British art provocateur Damien Hirst opens his largest exhibit in Ukraine

KIEV, Ukraine — British art provocateur Damien Hirst will mount the largest exhibition ever of his trademark fish skeletons, skull paintings and dead animals in a major show in Ukraine’s capital.

From lines and dots to Winston ads, new Met exhibit traces a decade of change in NY art world

NEW YORK — In the 1970s, the art world was enmeshed in a vast series of lines, dots and amorphous figures: The conceptual had taken over.

The premier has no clothes: Berlusconi appears half-naked in work by Italian artist

ROME — The premier has no clothes.

Former Khmer Rouge who worked at Cambodian torture to sell what he says are Pol Pot’s shoes

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — A former member of the Khmer Rouge member said Monday that he is auctioning off a pair of shoes he claims belonged to the group’s late leader Pol Pot to fund a museum about the brutal regime.