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Venus figurine sheds light on origins of art

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: May 15, 2009 · Comments (0)

A 40,000-year-old figurine of a voluptuous woman carved from mammoth ivory and excavated from a cave in southwestern Germany is the oldest known example of three-dimensional or figurative representation of humans and sheds new light on the origins of art, researchers reported Wednesday. The figurine was excavated at Hohle... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (1 votes cast)

Picture by "new artist" Putin fetches $1.1 million

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: January 21, 2009 · Comments (2)

A picture sketched by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has fetched 37 million roubles ($1.15 million) at a charity auction. The painting of snowfall seen through a window, finished by a professional artist, features a sprawling "Putin" signature and was introduced at Saturday's auction with the words: "Here is... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.5/5 (2 votes cast)

Street Art with a purpose

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: January 14, 2009 · Comments (0)

A Berlin street artist shopped up a subway ad featuring Britney Spears, Leona Lewis & Christina Aguilera to appear as though the photo was still 'in process' while it undergoes photo shop editing. The piece was photographed by a tourist, who put it on Flickr, where it was seen... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (1 votes cast)

China artist crafts a "Mona Lisa" good enough to eat

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: November 26, 2008 · Comments (0)

The pepper eyes of the "Mona Tofu" gaze out from beneath flowing noodle hair, and the tomato skin of "Cabbage Monroe" glows in Ju Duoqi's contemporary art exhibition in Beijing. Many of the world's most famous paintings are on display in Ju's "Vegetable Museum" -- recreated in photographs of pinned-together... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (3 votes cast)

Lloyd Webber not leaving cash to kids

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: October 7, 2008 · Comments (0)

Superstar composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has amassed a fortune of $1.3 billion - but the "Phantom of the Opera" creator doesn't plan to pass any of the money along to his five children. Instead, he wants to use the dough to help budding composers and singers. "I am not... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.7/5 (3 votes cast)

Kate Moss 50kg gold statue unveiled

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: October 2, 2008 · Comments (1)

50kg solid gold statue of Kate Moss has been unveiled at a contemporary sculpture exhibition at London's British Musuem. The statue, titled "Siren" and valued at $3.36 million, is thought to be the largest gold statue to be made since ancient Egyptian times, the Associated Press reported. Marc Quinn's... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (1 votes cast)

Crazy Germans!

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: April 17, 2008 · Comments (1)

An unidentified artwork, showing a crashed car in the pavement, is pictured on display at Berlin's 'Potsdamer Platz' square, April 14, 2008. ... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (1 votes cast)

Intruders seriously damage work by Monet in Paris Museum

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: October 8, 2007 · Comments (0)

Intruders entered the Orsay Museum early Sunday and punched a hole in a renowned work by Impressionist painter Claude Monet, "Le Pont d'Argenteuil," the French Culture Minister said. A surveillance camera caught a group entering the museum, located on the Left Bank of the French capital along the Seine... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.5/5 (2 votes cast)

Prince Harry new focus of celeb sculpting artist

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: October 5, 2007 · Comments (0)

Radar may have taken liberties with Prince Harry, but scandal-mongering artist Daniel Edwards has taken it a step further. He depicts the prince dead in his latest work, Iraq War Memorial: Death of Prince Harry, which goes on display in London on October 11. Edwards has explained the logic... [Full Story]

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Burning Man Rises Again

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: September 3, 2007 · Comments (0)

This years Burning Man was nearly ruined when a prankster with an agenda set fire to the 40' tall statue. And in the true Burning Man tradition, the culprit was a nut job. Paul David Addis was arrested Tuesday on felony charges of arson and destruction of property, as... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (2 votes cast)

HOPPER AND IRONS OPEN RUSSIAN ART SHOW

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: August 13, 2007 · Comments (0)

"Three Centuries of American Art" is the most significant exhibition of American art that has ever been presented in Russia. Actors Dennis Hopper and Jeremy Irons opened the exhibition having arrived on motorcycles at the entrance of the Pushkin Museum which hosts the show. More than 100 canvases from the... [Full Story]

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Skull of Diamonds Unveiled

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: June 4, 2007 · Comments (0)

Damien Hirst, former BritArt bad boy whose works infuriate and inspire in equal measure, did it again on Friday with a diamond-encrusted platinum cast of a human skull priced at a cool 50 million pounds. The skull, cast from a 35-year-old 18th century European male, is coated with 8,601 diamonds,... [Full Story]

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