Nov 27th, 2008 · An upscale pawn shop in one of the nation's priciest ZIP codes has become an alternative bank for people who can't get their bankers to lend. Asset-rich but cash-poor, the denizens of Los Angeles are bringing in everything from Picassos to their wives' diamond rings.
May 4th, 2008 · An FBI investigation recently resulted in indictments in a scheme to allegedly sell $5 million worth of fake art prints via eBay. The prints were sophisticated fakes of works by Picasso, Warhol, Chagall and other artists. Liane Hansen talks with a member of the FBI's art crime team and a victimized art dealer about the trend of art fraud on the Internet.
Nov 25th, 2007 · Picasso sipped absinthe. Hemingway mused on it. It may have helped persuade Van Gogh to lop off his ear. Now a drink banned in the U.S. for nearly a century (it was wrongly considered a hallucinogen) is back on the scene at trendy clubs.
Apr 8th, 2007 · Pollen is making its mark as the latest tool for allergy-ridden amateur artists in Decatur, Ga. Louisa Bailey and others ahve put their sniffles aside to draw pictures in the yellow stuff.
Mar 4th, 2007 · Last week, thieves made off with two paintings by Pablo Picasso that had been hanging in the Paris apartment of the painter's granddaughter. Thomas McShane, a former FBI art-theft expert, talks about who steals famous works of art and why.
Mar 4th, 2007 · Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon turns 100 this year. Museum of Modern Art curator John Elderfield talks about the painting, which is considered the first great work of modern art.
Feb 28th, 2007 · Two Pablo Picasso paintings, worth nearly $66 million, were recently stolen from his granddaughter's house in Paris. The two works are both family portraits.
Oct 18th, 2006 · Picasso's painting "The Dream" took a poke in the eye recently. The masterpiece was "elbowed" by its owner, casino mogul Steve Wynn. Wynn planned to sell the painting for a record $139 million. But when he was showing it off, apparently waving his arm, he crashed into the canvas. Wynn suffers from an eye condition that affects his peripheral vision. He plans to mend the silver dollar sized hole and keep the picture.