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...
Aug 10, 2021 | Art, Culture, News & Trending
Rico Worl released the design for a U.S. postage stamp celebrating Tlingit culture, a first for the Alaskan Native American tribe. Rico Worl, who lives in Juneau, Alaska, is Tlingit and Athabascan. Some years ago, he grew concerned seeing a large tourist market in...
Jul 28, 2021 | Art, Auctions, New York, News & Trending
Victor Langlois is 18, and in only 7 years has gone from a runaway youth to a millionaire, even before his art sold in auction at Christie’s for $2.16 million. Langlois, who goes by FEWOCiOUS online, sold five lots of art on Wednesday, July 21. Each lot included...
Jul 19, 2021 | Art, Exhibitions, New York, News & Trending, Organizations
The “Women Who Dared” collection, assembled by Sandi Nicholson, is the largest private collection of women-created art, and you can see parts of it in any New York area hospital. Nicholson spent over thirty years traveling the world to collect art by women. Her...
Jul 9, 2021 | Art, Exhibitions, News & Trending
The Firelei Báez art installation in the Watershed is bringing the Caribbean to Boston. In 2018, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston opened the Watershed, a space for large-scale installation art set into the industrial maritime setting of the East Boston...
Jul 2, 2021 | Art, Exhibitions, News & Trending
A bookmark drawn by the hand of Vincent Van Gogh is on display now, after over 230 years tucked away – where else – in a book. In June 1883, Vincent Van Gogh lent a novel to his friend, the Dutch artist Anthon van Rappard. The novel, Histoire d’un Paysan...
Jun 25, 2021 | Art, Museums, News & Trending
Two masterwork paintings recovered almost a decade after a 2012 art heist, according to Greek police. In January 2012, “Woman’s Head” by Pablo Picasso and “Mill” by Piet Mondrian were stolen in a lightning quick raid on the National Gallery of Greece, in Athens....
Jun 21, 2021 | Exhibitions, News & Trending, Organizations
Santa Monica, California, is going rainbow for June. To celebrate Pride Month, the tourist core of Santa Monica is painting itself all the colors of the rainbow with the “Rainbow Road Art Walk.” Santa Monica Pier, downtown including the Third Street Promenade, and...
