From Vincent van Gogh we have over 900 paintings as well as over 1000 drawings.
He made nearly all of them during the final five years of his life. 365 times 5 would be just over 1800 days for those 900 paintings. Let’s call it a painting every other day for half a decade.
How many did [...]

From Patrick at Popehat comes news of a blockbuster art theft. Someone with no intention of selling the thing, and every intention of savoring it (or perhaps eliciting ransom for it), has contracted a crack team of pane-removing window climbers to cut from its frame a priceless Caravaggio:

The interesting detail here is that the [...]

Once in a while, the world sees the discovery of an ancient artifact in good condition that isn’t a forgery.  In this case, excavators near Skopje have unearthed a relatively awesome late Roman Venus pudica:

All too often, things like this turn up and prove to be clever forgeries, sometimes to the amplified embarrassment of those [...]

From Patrick at Popehat, we learn of a simple but amusing deconstruction of Thomas Kinkade’s mass market landscapes. A sample:
There is an inexplicable absence of people, despite the presence of livestock, abandoned agricultural implements, raging chimney fires, what have you. …it seems as if a sort of aestheticically-directed neutron bomb had detonated, leaving standing [...]

Turns out, as confirmed by radiocarbon dating of human remains discovered at the site, that Stonehenge was built on land already in use as a cemetery, and was therefore constructed with the dead in mind.  This evidence and its apparent meaning teaches us two things: first, that medieval lore (which reported this meaning for Stonehenge) [...]