Tagged: art

Art Is Not A Luxury But An Essential Part Of Life

Art allows a culture to communicate its ideas and values to future generations. Tiling, weaving, border decoration, and other such systems allow cultures to survive and propagate themselves. Dictators and autocrats have attempted to...

Is There Really Fine Art in Tinseltown?

So why are so many art aficionados flocking to the City of Angels? Woody Allen once appropriately joked that L.A.’s greatest cultural advantage was the opportunity to make a right turn at a red...

Popping Price for a Poster

A 1931 poster featuring a pair of sleek Italian motorboats, speeding across the water set a record in New York. The work of an unknown artist, saw fierce bidding when a private collector finally...

Rubens Art Expected to Sell for $8-12 million

Rubens Art Expected to Sell for $8-12 million

A painting by Peter Paul Rubens is creating big buzz among art collectors. It’s making a U.S. debut and will auction in London on December 6th. Titled “Two Studies of a Young Man”, it...

Big Money for Alice Neel’s Painting

Artist Alice Neel, worked in relative obscurity most of her adult life. As a resident of Spanish Harlem, she often painted her friends and neighbors. Originally created in the 1940’s, it recently sold for...

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