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A life-size bronze sculpture of a man by Alberto Giacometti was sold Wednesday at a London auction for $104.3 million - a world record for the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction, Sotheby's auction house said.

A significant Pablo Picasso painting was damaged after a woman attending art class lost her balance, fell into " The Actor " and tore it, The Metropolitan Museum of Art said.

A painting by the Impressionist master Edgar Degas has been stolen at an exhibition in Marseille.

Italian tax police say they have seized a secret stash of masterpieces from the disgraced founder of a collapsed dairy company.

A painting by the Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte was stolen from a small Brussels museum this morning by two armed men who rang the doorbell before putting a gun to the concierge's head.

The canvas of the Mona Lisa was undamaged after a Russian tourist hurled a terra cotta mug at the Da Vinci masterpiece last week.

A red notebook of 33 pencil drawings by Pablo Picasso has been stolen from a specially locked glass case in the Paris museum that bears the painter's name, authorities said Tuesday.

China's is building its first sexually explicit theme park, and the giant genitalia sculptures and suggestive exhibits are getting many people hot and bothered in a country where talking about sex is still taboo.

Lionsgate has released two pieces of outdoor artwork for Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables , coming to theaters on April 23, 2010. The action-adventure, which follows a team of mercenaries on a mission to overthrow a South American dictator, stars Stallone, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke, Jet Li, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Charisma Carpenter, Giselle Itie, Brittany Murphy, David Zayas and Amin Joseph.

Two paintings by Pablo Picasso are bought at auction in New York, just 24 hours after another of his works failed to sell.