The Texas man smashed through the museum’s glass front entrance with a metal chair. He then used a hand sanitiser stand to break the glass display cases holding a couple of priceless, rare artefacts.
The man attempted to break through the bulletproof glass that protects the painting and threw some roses in the air before security came to escort him out of the building.
His charms and talent were overshadowed by what one of his art-deal victims described as “a toxic mix of arrogance and alcohol”.
Every day, ‘Artle’ gives players an opportunity to identify the creator of four works of art in four guesses.
With her bionic hand, robotic arm, the mind of artificial intelligence, and a face as real as any other, she is the world’s first ultra-realistic humanoid robot to paint.
“Le Violon d’Ingres” has always been considered Man Ray’s most famous masterpiece, and an influential piece in the art world.
You have to have some degree of control over the primitive and instinctual part of your mind to not doodle on a famous art piece in an art gallery.
Chas Allen was one of four college students who trained their thieving eyes on the Transylvania University Private Collections Museum in Kentucky, famous for housing some of the rarest (and most valuable) books and paintings in the world.
Imagine a massive Roman villa, poised to be the most expensive home ever sold, complete with artwork from some of the greats of the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries, completely flopping at an auction.
Since the first NFT was created back in 2014, the trend has made a lot of artists on the internet really, really rich.
A 10-year-old boy, known for his large, dramatic, and colourful figurative paintings, has already sold his artworks to some big Hollywood names.
The ‘Salvator Mundi’ painting has already caused a massive ruckus in the art world, and the debacle is only getting more convoluted.
Danish artist Jens Haaning was given $84 000 (around R1,3 million) by the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art to recreate some prior works of his. He had a different idea.
Paris’s famous war memorial, the Arc de Triomphe, is currently completely wrapped into a new art piece.
Eight fresh Banksy-esque images and messages have popped up along England’s East Anglian coast. They have not yet been confirmed as works by the anonymous artist, but authorities are looking to preserve them.
The Hekking Mona Lisa is arguably the most famous reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece, and was recently bought by a European collector for a whopping price.
A Russian oligarch and a Swiss art dealer are caught in the middle of a controversy that is shedding light on the dark side of the art world.
This woman went bananas in lockdown, and her form of artistic expression has really made an impression.
When phenomenal artists like Teresa Kutala Firmino and Blessing Ngobeni emerge, the world can’t help but take notice.
This whole NFT business is getting out of hand, and we have proof thanks to New York Times journalist Kevin Roose.
Sacha Jafri set out to create his painting, with the intent to raise $30 million for charity, but he got way more than he bargained for when the piece went on auction.
If you’re keen to try your hand at creating and selling your very own NFT, it can be done in a few relatively simple steps.
The winning bid for the 319-gigabyte JPEG was entered after a two-week online Christie’s auction, and is the third most-expensive work sold by a living artist at auction.
It doesn’t get better than watching Banksy paint a mural, with a voiceover pulled from ‘The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross’.
Norwegian artist Edvard Munch’s artwork, ‘The Scream’, is known the world over, although its fame isn’t without a degree of controversy.
Rasta has picked up his brush and paints again, this time to honour Meghan and Harry’s announcement that there’s a new baby on the way.
Mulalo Nego Negondeni’s mini replica of Johannesburg took 12 years to build, having begun with a desire to see the FNB Stadium.
In October of 2012, a small crew of thieves cased and then robbed the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam, making off with seven famous artworks worth millions.
Swedish designer Linda Ring discovered the joys of baking sourdough bread long before it became a worldwide lockdown obsession.
‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ is a famous oil painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer, believed to have been completed in around 1665.