More than $163 million worth of paintings from Cezanne, Degas, van Gogh and Monet were stolen from a Zurich museum on Sunday in what is being called the largest art heist in Switzerland history.

Tradition and modernist sensibility merge with poetic results in Where Clouds Disperse: Ink Paintings by Suh Se-ok, opening January 27, 2008 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The show presents 29 works spanning nearly 50 years by the prominent Korean artist who demonstrates that the ancient medium of ink can be adapted to create innovative abstract works.

The dating of Leonardo's most famous paintings, and the identification of the depicted with Lisa del Giocondo by the discovery of a handwritten entry in an early pressure from the Heidelberg University Library.

Dedicated to "exploring the myriad of ways art can benefit special needs children and their families," Angel Boy Art is an online gallery of artwork by children with disabilities, a place where these young artists can both sell their work and share their talent.

"What the hell is Paris Hilton doing here?" was a familiar refrain this weekend at Art Basel Miami Beach, a gathering of the top players in the global art market.

A forensic scientist doubts that a cache of paintings found recently was the work of Jackson Pollock. He claims many of the pieces include materials available only after the artist's death in 1956.

A painting found in a pile of rubbish on a New York street sold at Sotheby's auction house overnight for $US1 million. The sale came nearly 20 years after it was stolen from a warehouse in Texas.

French court sentenced Sam Rindi, a female painter from Cambodia to one hundred hours of social work and and to 2000 Euros of fine because of the fact that during past summer Sam kissed two paintings in an exhibition leaving on a white background the trail of a red lipstick.

A lacklustre Sotheby's auction that failed to sell a Vincent van Gogh landscape saw shares in the company plunge, but some experts said inflated estimates were more to blame than worries about the economy.

This is the first major retrospective of Sidney Nolan’s paintings since his death in 1992. It presents an opportunity to unravel something of the artist’s enigma and understand his essential achievement across an entire career. The paintings will be on view through 3 February 2008.

New York's art auction season got under way overnight with the record for a painting by French artist Henri Matisse falling at Christie's sale of impressionist and modern art.

The Denver Art Museum will host the national debut of Color as Field: American Painting, 1950-1975, on view November 9, 2007 through February 3, 2008. Organized by the American Federation of Arts, this is the largest exhibition of major color field works ever exhibited in the region.