Des O’Sullivan reports on the important sale of Irish and International art in Dublin on February 23.

Tune in to RTE One at 8pm tonight for the 59th annual Eurovision Song Contest live from the B&W Hallerne in Copenhagen.

Here's what some of the world's most iconic paintings would have looked like if only the artists used pizza as their medium.

Do Cello Shots with Estée Lauder

A blockbuster auction of Contemporary art in New York — including a record $58.4m (€45.1m) for a Jackson Pollock drip painting — fetched nearly half a billion dollars — the biggest haul ever at an art auction.

SATURDAY

Seven paintings by some of the world's most famous artists have been stolen from an exhibition in the Netherlands.

‘Figure Writing Reflected in Mirror’ by Francis Bacon which made $44,882,500 at Sotheby’s New York last Thursday.

Andy Warhol’s Double Elvis sold for $37m (€28m) and works by Roy Lichtenstein and Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei broke their own records at Sotheby’s contemporary art sale.

Police are looking for a thief who tunnelled through a wall into a New York City apartment while the owner was away and made off with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of artworks by Andy Warhol and other artists.

Hundreds of works from the art collection of failed US banking giant Lehman Brothers will go under the hammer at Freeman’s auction house in Philadelphia.

Artist Robert Rauschenberg, whose use of odd and everyday articles earned him a reputation as a pioneer in pop art but whose talents spanned the worlds of painting, sculpture and dance, has died aged 82.

A visitor to an Austrian museum pulled a pocket knife from her purse and repeatedly slashed a painting by US artist Roy Lichtenstein worth millions of euro, police said.

ANDY WARHOL’S portrait of actress Elizabeth Taylor, Liz, has been snapped up at a New York auction for $12.6 million.

Andy Warhol’s portrait of actress Elizabeth Taylor, Liz, has been snapped up at a New York auction for $12.6m (€9.8m).