Stuart Varney and Ashley Webster discuss why Pokémon cards are selling for more than $1 million. Webster highlights a 1998 Pikachu Illustrator card that set a record sale and explains how nostalgia turns childhood hobbies into fine art.
The medieval masterpiece has traveled from France to England for a once-in-a-lifetime show. It is not what our critic Jason Farago expected.
An investigation is underway after another major art theft in France. Two works by renowned French Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir were stolen during an early morning heist at a small museum on the French Riviera. Former jewel thief Larry Lawton joined "Katie Pavlich Tonight" and explained why art theft isn't always about the money. "Katie Pavlich Tonight" offers a conservative take on the day’s events while welcoming all viewpoints. The goal: cutting through left-right bias in pursuit of plain facts and honest analysis.
"The real art in an art heist is not the stealing. It's the selling," Wittman said.
As part of a brazen heist that ended within minutes, thieves used an electric saw to cut four paintings from their frames at the Renoir Museum in southern France. While they were forced to abandon two of the paintings while fleeing, the robbers still made off with two others worth a combined $2.5 million.
Almost a year after the brazen Louvre heist, thieves targeted a museum that was formerly the artist’s home in the south of France.
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An 80-year-old New York psychologist wants to donate a miniature castle worth $329,000 per square foot to the White House, and nobody in Washington has said yes or no. Dr. Michael Freeman has spent roughly three decades as the owner of the Astolat Dollhouse Castle, a 9-foot-tall, 29-room structure packed with 10,000 handcrafted furnishings that […] The post A 9-foot dollhouse valued at $8.5 million may be the priciest real estate per square foot on Earth appeared first on American Almanac .
An 80-year-old New York psychologist wants to donate a miniature castle worth $329,000 per square foot to the White House, and nobody in Washington has said yes or no. Dr. Michael Freeman has spent roughly three decades as the owner of the Astolat Dollhouse Castle, a 9-foot-tall, 29-room structure packed with 10,000 handcrafted furnishings that the New York Post reports is valued at a minimum of $8.5 million. At just 25.8 square feet of floor space, that works out to roughly $329,000 per square foot, a figure that would dwarf the most expensive penthouses in Manhattan or London. Freeman, a PhD psychologist who lives in Kings Point on Long Island, now says he and his wife Lois are deciding what to do with the structure. His preference is…Open
The 82-year-old filmmaker behind the most lucrative franchise in movie history has spent 17 years and weathered failed bids in two other cities to build a 100,000-square-foot temple to the art the establishment long dismissed. George Lucas showed up unannounced at a media preview this week for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los […] The post George Lucas opens his Los Angeles museum — and Star Wars is only 7 percent of it appeared first on American Almanac .
The 82-year-old filmmaker behind the most lucrative franchise in movie history has spent 17 years and weathered failed bids in two other cities to build a 100,000-square-foot temple to the art the establishment long dismissed. George Lucas showed up unannounced at a media preview this week for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, wearing a T-shirt that read "Dedicated to the people's art." The museum, set in Exposition Park next to his alma mater at the University of Southern California, opens to the public on September 22. It houses the personal collections of Lucas and his wife, businesswoman and major African-American art collector Mellody Hobson, and its curators want visitors to know that the galaxy far, far away fills…Open
Whether making dot-covered sculptures or wild performance pieces, the Japanese artist grabbed critical and popular acclaim.