Of all the sales that Ficus Interfaith—the creative moniker of artists Ryan Bush and Raphael Cohen—has made, one last summer remains among the most memorable. The buyer, the owner of an art collection the pair admires, expressed continued enthusiasm in…
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A selfie set in stone: hidden portrait by cheeky mason found in Spain 900 years on
He is a medieval in-joke, a male figure carved in the early 12th century for one of the world’s greatest cathedrals, but no one has known of his existence until now. The figure has gone unnoticed by millions of worshippers…
Nigerian Actor, Kunle Afolayan Flaunts Art-Inspired Interior of His Home (PHOTOS)
Nollywood actor and filmmaker, Kunle Afolayan, has shared photos of his art-inspired interior of his serene home on social media. Kunle Afolayan revealed he showcased his vintage and artistic interior of his home because a group of young architects requested…
Show Me the Monet: Banksy painting sells for £7.5m at auction – video
Banksy’s reimagining of Claude Monet’s impressionist water lilies has fetched more than £7.5m at auction, easily surpassing expectations. Show Me the Monet was created in 2005 and adds abandoned shopping trolleys and a traffic cone to the famous garden…
Is Modern Landscape Photography Really Art or Is It Fake?
You can learn so much about yourself and photography by briefly getting familiar with art history. But is photography art in the first place? Since I became a landscape photographer, my enjoyment of visiting art museums has increased by a…
What Nobody Wants to Admit About Investing in Art
Everyone stuck at home is tired of looking at the same stuff. Online art sales, it turns out, have surged during the pandemic. Auction house Sotheby’s sold $285 million worth of fine art and decorative objects this year through July 31…
A painting that dares to stare back at you
Looking at pictures teaches you to live with uncertainty. Yes, there are other ways to learn the lesson. (Living through a pandemic will do it.) But if you want to combine an apprehension of strangeness and unknowability with mental absorption…
Painting of Poetic Commerce
The global pandemic has only magnified an existing loneliness epidemic. It didn’t create it. Yes, loneliness was an epidemic during the time we now refer to as “before” (like the pre-apocalypse world in a work of science fiction.) Even though we have…
Qi Baishi paintings worth £15k ‘bound for student flat’
Three Chinese watercolours which were bound for a student flat have been valued at £15,000. The paintings by Qi Baishi were found by auctioneers valuing the contents of a family home in Staffordshire. They had been bought in the 1950s…
Leonardo da Vinci and the mystery of the world’s most expensive painting
A long lost painting authenticated as the work of Leonardo da Vinci was sold for a world record price of $450m in a dramatic auction in New York in 2017. The price stunned the art world and created a storm of attention…