Art

Part of a series called Predictive Dreams by Japanese ceramicist Katsuyo Aoki — via MAKE

I used to cover my schoolbooks in brown paper bags, and then throughout the course of the year, I would draw and put stickers all over them. They looked cool, but decidedly messy, with all those incongruous stickers living on a single surface.

So I think this art installation, The Salon at Sundown, is interesting. Brian Kaspr and Payton Turner took stickers of all kinds and grouped them together to make wallpaper patterns. They look orderly and neat from far away, and up close, it’s fun to check out the variety of stickers — via CRAFT

25E-More Colors, originally uploaded by Curtis Robertson.

Yesterday I posted about this lovely paint-by-number mural painted in a child’s nursery. Ohdeedoh has a great interview with another paint-by-number mural artist, Curtis Robertson. He covered most of a room with an intricate paint-by-number design for his niece’s son’s bedroom. The in-progress pictures show just how much detail work goes in to a project like this. The results are more than worth it, don’t you think? — via CRAFT

LA police are on the lookout for two people suspected in the theft of a Rembrandt drawing from a luxury hotel in the California beachfront resort of Marina del Rey.

The Judgment, a pen and ink drawing with an estimated value of $US250,000, was on display as part of an exhibition held in the lobby of the Ritz-Carlton hotel, which also featured a Picasso.

The Dutch master’s piece was stolen late on Saturday, around 10:30pm, when an accomplice of the thief distracted the exhibition’s curator, Los Angeles county sheriff spokesman Steve Whitmore said — via redwolf.newsvine.com

People look at a 1990s Volkswagen Beetle named Vochol during an exhibition on Huichol culture at the Museum of Puebla, near Mexico City August 10, 2011. The name Vochol, was conceived from a combination of Vocho, a popular term for Volkswagen Beetles in Mexico, and Huichol, a Mexican indigenous group. The car was decorated by indigenous craftmen from the Huichol community living in the states of Nayarit and Jalisco, using traditional beads and fabric. According to local media, the work will be auctioned after its exhibition in Paris and Berlin next year, with funds and proceeds going to the Huichols — via Boing Boing

Two paintings by Nicholas Poussin have been sprayed with red paint by a vandal at the National Gallery in London — via redwolf.newsvine.com

After the recent rediscovery of Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci, an artwork by Michelangelo is reported to have been exhibited at Campion Hall in Oxford University for years.

The painting was attributed to Marcello Venusti, a contemporary of Michelangelo. Antonio Forcellino, an Italian expert, identified the Italian master’s hand via the infrared technique. According to him, the true author of the canvas is undoubtedly Michelangelo — via redwolf.newsvine.com

A Pablo Picasso drawing, thought to be worth £100,000 has been stolen from an art gallery in San Francisco.

Police are looking for a man who walked into the Weinstein Gallery and took the valuable pencil drawing off the wall and then fled in a taxi — via redwolf.newsvine.com