Style and Art

GalleryPlayer on Demand is a new service rolled out by Comcast and GalleryPlayer that brings famous works of art to your HDTV screen synchronized with beautiful music.
You can select from collections of art and photography based on varying themes. Art is available from 45 different museums and collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the [...]

The Talus table is designed to be arranged in a variety of ways and can be stacked away in a cube for easy storage.
Available from Talus Furniture.

Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images is the first major exhibition to explore the impact of Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte's (1898-1967) work on U.S. and European artists of the post-war generation.
It features 68 paintings and drawings by Magritte, including many international loans of his signature works, and 68 works by thirty-one contemporary [...]

H&M one of the leading clothing retailers in Europe drew crowds into a fashion feeding frenzy in its stores located in London and Amsterdam after unveiling a collection by the Dutch designing duo Viktor & Rolf at a fraction of their usually steep prices.
At the London store located in Oxford Circus, escalators had [...]

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 [...]