Boston - Federal agents investigating a $500 million international art heist from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum are poised to bust a renegade ex-Mossad money laundering ring following a successful trip to Israel on the back of US Airforce One t...
Following the recent mysterious removal and attempted sale of Banksy's street art, a new black market has quickly emerged for the wall plaster behind other valuable artwork.
Earlier this week, a London art gallery was broken into and the plaster b...
Former Turner Prize nominee and artistic turncoat Tracy Emin has been commissioned to produce a new piece of work by Royal hanger on and professional shopper Pippa Middleton.
The work will another neon piece in the style of Bruce Nauman and will...
For the last few years, scientists have been exploring the properties and possible uses of graphene, the new wonder material made of an atom-thick layer of carbon. It promises to herald a revolution in materials and electronics development.
Howev...
Controversial artist Miles Taipan is thought to be hot favourite for next years Turner Prize. Miles' last 'piece' for which he shat upon one of the lions in Trafalgar Square went viral on Utube and made headlines around the world. The actual excrement was gathered up by his curator and sold on Ebay. His proposed piece for next year's Turner threatens to be just as controversial. Some critics consi...
NASA - In a surprise announcement today NASA revealed a secret mission assigned to Curiosity Rover - a mission of goodwill and cultural sharing intended for the solar system, the galaxy and the universe that will last a thousand years. A spokesman fo...
The picture restorer from Spain who made a portrait of Christ look like a HOMO their pictures.
'We have been trying to work out for some time the true meaning of some of our paintings and objects' said curator Humprey Goose 'now we can see if any...
Proserpine Gainsborough-Halfwit visits the Sainsbury Wing to see some contemporary resonses to Ovid's poetry alongside the Venetian great...
It can be soooo dull looking at nudes with boyfriends, so I wasn't looking forward to it when Dicky Featherstonehaugh-Tomsk insisted he wanted to come with me to this.
Dicky's all right, but he can come across as a bit, you know, pervy.
But when I ta...
Foremost British Female Artist with Attitude, Tracey Emin's latest exhibition has been hailed her most daring work yet.
BBC Art Correspondent, Will Gompertz, has visited the latest works by Emin and has nothing but good words to say about it.
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The fantasy world of evolution is celebrating following the surprise find of 100 Caravaggio sketches found in a castle in Milan. It is estimated that the haul is worth in the region of £560 million pounds.
Atheist fundamentalist and evolution crac...
A bronze horse sculpted by Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali is expected to go for £400,000 at auction next week.
Featuring in a sale of Impressionist and Modern Art Le cheval à la montre molle - 'The horse with the melted watch' - dates from 1980...
A man's hastily discarded lunch has become the latest star exhibit at the wacky Tate Modern art gallery.
'The physical impossibility of half-eaten pork pie in Tesco crisp bag' soon began to attract crowds after Dave Stench had to answer a call of...
The Tate Modern gallery in London is well known for its unusual and sometimes controversial displays of art from Britain's brightest and most talented artists. It has probably never had as much publicity as it has from its latest installation, a coll...
A woman whose work has included projects based on Star Wars character Jabba the Hutt is one of the four artists shortlisted for this year's £25,000 Turner Prize.
Performance artist Lali "Spartacus" Chetwynd joins Luke Fowler, Paul Noble and Elizab...
Fifteen people were arrested last night when Dorking Police swooped on the Our Lady Mary RC school to break up a "notorious" currency counterfeiting operation.
Officers from Dorking Central Division, accompanied by dog handlers and an armed respon...
A Dorking painter is furious after once again being snubbed by a major art gallery, writes EIF News & Features Art Correspondent, Proserpine Gainsborough-Halfwit.
London's Tate Britain has announced that its big autumn show this year will be t...
A local art historian and critic is among the names being touted to be the next chair of Arts Council England.
Proserpine Gainsborough-Halfwit will be up against television presenter, political pundit and former Tory MP Michael Portillo, and TV mo...
I was standing in line at the grocery store when an elderly man with a smooth southern accent came up to me and said, "Miss? Do you use those softener sheets that you put in the dryer?" Thinking that he was loose in the grocery store and needed directions to the laundry products I said,
"Well, yes I do," preparing to point him in the right direction.
"I thought you might,' cause you've go...