'Grab the money and run': the artist handed over blank canvases to the museum and embezzled the $84 that he was given for his work

The Danish artist was ordered to return the money to the museum. He escaped after being tasked with creating a piece of art out of banknotes. But instead, the artist took the money and presented two blank canvases entitled Take the Money and Run (“Grab the money and...

An American created a tree that bears fruit with 40 different fruits: where you can see it

American artist and professor Sam Van Aiken creates trees that grow 40 different kinds of fruits at the same time. For most of the year, the tree looks completely normal, and in spring the entire crown is filled with colorful buds, reports Epicurious. Van Eycken designed this tree as...

The famous artist's painting hung upside down in the museum for decades.

One of the paintings by the famous Dutch abstract artist Piet Mondrian called New York City I was exhibited upside down for 75 years. This mistake was told by the curator of the Museum of Modern Art in Düsseldorf, Susanne Meyer-Buser, writes Snob. The canvas is a complex interlacing lattice ...

'Take the money and run': the artist received $ 84 thousand for a painting, but brought 2 blank canvases to the museum

The museum gave the Danish artist $ 84 to paint two paintings. When he delivered the allegedly completed work, the customers were perplexed: the artist Jens Haaning donated two blank canvases to the Kunsten Museum of Contemporary Art in Aalborg (Denmark) and said that this diptych was called ...

Immigrant from Georgia wants to buy out Lenin's body and build a mausoleum for him in the USA

David Datuna once again surprised the world community. The last time he reminded himself of himself was in 2019, by eating Maurizio Cattelan’s banana, sold for $120 thousand at the Art Basel fair in Miami, writes RBC Style. American artist of Georgian origin David Datuna expressed...

For Valentine's Day: Banksy painted graffiti in his hometown

The graffiti depicting a girl shooting flowers from a slingshot that appeared on the wall of a residential building in Bristol is the work of Banksy. The artist himself announced this on the night of February 13-14, writes BBC. The work was created based on Valentine's Day, flowers...

9-year-old boy scolded for drawing in the classroom: now he has become a star of decoration

Nine-year-old Joe from the English city of Shrewsbury was constantly scolded for drawing in class. But instead of requiring the child to no longer draw in notebooks, the boy's parents decided to encourage his creativity and send Joe to the drawing club after school. Then…

Hotel in Las Vegas takes $ 100 thousand per night: what is the uniqueness of the room

Damien Hirst, Britain's richest and most kitschy artist, designed a suite at the iconic Palms Casino Hotel in Las Vegas. One night in such a room will cost $ 100 thousand. Or free if the casino has opened a credit line for the client with a limit of $ 1 million ...

The owner of the picture Banksy for $ 50 thousand cut it to sell more expensive: the trick failed

On October 5 at Sotheby's auction for about a million pounds sold Banksy's work "Girl with a Balloon". Immediately after the hammer hit, the painting self-destructed with the help of a shredder built into the frame, which was installed by the artist himself. According to experts, the value of the spoiled "Girl ..."

Russian artist blew up the network with his drawings of frames of Soviet films

It all started out as a joke and grew into a year-long series. In mid-March, a series of pictures circulated on social networks, in which iconic footage from Soviet films was drawn as if it were footage from an anime. At some point, unusual images ...

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