A giant inflatable dog turd by American artist Paul McCarthy blew away from an exhibition in the garden of a Swiss museum, bringing down a power line and breaking a greenhouse window before it landed again, the museum said Monday.

German artist Gregor Schneider wants you to die. But not just anywhere - he wants you to draw your last breath in an art gallery to make us less scared of the moment that awaits us all.

A woman who posed naked for British artist Lucian Freud revealed Saturday she was paid 20 pounds -- and the resulting painting is expected to become the most expensive work by a living artist.

At first glance, Xu Liancheng’s (name transliterated) home gives the impression of some fantastical menagerie. A magnificent eagle stands on its perch with its wings outspread, as if ready to take flight, while a horned bull throws its head back, mouth open to issue a challenge.

Five days before Russia's presidential election, the country's children have no doubt who will win, judging by an exhibition of drawings that opened Tuesday in Moscow.

Michael Essien and Sulley Muntari aren't the only special products to be branded Made In Ghana, hosts of the 2008 African Nations Cup.

Forget Renaissance Europe. The world's first oil paintings go back nearly 14 centuries to murals in Afghanistan's Bamiyan caves, a Japanese researcher says.

British photographer Alison Jackson, famed for her portraits of celebrity lookalikes in compromising positions, launched an appeal for would-be Gordon Brown impersonators on Monday, after six fruitless years of searching for a stand-in.

Ice might seem a tough sell in Harbin, one of China's coldest cities, but it has pulled it off with a spectacular annual festival that for many is far more tempting than a warm beach holiday.

A video showing a woman masturbating to the Greek national anthem by Greek-American Eva Stefani was displayed at the Art Athina contemporary art show in Athens last June.