Arts
Two men charged in Wisconsin theft of Stradivarius violin
MILWAUKEE - Two Wisconsin men were charged Friday with stealing a rare Stradivarius violin worth millions of dollars from a concert violinist in late January, prosecutors said.
Baseball drama 'Bronx Bombers' goes to bat on Broadway
NEW YORK - Broadway's newest sports-based play, "Bronx Bombers," opened to mixed reviews on Friday, with some critics praising the casting of the New York Yankees drama and others wondering if it will hit any home runs beyond the hometown fans.
Britain's National Gallery buys its first American painting
LONDON - The National Gallery in London has bought its first ever painting by a U.S. artist, "Men of the Docks" by George Bellows, departing from its previous policy of acquiring only paintings by artists working in Western Europe.
Sotheby's biggest-ever London art sale comes as emerging-market buyers flock in
LONDON - Works by Picasso and Van Gogh helped the London arm of Sotheby's hit its highest-ever sales figure for a single auction, coming close to the overall London record set by rival Christie's a day earlier, as art sales boomed in the British capital.
Nazi-looted painting returned to Poland in emotional NY ceremony
NEW YORK - A painting by an 18th-century German artist, one of tens of thousands of Polish art objects looted by the Nazis and missing for 75 years, was returned to Poland by U.S. officials on Thursday.
Christie's record-breaking art sale kicks off 2014 London auction season
LONDON - The high-end art market kicked off 2014 with a bang when sales at Christie's impressionist, modern and surrealist art auction set a new record high for any London sale on Tuesday evening.
Christie's scraps Miro sale after uproar in Portugal
LISBON - Christie's auction house canceled the sale of 85 paintings by the Catalan Surrealist Joan Miro on Tuesday after an uproar over whether debt-ridden Portugal, their legal owner, could sell the treasures to buyers abroad.
Artist Basquiat's early works to be on exhibit, auction in New York
NEW YORK - Early works by artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, known for his provocative, powerful and sometimes controversial paintings, will be exhibited and sold in online and in-house auctions in March, Christie's said on Friday.
Germany must publish list of artworks hoarded by recluse: court
BERLIN - Germany must publish the full list of artworks found in the flat of an elderly recluse last year which are mostly believed to have been looted or extorted by the Nazis, a German court ruled on Friday, citing the need for transparency in a case long hushed up.
Roald Dahl's dark 'Dirty Beasts' set to music for children
LONDON - Roald Dahl's "Dirty Beasts" poems have a musical cadence which may explain why, after the success of stage versions of "Matilda" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", three of them are being set to music to introduce young people to the orchestra.
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