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
Lithographs that once belonged to a German duke and vanished when the Soviets occupied parts of Germany after World War II, have turned up at Sotheby’s in London
A statue symbolising the mythical origins and power of Rome, long thought to have been made around 500BC, has been found to date from the 1200s. The statue depicts a she-wolf suckling Remus and his twin brother Romulus — who is said to have founded Rome. The statue of the wolf was carbon-dated last year, but the test results have only now been made public. The figures of Romulus and Remus have already been shown to be 15th Century additions to the statue
An ancient gold cup mysteriously acquired by a British scrap metal dealer is to be sold at auction with an estimate of nearly $1 million, after languishing for years in a shoe box under its current owner’s bed
The mysterious donor of 57 carved stone heads found scattered around Yorkshire over the last two weeks is a reclusive artist currently on holiday somewhere in a tent
. The shadowy figure caught on CCTV at one of the 19 places where the primitive-looking sculptures have so far been found is Billy Johnson, a 43-year-old who describes his work as hypnogogic, or sleep-inducing
Liverpool is playing host to an interesting piece of artwork for the next 18 months. Called Turning The Place Over
by Richard Wilson, it consists of a rotating wall that turns 360°. Cut in the wall of an old Yates’s Wine Lodge, the installation sits opposite one of the city’s train stations and is costing £450,000
Artist Nadine Jarvis can fabricate pencils from carbon left over by incinerating human remains — it’s part of a larger research project into post mortem
. She notes that 240 pencils can be made from an average body of ash — a lifetime supply of pencils for those left behind
— via Boing Boing
Dan Heller, author of the Photography Business Blog and a longtime watcher of the idea of selling photos on the Internet, observed Tuesday that there’s low-level buzz about Flickr possibly getting into the stock photo business
. He concludes, For Flickr to do it is obvious. Not doing so while they are on top of the game would be suicide.
It’s an interesting possibility. With some tweaks to the Web site and an opt-in check box on the image upload page, Yahoo and Flickr photographers could begin selling images to the sorts of folks who need to buy stock art — via CNET
A life-size replica of a Guantanamo Bay detainee has been placed in Disneyland by guerrilla artist
Banksy. The hooded figure was placed inside the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad ride at the California theme park last weekend. It is understood to have remained in place for 90 minutes before the ride was closed down and the figure removed
UK graffiti virtuoso Banksy has smuggled 500 doctored versions of Paris Hilton’s new CD into stores across the country. The CD contain Banksy’s remixes and have titles like Why am I Famous?
, What Have I Done?
and What Am I For?
— via Boing Boing
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