She was one of the world’s most famous faces, yet no one knew who she was. Her sea green eyes are filled with tragedy. They challenge us and we cannot look away.
She is called “the Afghan Mona Lisa.” And […]
This photograph sold for the highest price in history…$3.9 million.
Cindy Sherman, the photographer, is a creative wild woman at the camera.
Using costumes, wigs, make-up and simple sets, […]
Bright yellow hats, swirling red capes, skin tight blue body suits, bulging muscles…
Comic book artists gave conservative, Great Depression-burdened America a kick in the art pants in the late 1930’s!
Many a fine artist today owes their extraordinary use of color and dynamic composition to the influence of comic book artists. Check out Jeff […]
An extraordinary video installation touring the U.S. and Europe is knocking the socks off the art world and critics are calling it a modern masterpiece!
“The Clock,” by artist Christian Marclay, is a 24-hour-long film consisting of over 3,000 old and […]
Herb and Dorothy
He was a postal worker. She was a librarian. Together they amassed one of the most important contemporary art collections in the world.
Herb and Dorothy Vogel, a seemingly ordinary couple, lived for decades in a humble […]
The Kiss of Betrayal
This magnificent fresco painted by Giotto over 700 years ago in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, Italy, is today as compelling and vibrant as it was in 1300 AD. “The Genius of […]
By a fortuitous happenstance, Austrian painter, Gustav Klimt’s masterpiece, “The Kiss”, survived the German occupation of Austria during WW II. Adolph Hitler and Hermann Goring considered all modern art “degenerate” but made an exception of the […]
“The Scream”, the Norwegian Evard Munch’s painting, and “Double Elvis”, Andy Warhol’s painting of the superstar are up for sale!
Known as the Mona Lisa of our time, “The Scream,” painted in 1893, is an icon of […]
Violence is on the Decline!
“Believe it or not, the world of the past was much more violent than our world today. Violence has […]
