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Will Eisner Honored With Google Doodle
'Eisner was a participant in, and inspiration for, much of the best in American comics,' artist Scott McCloud wrote of legendary creator.
 0 comments  |  Posted by: TimothyZhu on 03/06 11:09pm
Dennis Hopper art collection up for auction in NYC
NEW YORK (AP) — Dennis Hopper shot two bullet holes through an Andy Warhol portrait of Mao Zedong but instead of earning the wrath of the artist, Warhol called the "Easy Rider" star a collaborator.
 0 comments  |  Posted by: TimothyZhu on 01/05 9:05am
US to return German item stolen in WWII
A US museum is returning to Germany an 18th-century porcelain centrepiece believed to have been stolen from a castle where it was hidden by a museum during World War II. The Toledo Museum of Art and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement said on Thursday that Nereid Sweetmeat Stand will go back to the Dresden Museum.
 0 comments  |  Posted by: TimothyZhu on 12/25 11:45am
Burglar snags Warhol works
NEW YORK -- Authorities are ramping up their effort to solve a Manhattan mystery: Who drilled a hole into the home of a beef fortune heir and stole a collection of iconic artworks by Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol?
 0 comments  |  Posted by: TimothyZhu on 12/25 11:44am
Diego Velazquez portrait confirmed as authentic
A 17th Century portrait by Spanish painter Diego Velazquez is back on show at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art years after it was wrongly identified as not being a genuine work.
 0 comments  |  Posted by: TimothyZhu on 12/22 10:30pm
Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk hires Joe Moller as executive director
The 36-year-old event producer says one goal is to find sponsorships for the art walks.
 0 comments  |  Posted by: TimothyZhu on 12/22 10:29pm
Audubon `Birds of America' sells for $10.3 million
To some it's just a bunch of bird pictures. To others, John James Audubon's "Birds of America" is a rare blend of art, natural history and craftsmanship, unique enough to sell for more than $10 million at a London auction Tuesday — making it the world's most expensive printed book.
 1 comment  |  Posted by: TimothyZhu on 12/07 9:19pm
NOMA Celebrates First Century
When the New Orleans Museum of Art opened its doors 100 years ago thanks to a $150,000 donation offered by a local businessman to build a "temple of art for rich and poor alike," it owned only 11 pictures and a small collection of other objects.
 0 comments  |  Posted by: TimothyZhu on 12/02 7:52pm
Thieves make off with Picasso in art truck heist
(Reuters Life!) - Spanish thieves stole a truck containing 28 works of art worth millions last week including a sketch by Pablo Picasso, Madrid police reported on Thursday.
 0 comments  |  Posted by: TimothyZhu on 12/02 7:51pm
Squiggly, Tangly and Angular
As if in direct response to its overscaled, canon-cementing Abstract Expressionism display, the Museum of Modern Art is also giving us something quirky, speculative, physically light, a show called “On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century.”
 0 comments  |  Posted by: TimothyZhu on 12/02 12:25am
Staggering Picasso trove turns up in France
PARIS – Pablo Picasso almost never stopped creating, leaving thousands of drawings, paintings and sculptures that lure crowds to museums and mansions worldwide. Now, a retired electrician says that 271 of the master's creations have been sitting for decades in his garage.
 0 comments  |  Posted by: TimothyZhu on 11/29 9:18pm
Six Stomach-Turning Acts of Body Modification Art
Ah, "body modification" art — that sub-sub-genre of performance art that features artists disfiguring, warping, implanting devices into, or otherwise transfiguring their flesh, in more or less permanent ways. What could be a more perfect genre for the holidays, when people generally stuff themselves silly, and encounters with relatives leave you wanting literally to pull your hair out?
 1 comment  |  Posted by: TimothyZhu on 11/26 10:58pm
Glass Cube Dazzles at Boston MFA's $345 Million Art Wing: James S. Russell
A 63-foot-high cube of glass rises from deep within the granite-clad sobriety of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Sun slants through a luminous ceiling and plays across a stairway that hangs supportless in air.
 0 comments  |  Posted by: TimothyZhu on 11/22 8:20pm
Free art! Crowds jam MFA for new wing’s opening day
The public opening of the new Art of the Americas Wing at the Museum of Fine Arts drew an enormous crowd of about 10,000 spectators yesterday, according to organizers.
 0 comments  |  Posted by: TimothyZhu on 11/21 9:09pm
Art believed destroyed by Nazis found in Berlin
BERLIN – Nearly a dozen sculptures considered by the Nazis to be "degenerate" artwork and believed to have been lost or destroyed after World War II have been unearthed during construction near Berlin's city hall and were shown to reporters Monday.
 0 comments  |  Posted by: TimothyZhu on 11/09 12:16am
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