10 Most Expensive Photographs Ever Sold

A Surrealist violin joke sold for $12.4 million. A staged Afghan war scene sold for $3.67 million. The ten highest verified photograph sales in history, and the honest math on why Peter Lik's $6.5 million claim didn't make the list.

10 Most Expensive Artworks Ever Sold

A painting bought for $125 in 1958 sold for $450 million in 2017 — then vanished from public view. The full stories behind the ten most expensive artworks ever sold, from Nazi lootings to a bullet through Marilyn's forehead.

Cindy Sherman Conceptual Photographer

Cindy Sherman is the most photographed face in contemporary art history — and one of the few artists alive who can walk through Times Square completely unrecognized. The full story of the artist who used her own face to disappear.

Galen Rowell — The Light Traveler Who Changed Landscape Photography Forever

Picture the classic image of a landscape photographer: a large-format camera on a heavy wooden tripod, set up at a known overlook, waiting with infinite patience for the light to arrive. That image does not describe Galen Rowell. It describes a...

What Is Traditional Art? Examples Of Traditional Art

Van Gogh sold exactly one painting in his lifetime. Michelangelo never lay on his back to paint the Sistine Chapel. The real story behind traditional art — its definition, its history, and 18 artists whose facts most people get wrong.

Dorothea Lange. The Famous American Photographer

The Most Famous Photographers Of The Past Century

Imogen Cunningham The American Photographer

Ansel Adams. More Than A Famous Landscape Photographer

Man Ray Photography

Andy Warhol Photography

Andy Warhol didn't just make art about mass production — he ran his studio like a factory and dared the art world to tell him the difference. The full story, from Campbell's Soup to $195 million, including the private man nobody expected.