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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.
It is a museum show about office furniture as art — but with designs on being more.
Hours before the performance art show was to open to the public, the censors arrived and the grilling began. Under their watchful gaze, the nine artists performed parts of their works, aware that every movement could arouse suspicion.
Tired of taking pills prescribed to suppress his pain, Zach Choate decided to wrestle head-on with the trauma that followed him home from Iraq. He began by using a razor to shred his Army uniform to bits.
South Africa's bustling commercial capital paused for art Wednesday, with an unveiling ceremony for a monumental sculpture on a downtown traffic island.
Art gallery owners across the country are finding they have a tough sell these days.
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.
These works are part of a series I call "Vision Makers". They were originally started with oil on canvas, digitized, then "tweaked" by a set of algorithms in three digital imaging programs.
I snore.......... should I have a Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty? My skin is beginning to sag..., ok, it's been more then 'beginning". Should I have it tightened? My tooth is broken and some teeth are missing, should I stop smiling?
Jogja Java Carnival, Glorious Party in the CityHow many times you see carnival in your life? For me it's just one. It happened last night at Jogja Java Carnival (JJC) I was enthusiast to see the parade. It's worth enough to wait more than an hour for the carnival.
I Wait In The House of Mourning by freebirdreaming He walks with me, I in the sun, he in shadow pearly sparks thrown intentioned into the path I choose my humanity is out of style He resolves it for me renders my adversity impotent, yet still a tool.
Graffiti gangs chant: Knit one, purl two - thestar.comBringing various forms of art to public spaces has always had its share of detractors and supporters. No expressive medium, individually or combined, is exempt from varying degrees of scrutiny. Enter the new wave: graffiti tags presented in stitched format.
Polanski, "Hounddog" and 13-year-old voicesAs a society, we're just not much interested in listening to 13-year-old girls' thoughts on what they do with their own bodies, and what's done to them Interesting article about real-life-rape, rape-in-film, and the autonomy of girls.
China hoping to cultivate more influential authorsChina has excelled in recent years at producing Olympic gold medalists, skilled factory workers and more billionaires than any country other than the United States. But authors are another story.
Indonesia Jogja Java Carnival 2009 INDONESIA, JOGJAKARTA, 17 October 2009 : artists parade in Malioboro Street to celebrate 253th Jogjakarta city birthday. At least, 1,000 artists who are grouping in 25 performance are being participated in the festival, named as Jogja Java Carnival 2009.
Damien Hirst's new paintings are deadly dull - positively amateurish - remarkably dreadful!He may have done them on his own, but these doom, gloomy paintings look positively amateurish - remarkably dreadful for an artist with his talent.
Fascist garden gnomes invade Bavarian TownThe small Bavarian town of Straubing has been invaded by 1,250 fascist garden gnomes with their stubby right arms raised in a Hitler salute – all in the name of art.
Artist fills German town with 'Nazi gnomes' for exhibitionYes this is about those Nazi saluting gnomes on display in Straubing,Bavaria,Germany.
Teaching Cops to See At New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Amy Herman schools police in the fine art of deductive observation.
Fine as art pupil loses fingersA school has been fined £16,500 after a 16-year-old pupil lost eight fingers when her hands got stuck in a bucket of plaster of Paris during an art lesson. She was making a cast of her hands in January 2007 when they became trapped, magistrates in Boston were told.
Everything must go: gallery owners confront crisis by offering art on the cheapRotterdam gallery owners are trying to overcome the crisis by offering 100-euro works of art. An innovative approach or distorting the market?
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