Egypt’s interior minister said that an employee working in a Cairo museum was probably behind the theft of a Van Gogh painting that left Egyptian authorities red-faced — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Time flies. I can’t believe I’ve been working on this one (on and off though) for probably four months. Damn ! So here it is. I don’t know what’s going on between me and squids, but they regularly pay me a visit. Here they are again… in action! — via deviantART
— via Mark Tatulli
I have had so little time to do my digital work lately. This has been a project off and on for months now. Only about 10hours spent on it — via mcuzino
2010. Pencil on Illustration Board. 30″ x 40″ — via Martin Kalanda
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
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