This space rocket will ‘take off’ from Times Square every night in March
Created by artist Marco Brambilla, Apollo XVIII presents the countdown to an imagined lift-off of a Saturn V rocket across Times Square’s spectacular screens at midnight. The fictional mission combines...
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The new Sotheby's CEO has no art world experience— but we hear Dan Loeb is...
Sotheby's tapped Madison Square Garden Company's CEO Tad Smith on Monday to join the art auction house as its next CEO.Smith, 49, is succeeding Bill Ruprecht, who announced his retirement in November...
View ArticleA British artist did something incredible with snow
The world’s most renowned snow artist, Simon Beck crafts tremendous large scale art pieces using snowy mountain landscapes. Banff Lake Louise Tourism partnered with Toque & Canoe to bring Simon...
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eBay and Sotheby's just launched a new online auctions platform
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Going, going, gone! Sold to the highest bidder at the auction, on the phone or on a new eBay platform that will stream Sotheby's New York auctions live beginning next month.The new...
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An unknown 24-year-old artist painted what may be the most reproduced...
Liu Chunhua, who was born in eastern China in 1944, does not even have an English-language Wikipedia page — but he did produce an image that was printed a staggering 900 million times.The painting that...
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The top 50 apps for creative minds
There's an ongoing argument in the technology world about whether tablets and smartphones are more focused on consumption than creativity.As time has gone on, though, the number of apps helping us do...
View ArticleWatch this robot carve one of Michelangelo's unfinished works
"Captives" is an ongoing series of digital and physical sculptures by London based visual artist Quayola. The series interprets Michelangelo’s unfinished series “Prigioni." Mathematical functions allow...
View ArticleA company is projecting images of people napping on the sides of buildings in...
Dawn Of Man's"Projection Napping" features a series of large-scale projections of people napping on buildings around New York. These projections occur unannounced and only last for a few hours. The...
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$140 million Picasso painting could shatter auction records
In May, Christie's will offer Picasso's iconic Les Femmes d'Alger (1955), a painting that comes with a whopping $140 million estimate — yes, that's just the estimate, which traditionally marks the...
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Instagram censored a photo of a woman on her period and the internet isn't happy
An artist called Ruki Kaur posted a photo on Instagram that shows a patch of period blood. It captures the 22-year-old fully clothed on a bed, facing away from the camera, during menstruation. Soon...
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A group of artists placed a statue of Snowden over a tomb containing...
A group of as-yet unidentified artists affixed a bust of NSA leaker Edward Snowden atop a column along the edges of the Prison Ship Martyr's Monument in Brooklyn's Fort Green neighborhood on April 6th...
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Pixel Pix turns your photos into retro 8-bit artwork
If you're looking to infuse some retro nostalgia into your photos, look no further than Pixel Pix.Pixel Pix is a photo editing app that allows you to transform your photos into 8-bit masterpieces,...
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This 'chameleon' is actually two women wearing nothing but bodypaint
Here's a couple of sisters doing an extremely convincing impression of a chameleon with the help of some amazing bodypaint:It's the work of renowned bodypaint artist Johannes Stötter, who has won a...
View ArticleThis colorful chameleon is actually a stunning optical illusion
Italian artist Johannes Stötter created an exquisite optical illusion with his piece "The Chameleon" by using body paint and precise staging to transform two models into a very realistic-looking...
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$400,000 worth of art has been stolen from 'The Simpsons' co-creator's...
(Reuters) - Artwork worth $400,000 has been stolen from the Sam Simon Foundation in Malibu, California, set up by late "The Simpsons" co-creator Sam Simon, the California wire agency City News Service...
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Why 'investing' in art is a terrible idea
Art has no intrinsic value. It cannot be regularly marked to some market price. It has zero cash flow. And five years from now, it's much more likely to be worth less than it is to be worth more than...
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This legal nightmare over a hundred million dollar painting shows why...
What exactly is the fair price for something? Normally, the price of something is the amount at which a buyer is willing to pay and a seller is willing to sell. There are entire industries (e.g. stock...
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London gallery goers have been duped by a Chinese replica of an 18th century...
London (AFP) - The results are in of a battle that pitted London's culture vultures against a Chinese workshop churning out replicas of the world's most famous paintings, revealing a clear victory for...
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Somebody created an actual Selfie Arm to help you appear less lonely
Everyone loves posting thousands of flattering selfies online, but what happens when your fans and followers begin to suspect you have no friends?Artists Justin Crowe and Aric Snee have devised a...
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A chair made by Apple design genius Marc Newson just sold for a record $3.7...
A lounge chair designed by Australian industrial designer Marc Newson set a record Tuesday when it sold for $3.7 million at an auction at Phillips in London, Curbed reports. It was the most ever paid...
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