The week's best photojournalism

The week's best photojournalism

In some of the week's most vivid images, an incense-maker dries rose petals, rescuers save a man from Niagara Falls, and world leaders take a moment to watch soccer

 

The week's best photojournalism

In some of the week's most astonishing images, sailors scale the mast, a young diver does the splits, and a tired marathoner crosses the finish line on his hands

 
Remembering 'Painter of Light' artist Thomas Kinkade: A slideshow

Remembering 'Painter of Light' artist Thomas Kinkade: A slideshow

It's estimated that 1 in 20 American households own a creation by Kinkade, arguably the most popular artist of our time. Here's a look back at his life and work

 
The 10 most expensive artworks ever sold

The 10 most expensive artworks ever sold

Paul Cezanne's "Card Players" may be on top now, but other venerable works blazed this increasingly pricey path before it

 
The original Mona Lisa in Paris' Musee du Louvre: A newly appraised duplicate of the painting appears to have been created in tandem with Da Vinci's.

Was Da Vinci's Mona Lisa a knock-off?

Curators at Spain's Prado museum made a pretty remarkable discovery: A duplicate of the Mona Lisa that may have been painted before Leonardo Da Vinci's version

 
Magazine rack

9 airbrushing controversies: A slideshow

Researchers unveil a tool to discourage magazines from digitally altering images of models and movie stars beyond recognition. Here's a look at the kind of thing they're trying to prevent

 
Children play with a giant Lego man that was fished out of the sea near a Dutch resort in 2007: A similar figure washed up on the beach near Sarasota, Fla., this week.

The giant Lego man that washed ashore in Florida

A mysterious, 8-foot-tall Lego figurine emerged from the surf on Florida's Siesta Key this week. What on earth does it mean?

 
For years, historians have believed Vincent Van Gogh shot himself in the chest. But a new theory suggests that the troubled painter's death wasn't suicide, but murder.

Was Vincent van Gogh murdered?

The authors of a new biography say the troubled painter's death might not have been a suicide, after all

 
Vincenzo Perugia, pictured here in his mug shot, stole the Mona Lisa from Paris' Louvre in 1911.

Stealing the Mona Lisa

Da Vinci's masterpiece became even more famous, says Simon Kuper, after Vincenzo Perugia swiped it from the Louvre in 1911

 
Big Bunny, Sweden

Sweden's Big Bunny and 6 other larger-than-life art installations

A towering bunny sculpture in a Swedish town square and a huge pair of pink sunglasses on a Danish beach play with scale... and our minds

 
A diver examines a photograph featured in artist Andreas Franke's underwater exhibition.

Florida's 'ethereal' underwater art exhibition

Austrian art photographer Andreas Franke is displaying some original works off the Florida Keys. All you need to see them is some scuba gear

 
Rhino horn cups

5 most valuable Antiques Roadshow finds: A slideshow

The appraisers on PBS' unassuming reality show have serendipitously discovered tea cups worth $1.5 million and other unsuspected treasures

 
A 26-foot tall statue of Marilyn Monroe, by artist J. Seward Johnson, is based on a scene from the movie "Seven Year Itch," and will be on display in Chicago until next spring.

Chicago's 'beyond-kitschy' Marilyn Monroe statue

"Forever Marilyn," a 26-foot-tall monument to an iconic New York film, is unveiled along proud Chicago's Magnificent Mile

 
Cy Twombly at the unveiling of his Louvre ceiling, March 2010

Cy Twombly: Remembering a 'titan of modern art'

The massively influential painter best known for his simple lines, scribbles, and spirals died Tuesday at age 83. Here, his life, through his paintings

 
Australian Aelita Andre, 4, poses in front of her abstract paintings, some of which have sold for tens of thousands of dollars.

Is a 4-year-old Australian the 'next Picasso'?

Toddler Aelita Andre, who's reportedly sold her paintings for $30,000 a pop, has a solo exhibition at a Manhattan gallery. Miracle or scam?

 

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