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