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Funny story: Picture Improver for Tate Modern

Picture Improver for Tate Modern

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...

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Funny story: Metamorphosis: Titian 2012. National Gallery. Review

Metamorphosis: Titian 2012. National Gallery. Review

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...

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Funny story: Tracey Emin's new exhibit hailed a critical success

Tracey Emin's new exhibit hailed a critical success

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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Funny story: 100 Caravaggio sketches found, Evolutionists wet their pants!

100 Caravaggio sketches found, Evolutionists wet their pants!

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...

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Funny story: Salvador Dali Horse To Fetch £400,000

Salvador Dali Horse To Fetch £400,000

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...

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Funny story: Man's lunch becomes star exhibit at Tate Modern

Man's lunch becomes star exhibit at Tate Modern

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...

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Funny story: Turner Prize Shortlist "All Bollocks" Says Expert

Turner Prize Shortlist "All Bollocks" Says Expert

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...

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Funny story: Dorking Anti-Counterfeit Police Raid Art Class

Dorking Anti-Counterfeit Police Raid Art Class

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...

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Funny story: Tate Gallery Snubs Dorking Artist In Latest Blockbuster

Tate Gallery Snubs Dorking Artist In Latest Blockbuster

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...

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Funny story: Local Expert In Frame For Top Arts Job

Local Expert In Frame For Top Arts Job

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...

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Funny story: At $250m is Paul Cézanne's 'The Card Players' the art world's equivalent of the Hitler Diaries hoax?

At $250m is Paul Cézanne's 'The Card Players' the art world's equivalent of the Hitler Diaries hoax?

London - As hoaxes go this one's expensive and may have fooled the Middle Eastern gas-rich state of Qatar's royal family into parting with $250 million of their hard-earned shekels - er...dinars! Cézanne's 'The Card Players' is one of five painted...

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Funny story: Woman accused of fart attack

Woman accused of fart attack

A 56-year-old woman allegedly caused £10,000 worth of damage in the Tate Gallery of Modern Art. She ruined an Andy Warhol painting valued at around £10m by pointing her bare arse at it and letting rip with a series of thunderous and vicious farts.

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Funny story: Royal Academy appoints Professor of Whoring

Royal Academy appoints Professor of Whoring

London - A list of suitable tarts, slags, slappers and hos is being considered for the topnotch gravy train position. The mystery appointee will be revealed later this week as RA officials confirmed the need for someone new to 'pimp its ass' in th...

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Funny story: Discarded bales of Euros found behind large German bank

Discarded bales of Euros found behind large German bank

MUNICH - Hans Snortlebuntof, a well known artist in the city, has leaked to the press that he has constructed his next work of art, to be revealed Jan. 2, 2012, entirely out of 1000 Euro bills. Three tons of them. According to investigative repor...

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Funny story: Why the Turner Prize is so shit

Why the Turner Prize is so shit

It's that time of the year again, where Daily Mail journalists build up a froth of anger over the absurdities of the latest winners of the Turner Prize. "It's not art!" they scream red-faced, as they futilely attempt to define what art actually is. Regardless of whether you consider it art or not, one thing is beyond doubt. Every piece ever entered into that competition is utterly shit. But why...

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Funny story: Leonardo Da Vinci: Painter At The Court Of Milan, National Gallery. Exhibition Review.

Leonardo Da Vinci: Painter At The Court Of Milan, National Gallery. Exhibition Review.

One of the most eagerly anticipated exhibitions ever, Leonardo Da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan brings nine of the Renaissance genius's paintings together for the first time. The show is a complete sell-out and queues for the few daily walk-in tickets are forming in the small hours. Proserpine Gainsborough-Halfwit joined the throng at the National Gallery... Have you ever tried to...

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Funny story: Notorious Mitchell-Hedges crystal skull 'communicating evil thoughts' with Damien Hirst diamond skull: reports

Notorious Mitchell-Hedges crystal skull 'communicating evil thoughts' with Damien Hirst diamond skull: reports

London - A telepathic war of words is suspected by museum curators monitoring the infamous life-sized Mitchell-Hedges crystal skull found in Belize circa 1924. The pre-Columbian Mesoamerican artefuct is thought to be 'having a mental war' with Dam...

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