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Patrick Dougherty thrives on artistic derring-do. For 21 years, this improbably modest sculptor has taken on one creative assignment after another, always in a new city and never knowing what he'll do till he gets there.

London's Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Monday unveiled what they called the only portrait of William Shakespeare painted during his lifetime.

A New York artist has fashioned a bust of accused financial swindler Bernard Madoff into a piggy bank that won't give your money back. Sculptor Palmer Murphy said he designed the faux-bronze "Ponz" piggy bank with a coin...

A street artist famous for his red, white and blue "Hope" posters of President Obama has been arrested on warrants accusing him of tagging property with graffiti, police said today.

Mr. Wyeth’s precise realist views of hardscrabble rural life became icons of national culture and sparked endless debates about the nature of modern art.