Edvard Munch's "The Scream" to be exhibited at the MoMa

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Edvard Munch's "The Scream" one of the Twentieth Century's most iconic images will go on display at New York's MoMa on October 24th.

Of the four versions of The Scream made by Munch between 1893 and 1910, this pastel-on-board from 1895 is the only one remaining in private hands.

The three other versions are in the collections of museums in Norway. The Scream is being lent by a private collector, and will be on view at MoMA through April 29, 2013.

"Goya en el Prado" website Opens

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El Museo del Prado has opened Goya en el Prado. An interactive experience comprising more than 1,000 works by the spanish artist.

On the site, paintings, drawings, engravings and documents from Goya, can be accessed, searched and admired.

Although the site's texts are in spanish only, it is a tour de force for anyone desiring to study and research the work of Francisco de Goya y Lucientes.

Miami International Art Fair

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MIAMI BEACH, FL- October 7, 2010- Miami Beach will once again become a gathering place for art lovers across the globe. International Fine Art Expositions (IFAE) announces the Miami International Art Fair (MIA) will return January 14-17, 2011 to Miami Beach Convention Center, with a private preview evening January 13th. International Fine Art Expositions (IFAE), and MIA Associate Director Aldo Castillo, have designed MIA to be a catalyst for the finest galleries and dealers to access the lucrative South Florida market and has established cultural partnerships with museums, universities and other art-related institutions to ensure a fully integrated fair with innovative curatorial projects and an extensive lecture and panel series.

Shawn Smith Pixelated Sculptures

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 Feast your eyes on the pixelated art of Shawn Smith, made with colored rods of plywood colored with ink. At first i thought the photo was blurry but then i realized that's the way they are in real life, amazing!

Starry Night Photomosaic

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This image is a photomosaic of the famous Van Gogh painting 'Starry Night'. The image is made with over 210.000 tiny photographs and a total size of over 1.500.000.000 points in other words it is a 1.5 Gigapixel Image. Click over the image (Zoom In) until you start to see the tiny images.

How to Draw the Mona Lisa in 80 miliseconds

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The crew at Mythbusters shows us how:

Manetone: Manet done with Pantone Chips

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 Artist Tim Fraser has created a reproduction of Édouard Manet's 'Bar at the Folies Bergere' made entirely of old Pantone chips.

Over 5,000 unused chips were painstakingly colour matched and and stuck down over four long nights, and acted as centre piece for a boozey party in our design studio.

Architect turns remodeled apartment into huge puzzle

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puzzle in room
This has to be the coolest place to live ever. Architectural designer Eric Clough embedded the New York City Apartment of the Klinsky-Sherry Family with clues, puzzles, hidden compartments, coded poems, and even a secret soundtrack. Definitely the ultimate house for the mistery solver!.

Art Basel 39 Switzerland opens

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Art Basel the largest art trade show int he world opens tomorrow. From the press release:
The world's premier international art show for Modern and contemporary works, Art Basel features nearly 300 leading galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa. More than 2,000 artists, ranging from the great masters of Modern art to the latest generation of emerging stars, are represented in the show's multiple sections.

Trove of Weegee photographs found

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The Indianapolis Museum of Art plans to announce that it has acquired a trove of work and correspondence by Weegee, the New York photographer whose visceral pictures became a template not only for artists like Diane Arbus but also for much of the uncomfortably close tabloid imagery that exists today. The photos were found in a trunk bought by two Indiana women that contained 210 vintage prints by the photographer..

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