Two of America’s rare penis flowers went soft as quickly as they popped up last week. A pair of the world’s biggest, stinkiest botanicals bloomed at gardens in California last week — unleashing a potent stench of dead flesh that emanates from their phallic centers. Also called the corpse flower — in reference to its … Read More “Sexy but smelly ‘penis’ flowers bloom in time to stink up summer” »
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The video has garnered more than 90,000 upvotes and over 2,200 comments. Nature is filled with a lot of surprising scenarios and one breathtaking visual of clouds captured in a video has taken the internet by storm. Shared on Reddit, the clip shows a huge formation of clouds rolling towards a row of neat houses … Read More “Viral Video Shows Tsunami-Like Clouds, Internet Calls It “Terrifying Yet Majestic”” »
The rich are different from you and me. Their divorces are uglier, and sometimes involve Monets. Marital spats, tabloid tales, and savvy women who just will not surrender that community-property masterpiece play a prominent role in this year’s big art auctions. On Thursday, the $ 250 million estate sale of Anne Bass goes on the … Read More “High-Society Divorces Mean New York Auctions Are Full of Mega-Expensive Art” »
Madonna is no longer a virgin to the NFT market. The 63-year-old singer teamed up with non-fungible token (NFT) extraordinaire Beeple to create a series of X-rated graphics showing her fully nude and giving birth to butterflies, insects and trees. Called “Mother of Creation,” the NFT collection, which will be sold for charity, also includes … Read More “Madonna reveals fully nude NFTs – and a 3D model of her vagina” »
On October 25, 2018, a painting of a fictional man named Edmond de Belamy sold for $ 432,500 at Christie’s, wildly exceeding its high estimate of $ 10,000. “Behold the future,” declared the auctioneer, unveiling the blurry, off-center portrait. Why? Because it had been “painted” by a generative adversarial network (GAN) trained on a set … Read More “Uncanny valley: welcome to the age of the ‘ultra-realistic’ art robot” »
Andy Warhol’s “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” portrait of Marilyn Monroe is going up for auction in New York Monday for an anticipated $ 200 million. If it actually sells for that, Christie’s “Lot 36A” – the signed and dated (1964) acrylic and silkscreen ink-on-linen piece – will become the most expensive 20th-century artwork ever to … Read More “Warhol ‘Blue’ Marilyn Monroe Portrait Up For Auction For Estimated Record $ 200 Million” »
Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. It is one of the most famous murders in the history of cinema. A mother and her child are out for a walk, on the first warm day after a bitter winter. Beguiled by the changing weather, we do not see the … Read More ““Bambi” Is Even Bleaker Than You Thought” »
An antiques dealer made the find of a lifetime at a Texas Goodwill store: a 2,000-year-old priceless work of Roman art that she scooped up for a measly $ 35. Laura Young, of Austin, found the 52-pound Roman bust at the thrift store in her hometown in 2018 and figured it was worth such a … Read More “Antiques dealer bought priceless 2,000-year-old Roman bust at thrift store for $ 35” »
Laura Reynolds These Trippy Landscapes Made From Sweets Will Soon Be All Over The ‘Gram ‘Where there is a flower there must be a butterfly so the flower shines more brightly’ by Pip & Pop Psychedelic sugar, sweets and modeling clay are used to create dreamy landscapes, at an exhibition full of eye candy at … Read More “These Trippy Landscapes Made From Sweets Will Soon Be All Over The ‘Gram” »
Photo: NIAID / Universal Images Group via Getty Images Let’s talk about that tick that could cause an extreme allergic reaction to red meat. Yes, the one the Washington Post warned is in DC Why it matters: Thanks to climate change, the lone star tick – known for its white dot on females’ backs – … Read More “About that meat-allergy-causing lone-star tick that’s in DC” »