Ancient Art Worth $5M Destroyed in Dallas

Ancient Art Worth $5M Destroyed in Dallas

Ancient art worth $5 million was destroyed at the Dallas Museum of Art by a man who was “mad at his girl” and decided to take it out on the irreplaceable artifacts. Brian Hernandez broke into the museum late Wednesday night, smashing through a glass door with a metal...
Thrift Shop Found: 2000 Year-Old Bust

Thrift Shop Found: 2000 Year-Old Bust

A thrift shop find, by someone who knew what to look for, has turned out to be a marble sculpture lost in WWII. Drusus Germanicus was a Roman general who lived approximately 2000 years ago. Laura Young is an art collector and antique dealer in Austin, Texas today....
Monet’s Biscuit Cat Found After Years of Being Lost

Monet’s Biscuit Cat Found After Years of Being Lost

Art historians interested in Claude Monet have taken down their “LOST CAT” signs stapled to light poles and bulletin boards across the U.S. Only kidding. But the glazed biscuit cat from Japan, which once belonged to Monet, has indeed been discovered after years of...
Sculpture Artist Honors Ferry Sunk by Octopus

Sculpture Artist Honors Ferry Sunk by Octopus

The monument is a modest one, as disaster memorials tend to be; a chest-high marble plinth topped by an evocative bronze sculpture of the event itself cast in rich detail and fronted by an informational plaque. It’s dedicated to the 1963 sinking of the Staten...
The Dissection of Sigmund Freud

The Dissection of Sigmund Freud

Nychos, a street artist from Austria, is all about taking things apart. Well-known for his massive murals showing exploded anatomical views of pop culture characters and animals, he’s turning his attention and skills to another figure known for a different kind...