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Dismayed Vatican slams giant sculpture depicting John Paul outside Rome train station.

A life-size bronze sculpture of a man by Alberto Giacometti was sold Wednesday at a London auction for $104.3 million - a world record for the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction, Sotheby's auction house said.

China's is building its first sexually explicit theme park, and the giant genitalia sculptures and suggestive exhibits are getting many people hot and bothered in a country where talking about sex is still taboo.

Patrick Dougherty thrives on artistic derring-do. For 21 years, this improbably modest sculptor has taken on one creative assignment after another, always in a new city and never knowing what he'll do till he gets there.

A New York artist has fashioned a bust of accused financial swindler Bernard Madoff into a piggy bank that won't give your money back. Sculptor Palmer Murphy said he designed the faux-bronze "Ponz" piggy bank with a coin...