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A painting depicting Bea Arthur topless sold for a whopping $1.9 million at auction this week.

A recent show house in Paris was initiated by AD Intérieurs’s query to thirteen interior designers to interpret the theme "journeys of the imagination."

A collection of paintings including works by Rembrandt, Anthony van Dyck and Thomas Gainsborough has left its home at London’s Kenwood House and will travel to museums around the U.S. while the stately home undergoes renovations.

Could a painting of Mary holding the body of Jesus that hung for years in an upstate New York family’s home really be a 16th century Michelangelo?

A 12-year dispute that illustrated the difficulty of proving art was stolen by Nazis in World War II ended Tuesday with an agreement that a 1912 oil painting entitled "Portrait of Wally" will be returned to a Vienna museum and displayed with an acknowledgement that it was stolen from a Jewish art dealer by a Nazi agent.

Art experts believe they have identified a new Leonardo da Vinci - in part by examining a fingerprint on the canvas.