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Fantasy painting of Trump with ex-Republican presidents mocked online
It could be any Republican president's fantasy: hanging out at a bar with fellow conservative American leaders of years, decades, and even centuries past. For U.S. President Donald Trump, that fictional "happy hour" exists, in the form of a painting hanging at the White House ...
Cape Town artist fights gang violence by getting youths to practice beach calligraphy
The Hangberg community outside ruggedly beautiful Hout Bay is troubled by gang violence, drugs and poverty. One artist trying to break Hangberg's destructive cycle recently ran a workshop for a group of children from the area to teach them an unusual medium: beach calligraphy. Andrew van ...
Why Banksy's art stunt is economic genius
His shredding trick demonstrates the street artist's talent for exploring the ways in which people value art.
Banksy canvas sells for $1.4 million — before self-destructing
Art prankster Banksy has struck again. A work by the elusive street artist self-destructed in front of startled auction-goers Friday, moments after being sold for £1.04 million ($1.4 million). In an Instagram post Saturday, Banksy claimed the dramatic artistic payoff had been years in the ...
A creative force in a concrete jungle: Architect's Tokyo project draws on love and improvisation
Sandwiched between old residential apartments in the capital's central Minato Ward is the Arimaston Building, an eccentric collage of individually patterned concrete slabs piled upon each other as if by happenstance. It's the work of Keisuke Oka, who has been building the unfinished structure mostly ...
Fish in a phone box: Artist sues shopping district over plagiarism
A contemporary artist has filed a lawsuit against a shopping district in Nara Prefecture, claiming a telephone box teeming with goldfish resembles one of his works.
Thai junta scandals and political angst provide material for new wave of spray-can satirists
Thailand's junta chief caricatured as a "lucky cat" with a paw raised to rake in money, or his face crossed out by a thick, red line — daring graffiti is cropping up across Bangkok as the city's walls become a canvas for rare political ...
New York expo on conspiracy theories aims to capture zeitgeist
The Kennedy assassination, Watergate, 911 and the war in Iraq: all these landmark events in U.S. history fueled public suspicions about the elites and fostered conspiracy theories that inspired artists, and are now the focus of a new exhibition at New York's Met Breuer ...
South African cave stone boasts oldest-known human drawing, dating back 73,000 years
A small stone flake marked with intersecting lines of red ochre pigment some 73,000 years ago that was found in a cave on South Africa's southern coast represents what archaeologists on Wednesday called the oldest-known example of human drawing. The abstract design, vaguely resembling a ...
Talented Indian artist draws portraits with a typewriter, one key at a time
Clickety-clack, clickety-clack. Ding! rings out from a home in Mumbai where Chandrakant Bhide is creating his latest artwork — on a typewriter. The 72-year-old thumps the keys of the bulky, manual machine to draw portraits of famous people, all bearing an unmistakable resemblance to their ...
For four centuries, the opulent, exuberant nudes of Peter Paul Rubens have been known to shock and delight in sometimes equal measure. Now his baroque paintings are jolting the internet. Belgian museums are uniting in protest against Facebook because they cannot promote Flemish masters, including ...
Art dealer 'finds' six Willem de Kooning artworks in New Jersey storage unit
When an American art dealer dropped $15,000 on what he thought was "junk" in a New Jersey storage locker, he never imagined it could be the deal of a lifetime. But he now believes stashed in the unit were six paintings by Dutch-American abstract master ...
