Leonardo DiCaprio to donate art installation to LACMA
Actor, art enthusiast and environmentalist, Leonardo DiCaprio has plans to donate a large LED installation to the LACMA. The work by John Gerrard titled “Solar Reserve (Tonopah, Nevada)” meshes DiCaprio’s passion for the arts and environmental conservation as it simulates … More…
Eli and Edythe Broad Build a Museum for Their Art Collection
Kelly Crow brings us another great American success story … a boy growing up in the Bronx becomes one of America’s richest men and along the way, one of the great art collectors of all time. Now he and his … More…
The Rusty Versailles Vagina
I’m pretty certain this headline will grab some attention… The most recent addition to the gardens at the Palace of Versailles is titled “Dirty Corner,” and more directly dubbed the “Queen’s Vagina” by the artist and creator himself, Anish Kapoor. … More…
CSI-style investigation shows Dutch museum’s painting really is a Rembrandt
After eight years of intense restoration the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague has reattributed one of their star paintings “Saul and David” to the Dutch master, Rembrandt van Rijn. Since the work was originally acquired over a century ago by … More…
Sylvester Stallone: not your average Hollywood painter
While the exhibition Sylvester Stallone, Real Love: Paintings 1975-2015 (at the Musée d’art moderne et d’art contemporain in Nice, France) is over, it still makes for an interesting story. If you are a successful actor, can you be a successful … More…