A recent UK art auction serves as yet another friendly reminder to get artworks appraised. Today's found masterpiece, "Landscape with Rainbow" had gon...
What would make you change the way you think, the way you eat? For many, the answer is Carol Adams' 1990 eco-feminist work, "The Sexual Politics of Me...
The award for art history's naughtiest work must go to Gustav Courbet's "The Origin Of The World," the 19th century close-up of a woman's nether regio...
Normally we consider the artwork adorning office walls a step above dentist waiting room art. But the painting titled "El Albanil," which hung behind ...
An unknown artist has been expressing her gratitude to the cultural centers of Edinburgh with a little culture of her own. Mysterious book sculptures,...
Tucked away in a studio minutes from the world-class surf of Huntington Beach, California, artist Heather Roth of the Salvage Design Company is hard at work smashing china plates with a hammer.
Some people collect stamps. Mark Michaelson, a graphic designer in Manhattan, prefers mugshots. Not just any old mug will do -- Michaelsonās 10,000-...
How much attention have you given to safety cones? Aside from swerving to avoid them, or fleeing the scene if you did... have you ever thought about a...
Most often artwork made with a cardboard box is referred to as a diorama and is made by a third grader, but sometimes the humble material can yield in...
"Choices" is the title of sculptor John Chamberlain's latest retrospective at the Guggenheim, which opens today. He specified the intensely gestural s...
To start off the new year with a curatorial bang, Known Gallery has enlisted the help of artist Sage Vaughn to bring a refreshing flavor to Known's wh...
London-based artist Mark Powell has produced these striking drawings despite only using the most basic of materials: ink and paper. His recent series ...
Ron Pippin's works are little treasure chests of everything. From mythical skeletons to historical relics that never were, all his quasi-scientific co...
Lucy Liu may have already been one of Charlie's Angels, but recently she's really been exploring her spiritual side, culminating in a new show of her ...
Thanks to Kuriositas, our curiosity was momentarily quenched when they revealed a unique kind of street art. Imagine walking down the street and all ...
We applaud low cost-high concept art. This past summer at SFMOMA, artist and curator Brion Nuda Rosch invited Chris Sollars to use SFMOMA as a site fo...
A huge and previously unknown trove of archival material from Philip Johnson's architectural practice -- including his hand-drawn sketches for towers ...
I love white walls and stunning art--but stunning doesn't have to mean expensive. You can get great original work on websites like Etsy.com or snap up...