For art market aficionados, it’s hard to imagine 2017 being remembered as anything other than “that time when someone bought a painting for $450 million.” The sale of Leonardo da...
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Leonardo da Vinci painting sell for RECORD amount!
A painting of Christ by the Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci sold for a record $450 million (380 million euros) at auction on Wednesday, obliterating previous records for artworks sold...
Found Leonardo da Vinci painting expected to fetch...
A painting of Jesus Christ by Leonardo da Vinci is heading to the auction block ? where it could sell for around $100 million. Leonardo’s haunting “Salvator Mundi” dates from...
Artist Displays Giant Baby Looking Over Border Wall in...
Anyone passing through Tecate, Mexico might see a giant display that is hard to miss: a young child looking over a border wall towards the United States. The black and white billboard is...
Behind the Doors of the Costa Concordia
You may recall back in 2012 a cruise ship ran aground and totally wrecked off the coast of Isola del Giglio in Italy. Of the 3229 passengers and 1023 crew known to have been aboard, 32...
$1 billion George Lucas Museum Approved
Today, the Los Angeles City Council gave unanimous approval to film legend George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson to build their new museum. The planned $1 billion Lucas Museum of...
Sweden’s Museum of Failure adds Trump!
Samuel West’s “Museum of Failure” is an act of celebration. On June 7, West, a collector and self-described innovation researcher, debuted 51 failed products in a museum...
Picasso stolen by Nazi’s brings $45m at auction
Called “Femme Assise, Robe Bleu”, (Seated Woman in Blue Dress), the painting features one of Picasso’s many lovers, Dora Maar. The two had an intense relationship for...
Wall Street’s Rare Art Showdown
As you may or may not know, back on March 8th, International Women’s Day, a statue of a young girl appeared opposite the raging bull statue on Wall Street. The statue of the defiant...
Comparing Young Thug to historical paintings is amazing
Hajar Benjida attends a performing arts school in the Netherlands where she studies photography. When the class was told to draw inspiration from the work at a local museum, and create an...
Passive-Aggressive Art Gallery my new favorite thing
A Hollywood California man was tired of his roommate constantly leaving a mess everywhere he went and decided to alert him to it in a most entertaining way. And despite the fact that I...
Gustav Klimt painting sells for $59 mill at auction
A painting by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt has become the third most expensive artwork ever sold at auction in Europe. “Bauerngarten,” Gustav Klimt’s exuberant 1907 oil...