A retired French electrician and his wife have come forward with 271 undocumented, never-before-seen works by Pablo Picasso, estimated to be worth at least $79.35 million.

New York museums in dire financial straits will be allowed to sell artworks from their collections, but not to cover operating costs. The Board of Regents, which has authority over the state's non-profit museums, is loosening some restrictions on museum sales.

Although I work in the non-visual medium of radio, by training I'm a visual artist. I graduated from art school, and worked for ten years as a graphic designer and illustrator before moving to radio via my lifelong love of music. I think that radio actually is a visual medium, it's just that the associated images are conjured in the imagination of the listener, rather than on paper or on canvas.

Activists poured oil-like liquid in front of London's Tate Britain Monday and sprinkled bird feathers over the slick to protest the gallery receiving corporate sponsorship from British Petroleum.

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Working artists in New York are twice as likely to be living without adequate health insurance as those who make their living by other means.

A statue by artist Amedeo Modigliani was sold at Christie's in Paris for $52.8 million, making it the highest-priced work ever sold at a French auction.

Artist Louise Bourgeois, whose sculptures exploring women's feelings on birth, sexuality and death were highly influential on younger artists, has died. She was 98 years old.

A Jasper Johns painting of the American flag in the collection of the late best-selling writer Michael Crichton sold for $28.6 million last night at a Christie's auction.

American conservators are helping Haitians salvage their heritage from the rubble of churches and museums.

Pablo Picasso's "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust" sold for $106 million at a Christie's auction in New York yesterday to an unidentified buyer. That's the highest price for a piece of art since Alberto Giacometti's “Walking Man I” sold for $104.3 million in February.

Public officials and members of the art world gathered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art yesterday to remember the French-American artist who created the orange Central Park installation, "The Gates." They were paying tribute to Jeanne-Claude, who died in November due to complications from a ruptured brain aneurysm at age 74.

To many in the art world, William Kentridge is a household name. Less well known is Philip Miller, the South African composer who created the scores for many of Kentridge’s short films and other works.

A notable painting by Pablo Picasso will undergo repairs, after a visitor to the Metropolitan Museum of Art accidentally lost her balance and struck the Picasso work.

The chandeliers and Tiffany deigned stained glass from Tavern on the Green are up for sale today.

David Levine, an artist whose witty caricatures illustrated The New York Review of Books for more than 40 years, died yesterday at age 83.