Three paintings by Van Gogh, Picasso and Gauguin worth an estimated £4 million have been stolen to order
from the Masters collection at the Whitworth Art Gallery. They were found the next day crammed into a tube behind a public toilet
Rare 13th-century wall paintings have been uncovered after months of painstaking conservation work at a parish church in London’s East End
Organised gangs of international art traffickers were behind the looting of the most important exhibits at Baghdad’s national museum
When MIT announced in March that it won a US$50 million grant to design high-tech gear for the US Army’s soldier of the future
, the project was hailed as the stuff of science fiction and comic book heroes. The school has grudgingly acknowledged that it copied images from the sci-fi comic book Radix
as part of its winning bid
Greenpeace are running a contest to come up with a new parody logo for Esso aka Exxon-Mobil
A long-lost painting by Rubens, whose owner disliked it so much that she loaned it to a monastery, has fetched a world record auction price for an old master — almost £50 million
Mireille Breitwieser, the mother of an art thief, was imprisoned after admitting she shredded up to 60 masterpieces by leading artists, such as Bruegel and Watteau, stolen in broad daylight from museums in five countries. French police also dragged the Rhône-Rhine canal in eastern France looking for priceless objects, such as weapons, vases and musical instruments, dumped there last November
European functionaries recently commissioned Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas to create a new logo for the EU. To capture the diversity and unity of Europe in a single image, Koolhaas put all the colours of the national flags of the EU’s constituent states on a single flag of many vertical stripes. While perhaps laudable in theory, however, the resulting bar code
design invites parody
A group of artists have created a field of Wombles to show their support for May Day protestors. The anonymous group have used hundreds of soft toys originally given out with McDonald’s Happy Meals. The piece called Auto-Destructive Art will be dismantled on 1 May and the toys given to anti-globalisation campaigners
The giant Mr Potato Head statue given to the town of Belper in Derbyshire by its American sister city has been scratched and dismembered. He was sent to a fibreglass specialist for repairs and now stands outside the Safeway supermarket in the town
Alfred Taubman, the 76-year-old American shopping mall developer and former chairman of auction house Sotheby’s, brokered a deal with his counterpart Anthony Tennant at the auction house Christie’s to fix commission on the sales of artworks. He has been found guilty in New York of conspiring to fix art prices
Paintings of mythical animal-human hybrids are among the oldest surviving art ever produced. New research suggests that minotaurs, satyrs, the werewolves beloved of Hollywood and even Egypt’s animal-headed gods are latecomers to the art scene compared with the therianthropes carved by the earliest artists on bone and painted on stone
A fire-damaged painting by Claude Monet could be restored to its former glory, thanks to a technology designed to simulate the ravages of low-Earth orbit on spacecraft. Conservators at the institute are talking to space chemists at NASA’s Glenn Research Centre in Cleveland, Ohio, after hearing of their success in removing an overzealous art lover’s lipstick from an Andy Warhol painting. Their trick? They vaporise contaminants by blasting them with oxygen
A giant Mr Potato Head statue given by Pawtucket in Rhode Island to its twin town, Belper, in central England had to be removed because local people said they didn’t like it
US District Court Judge Ronald Lew ruled on Monday that the free speech rights of Utah artist Tom Forsythe — who was sued by Mattel two years ago after he parodied Barbie dolls in a series of photographs meant as a stinging social comment — outweigh the company’s trademarks and intellectual property rights as they relate to the 42-year-old doll
While you can get sacked for indulging your penchant for porn at work, the Internet has provided us with a clean, safe, legal way of focussing those lustful intentions — Barbie Bondage, Furniture Porn and Lego Porn
San Francisco artist, Tom Forsythe, can continue using Barbie dolls in his photographic renderings, when Mattel’s preliminary injunction was recently denied. Forsythe uses Barbies to ‘to critique the materialistic and gender-oppressive values’ he believes the doll embody, Mattel wanted the court to order Forsythe to hand over all the negatives of his work so they could be destroyed.
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