Mesmerizing time-lapse of an artist drawing the New York City skyline in just...
Watch as artist Pat Vale draws the New York City skyline by hand for his art piece "Colossus." The entire process took Pat four weeks, and involved a lot of photos and rough sketches before the final...
View ArticleThe French are freaking out over this controversial sculpture at Versailles
A giant metal sculpture surrounded by boulders and dirt piles is featured next to the Palace of Versailles in France.The installation by Anish Kapoor is called "Dirty Corner" and has caused a stir in...
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Tour the world's coolest art museum without even leaving your bed
The Musée du Louvre is the most visited art museum in the world — and it also might just be the most Instagrammed. More than nine million people visited the Louvre in 2014, according to an annual study...
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A computer says that these are the most creative paintings of all time
As much as they may try, some people just don't "get" art. Understanding pieces by even the most famous masters of the genre elude them. Now computer scientists from Rutgers University are taking the...
View ArticleMesmerizing video shows awesome patterns made using magnets and sand
Bruce Shapiro used the art of motion control to create this complex and beautiful time-lapse. Based on the Greek myth, he calls it Sisyphus. Video courtesy of Bruce ShapiroFollow BI Video: On Facebook...
View ArticleYoung tech billionaires are starting to splurge on art instead of sports cars
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A 560-year-old fragment from the Gutenberg Bible could sell for half a million
Into first editions and have half a million to spare?You are in luck then: a section of a 15th century edition of the Gutenberg Bible will be auctioned off on June 19 at Sotheby's New York, with a...
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This artist makes humans look like wall art by literally painting on them and...
Alexa Meade's work may look like something you would see hanging on the wall in an art gallery, but Meade isn't like any other artist. The artist's work is different in that she literally paints human...
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The 12 coolest neighborhoods in Europe
Europe's hottest neighborhoods are home to cutting-edge art, hip restaurants, and eclectic bars.Some of these neighborhoods were once areas of political turmoil that have been transformed into creative...
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This year's Art Basel fair features $3.4 billion worth of art — and it's...
As opening day sales at Art Basel soar, the art market bubble is getting fatter. This year's fair boasts $3.4 billion worth of art for sale in the Swiss city of Basel. Artnet reports that multimillion...
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11 crazy interactive art pieces you're actually allowed to touch
In most museums, the look-don't-touch rule is inflexible - they're none too keen on throwing punches at a Monet.But for those who just can't resist getting into the action, there are some pieces a tad...
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Art schools have minted more mega-unicorn startups than MIT
Last weekend a new class of Stanford graduates received their diplomas, and it’s a safe bet that some who just earned undergraduate degrees will soon be at the helm of startups with “unicorn”...
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The 20 most creative paintings ever — according to a computer
Creativity and art are usually thought of as the domains of humans.But computer scientists from Rutgers University have designed an algorithm that shows that computers may be just as skilled at...
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This Brooklyn house has a massive, $10 million African art collection...
Eric Edwards, a Brooklyn-based former AT&T executive, has launched a Kickstarter campaign in order to create a museum to house his 2,500-piece collection of African art and artifacts, worth...
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Redditors were determined to track down the mystery person behind one of the...
When an internet community sets its mind to something, it can achieve almost anything. Just look at the successful Reddit-wide search for the creator of a popular disposable cup design called...
View ArticleThis photographer got 100,000 Instagram followers by arranging food in a very...
Brittany Wright has amassed a huge following on Instagram for her #FoodGradient photos. The professional photographer shows us how she makes photos that over 100,000 people are obsessed with.Produced...
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These surreal 3D paintings were created by injecting oil paint into gel
Welsh artist and Cardiff School graduate Arron Kuiper has created his own innovative style of 3D painting he's coined Gel Paintings.Using syringes, Kuiper injects oil paint into a water-based...
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14 mediocre watercolors and paintings by Adolf Hitler just sold for $450,000
A group of 14 paintings, watercolors, and drawings by Adolf Hitler went under the hammer at the Weilder auction house in Nuremberg this weekend, collectively fetching €400,000 ($450,000).The most...
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Help Business Insider spruce up its office with our first photo contest!
Here at Business Insider, we're growing rapidly. In the last year, we've moved into a new office and have since expanded to two floors. We just keep getting bigger and bigger!One thing we also have a...
View ArticleSomeone has designed a pot of flowers that can take and post selfies on its own
The Selfie Plant was designed by Haoyu Li, Manu Dixit, and Shruti KNR with the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID). Like people, the plant changes its angle and considers its mood,...
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