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NEW YORK - Director Tim Burton has become a household name thanks to his highly stylized and hugely popular movies such as “Batman” and “Beetlejuice.” While fans may say his films are works of art, few would expect to see Burton’s imagery displayed alongside Monet’s “Water Lilies” and Van Gogh’s “Starry Night.” However, from now until April, the Museum of Modern Art in New York is doing just that, with a major career retrospective of Burton’s art and movies. Complete Story...
A German auction house says it has withdrawn from sale a painting that the Max Stern estate claims was one of hundreds the Jewish art dealer was forced to sell off by the Nazis.
The only art fair in the United States featuring works exclusively from Latin American artists is under way in New York and drawing artists, collectors and museum representatives from around the world to the PINTA art fair.
Centuries before X-rays, CAT scans and ultrasounds gave doctors a view inside the human body, the best images medical students often had were illustrations drawn by artists of bodies in a morgue.
The historic Biblioteca Ambrosiana on Tuesday unveiled 280 drawings by such masters as Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci collected by a 17th-century friar that have just returned from a Florence studio where they were restored for years.
Even in these trying financial times, you're not going to see many going-out-of-business sales like this one.
The old man's sales pitch sounded plausible enough to art collector Don Fuson. The warning signs didn't appear until after Fuson paid him $30,000 for what he thought were paintings by renowned folk artist Clementine Hunter.
In his nearly four decades as a vanguard of pop culture, Malcolm McLaren has worn many hats: musician, producer, filmmaker, impresario, fashion designer, reality TV star. At age 63, the punk progenitor is adding another discipline to his resume: visual artist.
When it came to collecting, former Neiman Marcus fashion executive Derrill Osborn had a singular focus: cows.
The National Gallery of Art, which is acquiring the extensive personal collection of artist Jasper Johns, will open an exhibit Sunday showing his working proofs as independent pieces of art for the first time.
A Brooklyn, N.Y., artist has won the $250,000 top prize offered in a new art competition in Grand Rapids, Mich.
You can't see it, but there's a quiet cultural revolution under way at the White House.
Two men accused of lying about having millions of dollars of artwork stolen from their high-rent home in Pebble Beach released documents Friday that they insist proves they were ripped off.
Taiwan's National Palace Museum said Friday it will open its first-ever joint exhibition with China next week, 60 years after they split amid civil war.
Filmmakers George Lucas and Steven Spielberg are joining forces with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, combining their collections of Norman Rockwell's art in a Washington exhibit next year.
Authorities say artwork by Jackson Pollock, Matisse, Rembrandt and others has been reported stolen from a California rental home in the wealthy enclave of Pebble Beach.
Security has been tightened at Bernard Madoff's former beach home after the theft of a sculpture off the front porch.
Information about the first ArtPrize art competition:
A school of glimmering, silvery-white fish wriggle high above a downtown river. A few blocks away on a Michigan sidewalk, four stark red piranhas have taken large bites out of a running man's briefcase and rear end. A purple, 10-foot-tall jelly bean stands outside a nearby castle.
An art collector who stole more than a dozen valuable paintings from four Southern California galleries has been sentenced to nearly three years in state prison.
A Swedish art museum said Wednesday it had settled a six-year dispute over a painting claimed by the heirs of a Jewish businessman who lost it when he fled Germany in 1939 to escape Nazi persecution.
The Israeli journalists' union on Thursday took down a series of pictures that superimposed the faces of female Palestinian suicide bombers on Madonna-and-child paintings after the images sparked a public furor.
An eastern Pennsylvania art museum has received one of its largest gifts ever — about 500 works and property once owned by modernist artist Peter Grippe.
Sir John Herschel made important contributions to the nascent field of photography more than a century and a half ago, inventing a chemical process that allowed an image to be fixed onto photosensitive paper.
Your handywork reveals, In the grain of wood. What nature conceals, God's presence is good. To give form to confusion, you bring about change. Granted your perception, materials to arrange.
The Doomed Lover A butterfly languid around a flame spirals, blind to its destiny. An earth, relentless around its sun revolves, oblivious. A sun crouched deep in its gravity well spins adrift around the dark core of its galaxy, awaiting the dawn of times.
Artist Paints Intuit, Aztec and Mexican Mythology "The Inuit people believed that the Pleiades that we see in our skies is actually the polar bear followed by seven wolves, and that the snow they kick up becomes the Milky Way," De la Sota says, explaining each of the faint hieroglyphics seen throughout the painting.
The terms "Afghan Holocaust", "Afghan Genocide" , Iraqi Holocaust", "Iraqi Genocide", "Palestinian Holocaust", "Palestinian Genocide", "Climate Holocaust" and "Climate Genocide" are absent on searching major MSM.
Freddie and Fanny, use ARM's and lend, lend, lend, We'll bundle your sub-prime mortgages in derivatives. The rating institutions will grade them as AAA, Sell them, make money, and big bonus's we'll give.
Junk artist' Gabriel Dishaw re-creates favourite shoes from computer partsThe artist Gabriel Dishaw spent three weeks working with waste material from old computers to re-create his favourite trainers as "junk art". The Nike sculpture is part of a series of shoes by the artist, from Carmel, Indiana, that revisits classic trainer silhouettes.
In celebration of the DVD release of J.J. Abrams' reboot of the classic Star Trek franchise I thought that it would be cool to share some thoughts from the creator of the original Star Trek.....
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Ghost trees 'haunt' London squareTrees from a damaged rain forest from Africa are now settled in Trafalgar Square in London to provoke thought and awareness about climate change.
A look at Anacostia Community Museum exhibit 'The African Presence in Mexico'The raison d'etre of the small museum, part of the sprawling Smithsonian Institution family, remains the same, but as the Afro-Mexican faces just behind the lapis doors to the main gallery attest these days, its newest show is also a strong indication that the institution is evol …
Life of Sarah Illustration by Phillip RatnerThis illustration is courtesy of International Artist Phillip Ratner. This is one of a series that Israel Seen has been fortunate to receive from the artist for exclusive internet use. This is one of the major moments in this weeks Torah, Bible reading.
I am really excited about this challenge and the chance to participate in and learn a new artistic medium.
In today's media filled world there are many talented contenders for recognition and the grand rewards artistic celebrity inevitably brings.
What happened to art?In midtown Baltimore there is an art college called the Maryland Institute College of Art whose mission is to educate its students in the ways of art. However, there is a problem with its purpose: What is considered "art" today truly isn't art at all.
When I was a young man I wanted to be a writer. I started reading before kindergarten. No one taught me, it was just there. Of course because of my short life experiences at the time comprehension was a bit of a problem.
AI: It's MY wall nowHere in England we have a folk hero, the stuff of legend. A man of mystery, whose true identity is known only to some. A maverick, inspiration for many, loved by millions, hated by other millions.
CanvasPop lets you turn photos into wall art, and it's pretty cheapYes! I love this and I atually have a very large canvas made of a small picture that was enlarged of downtown LA. It hangs in my office and it gets lots of attention. I recommend.
Here is political neutral article -- A palate cleanser of sorts before we get back to the chore of correcting the ills of the world. I seeded an link several months ago about an urban artist that made "monsters" out of traffic cones. Here is a link to the original article.
Akeda The binding of Issac illustration by Phillip RatnerThis illustration is courtesy of International Artist Phillip Ratner. This is one of a series that Israel Seen has been fortunate to receive from the artist for exclusive internet use. This is one of the major moments in this weeks Torah, Bible reading.
White House Painting: Obama Throws Artist Under the BusToday, the Washington Post reported that a painting by artist Alma Thomas entitled "Watusi (Hard Edge)" was being removed from the White House's East Wing. For those who don't remember, Thomas' painting is a plagiaristic copy of Henri Matisse's "The Snail" rotat …
Now we see what the fuss was about at Brandeis�s Rose Art museum - The Boston GlobePlease keep it open. It is one of the best museums
NZ minister sculpted in dung WELLINGTON - A NEW Zealand artist has sculpted the head of the government's environment minister out of cow dung in a conservation protest.
GNW - Quilt will piece together Price's Fork Elementary School's historyStudents at Price's Fork Elementary School are getting an art lesson that should remain intact for decades. Each Friday, they're listening and watching as local artist Jane Vance illustrates the history of the community's school on pieces of linen.
Orkney Venus aka the 'Westray Wife' to face the publicThe earliest human figure to be found in Scotland is to go on temporary display at Edinburgh Castle. The Orkney Venus, which was discovered a few weeks ago, is a 5,000-year-old female carving which has the UK's first known depiction of a person's face.
Putting a vacant Detroit home on (in) iceA photographer and an architect plan to freeze one of Detroit's thousands of abandoned homes this winter, encasing it in ice to draw attention to foreclosures that have battered the region.
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