Visual arts

Tiff Massey poses with a Cadillac to promote her exhibition about metalsmithing, jewelry and the city’s streets. Detroit Institute of the Arts by Samantha Noël,...

NEW YORK (AP) _ Documentary photographer Mary Ellen Mark, famed for her gift of capturing searing images of human vulnerability, has died at age...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Postal Service is issuing a new limited edition "Forever" stamp honoring the late poet and civil rights champion Maya...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Billionaire publisher Richard Mellon Scaife, who two weeks before his death wrote about the importance of art and supporting American museums,...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Teardrops for murders. Spider webs for prison time. Penal code numbers for crimes committed. Criminals have long used tattoos as indelible...

BERLIN (AP) — Swiss artist H.R. Giger, who designed the creature in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic "Alien," has died at age 74 from...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A new exhibit at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art shows the vibrant world of Negro League baseball through the eyes of...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Artist Jay Shells was in his New York City studio last year, painting while listening to rapper Big L, when...

 PITTSBURGH (AP) — Comic books are full of superheroes and a dazzling variety of characters, but in the early days of the industry one...

This undated photo provided by Sotheby's shows Andy Warhol's portrait of Elizabeth Taylor, titled "Liz #1 (Early Colored Liz)," estimated to fetch between $20 million and $30 million on Wednesday evening, Nov. 13, 2013, when it comes up for auction at Sotheby's in New York. (AP Photo/Sotheby's) by Jake Pearson and Ula IlnytzkyAssociated Press Writers NEW YORK (AP) — A prized 1963 Andy Warhol painting that captures the immediate aftermath of a car crash sold for $105 million Wednesday at a New York City auction, shattering the record for the famed pop artist amid a spending frenzy at the high end of the art world. The 8- by 13-foot painting titled "Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)" depicts a twisted body sprawled across a car's mangled interior. It has only been seen once in public in the past 26 years. The buyer wasn't immediately identified.