Of a total 2,300 missing paintings by Scottish painter Benjamin Creme, 1,200 have been recovered. They are valued at around at around $777,000.
The shopper, a part-time art handler, found a 1918 Schiele pencil drawing in a Habitat for Humanity thrift store in Queens. The finding is valued at more than $100,000.
All 403 episodes of "The Joy of Painting" are on YouTube. Here are five of the most inspiring installments.
Critics say the change in policy further dehumanizes prisoners who have been at the center of international controversy since the Guantánamo facility was opened.
The first Pantone color chart came from a surprising source: a self-published ornithology book.
The author of "Ways of Seeing" had a profound impact on generations of artists, critics, historians, curators, and art lovers.
Established in 859 CE, Morocco's al-Qarawiyyin Library will soon reopen to the public with architectural details for the 21st century.
The CIA's abstract art collection isn't quite as "secret" as a series of articles have made it seem — but it's more politically significant than it appears, and there are still unanswered questions. Here, photographs of the collection are accessible to the public for the first time.
O Brazil, or Hy-Brasil as it was frequently was labeled, had haunted maps since the 14th century. Its size and shape often morphed, its location wandered from Ireland to North America, and its name varied, but for five centuries it endured in Western cartography.
Sleep for early modern Europeans was a time to be wary of demons and other dangers of the night. Iron bracelets were worn for protection, or a wolf's tooth or bit of coral was strung around the neck; sometimes a steel knife was suspended over the baby's cradle.
Taking up nearly a full New York City block on 57th Street between Eleventh and Twelfth Avenues, Via 57 West announces the evolution of a new architectural type, a hybrid of the curtain-walled Manhattan skyscraper and the insulated European housing block.
Last October, two artists entered the Neues Museum in Berlin and secretly scanned the bust of Queen Nefertiti, the state museum's prized gem. Three months later, they released the dataset as a torrent, providing completely free access to the one object in the museum's collection off-limits to photographers.
Spite houses are homes built on anger. They are typically designed to block a neighbor's view or sunlight, often with walls aggressively grazing property lines. Whatever their shape, these are structures meant to provoke.
David Burns and Austin Young's "Fallen Fruit Collage," for The Endless Orchard (2015) (all images courtesy David Burns and Austin Young) In the past 50 years, the Community Gardening Movement has grown enormously in the US and around the world, transforming vacant lots in gray urban neighborhoods into thriving green spaces. Usually, the planting and tending of a […]
While it's hard to know exactly how many artists have left San Francisco in the last several years, there's a consensus that the city is facing an emergency. In September, the arts commission released the results of its first "artist eviction survey." Of nearly 600 local artists, 70% had been or were being displaced from their studio space, their home, or both.
An Australian artist who previously drew a torrent of angry comments for knitting with wool inserted into her vagina will soon weave that negative feedback into a new work of art.
Despite the current ubiquity of cameras, we rarely pause in our flurry of social media sharing to document one of the most significant events in all our lives: death. Back in the 19th century when the technology emerged into public use, documenting loved ones on their death beds or even after death was not uncommon.
When Haas Unica was introduced in 1980, it was intended as an illustrious successor to the highly popular sans-serif Helvetica. Before it could achieve any measure of Helvetica's ubiquity, Haas Unica was left behind in the shift from phototypesetting to desktop publishing.
Cell 25 in Block 9 of Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary is now a cabinet of curiosities representing the animal life of this stabilized ruin. Specifically, it's focused on some of the smaller residents of the former prison turned historic: the insects.
As an increasingly globalized monoculture takes hold, people often resort to using celebrities and innovators as their barometers of success.