Art Critic or Vandal? âThe Splasherâ Leaves Clues
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Street artists have speculated for months about the identity of a mysterious figure who has become known as âthe Splasher.â
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The intuitive scholar faces the hard evidence from the electron microscope.
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One art lover in Sweden paid 1,000 times over the starting bid for a painting billed as the work of a student of Peter Paul Rubens after learning the Flemish baroque master may have painted it himself.
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For centuries, the "Mona Lisa" has beguiled art buffs unable to resist speculating on its origins and meaning. Now a French inventor claims to have some answers, including the fate of the enigmatic subject's famously missing eyebrows and lashes.
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To engage with an artwork, especially contemporary works, can be a daunting task.
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An action and an artifact walk into a bar... Contrary to popular opinion, programmers are not a dry and humourless bunch. What old mainframer can fail to chortle at seeing the graffiti legend "Data error rules, OC7"?â¦
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Real and mythological creatures mingle in the strange looking-glass world of two new museum exhibitions.
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Artist, architect, a modern da Vinci -- the critics don't quite know how to describe Thomas Heatherwick. But they love his designs. By Tim McKeough from Wired magazine.
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Global positioning systems (GPS), digital photography and computer databases are joining the humble paint can as U.S. cities battle to obliterate graffiti and catch its shadowy perpetrators.
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A recently redesigned Web site for the Saatchi Gallery in London â a kind of MySpace knockoff for artists â is causing something of a sensation.
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You know those racy photos you threw out in 1994? Maybe they are in a new book of found art.
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MOSCOW -- Last May, Maria Paphiti, an icons specialist at Christie's auction house in London, was invited to inspect some religious paintings on wood that were among the contents of a building recently bought by an English family. The artworks had been found wrapped in plastic, and the building's...
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NEW YORK A spectator with an especially intimate view of human evolution is beginning to tell its story and has so far divulged two quite unexpected findings.
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Itâs been a bountiful year for the kinds of art finds â or at least the publicizing of them â that make fans of âAntiques Roadshowâ weep with envy.
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A show within the show: puffed hair, masked faces and even a light sculpture.
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Grubby prints left by the dine-and-paint genius help researchers decode Leonardo. In Furthermore.
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TO PARAPHRASE Oscar Wilde, losing one may be regarded as misfortune but to lose two could look like carelessness. Edvard Munchâs paintings have been targeted again by thieves after an armed gang yesterday