11 x 14 on Scratchboard — via deviantART
Thieves have carried out a well organised, pre-dawn heist at Greece’s biggest state art museum, taking two oil paintings by 20th century masters Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian, police said.
A police statement said the burglars, who entered the museum on Monday morning through a balcony door, also took a drawing by the Italian 16th-century painter Guglielmo Caccia. Another work by Mondrian was removed from the gallery in one of the best-guarded areas of central Athens, but the thieves abandoned it as they fled. Museum officials were unable to estimate how much the stolen works were worth.
Police said the heist took about seven minutes. The thieves had intentionally set off alarms on several occasions since Sunday evening without actually entering the building, prompting guards to disable at least one — via redwolf.newsvine.com
If they exist at all, most unglazed clay objects from ancient times are now rubble, mere fragments of their former glory.
This terracotta head, at around 2000 years old, is a rare exception. Excavated from a village in Nigeria, this is one of the best-preserved examples of its kind ever discovered. It is a product of the Nok culture that flourished from about 1000 BC to AD 500, when it mysteriously died out, and provides examples of the earliest figurative art in sub-Saharan Africa.
Archaeologists Peter Breunig and Nicole Rupp of the Goethe-University Frankfurt in Germany uncovered the head during the 2010 field season. It was found in Kushe, a small village about 150 kilometres north of the capital Abuja. Amazingly, this specimen was very close to the surface — only 60 centimetres down — via redwolf.newsvine.com
As children, these two had constant feuds after Calvin literally stepped into Christopher’s neck of the woods. That’s when the Battle began, the test of their imagination. Calvin would talk about his friend
and his abilities and Christopher would counter and say but can he…
it went back and forth between the two of them. As they grew older they grew in different directions. Calvin met new people and made friends — although his best and imaginary friend Hobbes
stayed with him all the way into adulthood. Christopher on the other hand became more introverted but made the characters he invented as a kid more apart of his character as he got older — via deviantART
Thought I’d show ol’ Cal and Hobbes in action — via deviantART
Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira shows absolutely no respect to art galleries’ walls! It’s as if he has the supernatural ability to control trees, making them burst through the walls at his own whim — via My Modern Metropolis
This poster was created to raise awareness and funds for the cleanup of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill. While drilling in the gulf creates jobs and helps serve our current energy needs, the damage done by this spill will cripple the fragile gulf coast for many years — via Jude Landry
The Lovers, The Dreamers, And Me is a Jim Henson tribute art exhibition at Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra, California. Exhibiting artists include Mike Mitchell, Felt Mistress, Anna Chambers, CatRabbit, Graham Annable and many more. The show runs through 2 January 2012 — via Laughing Squid
San Francisco-based illustrator Bill Robinson created Palace of Fine Squids in appreciation of the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Prints of this friendly pink squid are available at Bill’s Etsy shop, Flimflammery — via Laughing Squid
What you’re seeing isn’t a single structure, but ordinary buttons hanging from wires spaced just right so that they present the image of a piano. It’s a medium in which Miami-based artist Augusto Esquivel works — Neatorama
A new ad campaign for the College for Creative Studies by Team Detroit lightheartedly gives its academic programs the DARE treatment. Stay off the art, kids — via Breaking Copy
Walktopus – In Progress – Clay- 5 feet tall, originally uploaded by Late Fauna.
— via deviantART
— via See Mike Draw
8×10″ gouache and ink on Canson paper — via CrashOctopus Blog
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The last two captains left on a tiny fishing island take the only boat and set out to hunt the Squiddlepus — via CiaranDuffy illustration
Untitled, originally uploaded by Joel Brochu.
Joel Brochu is taking hundreds and thousands to a whole new level in this portrait of a pup getting a bath. The piece includes 221,184 hundreds and thousands that are painstakingly placed using jewellers tweezers. Only six colours of sprinkles were used in the picture, giving your brain a colour blending treat when viewed from a distance — via CRAFT
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Brett Parson — via PLANET-PULP
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