Every now and then, a lost work of art from one of history's greatest artists turns up in a garage sale or secondhand store. Some lucky buyer pays just mere pennies for something that's potentially worth thousands or more. This time, the store itself is the one profiting off a famous painting.
Well, at least we know what Campbell's next move is in their unceasing attempts to get hip young people to buy their soup. First it was soup blatantly marketed to hipsters, but their next move is a bit more subtle. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Andy Warhol's '32 Campbell's Soup Cans,' Campbell's is releasing cans of tomato soup with packaging inspired by Warhol's artistic style.
Google Street View is on a mission to map every road on Planet Earth, and you can't just travel the entire world without coming across some pretty crazy stuff. Artist Jon Rafman sorted through Google Street View blogs and came up with 12 pages of fascinating finds. (And also a lot of people flipping off the camera.)
Probably what happened is artist RED decided as tribute to Adele's "Set Fire to the Rain," she should set fire to the rain, then realized you can't really set fire to the rain, so she set some candles on fire instead. The result is much less terrifying than actual flaming rain would be -- in fact, it's a pretty amazing portrait of Adele made using only melted wax.
Um... what? When you're trying to come up with a cover for your magazine, how is "Let's paste Michelle Obama's face onto the body of a half-naked slave" a thought that even enters your mind? And perhaps more puzzling, how is "Great idea! Let's do it!" the thought that comes after that? One Spanish publication, Magazine de Fuera Seria, raises so many questions.
Art has different kinds of beauty. There's simplistic beauty in pieces like Claude Monet's nature scenes and Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus". Others have intrinsic beauty like those painted by Pablo Picasso. This exhibit has actual living beauties and you can actually take one home with you.
There are many talented artists out there, working in many mediums. Some take years to put together a life-like depiction of their subject.
Some are a bit quicker.
Thanks to our childhood love of Disney princess movies, most women still secretly dream of their very own Prince Charming rescuing them from single life and sealing their love with a kiss before riding off into the sunset to live happily ever after. However, in the Ukraine's new art exhibit/matchmaking service, this silly childhood dream has turned into a 'Sleeping Beauty' nightmare.
Scott M. Fischer is a talented artist with many fans of his work. But the illustrator will never have a bigger fan than Juno, a beluga whale who lives at the Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut.
Someone in Spokane, Washington must have a lot of time on their hands. Who is sneaking stacking all the parks' picnic tables into a pyramid, and why?