Works of art, collected by the late actor Dennis Hopper, are expected to fetch up to $13m (£8.3m) when sold at Christie’s auction house in New York — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Adorably cute, bite-sized sculptures. Shame he’s completely clueless when it comes to Egyptian gods — via The Adam Binder Club
A Pablo Picasso print has sold for 1.3 million pounds ($2.1 million), a record for a single print sold at auction, Sotheby’s said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
If you are going to mod an instrument to look like the embodiment of humanity’s inevitable destiny to be an index fossil, you could do worse than to choose the ukulele. Cthukhelele by Robin Stevenson — via Ectomo
Deep sea diving octopii, excavating crabs and other biomechanical sculptures by Nozomu Shibata — via SuperPunch
An art gallery in northern New South Wales has welcomed the mysterious return of a painting which was stolen more than 30 years ago — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A controversial zebra herd sculpture on Lake George near Canberra is on the move — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Police are hunting a man and woman after two limited edition Banksy prints were stolen from a central London art gallery. Metropolitan police released a CCTV image today of the pair, who smashed their way into Art Republic, on New Compton Street, before stealing the framed prints, which are worth more than £16,000
Italian tax police said Saturday that they had seized works by Van Gogh, Picasso, Cezanne and other artistic giants in a crackdown on assets hidden by the disgraced founder of the collapsed dairy company Parmalat. Authorities estimated the 19 masterpieces stashed away in attics and basements were valued at $150 million. Parma Prosecutor Gerardo Laguardia said that, based on wiretapped phone conversations, officials believed at least one of the paintings hidden by Calisto Tanzi in the area of Parma was about to be sold
How far would you go to help save an endangered animal? How about allowing someone to jab ink into your skin with tiny needles, 150 times a second? That’s exactly what hundreds of volunteers signed up for last weekend at ExtInked, where people came from far and wide to have one of Britain’s most endangered species permanently tattooed on their body, making them a life long ambassador for that species
Andy A multimillion-dollar collection of original artwork by famed pop art icon Andy Warhol was stolen last week from a West Los Angeles home, according to police. On 3 September, a housekeeper for noted art collector Richard L Weisman walked into the dining room of Weisman’s residence on Angelo Drive and noticed several pieces were missing, said Detective Donald Hrycyk, head of the LAPD’s Art Theft detail. A dozen large portraits that had adorned the walls the day before were gone. Hrycyk said there was no sign of forced entry into the home and that nothing else was disturbed, including several other Warhol paintings hanging on nearby walls. There were no immediate leads or suspects, Hrycyk said
Unknown hackers broke into the web site of the Melbourne International Arts Festival (MIAF) this week, in what appeared to be a similar attack to one perpetrated last week on the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF)
Banksy has pulled off his most daring stunt yet by staging his biggest-ever British exhibition in complete secrecy. The covert graffiti artist snuck into Bristol’s City Museum and Art Gallery and replaced many of the artefacts on display there with 100 pieces of his own work, including a burnt-out ice-cream van. The spray-painted van, which sits under a giant melted cone, appears alongside dozens of sculptures, oil paintings and his trademark stencils from today. Despite Banksy’s international notoriety, the exhibition remained a closely-guarded secret with only two officials at the council-owned museum aware of the installation. The reason the museum was closed was even kept secret from top council officials
Bettie Page, the brunette pinup queen with a shoulder-length pageboy hairdo and kitschy bangs whose saucy photos helped usher in the sexual revolution of the 1960s, has died. She was 85
Famed former pinup model Bettie Page is hospitalised in intensive care after suffering a heart attack in Los Angeles
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