A phony Botticelli, a faux Rembrandt, a Holbein hoax alongside other forgeries, fakes and mistakes come under the microscope in the latest exhibition at London's National Gallery.
Twelve veteran ink painters from across the Taiwan Straits will create a modern version of Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains, a masterpiece by famed Yuan Dynasty (1206-1368) painter Huang Gongwang (1269-1354).
An Austrian goldsmith has sold a plastic vuvuzela horn decorated with white gold and diamonds for 17,000 euros ($20,800) to a Russian customer, media reported on Thursday.
More than 5 million people visited The Metropolitan Museum of Art in the past year despite the global economic downturn, giving the New York art institution its highest annual attendance since 2001.
British art collector Charles Saatchi, who championed the likes of Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, will donate his central London gallery and more than 200 works valued at $37 million to the nation, he announced on Thursday.
Three X-rays of Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe's chest and pelvis taken during a hospital visit have sold for more than 10 times their pre-sale estimates, earning $45,000.
William Shakespeare's Globe theater has finally put a 400-year-old taboo to rest by staging the play which burned the original house down during the Bard's lifetime.
The world's two biggest auctioneers, Christie's and Sotheby's, held post-war and contemporary art sales in London this week with total sales coming in at the lower end of expectations.
The Ulster Museum in Belfast won the Art Fund Prize for museums and galleries on Wednesday, and with it 100,000 pounds ($150,000), highlighting a cultural rejuvenation in Northern Ireland.
Comic book superheroine Wonder Woman has traded in her spangled hot pants for urban leggings and upped her street smarts in a 21st century make-over for the 69 year-old character.
The jet fighter plane becomes installation art in the latest edition of the British showcase for contemporary sculpture in London.
Vanessa Redgrave is returning to Broadway this coming October opposite James Earl Jones in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Driving Miss Daisy," the show's producers said on Tuesday.
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