It’s like something out of The Da Vinci Code. Only this story is not a best selling novel, but a real life tale. It involved an undercover policeman who alerted colleagues to a stolen Da Vinci painting using code and sparked a raid to recover it. The policeman was posing as John Craig when he [...]
Are you prepared to get naked all in the name of art? Well, if the answer is yes, then Spencer Tunick needs you. The artist is looking for 1000 people from Greater Manchester to take their clothes off and pose. And this isn’t the first time Tunick has done this. In fact, he has travelled [...]
A project involving artists and Olympic hopefuls from Essex has been unveiled at Colchester United’s football ground. The exhibition, called Journey to the Podium consists of paintings, animations, photography, film and sound. The art reflects the personalities of the athletes and their own journeys to the podium. It will be displayed at the stadium until [...]
A brightly coloured painting with people wandering about outside a mill in Paris is not perhaps what you would imagine from a Van Gogh painting. But according to experts at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum the painting of a windmill has now been identified as the work of Van Gogh. According to them, the painting was [...]
Artists are constantly trying to break the boundaries in a constant attempt to be the new trend setter. And sometimes the results can be a little embarrassing let alone pretentious. But French artist Celeste Boursier-Mougenot has managed to carefully balance the fine line between interesting and unique art and pretentious, pointless art. Her latest ‘piece’ [...]
