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Billionaire Barry Diller's $130 million floating park on the Hudson is...

Media mogul Barry Diller and his wife, fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg, have committed to funding a floating public park and performance space on a pier in the Hudson River. Their pledge of over...

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Authorship is quickly dying, and artist Richard Prince is in legal trouble again

Richard Prince is in copyright trouble again, Hrag Vartanian reports. The artist, who is represented by the powerful lawyer Larry Gagosian, received a cease-and-desist letter from the Seattle-based...

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50 people were asked to reveal their biggest secrets — and their answers were...

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard. In this video 50 people on the streets of New York City were asked to reveal...

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A new piece of art in LA says a lot about Hollywood's drug problem

This Oscar statue is definitely a hard partier.Street artist Plastic Jesus placed a life-size Oscar statuette on Hollywood Boulevard at La Brea Avenue on Thursday morning, at the edge of where the...

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Watch this artist create a portrait out of 20,000 tea bags

Taking inspiration from her hometown of Malaysia, Red Hongyi put together a portrait using 20,000 tea bags. Red spent two months planning, filming, and creating this piece.Video courtesy of Red...

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Spanish artist makes profound point by Photoshopping celebrities to look fat

20-year-old Spanish artist David Lopera has attracted the eyes of the internet with a long-running series of photoshopped celebrity pics.But instead of slimming women down — as Photoshop is...

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World art sales hit a new record in 2014

Paris (AFP) - Global art sales set a fresh record in 2014 driven by acquisitions from new museums, while China maintained its place at the top of the market, data firm Artprice said on Thursday.Works...

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The biggest art heist of all time is still a complete mystery

BOSTON (Reuters) - A 122-year old Venetian-style palazzo tucked into Boston's marshy Fens section stands as one of the city's more popular tourist attractions and the site of one of its...

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25 of Banksy's most brilliant works

Click here to see the works >Join the conversation about this story »NOW WATCH: Watch 2 armed gangs fight on a busy road in China

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New Banksy art is popping up again, this time in the Gaza Strip

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The work of mysterious British graffiti artist Banksy has made an appearance in the Gaza Strip.In a short film posted on his website, the popular street artist appears to...

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A record-breaking $15.2 billion worth of art was sold in 2014

Art has once again proved itself to be a stable investment as global art sales reached record-breaking heights totaling $15.2 billion, reports the Telegraph.The billion of dollars worth of art that was...

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A stolen Picasso painting was shipped to the US as a $37 Christmas present

A stolen Picasso painting which was considered lost for years has resurfaced in the United States, where it had been shipped under false pretenses as a $37 Christmas present labeled as “art craft."The...

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Artist claims he left a hidden reference to the Lewinsky scandal in Bill...

Monica Lewinsky may have literally cast a shadow over a portrait of President Bill Clinton that is in the National Portrait Gallery.In an interview with the Philadelphia Daily News published Sunday,...

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These tiny sculptures are mind-blowing

When we say a sculpture is impressive because of its scale, we're usually alluding to how big or tall it is.But in the case of artist Jonty Hurwitz' nano-sculptures, the scale is impressive —...

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'The Art of War' in 8 charts

The Art of War may be one of the most adaptable books of the past two millennia. There's an Art of War for small businesses. There's an Art of War fordating. There's even an Art of War for...

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People are going crazy for Microsoft's ninja cat laptop sticker (MSFT)

Microsoft's fans are going crazy over a sticker designed by Microsoft for its employees and developers. The company even started selling it in the official Microsoft online store, The Verge reports.The...

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How Andy Warhol became the most powerful artist of the 20th century

It seems to me that as an artist, Andy Warhol was a remarkably talented and ingenious man who in his entire public lifetime had one, and only one, genuinely original idea.And in his hands, that idea...

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Google's new Chrome extension inserts artwork into your internet tabs

When you're browsing the internet early in the morning or late at night, there are few things worse than opening up a new browser tab and having your eyes blasted by the harsh white...

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A Russian oligarch is suing his art dealer after he overpaid for a painting...

Last year, Steve Cohen made a great deal. He sold a nude painting by Amadeo Modigliani to an anonymous buyer for $93.5 million.But now that buyer, Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev, is suing the art...

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A Chinese billionaire who buys million dollar art with his AmEx racked up an...

Billionaire Liu Yiqian is a regular globetrotter, often traveling abroad to bid millions of dollars in auctions for ancient Chinese art. But he usually travels for free.That's after Bloomberg reporters...

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