Style and Art

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 [...]

The Vincent Van Gogh Gallery is the most thorough and comprehensive Van Gogh resource on the web. It features a complete gallery of Van Gogh’s work categorized chronologically, by medium and subject matter. It also contains a complete set of Van Gogh’s letters to his family and a gallery of works by other artist who [...]

Auctions at Christie’s and Sotheby’s in New York next month are expected to fetch near to a billion dollars. Among the works up for auction are Francis Bacon’s study of Pope Innocent X (pictured left) and a Mark Rothko painting, these works alone are expected to get up to 70 million dollars amongst them.
Other [...]

The government of Au-Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates has paid the International Agency for French Museums, $520 million dollars for the rights to use the name “Louvre” on the new art museum, set to open on 2012.
The building itself, pictured above in a computer rendering, will cost around $108 million dollars and was designed [...]

Femme, femme, femme: Paintings of Women in French Society from Daumier to Picasso from the Museums of France. The exhibition, shown exclusively at NOMA, begins March 3, 2007 .
“The works in Femme, femme, femme are appearing together for the first and only time,” said E. John Bullard, director of the New Orleans Museum of Art. [...]

A humble electrician from
Colombia has won the Fernando Botero painting “Hombre Fumando” (Man Smoking, 1977 pictured left) through a sweepstakes contest held by the colombian brewery Bavaria.
The man identified as Luis Alfredo Rodríguez is a humble electrician from the city of Buenaventura the main maritime port of Colombia on the Pacific Coast
Rodríguez says he plans [...]

This is the first comprehensive survey of Edward Hopper’s career to be seen in American museums outside New York in more than 25 years. Focusing on the period of the artist’s great achievements—from about 1925 to midcentury—the exhibition will feature such iconic paintings as Automat (1927), Drug Store (1927), Early Sunday Morning (1930), New York [...]

Two Picasso paintings valued at more than 66 million dollars were stolen from the Paris home of Diana Widmaier, Picasso’s grandaughter.
The paintings were identified by police as “Maya a la poupee” (Maya with doll, pictured a left) a 1938 portrait of the artist’s daughter, and “Portrait de femme, Jacqueline”.
There were no signs of a violent [...]