Swedish researchers say viewing and talking about art may not only soothe the soul, but may also have the added health benefit of curing ailments like high blood pressure and constipation. Britt-Maj Wikstroem of the Ersta Skoendal University College in Stockholm had 20 women around the age of 80 years gather once a week for four months to discuss various works of art.

Visitors will discover the most macabre item at a new exhibit titled, "The Ted Williams Memorial Display with Death Mask," as part of the Ben Affleck 2004 World Series Collection, hosted by the Chelsea district's First Street Gallery. The gallery debuts this season with the unveiling of the 'death mask' of baseball great Ted Williams' clinically decapitated frozen head. The death mask, likely the most unique collectible of the sports hero ever created, depicts Williams as he exists now. . . in a "cryonic sleep. "

In the midst of rising gas prices, one Wisconsin teacher decides to take an alternative form of transportation. Arcadia art teacher Carl McKeeth is riding his horse to work each day, saving some $40 a week on gas.

The art world is furiously debating the ethics of displaying a sculpture made with the pickled head of a dead fetus attached to a seagull's body that was exhibited at a Swiss art museum. Berne's Museum of Fine Arts removed the piece from a Chinese art exhibition earlier this month after a complaint that it was disrespectful to the dead, and following concerns its grisly appearance might traumatize visiting schoolchildren, Reuters reports.

It's not a bird, it's not a plane, instead it's a human cannonball. David Smith, a self pro-claimed human cannonball, has a special way of crossing the Mexican-U. S. border. By air. He is the first human being to ever be fired across an international border. The event is the first of a series of public art projects in the two border cities that is being chronicled by the Insite network.