London - A reclusive Carnegie Hill, NY10028 tycoon is having to slum in in the Presidential Suite at the Four Seasons tonight as his latest acquisition the Salvator Mundi takes pole position at the National's Da Vinci exhibition. The mysterious ar...
STEVE JOBS - As the family, friends, and Apple geniuses continue to mourn the passing of America's beloved Steve Jobs, there is a cultural phenomenon reshaping the art world. In his passing, Apple CEO Tim Cook decided to post a picture of Steve J...
Vandals have destroyed hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of sculptures at the Liverpool Tate Modern. "We're devastated," said Tate Head of Acquisitions, Pauline Quirk. "These were tasteful nudes created by Tracy Emin. What these bastards have...
Following its credit rating downgrade, the Italian government has voted to sell off a number of national treasures, in order to reduce the nation's budget deficit. In an emotional and at times heated debate in the Italian parliament building in Ro...
Local man, art critic and pork pie hat champion, Martin Shuttlecock, was today treated to his first view of shock rocker Marilyn Manson's artwork. Manson's work has been critically acclaimed by various media weirdos, such as Sharon and Ozzy Osbour...
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN CALLED STUPID? HAVE YOU EVER BEEN CALLED LAZY? HAVE YOU EVER BEEN MADE TO FEEL INADEQUATE? ARE YOU… AN ARTS STUDENT? Arts Students for Justice is a not-for-profit organisation that gives Arts students a place that they can call home. For too long, these sensitive, poetic people have had to carry the weight of discrimination and hatred. The soulless automatons of s...
Art experts recently called in by the Museum du Louvre in Paris to take another close look at the signature on a famous oil painting they have there, that of the 'Mona Lisa', after they'd noticed something unusual about it say the experts have now co...
There were extraordinary scenes at the world-famous Louvre museum today when a French art expert was challenged about his policy concerning the Mona Lisa. Leonardo Da Vinci's iconic masterpiece of the young woman with the mysterious smile has been...
A gardener from Merseyside has landed one of the prize jobs in horticulture - tending Claude Monet's garden. Fred Compost has to keep the garden, at Giverny, Normandy, in the condition it was when the impressionist master lived there. Some of M...
Jerusalem - "That Abbey cakewalk last month was just an audition," Tunick told Meggido Bikini & Burkhini News Illustrated reporters this morning. "I plan to position Pippa slap bang in the middle of the lake, surround by hundreds of tanned lov...
News that absinthe is to go on sale again in France has excited art dealers and gallery curators. The green, anise-flavoured spirit contains the chemical thujone, which supposedly gives it mind-altering properties. It was banned in 1915 when it wa...
Analysis of thirty of Lawrence Steven Lowry's paintings have convinced art historians that when Lowry painted Matchstalk men and Matchstalk cats and dogs he was actually painting the dead. The dead that only he could see. "We examined the time fra...
The world of art and culture was in a state of shock yesterday after it was revealed that artist Tracey Emin appeared at a public function and didn't break down in tears. Emin hit the headlines in 1997 when her display "Everyone I Have Ever Slept...
MANCHESTER - One thing that even the most die-hard fans of Chicharito did not know until only recently is that the Manchester United star, from Mexico is a fantastic stick-figure artist. Javier Hernandez Balcazar's mom stated to Mexico's Las Mara…
John Martin's epic canvasses were extremely popular in the early-to-mid 19th Century, with their apocalyptic visions - like The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. He was even described as the greatest painter of his day by one commentator. This is the first major exhibition of his work in more than 30 years - an enlarged version arrives at Tate Britain in the Autumn. We sent Proserpine Gains...
Now showing at the Tate Modern until September, is a retrospective exhibition of the work of Danish post-post-modern-neo-futurist-abstract/concrete artist Hotte Scheisse. Born in the 1950's, in the little-known Parisian suburb of Fromage sur Seine, the result of a one night stand behind a night club in Montmartre between her Polish heroin-addicted mother and a one-legged alcoholic German soldie...
A previously unknown painting has been discovered by Walter Sickert; who has been named as a suspect for Jack the Ripper, by crime novelist Patricia Cornwall. The painting "The Blind Sea Captain" has been held in a private collection and is said t...
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