British artist Lucian Freud's painting of a rather... portly slumbering nude just set an art world record. Someone laid down a nice, fat 33.6 million dollars for it: the most money ever paid for any work by a living artist. Lucian Freud, previously.

Its funny how thins work. As I prepare to head off to Peru on Sunday for another adventure I was thinking that perhaps I should try and blog about it. And then I thought back to the last trip I blogged about (my 2004 trip to France) and realized that I had used a different blog server and then moved ...

Robert Hawkins Opening at Half Gallery - NYC. A long awaited return.

Gap_whitney_artist_series_ad_campai Starting May 15, Gap will be celebrating their sponsorship of the 2008 Whitney Biennial - held every two years to highlight important contemporary American art - with the launch of their first-ever Artist Edition T-Shirt series. Co-presented by the ...

Robert Rauschenberg (previously), painter, sculptor, perfomance artist, printmaker, photographer, theater designer, technologist, dead at 82. Here's the American Masters profile of Rauschenberg, an old interview about his erasing of a De Kooning, the Man At Work piece and a long Charlie Rose ...

Two mistresses of an eccentric artist who died penniless have won thousands of pounds from his estate for his love children.

Detail of one of Laure Nollet's sketches It was a hard choice of which of Laure Nollet’s sketchbook drawings to include in this Inspiration post. So many colors and drawing styles and subjects. Some seem freehand, while others use a pasted-in photo as a starting point. Many more in the “pen” set at ...

The top rungs of the contemporary art market have continued to buck the recession as paintings by Edvard Munch and Fernand Leger set new auction records for both artists in New York.

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed My brother Adam is an artist, who is very passionate about art of all kinds. He has a live stream now. So if you’re into art or even music, why not drop by and visit him? You may even catch him live at work on a painting. YOU all got ...

http://live.pirillo.com - My brother Adam is an artist, who is very passionate about art of all kinds. He has a live stream now. So if you're into art or even music, why not drop by and visit him? You may even catch him live at work on a painting.