Art

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

— via deviantART