Lot 403--painting offered for song goes for bomb
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It entered the auction as an 18th century painting by an unknown artist worth a few hundred pounds, but emerged as a suspected early work by Renaissance master Titian possibly worth several million.
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By Denny Boyles, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Feb. 10--A Fresno County Jail inmate pulled the trigger on a paint gun Friday and took the first shot in a new campaign against graffiti in rural areas.
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A three-canvas painting by the figurative artist Francis Bacon is to be auctioned in London next month, where experts estimate it will break the record for the sale of any British or Irish work.
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A recently discovered painting by Sir Winston Churchill is expected to sell for Â£250,000 at auction.
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Cash'n'Carrion Lots of torch for not much cash
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A set of paintings by Jack Vettriano has fetched more than Â£1m at auction. Bluebird at Bonneville, one of seven originally commissioned by Sir Terence Conran, went for Â£468,000 - the second-highest price for a Vettriano after the Singing Butler sold for Â£744,500 in 2004
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A collector's treasure trove of more than 6 million songs -- on vinyl and CDs, in genres from rock and jazz to country and Broadway -- goes up for auction. Bidding starts at $3 million.
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LOS ANGELES: US authorities have seized a long-lost Picasso worth about $US10million ($13.4million) that was looted by Nazis during World War II.
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I saw an ad in yesterday's NY Times that offered the complete New Yorker magazine archive, including all the cartoons and ads, going back to 1920-something for a bit more than the hard disk would cost. The ad was from J&R, the company that makes the product is Pexagon. $149. Sounds like there might be DRM. I asked for something like this from the music business. A hundred gigs of popular music for $500, all pre-installed on the disk without DRM.  Someone at the New Yorker had this idea too? It's a good one. Bulk content for collector types. Another source of revenue. I want to run my own personal radio station, so having every song of a certain genre or from a certain period makes the diff.
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The owners of a Banksy mural in Bristol put it up for sale and include their house as part of the deal.
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The latest in a series of doors being auctioned off from a house where Jim Morrison once lived has been painted with a "Love Her Madly" theme.
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A Picasso painting stolen by Nazis during World War II is at the centre of a legal battle over its ownership.
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A fund-raising drive secures one of Turner's finest watercolours for the UK.
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A painting by John Singer Sargent sells for $23.5m (Â£12.1m), setting a new auction record for the artist.
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A painting by Winston Churchill, which President Truman called one of his "most valued possessions" after receiving it as a gift from the British prime minister in 1951, will be sold at Sotheby's, the auction house said Saturday.
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An art gallery which lost nine Banksy prints in two burglaries offers another piece by the guerilla artist as a reward.
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The price of this painting at auction was Â£205,000 - but its real market value is likely to be Â£5m.