A 12-year-old tripped at a museum in Taiwan this weekend; luckily a $1.5 million painting was there to break his fall. The kid is reportedly fine, the $1.5 million painting, not so much: according to reports, it now has a kid-sized hole in it.
Today’s theme on the internet is “Pick Apart the Life of Rachel Dolezal, the White Lady Who Pretended to Be Black for a While.” Okay fine, have you gazed upon her many works of art?
Two new paintings by former president George W. Bush, published for the first time here on Gawker, give us a new window into the ongoing development of the tortured artist/torture advocate—and opens the possibility for a new phase in his oeuvre: cats.
Art gallery and curatorial wonder emporium Amazon.com recently put the 1868 Claude Monet painting "L'Enfant a la tasse, portrait de Jean Monet" on sale for $1.45 million (free shipping). Amazon reviewers are not impressed.
For those of you who wondered how George W. Bush learned to paint his thought-provoking outsider art, the secret was revealed by Laura Bush on NPR's "Morning Edition" today: "an app on his iPad where he could draw pictures".
A watermelon, viewed from above, casts a greenish shadow on a white table. Two small figures on a putting green are spied from behind a distant tree. A horse with cow-like markings stands in field. Dogs, of course: a Shih Tzu and a Boxer sitting against an electric blue void. A Sheepdog next to a ball. A Corgi and a…
Good news if you hate art: there is none anymore. It has all been stolen.
If you picked up a priceless Andy Warhol painting at a yard sale recently, congrats; that painting is about to become worthless.
Behold, "One Nation Under Socialism," a new masterpiece from America's Da Vinci, Jon McNaughton. (Previously best known for that one painting of Obama stepping on the constitution.) With it, McNaughton carries on in the tradition of some the 20th century's finest figurative artists. Buy two — one for now, and one to…
Famous pancake artist Dan Lacey has rendered this realistic work in which President Barack Obama cures his depression by having sparkly thoughts of naked Scarlett Johansson photos. In the bottom-left corner is Bo the Dog, wearing a lei (but not his right eye???!!) in honor of the Hawaiian continent. Currently on sale…
Alex Schaefer, an artist in Los Angeles, just sold this painting of a burning Chase bank branch on eBay for a cool $25,000. Great imagery! It helped that he got a shitload of publicity, from two(!) police investigations.
Don't you just love this new batch of Republican governors? This may be the first crop to produce two governors who've pissed people off by removing paintings of the poor in their first months in office. First there was Maine Gov. Paul LePage, who took down a large labor mural because it gave businessmen the willies.…
When a crazy lady attacked Paul Gauguin's "Two Tahitian Women" in the National Gallery earlier this week, it wasn't just an attack on one painting; it was an attack on local TV news directors having an easy day, for once.
Who says that Washington, DC is a "second-class city," when it comes to appreciation of the arts?
Some people are just more talented than us. This time-lapse shows a painter speedily creating amazing art, and is sure to depress anyone slaving away in an MFA painting program.
Gregory Thielker paints amazing photo-realistic depictions of the world as seen through a rain-splattered car window. "These paintings became a way to explore... how the driving experience informs our basic interpretation of environment," he says.
A painting by Vincent van Gogh was reportedly stolen from the Mahmoud Khalil Museum in Egypt today. Estimates put the value of the painting, "Poppy Flowers" at $50 million. Also, this is the second time the painting has been stolen.
Have you ever wondered what it takes to be inducted into the Museum of Bad Art, which showcases the most horrific pieces of "creativity" ever painted? Well, wonder no more: PasteMagazine.com collected 15 of the worst—see them inside.
This morning Page Six ran an item that alum-turned-author Paula Froelich recently posed nude for an oil painting. Well, we got our hands on a photo of one of the canvases.
