NY art sales to tempt buyers with attractive prices (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Old Master painting sales will try to lure choosier buyers this month with lower price estimates as Christie's and Sotheby's auction houses adjust to a global art market dulled by the financial crisis.

Noncatalog sales open with some sparkle (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)

The new year rings in more than a few significant changes and sales on the local auction scene.

Walking tours bring Melbourne's street art to life (Los Angeles Times)

Bernadette Alibrando's Walk to Art tours give visitors a first-hand look at the city's many alley 'galleries.' On a cloudy Saturday afternoon in downtown Melbourne, Bernadette Alibrando leads a group of tourists into an alley that, at first glance, appears to have the usual alley stuff -- dumpsters, backdoors, a little loose garbage rustling in the wind. With her eight tour participants ...

Artist catches eyes with lifelike glass fish (Boston Globe)

NEWBURYPORT - The magic is not that the fish are anatomically correct or the right colors. It's the spark of life that suggests they are about to swim away.

Top 5 events in Philippine visual arts (Philippine Daily Inquirer)

THE most exciting development on the art scene in 2008 was obviously the high bidding for Philippine works in international auctions. This was noted by a panel of art industry leaders in the Inquirer Lifestyle’s yearend art forum last Dec. 17.

Western Montana life in ’08 - Small towns filled with interesting stories all year-round (Missoulian)

Warren Winter and his wife, Wanda Thorpe, wash and dry puppies taken in by the Thompson River Animal Care Shelter last February in Thompson Falls. The shelter took in 289 cats and dogs in its first year of operation and adopted out 252.