The San Diego Museum of Art is organizing a state-of-the-art exhibition which showcases the latest trend in animated art by contemporary artists. Running from October 13, 2007, to January 13, 2008, Animated Painting features 25 cinematic works by 14 international contemporary artists who adapt traditional painting and drawing methods to the concepts and technologies of animation.

FBI asks to please be on the lookout, no matter where you live in the world, for the 350-year-old painting pictured here - A Cavalier, by Dutch artist Frans Van Mieris—recently stolen from an Australian art gallery. Valued at more than $1 million, it is the latest addition to the FBI Top Ten Art Crimes list.

A painting attributed to Vincent Van Gogh for more than 70 years was not painted by the Dutch master, but was probably created by one of his peers, art officials said Friday.

The Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston curatorial staff collaborated with a team of leading Japanese scholars in recataloging the institution’s holdings of more than 700 ukiyo-e paintings, the finest collection in the world. Drama and Desire marks the first exhibition since the late 1800s highlighting the MFA’s outstanding holding of ukiyo-e paintings.

This autumn, the masterpiece The Leaping Horse by renowned English landscape painter John Constable will be on view in the Rijksmuseum. This impressive painting from 1825 is one of the masterpieces of the collection of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. In the Rijksmuseum, Constable's painting will be juxtaposed with masterpieces from the 17th-century landscape painters Ruisdael, Hobbema and Koninck.

A founding member of the Impressionists and a master of depicting urban life and rural settings, Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) was the only artist to show his paintings in all eight of the Impressionist exhibitions from 1874 to 1886, and the only Impressionist who was Jewish.

The work of Richard Pousette-Dart, youngest artist of the first generation of Abstract Expressionists, will be on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum from August 17 through September 25, 2007. The exhibition, with approximately 40 paintings representing the artist’s career, premiered earlier this year at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art continues its commitment to presenting provocative contemporary art with Kiefer, Polke, Richter, an exhibition including works by several of the most significant painters to come of age in Germany during the culturally charged aftermath of World War II.

A dot painting by Indigenous artist Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri broke the existing record for an Aboriginal artwork at auction in Melbourne last night.

A painting by Italian Renaissance artist Raphael not seen for more than 40 years was sold at auction Thursday for 18.5 million pounds (US$37.2 million, 27.4 million EUR).

A painting of water lilies by French Impressionist Claude Monet has sold for $36.8 million, the second-highest price ever paid at auction for a Monet.

Few artists have captured the public's imagination with the force of Frida Kahlo (1907-1954). In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of this Mexican artist and to recognize her powerful influence on artists working today, the Walker Art Center is organizing a major exhibition of Kahlo's paintings to premiere in Minneapolis (October 27, 2007-January 20, 2008), before beginning a U.S. tour.