Exciting news from Art UK – the Sculpture Project is now going ahead. The UK’s national public sculpture collection will be photographed and catalogued. Hopefully there will be a mapping facility of some kind, allowing you to create personalised “sculpture trail” walks. That would be really cool, I think. Also like the idea of volunteering… Read More Art UK – Sculpture Project
On Sunday I wrote about the background painting in Gotham and my minor obsession with background paintings. Well, it seems I am not the only one! An art historian watching Stuart Little – the film from 1999 with a pre-House Hugh Laurie – spotted a lost painting by the Hungarian painter Robert Bereny. Nice to know I am… Read More Stuart Little – background painting last seen in 1928!
Georgia O’Keeffe painting sold for $44.4 million. Interestingly, this still doesn’t get anywhere near the top 50 expensive paintings – see the Wikipedia list. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30142581 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_paintings
Artwork of the week 