Artist obsessed with Twinkies
Long before Hostess Brands' plan to shut down made Twinkies the rage, Nancy Peppin found something special about the cream-filled snack cakes.
Kids play Mozart with trashy violinsThe sounds of a classical guitar come from two big jelly cans. Used X-rays serve as the skins of a thumping drum set. A battered aluminum salad bowl and …
$9K artwork bought for $12 at Goodwill
"Red Nose" just meant a reindeer named Rudolph to Karen Mallet until she bought a print by that name for $12.34 at a Goodwill store in Milwaukee. It turned out…
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Photos: 2012 Kennedy Center HonorsDavid Letterman receives Kennedy Center honors, along with rockers Led Zeppelin, actor Dustin Hoffman, bluesman Buddy Guy and ballerina Natalia Makarova.
Camera sold for $2.19 millionAn Austrian photo gallery says a camera used by a photographer who documented the life of artist Pablo Picasso has sold for a world record price of €1.68 …
4 stolen paintings found in cemeteryAn informer's tip led South African police to a private cemetery Tuesday where they found four paintings hundreds of miles away from where they had been stolen…
Wendt leaves play after chest painsChest pains will keep actor George Wendt from performing as Oscar Madison in a Chicago-area production of "The Odd Couple."
Narrow house opens as art work The new house is only four feet wide (1.2 meters), but it comes with a bathroom, a kitchen and a bedroom.
Mirror allows peeks into restroomAn Austrian artist has installed a one-way mirror in a Vienna cafe that allows men to peek from their restroom into the ladies room.
'Puppet March' planned in DCMore than 1,000 puppeteers and public broadcasting supporters have signed on for a march on the National Mall in Washington three days before the election.
Renoir at flea market may be stolenThe Renoir painting that caused a sensation when it was bought at a flea market for $7 may have been stolen from a museum six decades ago, and an auction house…
An 'earlier version' of the Mona Lisa? The mystery behind the most enigmatic smile in art — Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" — just got a little more complicated.
Renoir painting found at flea market A woman who paid $7 for a box of trinkets at a West Virginia flea market two years ago apparently acquired an original painting by French impressionist …
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Photos: Clown camp aims to lift frowns"You can't just pull on a wig and slap a watermelon smile on and — 'Poof!' — you're a clown," says Julie Varholdt, the veteran clown named "Lovely Buttons."
Photos: Artist sees the world in dotsPolka dots are Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama's lifelong inspiration, obsession and passion.
