Cthullu Christmas by Oliver Wetter, aka Fantasio — via John Freeman
As many Americans were spending Christmas night with their families, Olek, a New York based artist was near Wall Street, freezing her fingers to the bone while outfitting the famous Charging Bull
into a giant crocheted cozy — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Some examples of ancient rock art in Western Australia maintain their vivid colors because they are alive, researchers have found.
Scientists at the University of Queensland have discovered that colorful bacteria and fungi have colonized the rock paintings, the BBC reported Monday.
Researcher Jack Pettigrew and his colleagues studied 80 rock artworks in 16 locations in Western Australia’s Kimberley region.
They found some of the oldest examples showed signs of life, but no paint.
The team dubbed the phenomenon living pigments
— via vanessa-wilson73.newsvine.com
Head Huggers has a tutorial for knitting an aviator-style cap. It’s cute, and I think it might be next on my list. But first I’m going to finish the striped fingerless mitts that I started at Bazaar Bizarre a couple weeks ago (I’m making them in light blue and gray) — via CRAFT
Police are seeking help in recovering nearly half a dozen pieces of art by Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol stolen from a New York City apartment by burglars who who broke through a wall — via redwolf.newsvine.com
I had just finished reading some HP Lovecraft, so his flavor of awesome was still fresh in my mind. Usually when thinking about making these I go through lots of failed ideas before connecting something random to something else that could relate in shape or texture. I landed pretty quickly on Santa’s beard being similar to Cthulhu’s tentacle mouth. After that, I just needed classic scene to befoul, like a child in Santa’s lap — via Scott Brundage
Yule Squid by Hwango — via Childhood Fear
I always stay with my octopus — via 100% Kawaii Graphics
Great news for Alien franchise purists, as Alien conceptual artist HR Giger has been confirmed as a contributor to the prequel that Ridley Scott is set to begin shooting in February — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Hongtao Zhou, a sculpture professor at the University of Wisconsin, made a bench out of a thousand leather belts. One end is shaped like a belt buckle and serves as a table and the other is shaped like a bull’s head — via Design Boom
I thought I’d take a brief break from my obsession with holiday cheer in honor of someone else’s obsession–namely Andrew Chase, who makes incredibly detailed, accurate, and articulated metal sculptures — via CRAFT
A coded manuscript by Leonardo da Vinci has been discovered in a public library in the French city of Nantes — via redwolf.newsvine.com
I’m completely enthralled by these colorful thread installations by Gabriel Dawe. I had the good fortune to spend some time with Fred Sandback when I worked at the Dia Center many years ago, and this seems like an exuberant reinterpretation of those minimalist string sculptures. It’s incredible the way the thread just looks like colored mist from a distance, but is incredibly complex up close — via CRAFT
Vodafone Hutchison Australia’s 3G network continues to struggle under the weight of its customers despite it having claimed that a software fix would resolve issues at the end of last month — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A retired French couple have come forward with 271 undocumented works by Pablo Picasso, estimated to be worth at least £50 million.
Electrician Pierre Le Guennec, who once worked for Picasso, squirrelled away the staggering trove – believed to be authentic – inside a trunk in the garage of their home on the Riviera.
The cache, dating from the artist’s most creative period from 1900 to 1932, includes lithographs, portraits, watercolours, and sketches – plus nine Cubist collages said to be worth £40 million alone — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Since their original publication in the 1920s, the stories of HP Lovecraft have endured and grown into an entire subset of the horror genre unto themselves, with themes of the unavoidable insanity that comes with knowledge and cosmic insignificance that are far more subtle and ultimately terrifying than the average ghost story.
Which makes them great entertainment for eight year-olds — via Comics Alliance
A bequest of $5 million and 142 artworks has been made to the Art Gallery of New South Wales by the late Mollie Gowing — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A mural on a Southampton garden wall – believed to be by street artist Banksy after it appeared on his website – has been painted over — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Kryptos, the sculpture nestled in a courtyard of the CIA’s Virginia headquarters since 1990, is a work of art with a secret code embedded in the letters that are punched into its four panels of curving copper. It is perhaps one of the CIA’s most mischievous secrets — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A rare Chinese calligraphy scroll has fetched 308m yuan (£29m; $46m) – the second-highest amount paid for an artwork at auction in China, the state-run Xinhua news agency says — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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