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Nude lap dances aren't likely to be confused with "Swan Lake." But a New York strip club says they are an art form, too, and should be exempt from state taxes....

A Salvador Dali painting stolen from a Manhattan art gallery last week has apparently been returned to the United States, New York police said.

A nurse famously photographed being kissed by an American sailor in New York's Times Square in 1945 to celebrate the end of World War Two has died at the age of 91, her family said on Tuesday.

Three months of work went into repairing “The Actor” after a woman accidentally fell into the canvas, causing a six-inch tear.

The performers featured in a new exhibit at New York City's Museum of Modern Art have complained of being pushed, prodded and poked by some patrons.

A significant Pablo Picasso painting was damaged after a woman attending art class lost her balance, fell into " The Actor " and tore it, The Metropolitan Museum of Art said.

Two paintings by Pablo Picasso are bought at auction in New York, just 24 hours after another of his works failed to sell.

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...