Artist Show Tony Blair and Wife Naked

The British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has become less popular since the Iraq war has turned sour. In this year's Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London a artist, Michael Sandle, has created a piece that will be displayed at the show. The piece shows the prime minister and his wife, Cherie, naked as Adam and Eve being expelled from 10 Downing Street, the seat of the British government.

The artist told The Daily Telegraph he was 'so angry with the loss of life in Iraq, the chaos and the futility of war' that he completed the massive work within a space of 10 days.

The picture shows the couple in the center as Adam and Eve and on one side shows British soldiers beating Iraqi prisoners and on the other bodies being piled up.

Sandle has put a price of 85,000 dollars that he believes nobody would pay but if they did he would donate the money to charity.

New Look

Yes our site has a new look. There are some problems. Such as old comments have all been erased I am working on adding them again. If you remember putting a comment please refill the comment. If you did not have a comment please add a comment so my site does not look so lonely.

Lot more changes and features to come.

Follow up: Good News I have recovered all my comments!!!

Graffiti Artist Found Guilty

According to the prosecution Dudley Halls traveled from Manchester 250 miles to the Perth railway station to TAG some trains on June 12, 2005.

Even though tagging trains has become a prestigious art form by many graffiti aficionados, the Perth commuters did not see it that way. The affected train had to be removed from the tracks to be cleaned up. The train was set to be used for a busy Monday morning run.

A investagation worth of a CSI epsoide was launched. Perth Sheriff Court heard how Halls frequent website that display the work of tag artists. A camera was dumped near to Perth railway station was found to contain several pictures of the graffiti. A face mask also found near the scence of the crime contained Halls DNA. Also it was discoved that the artist is also a self-employed distributer of art-related supplies including spray paint. As the evidence rolled out Halls said he had been on a “sight-seeing” tour of Scotland with foreign friends and was effectively guilty of no more than being in the wrong place at the time.

Well you heard the evidence what do you think?

Article discovered at The Courier

Follow Up - Marco Evaristti to Paint Mont Blanc Red

I recently posted a article about a artist named Marco Evaristti. The article was about how he lipoed his fat, made meatballs from his fat and served it in a reenactment of the last super. He is making news again. Apparently he is planning to climb France's Mont Blanc to paint its summit red and establish an independent state.

Mont Blanc is the highest mountain in western Europe and the paint will be biodegradable. The soveregin state will be named the "Pink State". He plans to do all this raise awareness for environmental issues. He is not releasing that date of his climb because he does not want to let the police know.

The mayor of Chamonix, Michel Charlet, said "He can't say he is defending the environment and degrading a protected site at the same time."

In 2004 Evaristti colored an iceberg off Greenland red as a "artistic protest" over nuclear waste dumped by the United States.

Follow Up - Corgi Dog Eating Artist Moving on to Mash Potatoes

Last week Mark McGowan chowed down on dog meatballs made of Corgi to protest against animal cruelty. Now he is moving on to a much bigger project. He plans to bury himself in a mountain of mashed potato. He did not explain why. I have my own theories. Potatoes are constantly tortured. Their eyes are dug out. The are load into potato guns. They are mashed and served up.

I agree with him. Somebody needs to be the voice for mashed potato. Speak up. Tonight I am going to have mashed potato with gravy to add my voice to the protest.

British artist creates diamond-studded skull

Damien Hirst know for things like saying once that the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States were like a work of art and later apologizing for that comment. Has created a piece called "For The Love Of God." "For the Love of God " is a platinum cast of a skull studded with over 8 thousand diamonds. According to his representatives the diamonds were ethically sourced.

The artist had hopes that the piece would be shown at the British Museum in London next to the Aztec turquoise skull which inspired it. The skull is currently on display at London's White Cube Mason's Yard. With a price tage of 74 million euro security is tight. It will be shown from June 3rd to July 7th.

When he asked what his next work would be, he said "Two diamond skeletons shagging."

Artist protest alleged animal cruelty by eating a dog!!

What is with artists and eating strange things. This story is another one of those what were they thinking tales. Mark McGowan chowed down on a Corgi dog , the breed of dog Queen Elizabeth II favors as pets, to protest against the fact that Prince Philip, the queen's husband, had beaten a fox to death during a hunt.

The Corgi was minced with apple, onion and seasoning, turned into meatballs and served with salad.

McGowan said that he was not the only one to taste the meal supposedly Yoko Ono had a bite also. (Now we can hate her for more then just breaking up the Beatles.)

Buckingham Palace declined to comment, and Britain's top animal-protection charity said there was no evidence to support the claim that Prince Philip abused the fox in the first place.

Please note: Picture is not the actual dog used in the meal. However, his cuteness made the story even more sad.

Artist Makes Meatballs From HIS FAT!

Do not eat dinner at Marco Evaristti house. Apparently the artist had his fat removed from his body by liposuction and the put the fat into meatballs all in the name of art.

His work has been labeled disgusting, publicity. Evaristti says he is simply trying to highlight some of the double standards he sees in the world around him.

In order for Evaristti to replicate Christ's last super he placed 13 tins of the meat on a long table. Then he invited 12 of people to join him in eating the meatballs. Yummy! Now I ask you all is this art or not?

I would like thank http://thedietpulpit.wordpress.com/ for sending me this incredible story. The actual new article can be found at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18744748/.

Artist Joerg Immendorf dies

Joerg Immendorff died on Monday. The disease ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis finally took his life. Immendorff will be missed and his oil paintings, prints and sculptures that mixed surrealism with an element of satire will be left in his memory.


I first heard about this artist in 2004 when he was fined 150,000 Euros and an 11 month suspended prison sentence. He pleaded guilty to charges related to the publicized "cocaine orgy" at a hotel. Immendorff , then terminally ill, said he only wanted to go out with a fling. He invited several prostitutes to a party in a hotel room that had quantities of alcohol and drugs were made available.

Other items I have read about this artist is when the disease made it impossible for him to paint with his left hand he switched to his right hand and when the disease made it impossible for him to paint at all he directed his assistants to paint for him from his wheelchair.



Immendorff set up a foundation in his own name to finance medical research into the condition in 1998

Picture from www.canada.com

Artist just uses ketchup and fries

OK! OK! The line of what is art and what is not art is always blurry but an artist that does the entire piece in ketchup is perfect. He uses ketchup as his paint and a french fry as his paint brush. His name is Jason Baalman. He does most of his work at night. He has been buying a lot more ketchup since releasing this youtube video. He has now done work for MC Donald's and even CNN.

UPDATE: The first post was done this weekend and I will admit it was kind of weak. I did some more research on Jason Baalman and what I found is incredible. His YouTube site is amazing. It has won #50 - Most Subscribed of all time, # 2 Most Subscribed -GURUS and #4 Most Viewed of all time - Gurus

The works that he has uses crayons, chocolate and even some MS Paint. You see him working each piece and you will sit there fascinated. Make sure you do not miss this. He is also selling his work on ebay and the prices have not gone crazy YET!

Toddlers Kicks Monks Sand Art

If anybody has seen this done you would know why this is so amazing. Each grain of said is carefully laid in place by monks. No glue is used and the piece that a toddler destroyed took two days to do so far. There is video greatness and mom is quick to remove the kid and run.

Did the monks go crazy and summon up some mad Kung Foo move. No they are working on fixing the art right now. They said it just means they will have to work harder.

500 Years of Women in Art

From the wow and too much time on his hands column. Take a look at this video, 500 years of female portraits in Western art are morphed from one to the next in this video. Very amazing and music is perfect. I love when you gets to arround 2:17. Tell me what you think.

Artist Head was Offered to a Museum

Yes that is right the artist, Ted Dewan, offered to pay to have his head shrunk and then placed in the Oxford University's Pitt Rivers Museum.

The museum already has a collection of shrunken heads (10 of them to be exact) from South America. Artist and children's writer, Ted Dewan, has told the museum that he will leave a shrunken head in his will to the museum as long as the original collection is returned. The museum has rejected the offer. This has brought up the question once again, should human remains be put on display? History Museum in London recently returned the 19th century remains of aboriginal people from Tasmania for repatriation following a lengthy campaign by community leaders. The Pitt Rivers Museum is an anthropological facility, with a collection of over 2,000 human remains (SWEET).

Bad Ink

I laughed so hard at this one. I know it is not nice to laugh at others art but this one was a little permanent. I can see what the artist was trying to do but something got lost along the way. This was also in loving memory. Ouch!

ART FUSION

WOW! When this video started I thought it was going to be about how tattooing is a real art form but then it exploded. The concept of having multiple artist working on one piece at the same time. What comes out is unusal and beautiful. I would love to work on any of the fusion projects.

Rembrandt's 370-year-old piece stolen within minutes.

It was very quick," said gallery owner Tom Hilligoss.

In the preview room on fourth floor of the Westfield North Bridge mall near the main receptionist's desk hung Rembrandt's piece called "Adam and Eve." The etching with a estimated worth of $60,000 dollars was on consignment and was the oldest piece in the gallery. It took a ordinary looking couple less then 5 minutes to walk away with it.

The gallery has a security camera trained on its elevator, which leads to the street, but not on the back door that leads into the mall, where employees believe the couple escaped.

Famous quote: "We should have more cameras. I guess we'll have more now," Hilligoss said.

Garage Sale Painting valued at $100,000

Stick this in to the most embrassing sales column. Somebody sold the painting of Lake Okanagan by E.J. Hughes for $200 dollars. It is expected to get over $100,000 dollars in auction.

Paul Martin has been searching flea markets, thrift stores and garage sales for awhile looking for art and antiques for his southern Ontario home. He had no idea of the value of his $200.00 purchase. He then began to research the artist Hughes and decided to contact Heffel Fine Auction House to arrange for the sale of the painting.

He plans to pay down his mortgage with profits of the auction.

UM . . . New Record . . . 72.8 Million for Rothko's White Centre

New Record!!!! Rothko's White Centre became the most expensive post war art sold at auction! 72.8 million from somebody on the phone!!!

It was sold by 91-year-old David Rockefeller. That bought it for $8,500.00 in 1960. He made a little bit of profit on his purchase. What do you think he is doing with that profit? Mr Rockefeller, will donate the proceeds from the sale to charity. (Did i mention that i am starting a charity?)

The painting used to hang in his office when he was chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank from 1961 to 1981.

Rothko fitting the suffering artist mold was found by his assitant in 1970 on the kitchen floor with sliced open arms and later discoved he also overdosed on anti-depressants.

Art or Very Kewl Ride?

An amusement park ride is used to create what is likely the world's largest spirograph. According to the comments on the video, he connected a gas generator and air compressor to buckets of paint and secured them into the seats of a Scrambler amusement park ride. Once the ride was in motion, paint sprayed out of the benches onto vinyl tarps placed underneath.

Adam Brandejs - Genpets

Adam Brandejs is a 24 year old sculptor/programmer with a BFA from Ontario College of Art & Design in Toronto, Canada. Adam has brought a possible dark future for humans to us now utilizing his art and technical skills. A future where the world is so desensitized about bio-engineering that people will go to store to pick living bio-engineered dolls from the shelves. He creates realistic illusion complete with a web site that had me wondering "is this for real."
According to Adam's website all work on the Genpets was done from scratch and by hand. He also says that he is not against bio-engineering he is just hesitant towards where and how and by whom the technology will be used. He hopes his art will sum that up.