A Guessing Game: Who Bought the $181 Million Pollock at the $1.1 Billion Christie’s Auction?

A weeklong spree of sales kicked off with the most expensive Jackson Pollock drip painting ever auctioned. The art world is ...

Pollock and Brancusi Join the $100 Million Club at Auction

A “drip” painting by the Abstract Expressionist sold for $181.2 million with fees, while a bronze head by the Romanian ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This Renaissance Painting Took a Winding Path From Hitler’s Munich Apartment to an American Journalist’s Home to the National Gallery in London

An art historian recently spotted the 16th-century artwork in a rare photograph of Hitler’s old apartment that was printed in ...

Art quote of the day by Edgar Degas: “Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.”

Only an artist knows the turmoil of their heart and mind, the chase for minute details that push them to put it down on canvas in the most mesmerising ways.Edgar Degas, a French Impressionist artist, ...
The Santa Barbara Independent

I Madonnari Street Painting Festival

The 40th Annual I Madonnari Street Painting Festival returns to the Old Mission Santa Barbara Memorial Day Weekend, May 23–25, ...