• Museum starts night tours of signs from Vegas past May 25, 2013
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — The junked signs that attracted throngs to old Las Vegas have for years gathered dust in a neon boneyard just a few miles from the sleek mega-casinos on the Strip.
• Artist Kapoor draws on Berlin's dark history in new show May 24, 2013
  By Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) - Blood-red bricks of wax are shifted by conveyor belts up metal chutes towards the centre of an atrium before thudding down and splattering like entrails, in a monumental new installation created by artist Anish Kapoor for his new show in Berlin. A giant, dark sun-like red disk hovers above the ever-growing heaps of wax splod […]
• Britain's Tate museum sets $34 million record for Constable painting May 23, 2013
  LONDON (Reuters) - The Tate Britain museum bought 19th century English painter John Constable's masterpiece "Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows" for 23.1 million pounds ($34.75 million), making it one of the most expensive British paintings ever sold. The painting, dated 1831, of the towering cathedral in the middle distance under an overcas […]
• NY art dealer tied to alleged forgeries charged with tax fraud May 21, 2013
  By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors on Tuesday charged a New York art dealer with tax fraud in connection with the sale of paintings she claimed to be the works of celebrated abstract expressionists, but some of which the government said were fakes. Glafira Rosales, 56, faces three counts of filing false tax returns and five counts o […]
• Man pleads guilty in Picasso vandalism case May 21, 2013
  HOUSTON (AP) — A man accused of vandalizing a 1929 Pablo Picasso painting in a Houston museum — an act that was caught on cellphone video — agreed Tuesday to a two-year prison term as part of a plea deal with prosecutors.
• Muppets creator's items head to NYC museum May 21, 2013
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Muppets are getting a new home in a Queens museum with a permanent exhibit the city hopes will persuade more tourists to venture beyond Manhattan.
• Muppets creator Henson's items head to NYC museum May 21, 2013
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Muppets may have taken Manhattan, but they're getting a spiffy new home in Queens.
• NYC artist's secret photos raise privacy issues May 17, 2013
  NEW YORK (AP) — In one photo, a woman is on all fours, presumably picking something up, her posterior pressed against a glass window. Another photo shows a couple in bathrobes, their feet touching beneath a table. And there is one of a man, in jeans and a T-shirt, lying on his side as he takes a nap.
• Boston Symphony Orchestra names new music director May 16, 2013
  BOSTON (AP) — Andris (AHN'-driss) Nelsons has been named music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
• Richter painting breaks record for living artist at N.Y. auction May 15, 2013
  By Chris Michaud NEW YORK (Reuters) - A 1968 oil painting by German artist Gerhard Richter sold for some $37 million at Sotheby's contemporary art auction on Tuesday, a new record for a work by a living artist. The sale took in $293,587,000, at the low end of the pre-sale estimate of $284 million to $383 million, with 83 percent of the 64 lots on offer […]
• Romanian artist takes his art on the street May 15, 2013
  BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian artist Vasile Muresan, known as Murivale, thinks art belongs on the street. The white-bearded painter can often be seen sitting on the colorful canvases that he displays in the street, while he is followed by the street dogs who are his companions and also inspire his work.
• Vatican to have pavilion at Venice Biennale modern art exhibit May 14, 2013
  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - For most people, the relationship between contemporary art and the Vatican - home of some of the world's greatest old masterpieces - is like oil and water - they just don't mix. The Vatican's "culture minister," Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, wants to change that perception and so for the firs […]
• Ballet gala brings out the chiffon and sequins May 14, 2013
  NEW YORK (AP) — Fashion takes a back seat to nothing — not even seriously chilly weather — at New York's fanciest dance gala.
• Choreographer: No signs Jackson was ill in 2009 May 13, 2013
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — An associate choreographer who worked on Michael Jackson's planned comeback concerts testified Monday that she didn't see any signs that the pop superstar was ill or might die in the final days of his life.
• Another hitch in Lepage's Ring Cycle at Met Opera May 11, 2013
  NEW YORK (AP) — The revival of Robert Lepage's staging of Wagner's Ring Cycle at the Metropolitan Opera ended with another hitch.
• Makeup artist says Jackson was pushed to rehearse May 10, 2013
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Jackson's longtime makeup artist testified Thursday that she overhead an executive for concert promoter AEG Live insist that the singer rehearse despite signs of Jackson's declining health.
• Makeup artist describes Jackson's pain, artistry May 9, 2013
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Jackson's longtime makeup artist tearfully described to jurors on Thursday the singer's struggles with back pain and insomnia after suffering injuries during his career.
• Makeup artist describes Jackson's artistry, pain May 9, 2013
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A makeup artist who worked with Michael Jackson for nearly 30 years says the singer struggled with sleep and required a doctor's care to deal with pain while touring.
• Nazi-themed Wagner opera in Germany sickens audience, withdrawn May 9, 2013
  By Michelle Martin BERLIN (Reuters) - A Nazi-themed staging of a Wagner opera in Germany that caused some members of the audience to become sick with its scenes of murder and a gas chamber has been withdrawn, the opera company said on its website. After failing to get the director to agree to changes, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Duesseldorf said that the p […]
• Review: Ballet meets hoofing in fun 'On Your Toes' May 9, 2013
  NEW YORK (AP) — There's been plenty of chatter on Broadway these days about how the revival of the musical "Pippin" has brilliantly combined circus elements. At New York City Center, it's nice to be reminded that such mashups aren't all that new.

• Yo, Broadway! 'Rocky' the musical is coming April 29, 2013
  A musical interpretation of the 1976 Sylvester Stallone film is gearing up for its big American debut, and now there's a short video that offers a taste of a singing Italian Stallion.
• 'American Psycho' musical to open in London April 21, 2013
  A musical based on the Bret Easton Ellis novel about a Wall Street banker turned serial killer will premiere in December.
• Pink Floyd album cover designer dies at 69 April 19, 2013
  Storm Thorgerson, the Engish album-cover designer most famous for his iconic work with Pink Floyd, died Thursday after battling cancer, his family announced. He was 69.
• Capote's ashes invited to 'Tiffany's' party March 25, 2013
• Police investigate death of Hockney assistant March 19, 2013
  David Hockney's 23-year-old assistant was rushed from the artist's home on Monday and died later in the hospital.
• Artist turns peanut shells into celeb caricatures March 16, 2013
  Steve Casino found a peanut, found a peanut. Then he cracked it open (gently). But he didn't eat it. Instead, the 46-year-old toy inventor decided to paint a face on the peanut shell ... and thus a hobby, and a lucrative second profession, were born.
• Corgi fired from Helen Mirren's new play March 14, 2013
  A dog that figured prominently in "The Audience," a new play with the Oscar-winning actress that's previewing in London, had to be replaced after missing its cues.
• The Onion sorry for offensive Wallis tweet February 25, 2013
  After a tweet by The Onion applied the c-word to 9-year-old "Beasts of the Southern Wild" star Quvenzhané Wallis, CEO Steve Hannah apologized and promised disciplinary action for "those individuals responsible."
• Shia LaBeouf quits play, hints at Baldwin clash February 21, 2013
  Shia LaBeouf has cast himself as the lead in a nail-biter of an off-Broadway drama.
• Picasso portrait of his mistress sells for $45 million February 6, 2013
  LONDON -- A Pablo Picasso portrait of his mistress and "golden muse" Marie-Therese Walter sold for $45 million on Tuesday, leading an important Sotheby's auction of impressionist, modern and surrealist art.

• A Lost And Found 'Wonder': Pearl S. Buck's Final Novel May 25, 2013
  Before her death in 1973, Pearl S. Buck wrote one final novel. But The Eternal Wonder languished in a Texas storage unit for decades until its discovery last fall.
• Transcending Hardships By Saving Others In 'Constellation' May 25, 2013
  In his debut novel, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Anthony Marra takes readers to the war-torn republic of Chechnya. People disappear, informers betray and those with humanity endure great hardships.
• Two Songs That Led Keith Carradine From Screen To Broadway May 25, 2013
  One of Keith Carradine's most famous roles in recent years was as Wild Bill Hickok on the HBO TV show Deadwood. But Carradine is also a musician, and it was a song that jump-started his career — and another that drew him to his latest Broadway role.
• Meet London's Master Architects In Jell-0 May 25, 2013
  London duo Sam Bompas and Harry Parr have made names for themselves with their wild, experimental food installations. From pineapple islands and banana vapors to re-creations of famous architectural monuments, their work playfully pushes the boundary of how we experience food.
• 'Steal The Menu': A Chronicle Of A Career In Food Coverage May 25, 2013
  When Raymond Sokolov began writing about food, it was considered a specialty portfolio. Today, celebrity chefs abound in the U.S. and Britain, with cookbooks, TV shows and groupies. Host Scott Simon speaks with Sokolov about his new book, Steal the Menu: A Memoir of Forty Years in Food.
• Three-Minute Fiction Readings: 'Geometry' And 'Snowflake' May 25, 2013
  NPR's Bob Mondello and Susan Stamberg read excerpts of two of the best submissions for Round 11 of our short story contest. They read Snowflake by Winona Wendth of Lancaster, Mass., and Geometry by Eugenie Montague of Los Angeles.
• Snowflake May 25, 2013
  She found the photograph early in the day, while she was cleaning for spring, pulling a winter's collection of domestic detritus out from under the bed. Ticket stubs, grimy grocery notes, coffee-stained lined paper, and dead pens. Their life: movies, food, and books.
• Geometry May 25, 2013
  I found your journal in my car. A slim, Moleskin, six by ten centimeters, soft cover, blue, curving upwards at the edges like an incredibly shallow bowl, or a key dish. By the concavity in its form, the book seemed to be suggesting it was capable of carrying something. Something real.
• Gals Who Grill: What Will It Take For Women To Man The Q? May 25, 2013
  The grill "is the one and only male-dominated appliance in America," says a researcher who recently crunched the numbers. He found that men are more than twice as likely as women to be the primary grillers at home. One reason? Grilling can feel like a form of recreation.
• Gateway Arch 'Biography' Reveals Complex History Of An American Icon May 25, 2013
  The gleaming stainless steel arch in St. Louis is, officially, a monument to westward expansion. But in The Gateway Arch: A Biography, Tracy Campbell argues that the monument's meaning is more complicated. He tells NPR about the controversies, the clout and the costs behind the 630-foot structure.

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