Artemis Thunderberg, the reclusive poet, artist, writer and raconteur, who lives in a caravan somewhere near Glastonbury has announced that he hasn't completely ruled out the possibility that he may tour the UK again with his fabulously eccentric one...
One of Britain's greatest living characters, Sir Ranulph Fiennes is to be honoured forever with an eight feet statue made entirely out of baked beans! The masterpiece will stand in the Adventurers home city of Glasgow and will take over a week to...
In a hen hut in Arles Southern France has been found a missing letter signed Vincent Van Gogh. It was never posted to his brother but it makes for enlightening reading. Here are a several extracts to be published tomorrow exclusively by the famous art periodical Conn-Fusion published by Bloomsbury and edited by Christopher Little. "Dear Theo, First of all, thanks for the paints and...
A gay man's aspirations to become a wealthy man have floundered once again after his third successive business venture has failed miserably. Larry Sabu, 20, started up an art business in a shed in his mothers garden in a bid to become rich beyond...
As another football season ends for the Minnesota Vikings, retiring quarterback Brett Favre announced his plans to pursue a second career as a professional photographer. "I'm leaving professional football behind me--no, really, I am--for real, thi...
Norman Rockwell is perhaps America's best-loved artist of the twentieth century, wittily illustrating ordinary and fictional Americans - not least on his famous covers for the Saturday Evening Post. We sent our art historian and critic Proserpine Gainsborough-Halfwit to Dulwich to run an eye over this first UK exhibition of his original work... Don't make me laugh! Traipse out to bloody...
Experts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, have changed their minds about a portrait of Spain's Philip IV. The picture, painted in 1624, was previously thought to have been executed by an assistant of the great Spanish master, Diego Vela...
A mongrel called Hirsty is causing a real sensation in the art world and has been installed by bookmakers William Hill as a warm favourite to scoop the 2011 Turner prize. Hirsty, a 7 year old mongrel from Sheffield, has in recent weeks been leavi...
This Week's Guest Editor: Surrealist artist MARCEL DUCHAMP Dear Marcel, please can you help me? My grandad is in nursing care and my gran has been seeing another man at the day centre. I visit grandad in the home and he thinks gran still loves him. Grandad is coming out of the nursing home for Christmas Day and we are all going round to Mum's. I'm dreading Christmas dinner. Hayley, Gre...
Scientists and theologians have had a mystery on their hands for the last few days, after it was discovered that there were tiny letters and numbers in the eyes of Leonardo Da Vinci's, Mona Lisa. The letters were undiscerning to the naked eye but und...
Paris - (Wingnutz Poser): Was Leonardo Da Vinci a numerology freak who predicted the rise of Dan Brown conspiracy theories? The discovery of tiny numerals and mysterious occult symbols on the Mona Lisa's eyeballs says it all. "It's a message a...
A group of forensic scientists have found small print in the iris of the eyes of The Mona Lisa the classic painting by Leonardo Da Vinci. It had long been thought the Mona Lisa may have hidden messages that told where the Arc of the Covenant is hi...
A turd in a box has won this years Turner Prize, in a totally unsurprising turn of events. The turd was shat in to a shoe box by English born artist Stanislav Moyovich Chapman, 37. The artist told us from his home in Poland "I am so happy I won...
A elderly couple have come forward with 271 unknown Picasso sketches, drawings and paintings. Pierre Le Guennec, 71, claims he purchased the works personally from Picasso. Le Guennec was Picasso's electrician for thirty years, he worked on three of P...
Still scrutinizing more than 270 supposedly unreleased works from Pablo Picasso, French authorities and the Picasso Estate now have their doubts as to the authenticity of the recently found cache despite claims from a Paris electrician that the works...
London - (Trash-in-the-Attic Mess): Auctioneers described today's news a tragedy as experts branded the rare 18th century artefuct a load of old crock. The vase had smashed auction records reaching £53,105,000 after being talked up as Qianlong dyn...
Notorious multi-millionaire artist Damien Hirst is making the streets and parks of London a little more colourful by painting miniature pictures on pieces of dog excrement. "My whole career has consisted of polishing turds." says Brit Art's 'Bad L...
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