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Michael Haskell, a 17-year-old high school senior from New Jersey, paid $450 for an abandoned Brooklyn storage unit that turned out to have belonged to Andrew Crispo, an art dealer prominent in the 1980s. Inside were works by Man Ray and Walt Kuhn. -

An artist named Amanda Meyer created an incredible dress out of autumn leaves. Meyer soaked the leaves in a glycerin solution to preserve them -- glycerin replaces the water inside each leaf, keeping it pliable and colorful rather than letting it dry ...

This small textile fragment in the British Museum comes from Peru and dates to between 900 and 1430 CE. It's only about five inches across, but it has a special, timeless image of a cat on it. The base is made of cotton, and the design is woven in ...

If you like bread, this annual bread cathedral might be your dream vacation destination. Every year, the Sicilian town of San Biagio Platani fills its streets with arches and sculptures built from bread, dried grains, and laurel branches. Residents ...

If you happen to find yourself walking down the street in Colombia, you might catch a glimpse of a man riding a giant praying mantis bicycle, if you're lucky. Enrique Velez invented a bicycle that walks as you pedal it, and it resembles a large,

This art piece by Adrien Miller combines sculpture and light. Upon first glance you may think you're looking at a digital effect, but this is all made by hand -- this open-mouthed wall sculpture is really breathing out rainbows. The electrifying ...

The International Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima is a work by Portuguese sculptor José Ferreira Thedim from 1947. This sculpture is no ordinary religious icon -- it has traveled the globe on airplanes as a ticketed passenger, buckled ...

A beautifully intricate beaded version of a Kids Cuisine TV dinner popped up on Instagram recently, and it took me right back to childhood. When Kids Cuisine -- the TV dinner marketed to kids -- arrived in the grocery store, it was one of the most ...

Long-assumed to be a copy by one of Rembrandt van Rijn's students, the Old Man with a Gold Chain in a UK collection is now thought by a leading art expert to be the work of the master himself. a study by the Hamilton Kerr Institute, at the University ...

Three paintings by Renoir, Cézanne, and Matisse were stolen from the Magnani Rocca Foundation near Parma, Italy, in a raid that police say lasted less than three minutes. The theft, which occurred on the night of March 22-23, was not publicly ...