Feb 15, 2016 | Art, News & Trending
Strictly speaking, the ghostly white sculptures on the defunct New York Central rail platform in Syracuse, NY are graffiti. Duke Epolito had no permission to place the eerie human shapes there in 1982 when he did. But the lumpy fiberglass figures have been there for...
Feb 12, 2016 | Art, News & Trending
It turns out that life really does imitate art. The Art Institute of Chicago has created an exhibit called van Gogh’s Bedrooms, and for ten bucks a night, visitors can rent a real-life replica of Van Gogh’s famous painting of his bedroom in Arles, France. The bedroom...
Feb 10, 2016 | Art, News & Trending
In 2007, artists Lucy and Jorge Orta (known together as Studio Orta), journeyed to Antarctica to create a series of “social sculptures” celebrating and speaking about the Antarctic Treaty. The five-decades-old agreement, signed by 53 nations, has maintained the...
Feb 8, 2016 | News & Trending
When computers first became an important fixture of the average household, they held a lot of promise and a lot of new innovations. Of course, they also had some vulnerabilities, and people who were good with computers took advantage of those vulnerabilities by...
Feb 5, 2016 | Art, News & Trending
Here’s some justice for the art world: Eric Ian Spoutz, a fairly well-known art dealer in Michigan, was arrested this week in California for selling fake masterpiece artworks. The federal complaint filed against him says that Spoutz sold dozens of works he falsely...
Feb 3, 2016 | Art, News & Trending
A work by Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch, one of history’s weirdest artists, has been re-discovered after sitting in storage for the last 80 years. The painting is thought to be one of only five Bosch paintings in the United States. The painting, The Temptation of...
