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‘Tennis Girl’ Reveals Herself 35 Years Later
25 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Hey, you guys know that photo, right? The one with the tennis-playing girl lifting up the back of her skirt in a way that’s sort of sexy but also obliviously enough for people to call it art, rather than sexy-tennis-photography? It’s by Martin Elliot, who died recently, so the model’s decided to let us know who she is.
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So Mona Lisa Was A Man?
03 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
According to a leading Italian art historian, the model used for the ‘Mona Lisa’ was in fact a man. Apparently, the man in question was da Vinci’s apprentice and possibly even his lover. What, da Vinci could have been a gay artist? How shocking.
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Judge Ends Obama Artist Vs Press Trial
12 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
A judge put his foot down and ended the trial between the Associated Press and Shepard Fairey, the artist who painted 2008’s most famous image. The AP said the dead beat (their words) artist took their photograph and copied it with crayons and pens and things. He said are you crazy, it’s art. They said are you crazy, it looks exactly the same. I don’t think the judge had a choice.
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Artist Sails On The Thames In A Paper Boat
16 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The other day, while I was busying myself writing articles about men who use Gumtree to swap citizenship for sex, a German artist was doing something infinitely more radical.
As part of an a contemporary art exhibition in London called Drift, Frank Bölter created an enormous paper boat and sailed the Thames in it.
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