An Austrian Artist Has Completely Reinvented The Door
Austrian artist Klemens Torggler has reinvented the door with his latest project.Called the Evolution Door (which we first spotted on the blog Colossal), the 4-panel door opens and closes elegantly as...
View ArticleA Chinese Artist Has Done Something Incredible With Paper
<div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div> Li Hongbo's mesmerizing sculptures are currently on view at Klein Sun Gallery in New York. After years of trial and...
View ArticleThe 10 Most Expensive Paintings On Public Display
Exactly 20 years ago, on the opening day of the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, a version of Edvard Munch's The Scream was stolen from Oslo's National Gallery. To mark the anniversary of the...
View ArticleArtists Want To Wrap The World's Tallest Building In Translucent Fabric
How do you make the tallest building in the world even more noticeable? We may now have the answer.Athough the Burj Khalifa in Dubhai is already impressive as the tallest man-made structure on Earth (a...
View ArticleAn Artist Made These Incredible Portraits Out Of Packing Tape
Stills from the movies, images ripped from the Internet or books — they're all fair game for Philadelphia-based tape artist Mark Khaisman. "My works are always images of images," Khaisman wrote in an...
View ArticleFlorida Artist Smashes $1 Million Vase By Dissident Artist Ai Weiwei
A Florida artist is facing a criminal charge after police say he smashed a $1m vase at Miami’s new art museum in what appears to be a form of protest.Maximo Caminero, 51, was charged with criminal...
View ArticleArtists Keep Some Strange Objects In Their Studios
In 2009, New York-based photographer Sarah Trigg embarked on a three-year journey that would take her from San Francisco to the Wisconsin peninsula to Houston, Tex."If I had known exactly how long it...
View Article75 Incredible Photos Of Human Chameleon Liu Bolin
China's Liu Bolin has mastered the art of camouflage. He paints himself into the backgrounds of photos so that he almost completely disappears.Often called the "Human Chameleon," Bolin began his foray...
View ArticleHidden Faces Found In Famous Rembrandt Painting
CHICAGO – Even the best artists hem and haw over their work, including Rembrandt. An intense X-ray beam has revealed that the artist painted the same face in four locations on one canvas before...
View Article15 Useful Skills You Learn As An Art History Major
President Barack Obama is taking a lot of heat for his recent snub of art history majors. Speaking in Wisconsin late last month, Obama told the crowd that "folks can make a lot more potentially with...
View ArticleThese Incredible Works Of Art Were Saved By The Real-Life 'Monuments Men' Of...
The new George Clooney film "The Monuments Men" movie pales in comparison to the real art historians, architects, curators, and museum directors who saved Europe's finest art during World War II.These...
View ArticleStunning Combat Artwork Reveals WWII Fighting That Will Never Be Seen Again
Battlefield artists were once the only way to capture what really happened in war.The practice of illustrating combat for people at home began during the Civil War, when special artists, or...
View ArticleThis Fast Food Restaurant Is Carved Entirely Out Of Wood
Few people would find artistic inspiration inside a McDonald’s or a KFC.But that’s exactly where New York artist Roxy Paine went for his latest installation featured in a Kavi Gupta Gallery in Chicago....
View ArticleMeet The People Who Live In Wal-Mart Parking Lots [PHOTOS]
There are thousands of Wal-Marts across the U.S. that allow overnight parking for cars RVs. In some cases this had led to the development of whole communities.Brooklyn writer and photographer Nolan...
View ArticleApple's Steve Jobs Memorial Statue Has Been Unveiled And ... It's Hideous
A new Steve Jobs tribute statue designed by Serbian sculptor Dragan Radenovic was revealed in Belgrade yesterday, according to Serbian news site Netokracija.The date chosen for the unveiling was...
View ArticleA Signature Of Nuclear Bombs Has Exposed This Modern Artwork As A Fake
The identification of fakes and forgeries is a basic issue that has always raised controversy. This is unsurprising, of course — the enormous sums garnered by top paintings would turn to dust as soon...
View ArticleStunning Images Of Iconic Figures Covered In Tattoos
Cheyenne Randall, a 36-year-old artist living in Seattle, is taking images of iconic figures and photoshopping tattoos all over their bodies."I started out by drawing tattoos on certain personalities...
View ArticleDetroit Creditors Urge City To Sell Valuable Art Collection
(Reuters) - Detroit faces a long legal fight over its valuable art collection and other key matters in its historic bankruptcy case that make it imperative to push back the start of a trial on the...
View ArticleAn Artist Was So Angry With Wall Street's Formula For Pricing Options, He...
An art exhibit and book, both titled "Infinity is the Enemy", by artist t. Rutt, bring together Dadaist-inspired art and high finance to start a conversation about the nature and uses of infinity.The...
View ArticleThese $75,000 Toilet Seats Come With A Free Put Option
Wall Street may be interested in the new art show and book titled "Infinity Is The Enemy" by artist t.Rutt. The show is inspired by a criticism of the foundations of mathematical finance.One of the...
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