Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince discuss how they met, what they're most proud of and their unique relationship.
One hundred and two canvases all with similar composition but different colors hung edge-to-edge make up the totality of Andy Warhol's painting called "Shadows" currently on display at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington.
The stunning, highly designed three-acre compound is a mix of playful and artsy
With the season of backyard barbecues upon us, we thought you could use a history lesson on everyone's favorite lawn ornament. From the plastic bird's birth to its modern perch atop the pyramid of campy Americana, here's the quick-and-dirty on the hot pink queen of kitsch.
Jason Sapan, as his birth certificate calls him, is sort of like a laser Doc Brown, and his cluttered New York studio-laboratory (replete with devoted interns) feels something like a time machine, a living ode to a seemingly obsolete art. But listen to him tell his story, take a look around his space, and you might agree that there's no more accurate way of representing the world than with holography.
Motherboard.tv gets to know "modern day mad scientist" Jason Sapan, aka Doctor Laser.
A portrait of actress Elizabeth Taylor by Andy Warhol raked in $26,962,500 on the auction block Thursday.
The recent death of actress Elizabeth Taylor is expected to bring much interest to the sale of artist Andy Warhol's "Liz #5" when it hits the auction block on May 12.
What is the internet for? Some think of it as the marketing opportunity of a lifetime. Others, a shining repository for boundless information. And some, like the folks at "Avenue Q," assert that it's for porn.
Tatler cover echoes Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe prints
What? You have no one to kiss at the stroke of midnight Friday?
Nicole Collins explains why who you kiss at the stroke of midnight can determine your luck in the new year.
icon this month explores photography and meets some of the most iconic photographers of the last few decades.
Former NYPD Detective Gil Alba talks with CNN's Fredricka Whitfield about a daring art heist in New York.
A crafty burglar tunneled through a hallway wall into a New York home and made off with valuable jewelry, watches and artwork by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.
Patti Smith won the 2010 National Book Award in the nonfiction category for her memoir "Just Kids."
The votes have been tallied and Pablo Picasso is your number one iconic Western painter of the 20th century.
The votes are in and Michael Jackson is your number one global music icon.
The former couple are putting items such as an Andy Warhol piece up for sale
Better known for affordable denim than modern art, Gap founders Don and Doris Fisher amassed a collection of over 1,000 works by artists like Andy Warhol over 35 years.
The first rejection came in a letter on his camp bunk bed. It took only four words to sting the little boy's heart.
All the world's a stage, Shakespeare wrote long before television came into view.
A recent sale of Impressionist and modern art at Sotheby's auction house exceeded sales estimates and raised the hopes of industry insiders that a rebound is under way.
Criticism caused the GOP star to consider quitting Twitter altogether
Going Gaga
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Lady Gaga, the biggest thing in pop, on her rise to fame and spending her fortune.
Authorities are looking for art thieves who made off with a collection of Andy Warhol paintings from a private residence last week, police in Los Angeles, California, said Friday.
Prosecutors unveiled an additional money laundering charge Tuesday against New York lawyer Marc Dreier, now claiming he defrauded clients of nearly $700 million.
In an underground bunker in the heart of New York City a unique experiment is taking place.
The only thing more fun than old John Hughes movies is talking about them.
Tough economic times are taking a toll across the spectrum of business and individual activity -- and the country's institutions of higher learning are no exception.
CNN's Richard Roth reports on one tenant's fight to keep her apartment in Carnegie Hall.
Editta Sherman has celebrated more than half a century's worth of new years in her palatial studio apartment above New York's Carnegie Hall. But it's unlikely the celebrated portrait photographer will be raising her glass there next year.
PEOPLE lifts the velvet rope to reveal where and how the stars will kick back, pig out, and dance the night away
In memory of an editor, curator, biographer and teacher who knew all there was to know about stage and screen
When I first heard about digital mammograms, my first thought was, "This could be good."
In Health for Her, CNN's Judy Fortin looks at the difference between digital and film mammograms.
Hollywood is done with being shallow; it wants depth. 3-D depth, to be specific.
Globalization and technology are forcing artists, curators and museum directors to rethink the world of American art.
Business 2.0: Collecting profitsupdated: Mon Mar 19 2007 11:08:00
A few years ago, the artist known as Banksy was just another anonymous graffiti punk plastering his work on London city streets. Today, Sotheby's auctions off his art for six figures, and early collectors are taking their Banksys to the bank.
Robert Thompson, head of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University, hates the phrase "famous for being famous." You can't be famous for your celebrity, he says; you have to somehow achieve fame in the first place.
Christmas at Christie's came early this year.
With a streetwise swagger, David Bailey burst onto the London scene to inspire and document the Swinging Sixties with his iconic black and white photographs.
Takashi Murakamiupdated: Thu Apr 27 2006 07:57:00
Often compared to Andy Warhol, Takashi Murakami is Japan's most prolific and commercially successful contemporary artist.
In popular imaginations, artists are a passionate bunch, driven by basic needs such as throaty French cigarettes, inexpensive hooch and, as they fly in the face of society's constraints, plenty of ... well, you know what.
From a hedge-fund manager who pulled in more than a billion last year to the cabby making $37,000, anything goes in NYC.
A painting by American artist Edward Hopper sold for $14 million at auction Wednesday night, establishing a record price for the popular artist's work.
Money Magazine: Home Is Where the Art Isupdated: Fri Apr 01 2005 00:01:00
Thanks to an onslaught of home design magazines, TV shows and coffee-table books, real estate buyers these days are not only savvier about architecture, they'll pay a premium for a house designed b...
CNNMoney: Art of the hedge fundupdated: Thu Mar 03 2005 07:18:00
Hedge fund managers are using their fortunes to become a major force in the art world, and the leader in that trend is Steven A. Cohen, who has paid top dollar for a collection that includes works by artists from Jackson Pollock, to Edouard Manet to Andy Warhol, according to a published report.
Can't bear the thought of looking at those sad eyes when leaving your pet at the kennel during vacation? You may not have to leave your four-legged friend behind.
It may seem like toilet humor, but a porcelain urinal -- signed by an artist almost 90 years ago -- has been voted the most influential work of modern art.
Of course the art is the draw. But visitors to the redesigned Museum of Modern Art in New York this week can be forgiven for looking between the frames, reading between the lines, to glimpse the subtle effects that architect Yoshio Taniguchi's work may have on their experience.
Some films aren't meant to succeed. Whether too quirky for the mainstream, poorly marketed, or too cheaply made to warrant a major release, these films eventually dissolve away into the world of home video where they are either devoured by the throng of similar titles or revealed to be diamonds in the rough -- otherwise known as cult classics.
A pair of auctions in Manhattan grossed close to $170 million Wednesday night, a record evening for modern art sales that also established record prices for a number of American artists, including abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock.
Pop artist Andy Warhol once said, "Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art." For the companies that have been able to not only survive but thrive in these turbulent economic time...
Fortune: Time On Your Handsupdated: Mon Oct 01 2001 00:01:00
Introduced in 1979, Piaget's Polo watch found its way to rich and famous wrists--Andy Warhol! Gina Lollobrigida!--and became an '80s icon. After all the chunky silver that watchmakers have produced...
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Chaplin, Lindbergh, and Sigmund Freud
Once upon a time, way back in the late 1980s, I considered myself hip. I had a sense of what was going on below 14th Street in Manhattan; I heard Lou Reed and John Cale sing a rock opera for Andy W...
Art markets have been so depressed for so long that dealers may be forgiven for feeling like the angst-ridden subject of Edvard Munch's "The Scream." Now, however, rays of optimism are beginning to...
FOR anyone who still has a job, some idle cash, and a confident feeling about the future, these extended and nasty economic doldrums have at least one bright spot: a profusion of bargains, particul...
This season, here are the best flea markets across the country: -- J&J Promotions Antiques & Collectibles Show, Brimfield, Mass. (May, July and September; 413-245-3436): You'll find schoolhouse qui...
Fortune: LOST AND FOUNDupdated: Mon Mar 13 1989 00:01:00
Call him the Medici of middle-income housing. Samuel LeFrak, 71, New York City's billionaire landlord, wants the world to know that underneath his brick-and-mortar exterior lies the soul of an arti...
Fortune: Lots of resultsupdated: Mon Apr 25 1988 00:01:00
When Diana Brooks walked into Sotheby's looking for a part-time job while on personal leave from Citibank, she was told nothing was available. That night on the train to Connecticut, Sotheby's chie...
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