A 1954 masterpiece from Pablo Picasso broke auction records in Australia when it sold for $6. 9 million. "Sylvette 1954" was auctioned off at Deutscher-Menzies Galleries in Kensington on Wednesday. Gallery art head Tim Abdullah had predicted the painting would fetch between $5 and $ 7 million.

Somerset County has placed a 14,000-square-foot county jail on the market with a price tag of $200,000. In its marketing ad, the county advertises the property as a "roomy brick-and-stone Victorian, complete with security system and razor-wire fencing. "

Some of the earliest and most important paintings of the Western Desert art movement were stolen from the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory on Tuesday. Seven pieces of aboriginal paintings, valued at more than $460,000, were recovered hours later after the thief apparently changed his mind and dumped them in a park, police said.

A group of award-winning Czech artists are facing prison terms for hacking into a TV weather broadcast to air footage of a nuclear explosion. All six members of the artist group, Ztohoven have been named in the complaint filed by Czech Television after the group hacked their Panoram program last June and interrupted their airing of peaceful scenes of the local countryside by video clips to make it appear as if a nuclear bomb had been blasted.

Three thieves were arrested for stealing $1 million worth of bronze art and selling the raw materials to a junk shop for a measly $4,000. The owner of a Hinesburg scrap metal yard called authorities after seeing a newspaper report about the thefts with a photo of one of the sculptures.