Content tagged with “art” under “The Interesting List”

“ Swiss mapmakers have an odd habit of hiding secret images in maps, for no particular reason. ”

“ A group of artists collaborated with the showrunner of Melrose Place to insert Leftist political art as props in the show. ”

“ An artist has finally revealed a massive sculpture he spent half a century working on. ”

“ A European art thief was unsophisticated but effective, stealing hundreds of items out of under the noses of museums across the continent. He never sold any of them. ”

“ Out in the middle of the Arabian desert is a house disguised as a pickup truck. ”

“ A new trend in art is the sale of encrypted files which are guaranteed to be unique and only have a single unencrypted copy. ”

“ When wealthy people buy art as an investment, they often never even see it. Special facilities exist to store the art, tax-free, under their ownership. ”

“ A guy plays with Photoshop’s new AI filters, and – while laughing hysterically – shows that Photoshop can estimate and apply how emotions might appear in a picture. ”

“ An oddly haunting performance art piece consisting of people acting on a spinning platform, set to Frank Sinatra. ”

“ An analysis of Last Supper paintings show the depicted portion size growing, which likely parallels dietary trends of the time the painting was created. ”

“ A good explainer of how art gets to auction, how that market is structured, and how people spend eight figures on a painting. ”

“ An argument that the Louvre should remove the Mona Lisa because it causes enormous logistical problems and disappoints almost everyone. ”

“ A wonderful documentary explaining the business of contemporary art, and the intersection of artists, dealers, collectors, auction houses, and art fairs. It’s a deeply odd mix of emotion, ego, and big business. ”

“ A video supposedly about where the thousands of Bob Ross paintings went. But it’s really about the history of the Bob Ross phenomenon with lots of unknown backstory tidbits. ”

“ Someone noticed a painting in the background a scene of ‘Stuart Little,’ and it turned out to be a long-lost painting that a set decorator bought at a second-hand store. ”

“ A lovely look at how art moved from realism to abstraction. Beautifully edited and narrated with 100-ish shots of abstract art. ”

“ A museum for a lesser-known artist in France grapples with the revelation that most of its works were fakes, and some of them blatantly so. ”