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A recent exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit wants everyone to care less about what art means and more about what it inspires. Their vision uses abstract art to instill emotion, and not to stoke an onslaught of questions; therefore, out of the who, what, where and why of things, all that anybody [...]

At a Sotheby‘s Auction in London, a life-sized bronze sculpture of a man walking by Alberto Giacometti fetched $103.4 million for the seller, Dresdner Bank AG, which exceeds Picasso’s “Garcon a la Pipe” (Below) by a deafening $300,000. And this excessive heap of cash wasn’t an isolated event, it was merely another piece of evidence supporting [...]

Van Gogh…new? Well, you probably don’t think so, since his tragic suicide in 1890, but London’s Royal Academy of Art is shedding some new light on this renowned artist. Van Gogh once said “For my part I know nothing with certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream”…and dream he did, leaving behind [...]

In March 2009, a masked thief made off with sixteen paintings from the Somerset property in Bruton. When police arrived the following day, they found a forty-seven-year-old woman tied up in the museum at 1600 GMT. They reported such revered titles as An Italian Peasant Boy by Richard Buckner, A grey pony in a stormy [...]