An artist edited together 1000s of scenes of clocks and watches from movies and TV shows into one 24-hour movie – which itself functions as a working clock. 00
‘Art’ used to be an Olympic sport. Artists were award gold…
‘Art’ used to be an Olympic sport. Artists were award gold, silver and bronze medals for architecture, painting, sculpture, music and literature across multiple Summer Olympics in the early 20th Century. The ‘arts’ were dropped from the Games because they drew too many professional artists.
Two men paid €1.5 million in counterfeit money…
Two men paid €1.5 million in counterfeit money for a painting, only to find out that the painting was fake.
In 1911, Vincenzo Peruggia, wanting to bring the Mona Lisa back…
In 1911, Vincenzo Peruggia, wanting to bring the Mona Lisa back to Italy after “It was stolen by Napoleon”, simply walked in the Louvre, lifted off the painting, took it to a nearby service staircase, removed the frame, put it under his smock, and simply walked out with it in plain sight.
A Polish art student hung his own painting…
A Polish art student hung his own painting up in a major art Gallery where it went unnoticed for three days.
A man was arrested in Ireland after punching a hole…
A man was arrested in Ireland after punching a hole into a $10m Monet painting. His justification: he wanted to ‘get back at the state’.
A lost masterpiece by Da Vinci is likely hidden behind a wall…
A lost masterpiece by Da Vinci is likely hidden behind a wall in Florence, but nobody is willing to take the wall down because it ALSO has a priceless fresco painted on it.
Cleaning woman in Italy threw away artworks worth…
Cleaning woman in Italy threw away artworks worth $13700 that were part of modern art installation thinking it was trash.
President Roosevelt collapsed while being painted. He never…
President Roosevelt collapsed while being painted. He never regained consciousness before dying. The unfinished painting captures his last waking moment.
An artist named Tom Friedman created a work of art titled…
An artist named Tom Friedman created a work of art titled “A Curse”, for which he hired a professional witch to curse an 11inch sphere of air above a pedestal in the Saatchi Art Gallery.