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A couple of years ago a new street art campaign rolled out in Manhattan. The mural series is being commissioned by the National Audubon Society to bring awareness to the risk climate change poses to both birds and people. https://www.audubon.org/amp ▲ Cerulean Warbler by Tom Sanford (601 W. 149th St., New York, NY 10031) The hundreds of species of North American birds (314 to be precise) are climate-threatened or endangered. The scientists found that climate change will threaten the existence of 389 bird species — two-thirds of all North American birds — and that no bird will escape the impacts of related...

An iconic portrait of Marilyn Monroe by American pop art visionary Andy WARHOL went under the hammer for a record $195 million on Monday at Christie’s, becoming the most expensive 20th-century artwork ever sold at a public auction. Andy Warhol stands in front of his double portrait of Marilyn Monroe at the Tate Gallery in London “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn,” produced in 1964 two years after the death of the glamorous Hollywood star, sold for exactly $195.04 million, including fees, in just four minutes in a crowded room at Christie’s headquarters in Manhattan. The previous record was set in 2015...

Creating a Good Time: Clocks as Interior Design Pieces How often do people in the modern world turn to autonomous watches to tell the time? In the era of smartphones, computers, and similar technologies, anyone is more likely to look at a screen than look for which room has a clock. However, all sorts of clocks are still around us. If not out of necessity, then why are clocks often in homes and businesses? It’s because clocks simply leave the realm of utilities and into the world of design and decor. They serve an artistic purpose, add something that can...

Piet MONDRIAN (1872–1944) was a Dutch painter who worked in the Netherlands, in Paris, in London, and finally in New York. He is famous for his abstract and non-figurative paintings. His early works were mostly traditional landscapes and from 1908 there was an influence of symbolism. While experimenting, Mondrian made his works more abstract, first in a cubist tradition, later in his own unique style. He adopted a restricted set of colors, sometimes soft pastels, eventually only red, yellow, and blue, next to black, white, and sometimes grey. Between 1918 and 1940 he made many paintings of the kind for...

When purchasing a piece of artwork, most people put a lot of thought into the type of artwork they buy. They think about how they want it to work with the décor and energy of the space where it will be displayed. They might be interested in investing in artwork by a particular artist and showing off that investment. They might be attracted to a particular subject or color scheme. But what often gets less consideration is how the picture will be displayed. This is really too bad because choosing the method for displaying a piece of art is important...