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The coolest apartment in New York City is locked in a warehouse in Brooklyn
Apartments in New York City are notorious for being cramped and not exactly aesthetically pleasing. But this 20th century apartment, designed by famed architect Michael Graves, is totally spacious and...
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41 paintings you need to see before you die
In an old barn that Jackson Pollock transformed into a studio, the artist laid his massive canvas on the wooden plank floor. He hurled white, yellow, blue, and black paint with sticks and knives at it....
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A deaf artist explains the rules of 'sound etiquette' — and why she's kicking...
Deaf since birth, artist and TED Fellow Christine Sun Kim learned the rules of what she calls "sound etiquette" by watching how hearing people behave and respond to sound. She knew, for example, not to...
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These intricate 3D Disney, Marvel, and Seinfeld characters are made out of paper
Jackie Huang is a California-based 3D paper artist whose amazing art is gaining a following on Instagram.Using only layers of paper, she's able to bring to life incricate characters from Disney,...
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One of the grandest structures of the ancient world could be reborn
Until an earthquake in 226 BCE knocked it down, the Colossus of Rhodes, a 98-foot-high iron and bronze statue of the Greek god Helios, sat near the harbor of Rhodes, Greece, for 54 years. Now, a plan...
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Why physicists are fascinated by Vincent van Gogh's episodes of 'psychotic...
"This morning I saw the countryside from my window a long time before sunrise, with nothing but the morning star, which looked very big," Vincent van Gogh wrote in a letter to his brother.He was...
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A leading designer explains why awesome museums are still so boring
For some people, going to a museum is a deep and fulfilling experience.For others, it's worse than watching paint dry. It's literally watching dried paint.Jake Barton, designer and founder of the...
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The story behind dazzle ships, the Navy's wildest-ever paint job
In 1917, while Britain's Royal Navy was plagued by Germany's formidable U-boat offensive, visual artist Norman Wilkinson realized that traditional camouflages wouldn't help British ships avoid the...
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The brains behind London's Tech City wanted to turn a car park into 800...
Plans to convert a multi-storey car park in South London into the largest collection of artist studios in London have been rejected by a local council.Despite support from UK culture minister Ed...
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One of Russia's most radical artists set fire to the FSB headquarters in Moscow
One of Russia's most radical political performance artists faces up to three years in jail after setting fire to the main entrance to the headquarters of the FSB security service, the successor to the...
View ArticleMeet the girl who makes incredible, life-like portraits with nothing but...
While many might claim that kissing is an art form they've mastered, one girl is actually turning her kisses into art. Commercial art.One night, before going out, Natalie Irish applied lipstick, then...
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The gorgeous concept art of 'Fallout 4'
The world of "Fallout 4" is gorgeous in its own sad, destroyed kind of way. We're talking about the post-apocalypse here.Just look at this:The world is dripping with style, even in advertisements:And...
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This brash sculpture is the ultimate piece of New York City art
A peculiar yellow sculpture landed in New York City's Brooklyn Bridge Park on Monday. If you look at it from Manhattan, it shouts "YO." But if you are peering at it from Brooklyn, it yells "OY."The...
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Wine, stamps, and art values have smoked bonds since 1900
Art auctions have been stealing headlines this week.On Monday, Amedeo Modigliani's "Ne Couche" sold at a Christie's auction for an eye-popping $170.4 million.But art isn't just a waste of money. It's...
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The Fed's next move could be bad news for art investors
The Federal Reserve is widely expected to hike interest rates in December for the first time in nearly a decade, and the move is expected to have wide ranging ripple effects.One such ripple could hit...
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People are showing solidarity with Paris by sharing this image on Facebook,...
A peace sign incorporating the Eiffel Tower is going viral, as people and brands share it on social media in solidarity with Paris, France. Attacks, which ISIS has claimed responsibility for, killed as...
View ArticleWatch the crazy way patterns are put on phone cases
The way patterns are put on phone cases is absolutely mesmerizing.Phone cases are decorated through a process called hydrographics, or water transfer printing, which is kind of like printing with...
View ArticleThis tattoo artist inks all the hottest celebrities — for $350 an hour
Bang Bang Tattoos in New York City is where the hottest celebrities go to get their body ink.The parlor is named after its owner, Keith "Bang Bang" McCurdy. McCurdy tattooed Rihanna when she was still...
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The guy who bought this $170 million Modigliani nude charged it to his AmEx...
Last week, a Modigliani nude was purchased for $170 million, the second-highest price ever received at auction for a painting."Nu Couché" now trails only Picasso’s "Les femmes d'Alger (Version 'O'),"...
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A billionaire hedge fund manager explains what is freaking him out about the...
Ken Griffin, the billionaire founder of the hedge fund Citadel, was collecting art before it was cool on Wall Street.Now he's concerned that his peers who have jumped into the art market are doing it...
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