Archive for the 'Art' Category
This has to be the coolest place to live ever. Architectural designer Eric Clough embedded the New York City Apartment of the Klinsky-Sherry Family with clues, puzzles, hidden compartments, coded poems, and even a secret soundtrack. Definitely the ultimate house for the mistery solver!.
The Indianapolis Museum of Art plans to announce that it has acquired a trove of work and correspondence by Weegee, the New York photographer whose visceral pictures became a template not only for artists like Diane Arbus but also for much of the uncomfortably close tabloid imagery that exists today.
The photos were found in [...]
4 priceless works of art stolen in 2007 were recovered by the french police near Marseille. Ten people involved in the robbery have been arrested. Among the works recovered is “Falaises pres de Dieppe,” (Cliffs near Dieppe) painted by Monet in 1897, pictured above.
Through December 30, Damien Hirst presents the sculpture “End Game”:
From the museum’s press release:
End Game, a sculpture completed in 2004 by British artist Damien Hirst (b. 1965), is now on view at the MFAH, in its first public showing in the United States. The work, a loan from local collectors Jereann and Robert Chaney, is [...]
Vandals broke sunday night into the Museè d’Orsay and punched a 4 inch hole into Monet’s painting “The Bridge of Argenteuil”. You can see details of the damage done to the painting above. This makes me cringe, unforgivable behavior.
By Tsang Cheung-shing on exhibition at the Hong Kong airport part of the collection at the Hong Kong Museum of Art
To mark Andy Warhol’s death 20th anniversary the National Gallery of Scotland has redecorated its columns to resembles warhol’s iconic soup cans, enjoy the views on this lovely slideshow . Also visit the gallery’s site for an outlook on the retrospective exhibition taking place from august 4th until october 7th.
Explore the life and times of Dadaist artist Marcel Duchamp with this animated timeline, depicting his most famous works
Nathan Sawaya opened the exhibition “Nathan Sawaya: The Art of the Brick” of his works in Lego at The Lancaster Museum of Art.
In the words of the artist:
The opening of my museum exhibit at the Lancaster Museum of Art was a rousing success, with crowds lined up to get in five hours before the [...]
Check this homage to Roy Liechtenstein’s classic painting “M-maybe” redone in colored wood pegs entitled “Peggy“. According to the author:
the work above, “peggy,†is the most recent project of this collection. this piece was meticulously constructed over the course of five months. it is comprised of 2788 hand cut, sanded, and painted dowels [...]
