NPR Topics: Visual Arts

• Artists Make Money By Forgoing Traditional Galleries

  It isn't easy to make money as an artist these days, but three crafty New Yorkers are managing to sell their work — and make a living — outside the traditional gallery system.

• Artifacts Sting Stuns Utah Town

  It took two years and more than $300,000 before federal agents could arrest 17 people in Blanding, Utah, for selling ancient American Indian artifacts on the black market. Locals are upset about the way in which the shouting, gun-wielding agents arrested the suspects.

• Britain, Greece Quarrel Over Ancient Relics

  The Parthenon is a national symbol in Greece, but many of the marble sculptures that adorned the temple are in London. The British Museum houses the ancient relics, famously called the Elgin Marbles, claiming it's better equipped to care for them. But now, the Greek government has built a state of the art museum — at a price tag of $200 million — and it wants those sculptures back.

• Fade From Black: A Magazine's Long Story

  Scott Simon talks to conceptual artist Jonathon Keats, who recently published what he calls the longest story ever told on the cover of Opium Magazine. It's a nine-word tale covered in ink that reveals one word per century.