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Relativity Media CEO's Father Will Pay Damages For Selling A Fake Picasso
A Los Angeles jury on Friday found that Jack Kavanaugh, father of Relativity Media CEO Ryan Kavanaugh, defrauded his former friend Victor Sands in the sale of a phony Picasso. It awarded Sands close...
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BABY BILLBOARDS: An Artist Covered These Babies In Brand Logos
Artist Dietrich Wegner covered the entire bodies of babies in tattoos to create these strange images. Don't worry, that's not real ink. It's all Photoshopped on. The series of photographs is called...
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This Ambitious Young Entrepreneur Has Big Plans To Revamp The Arts Scene In...
Bettina Korek is on a mission to make the art world, often seen as standoffish, accessible to everyone. After a stint in the development and communications departments of the Los Angeles County Museum...
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The 20 Most Ridiculously Expensive Items People Bought This Month
Every month we recap the insane purchases made by collectors and the super rich. May was such a blockbuster month for art, real estate and hot dogs that we doubled our usual count to the top 20...
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Are These Amazing Creations Cars Or Art?
Ever since the car replaced the horse as the main mode of personal transportation, people have been working to individualize them. While some owners prefer to enhance performance with changes...
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These Are The 20 Most Influential Pinterest Users
Who dominates Pinterest? The site doesn't say; there's no official "top pinners" list. But PinReach, a site that does analytics on Pinterest, has a list of the users with the "highest reach." The...
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The FBI Is Launching A Public Campaign To Solve The Biggest Museum Theft In...
To help solve the decades-old mystery of how a heist at a Boston art museum—considered to be the largest art heist in history—went down, federal officials are enlisting the help of the public,...
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14 New York City Murals That Will Make Your Jaw Drop
Social engineer and Brooklyn resident Todd Shaffer has a fairly common hobby: photography. What's uncommon is how good he is at it. Shaffer has taken a wide variety of photos on his website and on...
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Meet The 5-Year-Old Artist From Australia Who Just Opened Her Own Gallery...
Five-year-old Aelita Andre has has already graduated from putting her finger paintings on the fridge. The Australian child prodigy has her work on display at the Agora Gallery on 25th Street in...
View ArticleMan Caught On Tape Vandalizing A Picasso At Houston Art Museum
In a brazen display of vandalism and apparent misguided expression, a Houston man was caught on cellphone and surveillance camera spray painting Picasso's 1929 "Woman in a Red Armchair," according to...
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Go Inside The World's First Lab That Turns DNA Into Custom Art
DNA 11, a company that turns your actual DNA sample into personalized artwork, started in 2005 as a creative endeavor. The concept melded founders' Nazim Ahmed and Adrian Salamunovic's love for...
View ArticleWatch Some Jerk Vandalize A Picasso In Texas
AN ACT OF VANDALISM on one of of Pablo Picasso’s paintings at an art museum in Houston, Texas has been caught on camera and posted to YouTube. The description under the video claims that the act was...
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A Man Allegedly Swiped A $150,000 Painting From A Manhattan Gallery
Venus Over Manhattan art gallery is missing a pretty expensive piece of art today. A man walked into the gallery, grabbed a famous Salvador Dali painting from the wall, stuffed the artwork in a bag,...
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A Thief Just Made Off With A $150,000 Salvador Dali Painting From A New York...
On Thursday night a slight, unspectacular individual approached Salvador Dali's 1949 watercolor "Cartel des Don Juan Tenorio" at the brand new Venus Over Manhattan Art Gallery on the Upper East Side,...
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The Chinese Art Bubble Is Popping
The Chinese art bubble seems to be deflating rapidly. Abigail Esman at Forbes posted ominous comments from a top Chinese auction house: “Three years ago the market was very strong and prices very...
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Russian Museum Hires 'Guard Cats' To Protect The Artwork
A museum in St. Petersburg hires guard cats to keep rodents away. The State Hermitage Museum has used cats to protect artwork since it was founded in 1764, the Voice of Russia reports. The cats aren't...
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The Government Is Auctioning Off The Art Collections Of Millionaire Fraudsters
If you're planning on committing fraud, don't expect to keep your valuable art. The U.S. Marshals service is currently auctioning off iconic works by Picasso, Rembrandt, Chagall, and other sage...
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Meet The 10 Biggest Art Collectors Of 2012
It's been a big year for art collecting, with major works sold and multiple auction records shattered. These collectors, who were just named in the top 10 of ARTNews' annual list of the 200 biggest...
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23 Brilliantly Repurposed Objects
REPURPOSING is so hot right now. At least if you’re on Pinterest or Tumblr, that is. If the most hardcore “upcyclers” are to be believed, there’s no such thing as trash anymore. These folks turn old...
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This Awesome 3D Super Mario Art Was Actually Drawn With Chalk
Chris Carlson, a painter in Denver, Colorado, drew an amazing piece 3D art with chalk. It portrays iconic video game character Mario. He put up a time-lapse video on YouTube that takes you through the...
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