Arts
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United States returns stolen 14th century image of saint to Italy
Dec 12, 2016News Hour: A stolen 14th century illustration of a Roman Catholic saint was returned on Friday to Italy, where it will be put in a museum, U.S. Customs officials said. The image, an ink, tempera and... -
Dylan muses on honor and surprise of Nobel prize
Dec 12, 2016News Hour: Bob Dylan sent a message on Saturday thanking the Swedish academy for awarding him the Nobel prize for literature, an honor the American singer and songwriter believed was about as likely as “standing on... -
Artist works to preserve Christian heritage in Hamas-run Gaza
Dec 12, 2016News Hour: Only about 1,200 Christians remain in Gaza — only a tiny fraction of the population in a territory run by Hamas Islamists — but artist Naser Jeldha is doing what he can to preserve... -
London-based artist Helen Marten wins Britain’s Turner Prize
Dec 6, 2016News Hour: London-based artist Helen Marten has won this year’s Turner Prize, receiving 25,000 pounds at Britain’s annual contemporary art award. Originally from the northern English town of Macclesfield, Marten creates her installations through sculpture, screen... -
Patti Smith and a speech by proxy to fill Dylan void at Nobels
Dec 6, 2016News Hour: Nobel literature laureate Bob Dylan will provide a speech and fellow American singer-songwriter Patti Smith will perform one of his best-known songs in his absence during Stockholm’s prize celebrations, the awards body said on... -
South African cave pebble outshines treasures at British Museum
Nov 28, 2016News Hour: In a corner of the British Museum’s new South African exhibition, near an ancient golden rhino and a collection of apartheid-era campaign badges, sits a glass case holding a pitted, reddish-brown stone. It is... -
Centuries-old Ten Commandments tablet goes under hammer for $850,000
Nov 27, 2016News Hour: A 1,500-year-old stone tablet with the earliest known chiseled inscription of the Ten Commandments was sold at a U.S. auction on Wednesday for $850,000. The two-foot (61 cm) square slab of white marble that... -
Sells for $1.81 million, Frida Kahlo painting, unseen for 60 years
Nov 27, 2016News Hour: Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s “Nina con Collar,” an early painting whose whereabouts had been a mystery for 60 years, has sold for $1.81 million at a Sotheby’s Latin American art auction. Works by Mexican... -
Ennio Morricone honors homeless at Vatican concert
Nov 13, 2016News Hour: Homeless people were the guests of honor on Saturday night at a special benefit concert in the Vatican conducted by Oscar winning composer Ennio Morricone. Morricone, 88, who won this year’s Academy Award for... -
David Bowie artworks fetch $30 million in first round of auction
Nov 13, 2016News Hour: A first auction of items from late rock star David Bowie’s private art collection has fetched more than $30 million, with some going far above their estimated prices. In a packed salesroom on Thursday...
