And the reason art is the best tax break is because if you buy this artwork for $1,000, and the curator would say it's worth $10,000, then, donating it to the museum, you get a $10,000 tax break.

According to federal officials, Allen operated a private fund called the “Cheetah Fund,” and used it to defraud dozens of people for more than $9 million. “Allen lied to investors when he ...

Aaron De Groft, who came to Central Florida to raise the profile of Orlando Museum of Art — but then embroiled the institution in an FBI fraud investigation over purported Basquiat paintings ...

He was just fantastic.” “His job was to be invisible, but his art was to communicate human nature in its rawest form,” said Barbara Gaines, founder and former artistic director of Chicago ...

He had over 241,000 followers on Instagram. One of his last posts on TikTok was a clip of himself giving a speech at his brother's wedding, which he said he thought about while "reminiscing on old ...

“I felt like the sheet I had seen blowing in the wind was like his skin, and the wooden construction beneath it resembled a skeleton,” she said in a 2016 interview with Ocula, an art magazine.

He began his filmmaking career in the 1960s. His first feature-length movie was the 1977 art film “Eraserhead.” David Lynch on the set of 1980’s “The Elephant Man.” ZUMAPRESS.com Lynch ...

As an art student, he encountered the seedier side of America while living in a crime-ridden, run-down area of Philadelphia with his wife and baby daughter. He described the city as the biggest ...

David Lynch, the stylish director behind mega-hits like Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet and Eraserhead, has died. He was 78. Variety reported the news today, citing a Facebook post from Lynch’s family ...