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Trayvon Martin Gets the Shepard Fairey Treatment

The ‘Hope’ poster artist has immortalized the dead Florida teen in a new work for Ebony magazine.

REUTERS

After 20 Years, a Break in a Famous Art Heist

Thirteen works were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990

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Edvard Munch's The Scream Sells for a Record $120 Million at Auction

Edvard Munch’s iconic painting, The Scream, sets a record for most expensive piece of art ever auctioned.

Edvard Munch's The Scream goes on auction at Sotheby's.

Munch’s ‘The Scream’ Could Set Auction Record

One of the world’s most iconic paintings could become the most expensive painting sold at auction when it goes under the hammer Wednesday

Department of Defense

The Great Pentagon ‘Blow-Dry’ Portrait Prank

How the Wall Street Journal broke the story of a suspiciously coiffed young midshipman, dubiously ‘lost at sea’ in 1908.

Museum

Can the Jim Crow Racism Museum Help Teach Tolerance?

Michigan’s Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia, which will have its grand opening on April 26, says it has the largest collection of artifacts from the segregation era

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Meet Raf Simons, Dior’s New Artistic Director

Seven months after John Galliano’s high-profile dismissal, Dior has finally announced a replacement.

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Found: Nazi Records of Hitler’s Looted Art

The Nazis were terrifyingly organized in their plunder of a continent. Now, newly-discovered records kept by Hitler’s forces may help recover some of the art they stole from Europe’s museums and private collections.

YouTube

Watch: Improv Everywhere Turns Subway Into ‘Sleeper Car’

The prank collective paired with the Guggenheim Museum for their latest stunt.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Art World Goes to the Dogs: Pup Portraits Gain Popularity

Animal lovers, you can now frame your photos of Fido with pride.