It seemed like a lot of money for such a crappy painting. An Anthony van Dyck piece found in a shed in upstate New York — where it was originally purchased for a paltry $600 — has sold for a ...

Bird poop is hazardous to your car's paint, so Ford is making sure its cars can take a beating from sky droppings, as well as sap and pollen. It all started with Gran Turismo. From those early ...

There’s pop art, and then there’s poop art. While Chris Ofili caused a spit-storm by using elephant dung in his 1996 painting “The Holy Virgin Mary,” the new book “100 Secrets of the Art World” ...

On Tuesday, the painting sold for more $4.6 million, which is an auction record for Ofili, a British artist. The portrait, which was created in 1996, was acquired in 2007 by a professional gambler ...

If you happen to be staying in San Francisco during the long Memorial Day weekend, one of the things you can do is see the art in the F.A.T. Gold Retrospective at Gray Area in the Mission District.

With less than a week left until the 150 th Anniversary of the U.S.S. Monitor’s sinking, a monument erected in celebration of the ship fell prey to tasteless vandalism in Greenpoint yesterday. What ...

An Anthony van Dyck piece found in a shed in upstate New York — where it was originally purchased for a paltry $600 — has sold for a staggering $3.1 million at auction. The long-lost work was ...