NEW YORK.- At this weekends Heritage Auctions New York Vintage and Contemporary Photography Signature Auction, a piece from American photographer Michael Dwecks acclaimed Mermaids collection sold for $11,950, besting pieces from Richard Avedon, Annie Leibovitz, Diane Arbus, and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

CARACAS.- Dancers of Art Color Ballet from Poland perform during the VI World Meeting of Body Art at the Teresa Carrenos theater in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday , Nov. 20, 2011. Activities such as body painting, tattooing, performances, workshops and conferences are part of the event. AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos.

SANTA FE.- Evening Star No. VI, 1917, a gift of The Burnett Foundation. The watercolor is one of dozens of iconic OKeeffe paintings that will be exhibited over the next year in Italy, Germany and Finland as part of a traveling retrospective. AP Photo/The Georgia OKeeffe Museum.

DRESDEN.- Workers transport a reconstruction of the head of a statue of the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great at the Asisi-Panometer in Dresden, Germany, 21 November 2011. The head will be part of a Roman-themed panorama show that will run from 10December 2011 until 02 September 2012. EPA/ARNO BURGI.

MADRID.- Jose Araujo, Spanish curator of the exhibition NASA Spaces adventure exhibition explains to the journalists one of the objects displayed along the exhibition at Casa de Campo Fair in downtown Madrid, central Spain, 21 November 2011. The exhibition will be opened on 15 December 2011. EPA/BALLESTEROS.

ALBUQUERQUE.- A 158-year-old doll house owned by German-Jewish family and a hidden away during World War II that is part of new exhibit at the Holocaust and Intolerance Museum of New Mexico in Albuquerque. As aging Holocaust victims and survivors limit their public appearances due to health reasons, they are slowly donating everyday personal items and family treasures advocates say shed light on survivors’ plight out of Nazi Germany. AP Photo/Russell Contreras.

QUITO.- Buildings at the San Juan neighborhood in Quito, Ecuador. According to media reports on on 19 November 2011 the historic district is the subjet of a restoration project. EPA/CENTRO DE ARTE CONTEMPORANEO.