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Jan 10 2013
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Poland probes artist’s claim he used Holocaust ash

Poland probes artist’s claim he used Holocaust ash

AP report:

Polish prosecutors are investigating a Swedish artist’s claim that he used the ashes of Holocaust victims to make a painting, an act that could carry a prison term.

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Spokeswoman Beata Syk-Jankowska said Tuesday that prosecutors in the eastern city of Lublin have opened an investigation to check whether there is truth to the artist’s claim. She said there is no evidence and prosecutors are acting on media reports.

This could be a completely false publicity stunt. Of course, it could be a true publicity stunt. :(

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Jan 09 2013
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Mille Bornes is an excellent card game, a favorite of both mine and Colin’s. It was originally released in 1954, and like all board and card games, it’s had several art redesigns over the years. Codex 99 has a post showing off some of the different card and box art,  and you all should check it out because it’s pretty delightful.

The card selections above are from the 1960 “edition spécial” deck by an unknown artist. I can’t take my eyes off the accident card in the middle.

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Dec 30 2012
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Here’s a time lapse video of Katsuya Terada drawing a mural for Songs of Anagura, which is some sort of arty, sciency, exhibity thing at the Miraikan museum in Japan. I’m not really sure what the deal with this thing is and whether it’s actually in the exhibit, but all that really matters is that Katsuya Terada rules a heck of a lot. I recommend checking the video out in the highest resolution so you can see all the details.

You should probably go check out his Tumblr too.

(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
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Nov 16 2012
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“Hand Fixing Hand” is a photographic homage to M. C. Escher’s Drawing Hands, created by Shane Willis in 2007.

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Nov 01 2012
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Victoria Stanell for Beautylish:

As part of his newest exhibit at the Palais de Tokyo, French artist Fabrice Hyber sculpted a massive cubic meter of red lipstick sitting atop a cold cement slab. The sculpture, entitled “1M3 de beauté” is part of a larger exhibition called “Matières Premières” (raw materials) showing through the holidays.

So, uh, yeah. A cubic meter of lipstick.

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Oct 25 2012
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Court Upholds the Taxation of Lap Dances

Court Upholds the Taxation of Lap Dances

James Barron writing for The New York Times on an important legal development in the world of performance art:

[New York] state’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, ruled on Tuesday that the lap dances performed at Nite Moves were not “dramatic or musical arts performances,” as Nite Moves had argued. The 4-to-3 decision said that Nite Moves did not qualify for the kind of tax exemption that ballet companies and Broadway producers are allowed to claim.

This type of judicial suppression of the arts is pretty disgusting.

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Oct 18 2012
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Picasso, Matisse paintings stolen in Dutch raid

Picasso, Matisse paintings stolen in Dutch raid

RTÉ News report of something which, I have to emphasize, happened in real life:

Paintings by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet and other famous modern artists have been stolen from a museum in Rotterdam.

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The works stolen were Picasso’s “Tte d’Arlequin”, Matisse’s “La Liseuse en Blanc et Jaune”, Monet’s “Waterloo Bridge, London” and “Charing Cross Bridge, London”, Gauguin’s “Femme devant une fentre ouverte”, De Haan’s “Autoportrait” and Freud’s “Woman with Eyes Closed”.

Jop Ubbens, chairman of Christie’s in Amsterdam, told Reuters the paintings would be worth “more than several million euros,” with the Picasso the best known of the stolen works.

Thefts like this don’t happen very often, because of how difficult it is to actually sell paintings as famous as these. Also, because real life is not a heist film.

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Oct 07 2012
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It seems that I have never posted anything by Massimo Carnevale here before. This is unfortunate.

To remedy this unfortunateness, I will now post a piece he did for the game Skullmonkeys. He usually takes inspiration from films, but this is fine too.

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Sep 30 2012
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Josh Dixon of Cultso has collected a bunch of pieces of art by Bryan Lewis Saunders. One of Saunders’s projects is taking a drug and drawing a self-portrait under its effects. He has taken some really nasty drugs and been hospitalized as a direct result of this project.

The picture accompanying this post was drawn while he was under the influence of cocaine. Click it to view the rest.

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May 21 2012
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So Boris Vallejo illustrated the back cover of issue 235 (December 1982) of MAD magazine.

Image courtesy of Doug Gilford’s Mad Cover Site.

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