Art thieves stole paintings by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani and two other well-known artists from a Paris museum overnight in a heist worth 100 million euros ($124 million).
PIMCO's Bill Gross, manager of the world's largest mutual fund, sold $1.5 million worth of his rare European stamps on Wednesday to benefit Doctors Without Borders.
International businessman Nicolas Berggruen, the son of a famous art dealer, saw a rare opportunity to expand his father's renowned Picasso collection during an auction this month, but he was left empty-handed.
In the middle of a West Philadelphia art gallery, a sculpture of a naked woman lies on a low plinth.
In Renaissance Florence, the Medici used cash from their banking activities to back young artists such as Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci.
Asher Edelman, whose corporate-raider past was mined for the movie character Gordon Gekko, is fighting back against a New York lender who said he defaulted on loans to buy artwork.
A painting by Mexican artist Diego Rivera that has not been seen in public for more than 50 years and works by some of Latin America's biggest artists will be up sold at auction later this month.
A martini glass studded with 226 blue sapphires fetched 13,000 euros at an unusual auction of designer cocktail glasses featuring everything from sandalwood and obelisk stems to a built-in olive piercer.
Blood drips from Hillary Clinton's severed head. The Virgin Mary cradles a machine gun. Karl Marx shares a wall with Hugo Chavez.
New York's Broadway will dim its lights on Wednesday to mark the death of the last of the famed Ziegfeld showgirls, performers renowned for their lavish costumes and elaborate stage routines.
Collectors spent big money at Christie's postwar and contemporary art auction on Tuesday, led by Jasper Johns' pop art painting "Flag" from a collection that had belonged to best-selling author Michael Crichton, which sold for a record $28.64 million.
A huge mural, the largest-ever of Spain in modern history, returns this week to a long-neglected Manhattan museum that has been renovated with grants from Spain.