I have been sporadically making these small editions over the last few years. This set is my sixth and rather than making them all the exactly same as I usually do, I decided to go with different colours for each as a sort of colour experiment — via Chris Bathgate
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An advertising industry luminary from Southern California was jailed after he tried to board a plane at Oakland International Airport while wearing a watch that resembled a trigger device, a military shirt with built-in tourniquets and oversize shoes with hollowed-out soles, authorities said Friday.
Geoffrey McGann, 49, of Rancho Palos Verdes was arrested at 7.25pm Thursday after Transportation Security Administration agents stopped him at the security checkpoint of Terminal 2, said Sergeant JD Nelson, a spokesman for the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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swiss artist victorine mu?ller has combined the disciplines of performance, sculpture, painting and sound for the last fourteen years — with an upcoming exhibition at the zone contemporaine oliver fahrni in bern, switzerland entitled wild at heart
showing her current work of a PVC squid entitled ballon stratosphérique
. müller’s work can be considered palpably immersive experiences to her audience — each artwork characterised by the artist herself encased in a seemingly weightless PVC structure, often depicting that of an animal. her presentations are very much oriented around a spiritual or emotional dynamism where her presence inside the air-filled creature often emits a tangible aura — breathing animistic energy into the beast she inhabits. this unusual medium fosters a thorough and almost halcyon contemplation for her viewers, each piece created to impart abstract ideas and somewhat invisible forces — via designboom
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Lee Joyner‘s bronze bust of horror writer is ready to slither off its base. It’s one of many sculptures he’s made of the Cthulhu mythos — via Neatorama
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Dutch police are reporting that seven paintings, including works by Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, and Henri Matisse, were stolen today in a 3.00am burglary at the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam. The details are still sketchy, but the Associated Press says the masterworks are potentially worth hundreds-of-millions of Euros.
To the museum, anyway. For the crooks themselves, the loot might well turn out to be worthless. According to Robert Wittman, founder of the FBI’s art crime team and author of the memoir Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures, it’s nearly impossible for thieves to sell famous pieces of art, even on the black market. I talked to Wittman today about why yanking a Picasso is such a bad business plan, his investigations into art capers around the world, and why cheap paintings might be more valuable for a crook — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An oil painting by the German artist Gerhard Richter has sold for £21m ($34m) — an auction record for a work by a living artist.
Abstraktes Bild, painted in 1994 , which was owned by rock star Eric Clapton, has been described as a masterpiece of calculated chaos
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The artwork, expected to fetch £9-12m, was sold to an anonymous bidder at Sotheby’s in London on Friday.
A round of applause broke out as the painting went under the hammer.
Gerhard Richter, 80, who lives in Cologne, is considered by some to be the world’s greatest living painter — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A line-up of the Indiana Jones characters in animated form — via deviantART
Eliminating spirits makes one feel invigorated! — via deviantART
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A painting bought at a flea market in the US may turn out to be a rare bargain — a work by French master Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
It was bought by a woman as part of a box lot that included a doll and a plastic cow, and cost about $50.
She took it to a Virginia auction house where experts said they believed it was Renoir’s Paysage Bords de Seine — a river scene — from about 1879.
The auctioneers expect it to sell for up to $100,000 later this month — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Brett Parson — via PLANET-PULP
This stunning carpet is one of several works by Azerbaijanian artist Faig Ahmed, whose work, explores [the] composition of a traditional Azerbaijanian carpet by disjointing its structure and placing its canonic elements into open space
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Artist Fraser Smith has produced several unbelievable sculptures of quilts by carving them from wood and painting them with silk dyes — via MAKE
George Lucas had trouble selling his Star Wars concept. What if he had responded by going to Italy where filmmaking was cheaper? Timothy Anderson created posters for all three movies from that deliciously weird alternate universe — via Neatorama
Brett Parson — via PLANET-PULP
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