Jan 15, 2024 | Art, Auctions, News & Trending
Old Masters are dominating the art auction scene lately, with huge winning bids on spectacular works from centuries past. In London’s recent major art auctions, Old Masters continued to captivate buyers, with Rembrandt’s “The Adoration of the...
Jan 3, 2024 | Art, News & Trending
A lost BBC interview with the elusive street artist Banksy has been found, hinting at what might be his first name. The 2003 recording, part of Radio 4’s The Banksy Story, features the artist responding to BBC reporter Nigel Wrench’s inquiry about his name...
Dec 20, 2023 | Art, Exhibitions, New York
A gold toilet was stolen from Blenheim Palace in England in 2019, and four men have been charged with maybe the world’s funniest theft. The gold toilet is an artwork named “America.” The artist, Italian Maurizio Cattelan, made it in 2016 out of solid 18-karat...
Dec 13, 2023 | Art, Donations, News & Trending
An Australian artist, Katherine Boland, is overjoyed after discovering that her artwork, “Fire Flower No 8,” was given to US President Joe Biden by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during a recent state visit. Boland’s creation, “Fire Flower No...
Nov 10, 2023 | Art, News & Trending, Profiles
Salvatore Del Deo and his family will be able to stay in their long-term home, after a close brush with eviction. Salvatore Del Deo, 95, has been a fixture of the Cape Cod art scene for decades, since he and his wife settled their after coming coming home from WWII....
Oct 21, 2023 | Art, Exhibitions, Museums, News & Trending
Empty canvases or art? A Danish artist is having it out with a judge over repaying a museum for the commission of two blank paintings. The Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg, Denmark commissioned artist Jens Haaning two years ago to contribute two works to their...
Oct 15, 2023 | Culture, News & Trending
AI-generated work may soon need to be labeled on Amazon, after complaints from actual authors, but not yet. Amazon has introduced new regulations requiring authors who wish to sell books through its e-book program to disclose in advance if their work includes...
Oct 8, 2023 | Art, Culture, Exhibitions, News & Trending
Michelle Wibowo, of West Sussex, spent over 150 hours carefully crafting the Tower Bridge of London out of sugar. As an accomplished sugar artist with numerous accolades to her name, Michelle enthusiastically embraced the opportunity to recreate the world-renowned...
Oct 1, 2023 | News & Trending
A headless bronze statute of Marcus Aurelius has been seized by New York law enforcement from a museum in Ohio, worth $20 million. According to Turkish officials, the oversized bronze statue of a man in draped embroidered cloth and carefully figured sandals was stolen...
Sep 28, 2023 | Art, New York, News & Trending
Bélizaire, an enslaved black teenage boy, has been restored to a painting from which he was erased, now on display at the Met. Bélizaire was a household slave of the Freys, a wealthy white family living in New Orleans’ French Quarter in the mid-1800s. In 1837,...
