The latest exhibit of the German Village Art League will be accompanied by verse.

The latest exhibit of the German Village Art League will be accompanied by verse.

What is art? Is it a painting such as the “Mona Lisa” or a sculpture like “The Thinker”? Is it a film like Saving Private Ryan or a book like The Catcher in the Rye?

ARTINFO - As Sotheby's and Christie's stake out their blue-chip consignment territory in advance of the fall market season, second-string boutique Phillips de Pury seems to be working a burgeoning, if unglamorous, niche: helping disgraced financiers sell off their ill-gotten art. After bringing in more than $24 million this spring by auctioning the collection of debt-ridden Internet entrepreneur Hasley Minor, Phillips is now angling for the corporate art collection of the defunct law firm of Marc Dreier, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for federal fraud after having attempted to sell $700 million bonus promissory notes to investors. According to the Wall Street Journal, a bankruptcy official has filed for court approval for a November 21 Phillips auction of the modern and contemporary works Dreier amassed before his 2008 arrest. The 81-piece collection includes works by Damien Hirst, Henri Matisse, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, and Willem de Kooning, as well as photographs of the Dreier family and of Audrey Hepburn playing that other fiscally inept individual Holly Golightly in "Breakfast at Tiffany’s."

The Portland Art Museum's artist lecture series continues with a talk by Stephanie Snyder.

The Portland Art Museum's artist lecture series continues with a talk by Stephanie Snyder.

Leonard Cohen's neverending world tour will actually end in December with four newly announced theatre shows in the western United States, his promoter said on Tuesday.

If there is an art to not letting anything go to waste, Jamie Harper has mastered it in Used Coats and Doors, a recycled art show opening this week.

Art critic Brian Sewell "says it is time to kill off the Arts Council and replace it with Dragons Den-style funding bids, organised through the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

Dramatic video shows a 400-pound lion attacking his trainer at an MGM lion exhibit while a second trainer and a lioness help force the animal off.

ArtPrize, the Grand Rapids art show and competition that surprised locals by drawing tens of thousands of visitors when it debuted in 2009, is back for a second year.

ARTINFO - With Fashion Week fast approaching, a grateful look to the golden age of couture, when clothing design approached the realm of art, seems to be merited. Thankfully, it is readily available at the Brisbane’s Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, which is hosting "Valentino, Retrospective: Past/Present/Future" until November 14. Developed by curator Pamela Golbin from the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the show highlights 100 ensembles, celebrating the past half-century of garb by the Italian fashion house.

A frightening lion attack was caught on video at the MGM casino in Las Vegas.

2008 video shows passengers being tossed when a cruise ship hits rough water. Cruise ship - Travel - Cruises - Specialty Travel - Recreation

The Monterey Museum of Art is offering free admission for Monterey County residents and visitors Saturday. MMA La Mirada offers "Ansel Adams: Portrait of America," an exhibition of more than 70 masterworks of American photography. Kids can expect art activities and a scavenger hunt. At MMA Pacific Street, visitors may see the MontereyNOW exhibition by Robynn Smith. Land & Sea continues with ...

The Las Vegas MGM Resort's lion exhibit roars with excitement, but a video that recently surfaced on the Internet shows a moment of terror when one of the 400-pound lions turned on its trainer. Las Vegas Nevada - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Nevada - United States - Counties

*Lucky (Prince Adu) and his boss, Levon (Karren Karagulian), are a couple of immigrants, the former from Ghana, the latter from Lebanon. Together, they run a shady operation selling counterfeit merchandise out of the backroom of a shop in midtown Manhattan. Lucky works the sidewalk, pressuring passersby to enter the store by whispering promises of [...]

BERNARDSVILLE – The borough will be bustling Friday evening as music lovers and art aficionados alike converge on the downtown to enjoy two town-wide events, Sounds Around Town and the BernARTSville Art Walk.

The Milan Art Center will host a fundraiser from 4:30 to 11 p.m. Sept. 30 at the Original Gravity Brewing Co. to compile matching funds for a grant offered by the Greater Milan Area Community Foundation.

The Milan Art Center will host a fundraiser from 4:30 to 11 p.m. Sept. 30 at the Original Gravity Brewing Co. to compile matching funds for a grant offered by the Greater Milan Area Community Foundation.

Reuters - Former British premier Tony Blair has been forced to postponed a party at the Tate Modern art gallery celebrating the launch of his autobiography because of threats from anti-war protesters, his office said on Wednesday.

Pittsburgh - The Norwin Art League returns home for the second year in a row for the 36th annual exhibit at Redstone Highlands’ Colonial Estates Clubhouse in North Huntingdon beginning this Thursday, September 9. This four-day exhibit will showcase more than 177 pieces of local artwork by community artists ranging from age 7 to senior citizens.

Pittsburgh - The Norwin Art League returns home for the second year in a row for the 36th annual exhibit at Redstone Highlands’ Colonial Estates Clubhouse in North Huntingdon beginning this Thursday, September 9. This four-day exhibit will showcase more than 177 pieces of local artwork by community artists ranging from age 7 to senior citizens.

DEARBORN, MI--(Marketwire - 09/08/10) - The harvest season becomes more memorable with collectible handcrafted glass pumpkins made from local Artists and Craftsmen from Dearborn, MI. The 2nd annual Glass Pumpkin Fest Show and Sale happens on October 16th & 17th from 10am-4pm. Admission is free for this all ages event and will feature more than 500 hand-blown glass pumpkins of various colors ...

New paintings, sculpture, drawings, photographs and ceramics will be on display at Lone Star College-Kingwood’s annual Faculty Art Show and Art Sale. The show runs now through Oct. 6.

I asked a theater insider for his take on the upcoming Broadway season. He's got a bitchy streak, but he's usually on the money. "A year ago, I looked out my office window and saw the Broadhurst Theatre with pretty Jude Law in 'Hamlet' on the marquee," he...

The Berkeley Repertory Theatre, known for sending shows to Broadway, purchased an office and warehouse building in West Berkeley for additional rehearsal space.

The return of Woodland School's art program is in sight. Superintendent Doug Foster announced Tuesday the school will receive a one-time payment of $81,441 in state funding from a much larger federal earmark. As a result, the board

Let's all marvel at the bumper crop of new shows about cops and courtrooms. Let's welcome back favourite stars from the past such as Tom Selleck, Jimmy Smits and Dana Delany.

LAS VEGAS - With clean-energy legislation trapped in a political deadlock, renewable-energy advocates called big business the new leader in the nation's green revolution during a national summit meeting Tuesday.

Initial stars and auction items have been announced for the 24th Annual Broadway Flea Market and Grand Auction, set for 10 AM-7 PM Sept. 26 in the theatre district's Shubert Alley and West 44th Street.

Leonard Cohen's neverending world tour will actually end in December with four newly announced theater shows in the western United States, his promoter said on Tuesday.

Say all you like about shattering dramas, rollicking comedies and the cultural frisson imparted by a ballyhooed British import — a big, bright, shining new musical is still usually the center of excitement of any new Broadway season.

ARTINFO - After almost a year of speculation, the Puerto Rico–based multimedia duo Allora & Calzadilla has been announced as the United States' representatives to the 2011 Venice Biennale, marking the first time that an artist pair or collective has been picked by the nation to fill the prestigious role. The selection was made by the Indianapolis Museum of Art, which the U.S. State Department has entrusted to organize next year's pavilion; Lisa Freiman, the chair of the museum’s contemporary art department, has been tapped as the commissioner of the pavilion. She will also curate the presentation.

In keeping with the policy established by the Bandstand TV program and other similar video shows dedicated to the 'teenage' dancing set, all future dances at the Parish Hall, West Broadway, Jim Thorpe, will find dungarees on the taboo list.

ARTINFO - Dresden's Museum of Military History has existed in a variety of incarnations over the years, each mirroring the successive regime that shaped its image. Established in 1897 in a stately neoclassical building that once housed an arsenal, the museum became a celebration of German military might under the Nazis. Its location outside the historic center of Dresden allowed the building to survive the Allied bombing campaign at the end of World War II; thereafter it proudly displayed Communist tanks and submarines under East German rule. In 1989, Germany's Bundeswehr — or Federal Defense Force — was unsure how the museum would fit into the newly unified German state, deciding to simply shut it down.

A Malden resident is the winner of Marlborough's Post Road Art Center's The Figure Show 2010, with a Framingham resident taking second place.

ARTINFO - Half a decade after it shuttered its exhibition space in Long Island City, the Museum for African Art announced on Friday that it would delay opening its new Upper East Side building by at least five more months as a result of construction delays. Slated to open in April 2011, the Robert A. M. Stern-designed museum will not be inaugurated until at least September 2011, according to he museum’s director, Elsie McCabe Thompson.

An art exhibition and auction is a new addition to the Rotary Club of Paris’ annual wine tasting fundraiser designed to benefit Rotary International’s world-wide program to eradicate polio.

Video of a lion attacking a trainer at the MGM Grand resort has been posted on YouTube.

LAS VEGAS - The Monte Carlo casino-resort has replaced longtime Las Vegas Strip headline magician Lance Burton with a hip-hop dance crew that shot to fame through a reality television competition, hotel officials announced Tuesday.

ARTINFO - As if the action-packed fall art season wasn't sexy enough already, Jerry Hall — world-famous supermodel, actress, and the alleged subject matter of Mick Jagger’s hit love song, “Miss You”— will be selling her collection of contemporary art at Sotheby’s next month. The 14 artworks, which attest to Hall’s glamorous life amidst the avant-garde 1970s and 80s in New York, will be auctioned to coincide with London’s Frieze Art Fair.

As if the action-packed fall art season wasn't sexy enough already, Jerry Hall — world-famous supermodel, actress, and the alleged subject matter of Mick Jaggers hit love song, “Miss You”— will be selling her collection of contemporary art at Sotheby’s next month. The 14 artworks, which attest to Hall’s glamorous life amidst the avant-garde 1970s and 80s in New York, will be auctioned to ...

The annually rotating art exhibit at the Mary Jo Cropper Family Center for Breast Care at Bethesda North Hospital will change in mid-September.

ARTINFO - Egyptian authorities have been unable to recover the $50 million van Gogh that was stolen in broad daylight from Cairo's Mahmoud Khalil Museum last month, but they have certainly wasted no time in finding scapegoats for the embarrassing theft. Eleven people in the country's arts establishment, including a senior culture minister and the head of the museum, are now set to be tried in court on charges of negligence in protecting the painting.

The contemporary art dealer Emmanuel Perrotin has built a world-scale business on a talent scout's eye for early promise and on a willingness to take risks.

ARTINFO - It appears that the millions of sweat-stained tourists who invade Rome's landmarks every year are a nuisance to more than just the locals — they're even starting to disturb God. At least, that is, the depictions of God on the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel, which showed signs of damage during a routine cleaning this summer. According to Vatican Museums director Antonio Paolucci, the harm has been caused by the 4.5 million people who visit the site each year.

HANCOCK — Through Sept. 14, Frenchman Bay Conservancy (FBC) will be presenting a plein-air art exhibit at Hammond Hall in Winter Harbor.

ARTINFO - Yesterday, ARTINFO ventured into the world of numismatics, discovering a strange and exciting land of niche collectibles. But today we are being even bolder, delving into what some might argue is an even narrower, more specific pursuit: timbrophily! Stamp collectors the world over received a jolt of excitement on Saturday when Hong Kong postage auction house Phila China brought the hammer down on a toasty timbrophilic lot at $1.3 million, a new record in the already-sizzling Chinese stamp market.