Style and Art

A federal judge decided to allow the auction of the Picasso painting “Portrait of Angel Fernández de Soto”. The judge dismissed a lawsuit from Julius H. Schoeps, an heir of the painting's original owner. Mr. Schoeps claimed that his great-uncle, Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, a Berlin banker and art collector, was forced to sell the painting [...]

A toilet that flushes to the tone of the Italian national anthem has been seized by the police on nothern Italy, creating a huge controversy.
The offending toilet was the creation of two local artists and was on display at the Bolzano Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art.
Prosecutors in charge of the case said that the [...]

  If you're into minimalist design, the Self Shelf is a book rack that looks like a big paperback that attaches to the walls with a hidden bracket and makes it look like the books are floating. Check the last book on the stack, that one is the shelf. The manufacturer however, recommends not placing more [...]

Josef Albers and László Moholy-Nagy two of the greatest pioneers of modernism in the twentieth century on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The exhibition focuses on their individual achievements and the parallels in their work and examines their groundbreaking development of abstract art beginning in the early 1920s.
The Albers/Moholy show is organized [...]

Hollywood entrepreneur David Geffen has sold a painting by Jackson Pollock in a record setting price of $140 million dollars reports The New York Times.
Sources close to the transaction identified the buyer as David Martínez a mexican financier who recently purchased a two-floor apartment in the south building of the Time Warner Center for [...]

Auction sale price records are set to be broken when the fall auction season kicks off today.
Sotheby's starts the week with its evening sale of Impressionist and Modern art, filled with works of early Modernism, German Expressionism, and the School of Paris, and several major pieces by Picasso, Cèzanne, Modigliani, Matisse, Kandinsky, Van Gogh, and [...]

Stolen works of art recovered by the italian police are the main attraction of this exhibition set in the Palazzo Incontro of Rome.
More than 100 pieces stolen from their rightful proprietors and recovered are in display, featuring the Amedeo Modigliani painting “Fillette aux bas rouges” (Girl with the Red Stockings) (pictured left), which was stolen [...]

Valentino is considered to be one of the most important designers and innovator in the world of fashion. Still in his teens he left Voghera, his hometown, to go to Paris and study fashion design. Success hasn't abandoned him since them.
He created his first gown for his aunt Rosa, owner of a fabric store in [...]