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Giacometti Sculpture Fetches Record $104 Million

Giacometti Sculpture Fetches Record $104 Million

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.

 

Don't Bring the Kids: Theme Park is 'Sexually Explicit'

Don't Bring the Kids: Theme Park is 'Sexually Explicit'

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.

 

Big sticks, speaking softly

Big sticks, speaking softly

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.

 

N.Y. artist creates Bernard Madoff piggy bank

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...

 

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