Sep 20, 2021 | Art, Museums, News & Trending
The Met Gala looks like a ludicrous circus, if you don’t know what it’s about. The celebrity elite dressing in outlandish extravagance and impracticality, just to eat dinner and take pictures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Tickets are $30,000 a seat,...
Sep 10, 2021 | Art, Auctions, New York, News & Trending
Love Is in the Bin” is for sale again, and this time it could net over $5.5 million dollars. Originally titled “Girl With Balloon,” the painting was a by-the-artist recreation of one of Banksy’s famous graffiti artworks, featuring exactly what it says in the...
Aug 30, 2021 | Art, News & Trending
Bernard Zakheim was a Polish immigrant who came to San Francisco and studied under Mexican muralist and revolutionary Diego Rivera. He painted a series of intricate frescoes detailing the history of medical innovation in California. Painted as a commission for the...
Aug 25, 2021 | New York, News & Trending, Profiles
Chuck Close, one of the greats of the Modern American art scene, has passed away at 81. Up close, Close’s portraits distort and disappear like when you sit too close to a cathode ray television. They’re made of “pixels” in amorphous shapes,...
Aug 13, 2021 | Art, Auctions, News & Trending
A thrift store find has turned out to potentially be a $20,000 windfall for an art lover in British Columbia. Stephen Burgess is a thrifty man, but one who loves to fill his home with art. He regularly browses secondhand stores for art, he told his local paper. But...
Aug 10, 2021 | Art, Exhibitions, News & Trending
Pageant of the Masters yet again features dozens of volunteers recreating masterworks of art. In 1932, artist John H. Hinchman put together a summer art festival in Laguna Beach, California, to attract tourists in Los Angeles for the Olympic Games. It shortly grew to...
