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Rare 1856 stamp sets record at New York City auction

NEW YORK – A 1-cent postage stamp from a 19th century British colony in South America has become the world’s most valuable stamp – again. The 1856 British Guiana One-Cent Magenta ...

DATE: Jun 20, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Photos of homeless people pop up in NYC

NEW YORK – Best known for his provocative images, photographer Andres Serrano has turned his attention to putting a very public face on New York City’s skyrocketing homeless population. ...

DATE: May 26, 2014 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

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Tile artists’ work hidden in plain view

DATE: Apr 7, 2014 | CATEGORY: Visual Arts

Graffiti art highlighted in NYC exhibition

NEW YORK – Spray-painted at night on a Lower East Side handball court, the “Howard the Duck” mural showed the comic book character peeking from behind a trash can with the words: “Graffiti i...

DATE: Feb 3, 2014 | CATEGORY: Visual Arts

Rockwell masterpiece sells for $46M at NYC auction

NEW YORK – Norman Rockwell painting titled “Saying Grace” sold Wednesday at a New York City auction for $46 million, a record for the Saturday Evening Post illustrator, Sotheby’s said. ...

DATE: Dec 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Visual Arts

1640 psalm book could fetch $30M at NYC auction

NEW YORK – A tiny book of psalms from 1640 – believed to be the first book ever printed in what is now the United States – is poised to set an auction record for a printed book on Tuesday. ...

DATE: Nov 26, 2013 | CATEGORY: Books

Warhol painting fetches record $105 million at New York auction

NEW YORK – A prized 1963 Andy Warhol painting that captures the immediate aftermath of a car crash sold for $105 million Wednesday at a New York City auction, setting a record for the famed ...

DATE: Nov 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Record prices expected at NYC fall art auctions

NEW YORK – Potential buyers will have to dig deep as New York City’s frenzied fall auction season gets underway with blockbuster works of art poised to set records. Among the blue...

DATE: Nov 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Visual Arts

Bob Dylan’s guitar from Newport to be auctioned in N.Y.

NEW YORK – The sunburst Fender Stratocaster that a young Bob Dylan played at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival when he famously went electric, perhaps the most historic instrument in rock ’n’ r...

DATE: Oct 31, 2013 | CATEGORY: Music

Satchmo house marks 10 years as museum

NEW YORK – To mark the 10th anniversary of the Louis Armstrong museum in the modest brick house where he lived for 28 years, curators are unveiling one of the jazz trumpeter’s most unusual a...

DATE: Oct 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Music

NY fraud victim gets 18 artworks, worth $33M

NEW YORK – Eighteen contemporary artworks have been transferred to a hedge fund victimized in a massive $400 million fraud scheme, the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office said Monday. ...

DATE: Aug 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Visual Arts

Photographer who shot ’62 Marilyn Monroe portraits dies

NEW YORK – Bert Stern, a commercial photographer best known for his images of Marilyn Monroe in what became known as “The Last Sitting,” has died in New York City. He was 83. Ster...

DATE: Jun 27, 2013 | CATEGORY: Visual Arts