Experts say Rembrandt bargain is the real deal
The auction house thought the portrait was a 17th century Rembrandt knockoff, and valued it at just $3,100. But the British buyer who paid about 1,500 times more than that apparently knew what he was doing. Experts have confirmed "Rembrandt Laughing" - bought...

Art Adventures with Mildred!
San Francisco art blogger Matt Petty spent a day following Mildred around while he skated, made art, and gave away...

The Fix on Colonial Philadelphia Furniture: A Secret Guide to Cabinetmakers’ Prices
July 5, 2008 - April 2009: In 1772, a group of Philadelphia master cabinetmakers published Prices of Cabinet and Chair Work, a 36-page book listing furniture forms and their decorative variations, retail prices for furniture in mahogany and walnut, and the wages to be paid to the journeymen who made the furniture. This exhibition features furniture that is delineated in the book of prices, including three large case pieces with the three types of tops, or "heads", from least expensive to most expensive: flat, pitch pediment, and scroll pediment.

Imaginary Foundation Prints
Imaginary Foundation have been purveyors of clever and beautiful t-shirts featuring surreal illustrations for awhile now. Just about long enough...

Vincent Van Gogh
Olive Trees, 1889 - to look at a full size view depiction of this image plus find out extra knowledge regarding this Vincent Van Gogh wall image , proceed through the artists name above the little display to the left side. Obtain purchasing, preservation framing and sizing information for this giclee. Vincent Van Gogh has many more magnificent museum art giclee prints in addition to "Olive Trees, 1889", review this artists framed and unframed wall art pictures.

Box of plenty: design for Berkeley art museum
He doesn't have the name recognition of a Frank Gehry or a Daniel Libeskind, but Toyo Ito is one of Japan's most acclaimed and adventurous architects. Looking at the design for a downtown Berkeley museum that would be his first building in the United States,...

Connections: Identities on Display: Bonding at the Museum
The contemporary identity museum is the kind of institution that is as central for our time as the imperial art museum was for 19th-century Europe.