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This dreamy print entitled "Marfa Lights" is print #3 of 11 in our series by Bryan Peterson. Peterson's whimsical style is on full display in this beautiful print that captures the small town West Texas town of Marfa on a starry desert night.

Market value and establishing authenticity depend on uncovering an artwork’s past, which requires skilled provenance research.

Galleries are crucial touchpoints for discovering new artists and artworks. Here’s what you need to know about how to approach them.

Coming to Pueblo, CO, this fall, the Leonardo da Vinci Museum of North America will be the first and only museum of its kind in the continent.

Jennifer Dunn, the artist behind the Instagram account Mossy Hollow, characterizes her work as "Watercolor meme art," a distinctive blend of pop culture referen

To celebrate Rafael Araujo's talent and vision, I have curated a selection of his most stunning illustrations, showcasing the elegance and intricacy of his work.

Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering secrets that could help combat a growing agricultural crisis

You just can't see what it's become.

Walter Schnackenberg was born in 1880 in Lauterberg, Germany, and became a prominent painter and illustrator. At the age of 19, he moved to Munich to study art, first under Heinrich Knirr and then Franz von Stuck, both influential figures in the German art scene. His early work earned him recogn

From flipping to white glove sales, here are terms to know before you attend an auction.

During the Renaissance period, hands were as important a focus of attention as the face was, because they were the only other visible area of the body. Hence, representation of the position of the hands became a decorative element that was almost as important ...

Welcome to the "Auntieverse" — a surreal tribute to "auntie culture" by artist Niceaunties, inspired by the spirit of the women who care for each other and their families. From sushi-bedecked cars with legs to hot tub baths full of ramen, Niceaunties shares a visual feast that fuses AI and imagination and celebrates the eccentric, vibrant world of aunties with reverence and awe. (Slides created with AI including Midjourney and DALL·E 3 for text-to-image creation; magnific.ai and Topaz Labs for upscaling the images; Pikalabs and Runwayml for animation.)

Valery Slauk, a celebrated Belarusian artist, specializes in book art and easel graphics, particularly employing the etching technique. His work delves into Slavic mythology, crafting captivating worlds that blend literary inspiration with boundless imagination. With a deft balance between reali

German-American artist Henry Jerome Schile was born in Oberharmersbach, Baden-Württemberg, in 1829. He emigrated to the US in 1851 and worked in New York in the middle of the 19th century. h/t: vintag.es Henry Schile’s work is described by Harry T. Peters in America on Stone as: “Though of

After 34 years, not one of the 13 works stolen during the largest art theft in history has surfaced but the puzzling peculiarities of the case still draw interest.

Consuming culture gives us the emotional knowledge that can make us better people.

Discover the secrets behind Edward Hopper’s most iconic and enigmatic works. See how his marriage to artist Josephine Hopper shaped his art.

Sophie Walter, Assistant Curator at London Fire Brigade Museum, on the small, beautiful and potentially fatal Glass Fire Grenade When they were first introduced in the nineteenth century, Glass Fire Grenades were produced as decorative glass bottles with a bulbous...

Europe at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth: what a time and place to be alive.

The dealer has been so successful selling art to masters of the universe that he has become one of them.

A new show at London's Courtauld Gallery will explore the value of counterfeit art

For more than thirty years, Ed Binkley has been producing stunning fantasy artwork. His exceptional creations have been showcased in a multitude of publications and he has partnered with esteemed entities such as Lucasfilm, ImagineFX, Wizards of the Coast, and Artifacts Puzzles, among others.

Advice from the world's greatest art thief

After a painting by the Dutch artist sold at auction, a movie producer claimed to be the owner. It later vanished from sight, with a trail leading to Caribbean tax havens and a jailed Chinese billionaire.

Tomb raiders, crooked art dealers, and museum curators fed billionaire Michael Steinhardt’s addiction to antiquities. Many also happened to be stolen.

Intricate designs painted by biscuit artist Ella Hawkins are part of a lengthy baking tradition

After his brother’s death, Patrick Bringley took a job at the grandest place he could find.

The goal is not to expose the “slipups” of the masters but to understand the human brain.

The long read: In 2016, artist César Aréchiga talked one of Mexico’s most dangerous maximum security prisons into letting him run art classes for its inmates, many of them violent gang members. Could he really change their lives?

Wolfgang and Helene Beltracchi’s forgeries infiltrated museums, auction houses and private collections. A decade after their conviction, psychoanalyst Jeannette Fischer asks: Why did they do it?

For lots of rock-poster collectors, even those who like to think they’re in the know, a common question is, “Who’s Luke Martin?”

A billionaire playboy’s alleged murder is at the center of the world’s most confounding heist job.

On his way to becoming an international icon, the subversive and secretive street artist turned the art world upside-down

A collector thought he had bought a painting by the celebrated British artist. How far would he go to prove it?

Andres Valencia’s paintings have sold for more than $125,000. And he’s 10 years old.

Auction houses and galleries are getting creative, partnering to drive demand and give their clients access to the best works.

The stolen masterpieces have never turned up—and nobody’s really looking for them

Did the artist paint a security camera (or a condom, or a portrait of rigatoni) into “The Red Studio”? An investigation at MoMA looks for clues.

You can't make this shit up

How Banksy created a private key art authentication system with forged ten pound bank notes ripped in half.

The Antico Setificio Fiorentino, which relies on looms from the 18th and 19th centuries, has been producing precious textiles since 1786.

We introduce ArtBench-10, the first class-balanced, high-quality, cleanly annotated, and standardized dataset for benchmarking artwork generation. It comprises 60,000 images of artwork from 10...

Polish illustrator and graphic designer Tomasz Majewski combines traditional techniques with digital work to produce cool pop culture creations. More: Instagram, Behance

Out of this world artworks by Michał Klimczak, a graphic designer and concept artist based in Krakow, Poland. More: Instagram, Behance

The Svaneti Museum of History and Ethnography in Georgia is home to one of the world’s great collections of medieval Christian art, writes William Dunbar

Driven by buyers' need for consistency and explanation, the most popular pricing method uses a surprisingly simple formula based on size.

The colour violet was largely missing from art before the Impressionists, and is seen differently by different cultures. Why?

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Browse and download high-resolution, public domain Paintings, Drawings, Illustrations and Posters.

When nearly $3.5M of rare books were stolen in an audacious heist at Feltham in 2017, police wondered, what’s the story?

The Collections database consists of entries for more than 480,000 works in the Musée du Louvre and Musée National Eugène-Delacroix.

Western museums are under pressure to return looted treasure, but what of those in private collections?

What are the greatest art heists of all time? See a list of the 25 most memorable thefts from museums.

In October 2020, Miami-based art collector Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile spent almost $67,000 on a 10-second video artwork that he could have watched for free online. Last week, he sold it for $6.6 million.

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How a dozen possibly fraudulent and forged Indigenous artworks left Texas and ended up on museum walls in Wyoming.

Usage of the new model, with examples and Colab Notebook.

Forgeries have become so good – and so costly – that Sotheby’s has brought in its own in-house fraud-busting expert.

First trips to Paris all run the same risk: that of the museums consuming all of one's time in the city. What those new to Paris need is a museum-going strategy, not that one size will fit all.

What is neuroscience doing to art?

Five months on we look at the steps and measurements implemented by experts to start rebuilding the fire-ravaged cathedral

A Dutch gallerist made thousands of forgeries and passed them off as the work of real artists. When he was caught, a new con began.

Two decades after Rudy Giuliani tried to rid New York City of graffiti, the art form is flourishing—with unexpected consequences.

How times have changed since our late 80s college days. Undergrads do research online, upload assignments to a server, stream music, download affirmative sexual consent contracts, and turn to Facebook when it's time to find a ride home for the holidays.

The author shows how new mathematical techniques can be used to revitalize a 650-year-old work of art.

Art historian Arthur Brand managed to track down the 1983 painting Buste de Femme (Dora Maar), which went missing from a Saudi prince’s boat in 1999.

Some scientists believe that the earliest humans were actually colorblind, and had no concept of the color blue.

The skilled climber and thief Vjeran Tomic, whom the French press referred to as Spider-Man, has described robbery as an act of imagination.

Emergence is the story of natural laws and processes, their inherent beauty, and their action to yield the universe, us and the world we live in.

The Art Institute of Chicago recently unveiled a new website design. As part of their first design upgrade in 6 years, they have placed more than 52,000 high-resolution images from their collection online, available to all comers without restr

Is the Chinese government behind one of the boldest art-crime waves in history?

I used to think Marfa was a kind of practical joke that West Texans were playing on cultural elites. It’s remote even for Texas. The nearest airports are in El Paso and Carlsbad, New Mexico, each 2…