The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was highly influenced by Italian art and literature. We sent our art historian Proserpine Gainsborough-Halfwit to run an eye over the current exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite art at Oxford's Ashmolean. "Review the Pre-Raphaelite thing at the Ashmolean," they said. "It finishes next month." "Of course - great. I love the Pre-Raphs." I said. "Where's the Ashmolean -...
Pope Benedict XVIIIMD has returned to Vatican City in the centre of Rome after a successful four day trip to the UK, however Scotland Yard in the UK are left wondering what happened to several important items including art-works, the Crown Jewels and...
Art experts were left red-faced yesterday after it emerged they had been the victims of an elaborate hoax. Boffins from London's prestigious Courtauld Institute had spent three years cleaning up what they assumed were 2,000-year-old wall paintings...
Bubba Larson, Hog Jaw's only contemporary artist, has had another of his exhibits banned from the Hog Jaw Contemporary Art Museum after Edna Farkle complained that his Babies' Butts Photo Splay was not appropriate for all ages. Edna is especially ups...
A couple from Salford are celebrating as a painting they found in their attic was recently authenticated as the last picture ever painted by L.S. Lowry, and has been valued at a staggering twelve million pounds. "We were staggered, we were, weren...
The Seattle Art Museum opened today with few patrons waiting at the doors, uneventful and relaxed. Josh Littlebear, reception desk guard, was hoping for more activity so the day went fast. Ten minutes later the front doors were jammed with two tour...
Mr Leonardo Smith, 27, has seen his life's work destroyed in an earthquake. The Earthquake only measured 0.7 on the Richter scale, but the artist works solely on Etch a Sketches. The retro 80's favourite was seen as a fore-runner for many graphic...
Two men who organised a controversial art exhibition in Moscow have been found guilty by a Russian court of inciting hatred against religion. Andrei Yerofeyev and Yuri Samodurov had set up the anti- Christian 'Forbidden Art" exhibition at the Sakh...
The White House today unveiled details of a security breach that occurred over the previous weekend, when British born graffitti artist, Banksy climbed through Obama's bedroom window during the early hours. Banksy, who originates from Bristol in t...
Paris - (Big Art): The reclusive New York trillionaire who spoofed a credulous media into buying the Lily Safra fantasy has been at it again. Last night in Paris he snapped up Modigliani's 1912 almond-eyed limestone head sculpture for a record 43.
George Papandreou, the Greek prime minister has been sensationally linked to the recent theft at the museum of modern art in Paris. Suspicions were raised when finger prints from a recovered Matisse matched those of the Greek incumbent but it was...
Paris, France - The office of the Prime Minister today hotly denied that David Cameron was in any way involved in the theft of five old masters from a Paris museum overnight. The raid was captured on CCTV and clearly showed a masked intruder who stol...
Schoolboys of all ages in the U.S. and Britain might want to take a pause for one minute today as it was announced that the great paperback artist Frank Frazetta has died. Can you believe he was 92? Many of us are old enough to remember his work i...
New York - (Monet Talks!): He's been at it again! The reclusive art billionaire who splashed out an unprecedented $104.3 million for the Giacometti sculpture in February has snapped up another world record-breaker. Last night the secretive US inv...
A row has erupted in Malta, arguably the most Catholic country in the world, over a phallic shaped piece of art created by Paul Vella Critien. The artwork, called Colonna Mediterranea and superficially resembling a giant blue penis, will be seen b...
Susan Boyle who is known as a singer has been comparing herself to Whistlers Mother, the oil painting which was done by the American born painter James McNeill Whistler in London in 1871. He must have had the worlds ugliest Mother mind you that Gordo...
New York, New York - Wilbur, the painting horse, whose art hangs in some of the poshest galleries, has destroyed most of his own collection in a fit of rage. The tantrum follows months of frustration as he stood by listening to critics dis his work.
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