Who Really Wielded the Paintbrush?
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A statistical analysis of brush strokes done with a computer program suggests that the Italian Renaissance painter Perugino had help with his "Madonna With Child."
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From Communist spy to distinguished professor to successful painter: Lawrence Martin-Bittman's biography reads like a novel, but it's all true.
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The Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang paints with gunpowder when heâs not staging open-air âexplosion events.â At this summerâs Beijing Olympic ceremonies, heâll be playing with fire.
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By Sean Robinson, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Feb. 15--For a few hours Wednesday, the Washington State History Museum unwittingly lent its name to an anonymous phishmonger.
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Tycho:  When we were working on our first serious comic project, a comic about angels in high-school that would probably have made us wealthy beyond mortal imaginings, we got into our first real fight about religion.  Shaking with rage, he essentially threw me out of his house.  He called me up a few hours later to play Duke, but still.  We never talked about the comic again.  We try never to discuss anything of substance if we can help it, though we do allow an annual fracas as a gift to one another.  Oh, and here's a Gabe tip:  never end the Lord's Prayer with "Psyche."  Never.
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LOS ANGELES The federal government has claimed custody of a Pablo Picasso painting stolen by Nazis during World War Two. The move allows a federal court in Los Angeles to claim jurisdiction in a legal struggle
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Business & money: Toymaker says they were made with paint that includes unacceptably high level of lead.
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By DAISY NGUYEN LOS ANGELES - Norman Rockwell paintings often resonate because of their depictions of everyday life, but the life of one of his paintings has been anything but mundane. &quot;Russian Schoolroom,&quot; a Rockwell painting stolen from a gallery in the St.
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By Jeff Miller  Painting puzzle: Is they is or is they ain't real Pollocks?  Are they just paint splatters or are they Jackson Pollocks? The right answer could be worth millions.
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Did someone kill Beethoven? A Viennese pathologist asserts that the composer's physician did -- inadvertently overdosing him with lead in a cure that went wrong.
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One art lover in Sweden paid 1,000 times over the starting bid for a painting billed as the work of a student of Peter Paul Rubens after learning the Flemish baroque master may have painted it himself.
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Dartmouth College computer scientists create software that uses statistical techniques to authenticate art, to sort out real works from fakes. Their first finding: A painting purportedly by Perugino may have been done by four different artists. By Noah Shachtman.
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Unwittingly, he had let something get past him. Intuitively, Cory Schneider knew what that meant.
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Modern renaissance man Maurizio Seracini wants to find Leonardo's Battle of Anghiari. His organization Editech uses high-tech tools to track down historic Italian works of art that the years have hidden from the public eye.
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Listen up, "CSI" fans: It's not as easy as it looks on TV. An expert testified in record producer Phil Spector's murder trial Wednesday that latent fingerprints rarely are found on guns used in crimes and that none was found on the gun that killed actress Lana Clarkson.
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NEW YORK -- For months, a minor mystery has beguiled the hipsters of this city: Who is splashing paint on New York's highest-profile graffiti?
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Its gold-encrusted blade holds the secrets of the young Napoleon, who carried it into one of his legendary, seemingly doomed battles.