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The famed Navajo Code Talkers, the elite Marine unit whose unbreakable code stymied the Japanese in World War II, fear their legacy will die with them.
A miniature portrait of Czar Peter the Great in a diamond-encrusted frame — owned for decades by an Arizona family that didn't realize its historic significance — has been auctioned for $1.3 million.
The Red Book, an intricate 16-year record of Carl Jung's journey into his unconscious that has never been seen publicly, is going on display in an exhibit at a New York museum that coincides with publication of the volume, rendered in the Swiss psychoanalyst's elaborate calligraphy and richly hued paintings.
A rare, 19th century hand-carved goose decoy that once plied Pennsylvania's Susquehanna River before being sold in Argentina, and considered by some to be a floating sculpture, is going on the auction block. It could bring in as much as $400,000.
New York City has a new exposition center that will primarily launch large-scale, experiential exhibitions.
The Discovery Channel and the production company Running Subway have teamed up to create a Times Square exhibition space for blockbuster experiential shows such as "Titanic" and "Tutankhamun."
A court settlement has transferred ownership of a painting by expressionist Chaim Soutine from the National Gallery of Art to the estate of a Canadian woman who had sued the Washington, D.C., museum.
Christie's auction house said Wednesday that an early Bob Dylan poem was based on an existing country tune.
It's like entering a wondrous dream: gauzy pastel- tinted fabrics forming tentlike structures and tunnels with aroma-filled hanging pods within arm's reach. A pool filled with plastic balls and a multicolored carpet invite playful activity.
Arts patron Betty Freeman was anything but a Beverly Hills housewife.
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, a tenacious negotiator, loved to communicate her mood and intentions in a more subtle way — through her brooches.
With stock portfolios plummeting and the economy tanking, owners of expensive art are increasingly using their collections as collateral to obtain a much-needed infusion of cash.
The Material Girl has lost some of her glitter — at auction, anyway.
Mahatma Gandhi's (Ma-hot-ma Gand-hee's) distinctive wire-frame eyeglasses, a pair of worn leather sandals and an inexpensive pocket watch are going on the auction block in New York City.
The rusty, crumpled, metal shell sits in a large room, thousands of miles from a popular Iraqi book market where the car was destroyed in a suicide bomb attack that killed 38 people in 2007.
A rare trove of 11,000 Hebrew books and manuscripts went on display at Sotheby's this week as the auction house seeks to find a buyer for what is considered the greatest collection of Judaica in private hands.
Long before he picked up the camera and became a pioneer of American documentary photography, Walker Evans began collecting the colorized photo postcards that were a staple of early 1900s five-and-dime stores.
A nude photo of Madonna, taken before erotic songs and risque costumes catapulted her to superstardom, is expected to sell for at least $10,000, Christie's auction house says.
Barack Obama and his message of change will get a ringing endorsement on Inauguration Day from 12 bells at a church near ground zero.
Sotheby's auction house says the company has approved a restructuring plan which will result in salary reductions and layoffs, due to lower-than-expected earnings.
Sotheby's Inc. has approved a restructuring plan that will lead to salary reductions and layoffs because of poorer than expected earnings.
The off-color jokes flew around the room. As the anecdotes got bawdier, the laughter intensified. Some recited from memory, others read from notebooks they brought along.
An oil painting of Michelle Obama and her daughter Sasha was unveiled Wednesday as part of an exhibition by artist Elizabeth Peyton, best known for her images of diverse historical figures and celebrities such as Napoleon and Kurt Cobain.
On Day 2 of the fall auction season, a Russian masterpiece expected to sell for up to $3 million at auction did not find a buyer Wednesday, further underscoring the impact of the global financial crisis on the art market.
Columbia University and the Apollo Theater Foundation plan to create an oral history of the famed Harlem theater that launched the careers of Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson and other music legends.
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