2 more autism-friendly shows planned for Broadway

Two more autism-friendly performances of Broadway musicals will be offered this spring and fall following the success last year of the first showing of a Broadway show specially altered for those diagnosed with the disorder.

More autism-friendly shows planned for Broadway

A nonprofit group is planning two autism-friendly performances of Broadway's "The Lion King" and "Mary Poppins" for families with children diagnosed with the disorder.

3 art works from Liz Taylor collection snag $21.8M (AP)

AP - Three top works from the late Hollywood star Elizabeth Taylor's art collection have sold at a London auction for nearly 14 million pounds ($22 million), the auctioneer Christie's said Tuesday.

Where Art And Science Meet, Exactly

One of the great ironies of human existence is that art and science are both optional costs for culture.

Art show goes beyond the theme of romance

“Hidden Hearts” by Ifat Shatzky. / COURTESY OF IFAT SHATZKY ~ Loading ... "Love Seeks Justice" by Tom McGill. / COURTESY OF SMALL WORLD COFFEE ~

Green auction expected to raise millions for environment

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bidders will be able to buy fine art, a vacation in the Maldives, or an internship with designer Donna Karan and help the planet at the same time in Christie's annual Green Auction, which is expected reap millions for environmental causes. Proceeds from the third annual auction on April 11, which raised nearly a combined $5 million its first two years, will benefit four ...

Weekly Travel Deals on VEGAS.com

LAS VEGAS, NV-- - The travel experts at VEGAS.com, the world's number one city travel website with the top Las Vegas Hotels and Las Vegas Shows , have outlined some of this week's exclusive and limited-time ...

Hotel art thief is prison-bound

A compulsive fine art fan is going to prison for at least a year after getting caught lifting hundreds of thousands of dollars in paintings from the lobby walls of the Carlyle and Chambers hotels in Manhattan. Mark Lugo, 31, was a restaurant waiter with caviar taste -- as much...

Art Reality Show: Plein Air event takes artists, patrons to Wabasso Island

For three days, beginning Feb. 16, art patrons can explore 64-acres on Wabasso Island — not to fish or camp, but to see local artists at work in a natural habitat.

Man admits NY piece of bicoastal art-theft spree (AP)

AP - A wine steward who plucked artwork off hotel and gallery walls in a bicoastal spree admitted Tuesday to stealing a $350,000 drawing in New York, resolving charges here after serving jail time in California.

Art East: Whimsical art brings joy to artist, art lover

Creativity born from life's trials

Montserrat College of Art's "Random Access: Data as Art" Exhibit Sponsored by Relevant Data Corp

BEVERLY, MA and DANVERS, MA-- - Montserrat College of Art's Gallery http://www.montserrat.edu/galleries/ opens a new exhibit "Random Access: Data as Art" at 23 Essex St, Beverly, on view through ...

Vegas SportsDay: Twelve months to Super Bowl XLVII

The next episode of Vegas SportsDay, hosted by Teddy Sevransky and David Malinsky, happens LIVE today at 11AM PT / 2 PM ET. Don't worry if you missed the Live Show You can see it and past shows can be viewed ...

Silent Art Auction benefits those with AIDS

BOISE -- This Valentine's Day you can help people living with AIDS or HIV in our community by bidding on artwork. The 19th annual Valentine For AIDS Silent Art Auction is going on right now at the Flying M coffeehouse in downtown Boise. The money raised helps provide grocery vouchers and emergency financial assistance for people in southern Idaho who have HIV or AIDS. More than 250 artists are ...

Broadway Bridge plans unveiled

The Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department this morning released preliminary design ideas for a replacement for the Broadway Bridge. Among other details, the Highway Department said its initial commitment of $45 million for the bridge will be increased to $58 million, based on preliminary engineering studies. Here's a link to a page about the three proposals. Two are similar, one with ...

Charity art auction for Cystic Fibrosis sufferers

BARTS and The London Charity are hosting an art auction to help sufferers of Cystic Fibrosis.

Internet titan Peter Norton sells more of art collection (Reuters)

Reuters - Works by Damien Hirst, Ed Ruscha and Roy Lichtenstein are among Post-War and Contemporary art that will be sold by Christie's at an auction next month that will also feature 45 works from the collection of Silicon Valley pioneer Peter Norton.

Motley Crue go above and beyond for Vegas residency

When Mötley Crüe announced late last year they'd be taking up temporary residency in Las Vegas at the Hard Rock Hotel's Joint, it was one of those ideas that seemed so perfect the only question was, "What took so long?"

Motley Crue Kick Off Vegas Run

Motley Crue have kicked off their Las Vegas residency with two sold-out shows and a Super Bowl commercial appearance

Art world mourns Spanish great Antoni Tapies

Spanish leaders and the entire art world mourned Tuesday the death of the great avant-garde painter and sculptor Antoni Tapies.

Daily Report: An Internet Art Fair

In Tuesday’s New York Times, Martha Schwendener reviews the VIP Art Fair 2.0, the Internet’s first major art bazaar. It’s 2.0 because this is the second year for the fair. Last year, it had all sorts of technical problems, but this year they seem to have been smoothed out.

Montreal's Contemporary Art Event Opens up Underground "Passageways"

Auction houses outfox Chinese antiquity fakers

Nicolas Chow places a magnifying glass against a Ming Dynasty vase to inspect the potter's 600-year old workmanship.

Preparations under way for Art Auction 2012

Bidding is already opened and final preparations are under way for Art Auction 2012, a biennial fundraiser for the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts that will be held later this month.

Tender, Blood-Pumping Art

We know what the slimy, blood-pumping mechanism that hangs behind our sternum looks like, thanks to the efforts of many brilliant and nonsqueamish researchers. Luckily, though, this art show isn’t about the precious, tender, hard-working organ in our chest. The felt heart will be on display fo...

Nick Jonas Hosts Pre-Theatre Party For Kids' Night on Broadway Feb. 7

Nick Jonas, currently starring in the Broadway revival of How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, is joined by Charlotte St. Martin (executive director of the Broadway League), Jordan Roth (president of Jujamcyn Theaters and founder of Givenik.com) and Bret Pidgeon (general manager of Madame Tussauds NY) Feb. 7 for a pre-theatre party to kick off Kids' Night on Broadway.

Lovers of Asian art preview major show

Arts of Pacific Asia Show preview gala: On Thursday at Fort Mason Center, the Asian Art Museum hosted a preview gala for the 16th annual Arts of Pacific Asia Show, a top destination for collectors, curators and art investors. Proceeds from the party benefited the Asian Art Museum Chong-Moon Lee Center for Art and Culture. Modern art fans launch fundraiser SFMOMA Modern Ball launch party: On ...

I-Team: The Las Vegas Elevator Ride from Hell

A Clark County court marshal stuck in an elevator at the Regional Justice Center faced death when a cable snapped dropping him down multiple floors. The whole incident was caught on video.

Long Plain to have art show

Long Plain First Nation will be the site of an upcoming art show on the weekend. Local Portage la Prairie artist Micheline Berard has helped organize the event, which will be held at Spirit Lodge on Sat., Feb.[...]

VIP Art Fair 2.0 Is Virtual, Modeled on the Traditional

Art Fair 2.0 takes a second stab at the virtual exhibition (and the Web site runs more smoothly this year).

Frank Miller Puts More Dark Knight Art Up for Auction

Get a look at original drawings and rare comics going under the gavel in this preview of the Vintage Comics and Comic Art Signature Auction.

Review: 'Forbidden Broadway' at Cosmopolitan Cabaret gets 3.5 stars

Gerard Alessandrini once had the clever idea to spoof Broadway shows and stars with satirical songs based on familiar ones from the actual shows.

The art of organizing art shows: Can Naples support two in one month?

Last year, the Naples International Art & Antiques Fair arrived with fanfare, an elegant preview night and valet parking, boasting five days of impressionist art, 18th-century furnishings, antiques, jewelry, rare books and prints — and not much competition.

VEGAS.com Celebrates With No Strings Attached for Single's Awareness Day, February 14

LAS VEGAS, NV-- - The traditional date of February 14 marks the time of chocolates, candy hearts and cards from a winged fellow named Cupid. This year, as couples flock to romantic spots and gaze into ...

Broadway hit 'Book of Mormon' coming to Toronto

"The Book of Mormon" -- the smash Broadway musical from the creators of "South Park" -- is coming to Toronto next year.

Vegas SportsDay: And now we turn to hoops

The next episode of Vegas SportsDay, hosted by Teddy Sevransky and David Malinsky, happens LIVE today at 11AM PT / 2 PM ET. Don't worry if you missed the Live Show You can see it and past shows can be viewed ...

St. Louis tries new approach in museum expansion (Reuters)

Reuters - The St. Louis Art Museum is rearranging galleries by theme rather than time period, seeking to make them more accessible to visitors as part of a $162 million expansion.

Top auction houses to put art market rally to test (Reuters)

Reuters - Auction houses pinching themselves after bumper 2011 sales are now turning their attention to 2012, amid cautious optimism that the two-year bull run for top works of art will continue.

Top auction houses to put art market rally to test

LONDON (Reuters) - Auction houses pinching themselves after bumper 2011 sales are now turning their attention to 2012, amid cautious optimism that the two-year bull run for top works of art will continue. Sotheby's and Christie's, the world's leading auctioneers, hold a series of big sales in London over the next two weeks at which the old rivals expect to raise more than 500 million pounds ...

Top auction houses to put art market rally to test

LONDON (Reuters) - Auction houses pinching themselves after bumper 2011 sales are now turning their attention to 2012, amid cautious optimism that the two-year bull run for top works of art will continue. Sotheby's and Christie's, the world's leading auctioneers, hold a series of big sales in London over the next two weeks at which the old rivals expect to raise more than 500 million pounds ...

Dennis Flint High Country Art Group Tours America

Dennis Flint High Country Art Group Tours America Art tour hosted by self-run art firm Dennis Flint High Country Art Group is sweeping the nation, one state at a time. Beginning the trip in its’ home Florida, Dennis Flint High Country Art Firm displayed 16 pieces of artwork in Miami’s famous Lincoln Road. The artists of the Dennis Flint High Country Art Firm create individual art pieces, that ...

Missoula Art Museum has most successful benefit auction since recession

The Missoula Art Museum's Benefit Art Auction surpassed a threshold it hasn't reached since before the economy went sour, and enthusiasm about the 40th annual event seemed to hit another peak Saturday as well.

Randy Jackson’s Twitter war with Broadway!

Broadway legend and former "Eight is Enough" star Betty Buckley launched a Twitter tirade against "American Idol" judge Randy Jackson Thursday night, for his habit of dismissing the show’s failed singers as "too Broadway." "With respect, ‘Dog,’ your opinion is whack & uninformed!" Buckley tweeted, calling Jackson’s characterizations "beneath...

Leaving Las Vegas, Gingrich targets NASCAR voters

LANSING, Mich.—The portrayal of a young Asian woman speaking broken English in a Super Bowl ad being run by U.

Business booming for big auction house

Christie’s reports ‘explosion of interest in art’ by collectors worldwide, writesMichael Parsons

Roanoke art show raises money for SPCA

A special art show called "Best in Show" featuring portraits of pets is helping raise money for the Roanoke Valley SPCA.

Las Vegas Poll Shows Romney 20% Ahead of Gingrich

A poll in Nevada shows Mitt Romney has commanding support from prospective Republican caucus-goers over rival Newt Gingrich.

Unique art show provides audience to inmates

For the 30th year, the River City Community Players will be giving an audience to a group of artists who typically don’t have one.

Stepping into the art world

Worcester usually doesn't seem much like the college town it is and#8212; until events like the annual Consortium Art Show come along. Students from eight area colleges made the grade by having their artwork juried into the show, which opens tomorrow and runs through March 1 at ARTSWorcester's Aurora Gallery.

A Minute With: Street artist Mark Jenkins (Reuters)

Reuters - American street artist Mark Jenkins's human sculptures staged in provocative poses in the middle of cities have proved so uncannily life-like they have sparked calls from passersby to the ambulance service or the police.