Frank Gehry's New Paris Museum Looks Like A Glass Sailboat
Prolific architect Frank Gehry is known for his impressive portfolio, and now he has added to it with a new museum in France.The cultural institute, Fondation Louis Vuitton, was commissioned by LVMH...
View ArticleGeorge Clooney's New Wife Is Helping Greece Rescue Ancient Sculptures From...
A team of London lawyers, including George Clooney's new wife Amal Clooney, are in Athens to submit proposals to help Greece's campaign to reclaim 5th-century BC Parthenon sculptures that are now in...
View ArticleWatch This Rolls-Royce Being Blown Up — They Check Out Some Other Cars Made...
Tyler Shields bought an old Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow, kept it for a while, and then took it out to the desert and blew it up. He filmed and photographed the action, and while it wasn't exactly high...
View ArticleThis Artist Can See 10 Times More Colors Than A Normal Person
When Concetta Antico looks at a leaf, she sees much more than just green. "Around the edge I'll see orange or red or purple in the shadow you might see dark green but I'll see violet, turquoise, blue,"...
View ArticleThe 25 Best Museums In The World, According To Travelers
Museums provide the unique experience of seeing some of the greatest masterpieces of all time close up. Walking the halls of some of the famed museums allow the chance to learn about different...
View ArticleUS Army May Spend $600K On World War I Art
The U.S. Army has found a steal of a deal–or at least what said is a deal–on a group of World War I paintings. They have already been approved to spend $600,000 on the paintings, which will be a part...
View ArticleDesigner Transforms Old Apple Computers Into Modern Furniture
Technology evolves quickly.Old designs are discontinued to make way for the new, but for designer Klaus Geiger, this is where the fun begins.Charmed by the industrial design of Apple's Power Mac G5...
View Article25 Of Banksy's Most Clever Works
The identity of Banksy, the ever-elusive graffiti artist who has risen to superstar status over the past 20 years, is still unknown to the general public.But that hasn't stopped him from selling art...
View ArticleThis Is The Quintessential Banksy Work
Everyone's talking about Banksy yet again, after the celebrated graffitist's clever rendition of Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring" on the side of a building.If you're struggling to understand what...
View ArticleWhy One Artist Went Straight To Menlo Park To Troll Mark Zuckerberg
Artist Matthew LaPenta wanted to troll Facebook in a big way, so he went straight to the Menlo Park campus to post some of his anti-Facebook-practice artwork.Animal New York reports that "in an homage...
View ArticleStriking Photographs Show The Accidental Beauty Of Brooklyn's Toxic Gowanus...
The Gowanus Canal — the 2-mile waterway that connects the factories and industries of inner Brooklyn to the New York Harbor and the rest of the world — is widely considered to be one of the most...
View ArticleHere's A Look Inside Abu Dhabi's 2017 Guggenheim Museum
Abu Dhabi (AFP) - The Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi offered a peek Sunday of several artworks that will be displayed at its Guggenheim museum, set to open in 2017.Visitors got a glimpse of 19 out of the...
View ArticleAn Artist Has Created A Bunch Of Robots For Ghosts To Play With
If your house is haunted, chances are you didn't welcome those ghosts into your home. The same cannot be said for a special kind of robot art exhibit now on display at the Everson Museum of Art in...
View ArticleWhy Banksy Could Be A Woman
Banksy Does New York, a new documentary airing on HBO on Nov. 17, opens on a bunch of scofflaws trying to jack an inflatable word balloon reading "Banksy!" from the side of a low-rise building in...
View ArticleGeorge Lucas' New Museum Looks Like Something Straight Out Of 'Star Wars'
"Star Wars" creator George Lucas is pulling out all the stops for his upcoming art museum in Chicago, and we're finally getting a glimpse of what it will look like.The museum, which will be called the...
View ArticleRare 'Chariot' Sculpture Sells For $101 Million
NEW YORK (AP) — A rare piece of artwork painted by Vincent van Gogh weeks before his death sold for $61.8 million Tuesday and a sculpture by Alberto Giacometti took in over $100 million at a sale...
View ArticleThese 8 Images Of The Cosmos Will Stop You In Your Tracks
On Saturday, Nov. 8 the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania will launch an art exhibition that is out of this world."Starstruck: The Fine Art of Astrophotography" features 100...
View ArticleThis Is What Makes A Sculpture Worth $100 Million
Quick quiz: Which of these sculptures by Alberto Giacometti is worth $10 million, and which is worth $100 million? This isn't a trick question! The first image is Giacometti's "Stèle III," which sold...
View ArticleA Pair Of Rothko Paintings Sold For $76 Million
NEW YORK (AP) — Two Mark Rothko paintings owned by Listerine fortune heir Rachel "Bunny" Mellon fetched more than $76 million at a Sotheby's auction of post-war and contemporary art on Monday."Untitled...
View Article9 Books Michael Lewis Thinks Everyone Should Read
To get a picture of what a great writer Michael Lewis is, consider this."Outliers" and "David and Goliath" author Malcolm Gladwell says that Lewis is his literary "hero" and "the finest storyteller of...
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