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Shawn Clover’s Awesome Then and Now Photographs of San Francisco

Photographer Shawn Clover juxtapositions amazing photographs of current day San Francisco with photographs taken after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.  Taken from the same location, camera position and focal length, his images truly show the amazing growth San Francisco has endured over the past 100+ years.

Joaquín Sorolla Retrospective Exhibition- Sorolla and America

Joaquín Sorolla, Spanish Impressionist artist whose paintings have sold at auction for over $6 million, is having his first retrospective exhibition, ‘Sorolla and America,’  at the Meadows Museum, December 13, 2013 – April 19, 2014, and will then travel to the Meadows’ partners at The San Diego Museum of Art and Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid. The … Continue reading

VIDEO: DAMIEN HIRST ARTWORKS WORTH £33,000 STOLEN FROM LONDON GALLERY

German govt rejects Jewish heirs’ demand for art

BERLIN (AP) — The German government has refused a request to hand back two paintings once owned by a Jewish businessman persecuted by the Nazis. Germany’s Finance Ministry says it won’t return the 18th-century paintings by Bernardo Bellotto to the heirs of Max Emden because he had already fled to Switzerland when he sold them. … Continue reading

David Daturna & Google Glass

As technology grows at a mind-blowing rate, the creative mind of artist David Daturna is determined to mesh the two realms of art and science into one. The Georgian-born-American artist, has produced a work of art in a medium that is first of its kind; Google Glass, “a groundbreaking interactive, social experience for Glass.”  His … Continue reading

DC buys JFK ‘Superman’ art, gives to Boston museum

NEW YORK (AP) — Comic book publisher DC Entertainment says it has acquired the art drawn by artist Al Plastino for a 1964 comic featuring President John F. Kennedy and Superman and will donate it to the JFK library in Boston. Last month, Heritage Auctions withdrew original artwork for the 1964 comic book from an … Continue reading