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May 7, 2013 06:28 AM ET // Jennifer Viegas
Art collectors are quickly snapping up paintings created by a former racing horse. Continue reading →
Apr 11, 2013 03:14 PM ET // Alyssa Danigelis
When art researchers turned a TSA-style body scanner on a fresco, they got a surprise. ->
Feb 12, 2013 02:35 PM ET // Jennifer Viegas
The tradition of sending paper valentines is traced to a young woman in the mid-1800s who decided to make them her business. ->
Jan 31, 2012 04:12 PM ET // Alice Truong
Feb 23, 2012 04:57 PM ET // Alice Truong
An original "Calvin and Hobbes" watercolor has fetched $85,000 in a online auction that closed Wednesday night. The whooping total came to $101,575 with the buyer's premium, a 19.5 percent add-on to the winning bid. READ MORE: 175-Pound Gum Ball Made of 95,200 Pieces of Chewed Nicorette Sets World ...
Mar 27, 2012 11:00 AM ET // Alice Truong
Art is as large as your imagination makes it out to be. There's no need to paint within the confines of a canvas. We saw that with Sonja Hinrichsen's snow drawings resembling crop circles, and we can also see it in the sand paints of Andres Amador, whose work is shown here. Amador, a San [...]
Mar 27, 2012 03:12 PM ET // Alice Truong
For his art project Drawing Apparatus, Robert Howsare hacked together a pair of turntables to sketch intriguing geometric patterns. The printmaking MFA student at Ohio University built the device for less than $50, and the result are drawings that resemble old Spirograph images. Howsare said the tu...
Feb 6, 2012 11:18 PM ET // Alexander Davies
Years ago, artist Jonathan Brand sold the 1969 Ford Mustang that he had spent five years rebuilding, to have the money to buy his fiancee a diamond engagement ring. It seems he never completely got over the loss: Brand's latest work a full-scale, 100% accurate model of the classic car, made entirel...
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