Ai Weiwei Recreated Monet's 'Water Lilies' Using 650,000 LEGO Bricks
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei used LEGO bricks to build a 50-foot long tribute to Monet.
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei used LEGO bricks to build a 50-foot long tribute to Monet.
In a career that has spanned more than 60 years, Don Bluth has been a director, animator, production designer, video game designer, illustrator, and teacher with such beloved films as 'The Secret of NIMH' and 'An American Tail' to his credit.
On March 9, 2021, aspiring VFX artist Jason Chou said he’d Photoshop Paddington into a different movie or TV show every day until he forgot. He hasn’t forgotten yet.
Games like Wordle continue to proliferate—and thanks to the National Gallery of Art, art lovers now have an ‘-le’ of their own.
After dominating school supplies aisles in the 1990s, Lisa Frank has infiltrated the cookie dough section of your local grocery store.
The artist has left behind a body of work that keeps expanding. This time, it's a pencil sketch that's been in private hands since 1910.
There are a lot of things we don't quite get right about the Renaissance, including when it actually took place.
French engineer Nicolas-Jacques Conté created what is considered the modern pencil, though many have since made improvements.
Mary Cassatt, known for her intimate paintings of mothers and children, was the only American artist invited to join the French Impressionists.
And if you burn the first waffle, channel your inner Bob Ross and shake it off as a “happy little accident.”
The 1955 children's book by Crockett Johnson has some interesting ties to Sharon Stone, Spike Jonze, and Communism.
Original David Bowie artworks don’t surface often—but one was recently unearthed in a donation bin in Canada.
Works by Monet, Warhol, and Dalí; Super Bowl rings; Stradivarius violins; and 1930s comic books are just some of the items you'll find in the FBI's National Stolen Art File, a public database of more than 5500 missing items of cultural value.
Did Galileo invent the telescope? No. Was he at least the first one to use it to study the moon? Also no.
The next time you come across a portrait stolen from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, you can alert Interpol without making a single phone call.
From Claude Monet’s water lilies to a lost-and-found Gustav Klimt painting, here’s how famous artworks came to be.
The Louvre’s online database includes literally everything, from artworks in storage to those on display at other museums.
The painting shows Vincent van Gogh’s early experimentation with Impressionism during a two-year stint in Paris.
The only thing more therapeutic than watching Bob Ross’s ‘The Joy of Painting’ is assembling a puzzle inspired by it.
A priceless Van Gogh painting was snatched from a Dutch museum in March 2020. You wouldn’t happen to know anything about that, would you?
With innovative techniques and a palette of dazzling colors, French artist Henri Matisse revolutionized modern art in the first half of the 20th century.
Andrew Scott’s unforgettable performance in Phoebe Waller-Bridge's 'Fleabag' warrants a LEGO portrait or two.
With its high arches and mirrored ceilings, Dujiangyan’s latest bookstore seems like it goes on forever.
Snail tongues and nylon stockings are surprisingly beautiful. Fruit bat skeletons, on the other hand? Terrifying.