedy Center in Washington to start a program in honor of the late Marvin Gaye encouraging young artists to engage in social issues. The project announced Tuesday echoes Gaye's lyrics and asks young people to consider 'What's Going On ... Now?' They can upload videos, photos, poems, music or any recordings of creative expression to the project's website to answer that question. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - Grammy award-winning singer John Legend surprised a high school choir Tuesday at the Kennedy Center to help start a program encouraging young artists to confront social issues with their art, in honor of the late Marvin Gaye.


  • Barter system part of appeal for Brussels art show (Reuters)

    Reuters - In the history of currency, earplugs have, unsurprisingly, never been widely used or accepted. So when a man offered Belgian artist Delphine Boël 10,000 earplugs for her print "The Source of Identity" at the Truc Troc contemporary art exhibit in 2006, her reaction was, "God, he's crazy."

  • Old Masters auctions total more than $120 million (Reuters)

    Reuters - Old Masters paintings brought in more than $120 million at auction sales this week, with several works selling for more than $5 million each and records set for some artists.

  • NY art dealer charged in $4M fraud (AP)

    AP - A New York art dealer has been charged in a $4 million fraud for selling works by Picasso, Matisse and others without informing the owner or giving him the proceeds.

  • Exclusive: Bones and landscapes inspire Danish queen's art (Reuters)

    Reuters - Denmark's Queen Margrethe II said that painting landscapes helps to recharge her batteries in an exclusive interview with Reuters ahead of this week's opening of a major exhibition for her art.

  • Saudi artists test limits of expression in rare show (Reuters)

    Reuters - Standing on a large floor map in a Jeddah art gallery, Hamza Serafi places a yellow sign inscribed "Caution: revolution (take 2)" over Egypt and then turns to Saudi Arabia.

  • Irishman makes "billion-euro home" of shredded notes (Reuters)

    Reuters - An unemployed Irish artist has built a home from the shredded remains of 1.4 billion euros ($1.82 billion), a monument to the "madness" he says has been wrought on Ireland by the single currency, from a spectacular construction boom to a wrenching bust.

  • Michigan Report Shows Arts and Culture Spending Yields High Return (ContributorNetwork)

    ContributorNetwork - Creative State Michigan, an annual report by ArtServe, showed every dollar spent in Michigan on arts and culture repays the state back 50-fold. According to Michigan Radio, the purpose of the report was to demonstrate to lawmakers how profitable arts funding can be. Here are details about cultural-to-business connections in Michigan.

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