Jacko Has Boyish Taste in Art

(NEWSER) - Sorry, Jacko fans, you'll have to make your own studded glove. A scheduled auction of Michael Jackson memorabilia—everything from that famous glove he wore in the "Billy Jean" video to the gates of Neverland Ranch—is now off, reports E! Online. Jackson reached a settlement today with the California auction house getting ready to sell his stuff, which will now return to the King of Pop. More»

(NEWSER) - A big, plastic motorized baby lies in its cradle, waving its limbs. Its fingers are missing. “That is just creepy,” remarks an onlooker, one of many milling about this abandoned Beverly Hills mall. Decked out with red carpets like an award show, it’s currently exhibiting a host of items to be auctioned off from Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch, the Washington Post reports. And the baby is just the tip of the iceberg. More»

Pablo Picasso makes 2 appearances

(NEWSER) - Following the record-breaking sale of Edvard Munch's The Scream , the Guardian takes a look at the other biggest sales of art at auction. The top five:

1. Edvard Munch, The Scream, $119.9 million.
2. Pablo Picasso, Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust, $106.5 million.
3. Alberto Giacometti, L'homme qui Marche I, $105.2 million.
4. Pablo Picasso, Boy With a Pipe, $104.2 million.
5. Gustav Klimt, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II, $87.9 million.

Rare work was study for artist's Card Players series

(NEWSER) - A Metropolitan Museum of Art catalog in 2011 listed a 19th-century watercolor Paul Cezanne made as a study for his Card Players series as "whereabouts unknown." No more: The work, which Reuters describes as "rare" and "pristine," was discovered by Christie's as it worked with the estate of Dr. Heniz Eichenwald, who died in September. Last seen in public in 1953, the work on paper is expected to fetch as much as $20 million when it hits the block in May. More»

Bill Watterson's watercolor from a calendar sells at Heritage Auctions

(NEWSER) - Someone's a really big fan of the Calvin and Hobbes strip. A watercolor of the pair napping under a tree fetched $107,550 in a sale by Heritage Auctions this week, reports the Washington Post . The piece was created in the late 1980s by Bill Watterson, author of the famous comic strip. Sized 13 by 10 inches, it was originally an illustration on the cover of a calendar for 1989-1990. Time recounts how much Watterson loved doing his ink drawings. More»