With a diverse cultural background of Jewish mother and black father, US-based Peter Harper celebrates his heritage through his artwork.

The brother of musician Ben Harper, 33-year-old Peter Harper’s work has been snapped up by some of Hollywood’s top stars including Danny Devito and Meg Ryan.

His mother and grandparents opened the Folk Music Center in Claremont, California which has become not just a store but also museum and education resource for anyone interested in folk.

The first exhibition of rocker Bob Dylan’s artwork took place in a German museum on Sunday.

The Drawn Blank Series event was held at the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz museum in the city of Chemnitz, where 170 of Dylan’s drawings and paintings are on show.

All the work displayed was created between 1989 and 1992 for a book called Drawn Blank, which museum curator Ingris Moessinger saw on a recent visit to New York.

Italian-born, London-based art dealer Giuseppe Eskenazi has emerged as the buyer of the world’s most expensive Roman bronze figures.

Eskenazi, who was bidding on behalf of a European private collector paid $28,600,000 at the Sotheby’s auction in New York.

A jubilant Eskenazi is proud that his client got the special figure of Artemis and the stag said: “This is certainly one of the finest, if not the finest, bronze or any sculpture that I have seen in my 50-year career.”

The latest edition of the Jewish London Guide which covers arts and cultural events in the capital has been published.

Supported by London Mayor Ken Livingstone, the guide is produced in association with Jewish Culture UK and offers 30 pages of events happening in the spring and summer.

The guide features a range of activities from exhibitions and music to talks and family events.

A record number of people took part in this year’s Ben Uri Jewish Artist Of The Year awards which saw Israeli photojournalist Nathan Dvir winning the overall competition for his work The Burning of the Shtetl.

With 521 entries from 16 countries including UK, Australia, Israel and Argentina, the Ben Uri Gallery said the competition had established itself as part of the art calendar.

To mark the 130th birthday of noted Jewish women’s campaigner and educationalist Nina Salaman, the Jewish Museum in Camden, north west London has added a portrait of the legendary woman painted by Solomon J.Solomon.

At a special event at the Jewish Museum to mark the arrival of her portrait - which was painted in 1918 - many of Salaman’s ancestors including grandchildren and great grandchildren turned out.

A painting by Norman Rockwell stolen in June 1973 has been found in the art collection of Hollywood director Steven Spielberg.

Rockwell’s Russian Schoolroom, which was commissioned in 1967 by Look magazine, shows children in a classroom with a bust of Vladimir Lenin went missing from a St. Louis gallery.