Although excited at the prospect of a fancy class trip to the art museum, the bumpy bus ride to get there leaves Nancy feeling anything but fancy.

Provides step-by-step instructions for drawing space aliens, spaceships, and extraterrestrial settings.

New York art dealer Laura Valiant flies to Paris to investigate artwork stolen by the Nazis and meets up with Claire Benson, editor of an art magazine and an old childhood friend. The women have marital problems-- Valiant's husband turns out to be bisexual--and the novel describes the way they support each other.

This suspense thriller turns on the existence of an unknown masterpiece that inspires intrigue and treachery among a dealer, an art historian, a gallery owner and a young painter of genius.

"Gabriel Allon has slipped quietly into Venice for a much needed holiday with his wife and two young children. But when Pope Paul VII dies suddenly, Gabriel is summoned to Rome by the Holy Father's loyal private secretary, Archbishop Luigi Donati. A billion Catholic faithful have been told that the pope died of a heart attack. Donati, however, has two good reasons to suspect his master was murdered. The Swiss Guard who was standing watch outside the...

A sometime Israeli spy by trade and an art restorer by preference, Gabriel Allon arrives in Zurich to clean the work of an Old Master for a millionaire banker -- only to find himself standing in his client's blood and framed for the murder. Without warning, Allon is drawn into a spiraling chain of events involving Nazi art theft, a decades-old suicide, and a bloody trail of killings -- some of them his own. The spy world Allon thought he had put aside...

If you've always wanted to find out more about art but felt intimidated by the overeducated art world, then you've found the answer. Art For Dummies is the book that will have you and everyone you know clamoring outside the doors of your local museum. Thomas Hoving, former director of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, is credited with revolutionizing the Met, doubling its size during his tenure, and bringing art to the masses. Let him

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Vashti believes that she cannot draw, but her art teacher's encouragement leads her to change her mind.

Provides directions for making puppets, mobiles, puzzles, and more, featuring characters from twenty different fairy tales.

The senior curator at the National Gallery of Art plans a brilliant exhibition around a long-lost Caravaggio painting while secretly scheming to steal the priceless work of art for himself.