The woman who found a real Renoir in a $7 box of junk she bought at a flea market doesn't want to give out her name because she doesn't want all the media attention. Unfortunately for her, one of them is quite good at his job.
The baseball Lou Gehrig knocked over the fence in game 1 of the 1928 World Series could have had any number of fates, but it just so happened to be caught by a serious baseball nerd who passed it on to his less baseball-obsessed kin, one of whom really needs it right about now.
This poster for Fritz Lang's 1927 silent film Metropolis set a record for the most expensive movie poster in the world when its owner paid $690,00 for it in 2005, but it's been repossessed, and some experts think that in the upcoming auction, it might fetch over $1 million.
Mad supply-side scientists wanting to clone Ronald Reagan will have to get their source DNA somewhere else, as an auction house selling a sample of the Gipper's blood has decided to cancel the sale.
An unknown bidder paid $119.9 million for Edvard Munch's iconic painting last night, setting a world record for the highest price ever paid for a single work of art.
Today in books: The bidding for a rare copy of John James Audubon's Birds of North America is expected to top $10 million, National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward signs a deal for a new novel, and director Chris Columbus is getting into the young adult literature game.
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The 68-page manuscript just sold at a London auction house
As the Wikileaks founder's legal fees mount, he's resorting to gimmicky fundraisers
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