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There is an increasing demand for work on paper ranging from old master sketches, impressionist ink on paper to contemporary drawing by the museums, galleries, and collectors. Some of the specially mentioned artwork is Micheangelo's Study of a Male Torso (1550), a pen-and-ink Study of a Mourning Woman, Neo Rauch's oil-on-paper Pfad and Pablo Picasso's Nu jaune (Yellow Nude).

Tara Donovan, an artist states that using massive quantities of common place materials like scotch tape, tar paper and straws evokes a natural phenomena such as haze, churning waters and clouds. When making haze, she describes how to mould, soft, undulating curves in the stacked straws by slipping a hand between the wall and the straws and pushing out, and then restructuring it by giving it new order.

Marcel Dzama often thinks of his own tales, filling papers with roving animals and moral maxims based on the day's events. Dzama draws on the expensive power of the fairy tale, reimagines fantastic guests and cautionary fables and updates familiar symbols.

Richard Tuttle who unlike other macho artists, uses insignificant material to create his art, is profiled. Paper, rope, string, cloth, wire, cardboard, bubble wrap nails, plywood and other such material are all transformed by the artist whose miniature works of art fetch him handsome prices.

Tania Bruguera, a Cuban native has an audacious approach to art as most of her performances have explored such issues as violence, censorship, submission to authority and human resilience that have defined Cuban life since the revolution. In these pieces, Bruguera has performed nude, worn a headless lamb carcass, and ingested dirt and paper, depicting an unexpected grace despite its visceral nature.

The exhibition held at the Milwaukee Art Museum exhibited majority of the drawings and prints by Rembrandt, which depicts modest genre subjects, and the intimate views of everyday life that Rembrandt stood out most clearly from his contemporaries. The museum featured 26 Rembrandts among more than 120 works on paper and related paintings, all from Vienna's Albertina Museum, which organized the show to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the artist's birth.

Graffiti, hip-hop music and skateboarding, once relegated to the margins of the society, have now moved into the mainstream, and contemporary art is showing that shift. Some artists which are looking to the grit and glamour of urban culture for inspiration include Nikki S. Lee, who makes photographs of herself as a hip-hop superstar, Ryan McGinness, creates multilayered paintings and Swoon who wheat-pastes cut-out paper figures on walls and plywood boards.

Tim Crowder's colorful, amusing paintings of British real-estate advertisements, which are part demonstrative adoration, part irony, and part envy, is exhibited at Ann Nathan gallery. Kitschy interpreting of ivy-covered stone cottages under blue skies are painted in bright, thick oil paint and enamel on black paper with stitched details.

Jessica Stockholder translates her colorful installations into vibrant works on paper, in three editions produced during a 2004 residency at Dieu Donne Papermill. Jessica has used her trademark combination of painting and sculpture in ordinary materials to achieve an elegant formalism in her works.

Visual and performance artist Lesley Dill uses an arsenal of materials, from bronze and wood to fabric, thread, and cast paper, to explore the interrelationships of language, clothing, body, and soul. Nine lithographs and silk screens produced with Santa Fe's Landfall Press demonstrate an extraordinary collaboration between artist and printer, in a painstaking process that yields poignant three-dimensional prints that balance language, image, and enigma.

Polish-born artist Aleksandra Mir achieved some complexity through her use of visual and verbal puns in a confrontational series of grand and ironically cheery political posters. In each of the giant works on paper, a blank map of the US was augmented with mottoes and graphics drawn from a variety of sources.

Michael Lazarus's nine idiosyncratic compositions, on view in 'Hold Up Your Mistake', are a series of works on wood panel that seamlessly combine painting and collage, merging passages of oil and enamel paint with shiny slivers of paper cut from magazines and pieced together in dense mosaics.

The prestige of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the reputation of the Gilman Paper Company, a major private collection, together drew record-breaking bids for photographs at Sotheby's on February 14 and 15, 2006, raising the auction market for vintage photography to a new level. In all, 113 lots sold for a total of US$14.98 million, a record for a New York photograph auction, with three lots selling for more than US$1 million each.

Mark Bradford, an artist in his recent show featured seven abstract collages and a video installation, in which collages in particular glowed and vibrated with the chaos and intensity of urban life. Composed of layered strips and squares of paper, sometimes covered in paint, these enormous works, several of them measuring more than 11 by 15 feet, have distinctly urban monumentality and the geometric patterning of a city street map.

Lin Emery, an artist exhibited her works at the Arthur Roger, New Orleans of the delicately balanced polished aluminum creation that sway silently in currents of air. Butterfly (2005), one of the smaller works in the show at 15 inches high, consists of four folded angular aluminum wings, much like a child's paper airplane.

Lisa Sigal offered a revealing glimpse at another side of her artistic practice in 'New Drawings' despite being best known for her mixed-media architectural interventions that teeter between painting and sculpture, demolition and renovation. Torn Pencil was the only price in the show that included an actual drawing, on two prices of white paper taped together and mounted on a fire-engine-red rectangle.

An account is presented on the changes made in the renovated and reopened Museum of Modern Art. Details are given about the changed places of exhibits, the growing contemporary exhibition, which includes video and audio pieces, photographs, paintings, works on paper and large-scale installations and also the positive and adverse reactions to the changed placements of artworks.

The presence of various sculptural contraptions designed for painting and drawing which enriched the mystery of Rebecca Horn's huge, rich works on paper in her retrospective, 'Bodylandscapes: Drawings, Sculptures, installations 1964-2004' is exhibited at Hayward Gallery. Few of Horn's mechanisms stood still, the physical evidence of their operation deposited around them as sputters of paint on walls, floor, or objects.

The paintings of a venerable French painter was presented at the gallery by works on paper in which the main pigment is walnut stain, rendering the effects of the artworks, which are quite organic. The worthy counterparts to Pierre Soulages's austere, architectonic black paintings are presented at Robert Miller gallery.

The traveling exhibition 'Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration' is on view at the Knoxville Museum of Art through March 27, 2004 and will travel to six other museums, including the Portland Art Museum. The artist Chuck Close uses saliva, pulp paper, and antiquated methods to create an expansive variety of print works.

Ed Ruscha was chosen by a committee of directors and curators from four museums appointed by the U.S. State Department to represent the United States in the 51st Venice Bienale. In 1970, Ruscha installed Chocolate Room, a work consisting of 360 sheets of paper silk-screened with chocolate, in the American pavilion.

Mark Bradford, presents his works, which have a large-scale canvas, covered with hundreds of end papers arranged in dozens of horizontal rows, colored with translucent hair dye. Bradford is represented by New York's Brent Sikkema gallery, where his works range in price from $8,000 to $30,000.

Joe Amrheim, decided to open Pierogi 2000, a gallery-cum-artists' gathering place where he set up a flat file a horizontal filing cabinet for storing works on paper, usually kept in gallery offices and filled it with works by about 20 artists. Now, there about 750 artists represented in the flat files, with an additional 300 in the more exclusive Traveling Files, which Americans have shipped off for exhibitions at London's Gas-works Gallery, and San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

'A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968' by the Museum of Contemporary Art is an exhibition of painting, sculpture, and works on paper by artists such as Frank Stella, Carl Andre, and John McCracken from 1958-1968. The exhibition demonstrates how artists of the time responded to then-new ideas in Minimalism.