Perhaps the greatest cons of all time are those that manage to hold up in court, like the case of the world's smallest skyscraper, a building sold to investors at 480 inches tall on a blueprint ...
If context is critical to understanding art, then what happens to a work when you push a famous piece through time and space to a highly familiar and everyday place? Where fine artwork ...
Some were conceived of as storytelling devices or futuristic concepts, while others were intended for actual construction before the plans were scrapped, but each of these buildings tells a ...
Blending fiction and reality, art and history, this series of superimpositions takes 'then-and-now' imagery all the back to the 18th Century on the streets and rivers of England's capital city. ...
For 500 years, visitors were able to see Michelangelo's famous 6,000-square-foot painting bathed in natural light, but for the last 3 decades they have gotten a dismal view, the room shuttered ...
The Olympics have a long history of leaving a mixed legacy in their wake but the story of Sochi is particularly strange - it was never completely finished in the first place, and is already ...
Built in the 1860s and now on sale for half a million pounds (under $1,000,000) , it is hard to beat what this sea fort offers by way of views, a prestigious address (No 1 Thames) and amazing ...
In a world of mobile devices, share icons and popup alerts, fine art is interrupted by signs and symbols of our times, adding a jarring layer of technology to recognizably classic ...
London may have changed just a tiny bit since the 17th century, but you'd hardly know it looking at some of these mash-ups of classic paintings superimposed against modern scenery snapped by ...
Started in 1882, the Sagrada Família basilica is one of the most famous buildings in the world, despite still remaining unfinished ... at least for now. This amazing one-minute animation shows ...
