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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