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Unleash Your Inner Artist At Caprice This Weekend With Some Cocktails As Your Muse
07 Aug 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Applying colours to a blank canvas can be a potent cocktail of self-expression and imagination, and if you spice it up with conversation and cocktails, it sounds like a hella fun time.
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Michelangelo Wrote A Poem About How Much He Hated Painting the Sistine Chapel
21 Feb 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Take heart in knowing that even a great artist like Michaelangelo sometimes thought their job sucked.
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The Beatles Once Made A Psychedelic Painting, And Now Its Up For Sale
31 Jan 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The painting forms part of the “The Exceptional Sale”, which features also features a gold crocheted vest that belonged to Janis Joplin, and Elvis Presley’s guitar from his 1969 Las Vegas residency.
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Is This Painting Of A Young Girl Haunted? Every Owner Seems To Think So
02 Nov 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
The first buyer returned the image within two days, alleging it had a “strange atmosphere”. The second owner returned it after it left her “startled and distressed”. Then the Wi-Fi went out, the security cameras stopped working, the washing machine broke, and the televisions went dark…
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Renaissance Art And Aliens – Why Are There So Many UFOs Depicted In Historical Artworks?
20 Oct 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Some of the more looney ufologists claim that this actually depicts ‘contact with an alien’, but even X-Files fans might find this hard to swallow.
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Watch These Anti-Oil Activists Throw Soup Over An $84 Million Van Gogh Painting And Glue Themselves To The Wall [Video]
17 Oct 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
On Friday, a pair of activists threw a can of what appears to be tomato soup over Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ at the National Gallery in London.
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Clueless Security Guard Doodles On Famous Painting
11 Feb 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
You have to have some degree of control over the primitive and instinctual part of your mind to not doodle on a famous art piece in an art gallery.
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That $450 Million Da Vinci Painting Turned Out To Be A Very Daft Purchase
17 Nov 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
The ‘Salvator Mundi’ painting has already caused a massive ruckus in the art world, and the debacle is only getting more convoluted.
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The Mysterious Life And Scandal Of The ‘Salvator Mundi’ Painting [Trailer]
14 Jul 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
This documentary unpacks mystery after mystery as it explores the origin and life of the 500-year-old ‘Salvator Mundi’, the most expensive painting ever sold.
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Another Layer Of Intrigue Added To Bizarre History Of ‘The Scream’
23 Feb 2021 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Norwegian artist Edvard Munch’s artwork, ‘The Scream’, is known the world over, although its fame isn’t without a degree of controversy.
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You’ve Seen Rasta’s Painting Of Meghan And Harry, Right?
19 Feb 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
Rasta has picked up his brush and paints again, this time to honour Meghan and Harry’s announcement that there’s a new baby on the way.
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Zoom In On This 10 Billion Pixel Scan Of ‘Girl With A Pearl Earring’ Painting
22 Jan 2021 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ is a famous oil painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer, believed to have been completed in around 1665.
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So, About That ‘Fake’ Rembrandt Stashed Away In The Basement
02 Sep 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
An art museum in Oxford banished a Rembrandt painting to the basement in 1981, declaring it a fake. Fast forward nearly four decades, and things have changed.
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Sledgehammer Heist – Video Captures Thief Stealing Van Gogh Painting
23 Apr 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
Video footage has been released of a thief making off with an incredibly valuable painting by Vincent van Gogh.
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R35 Million “Disturbing” Painting Restoration Yields Unexpected Results
23 Jan 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
Experts restored the middle panel of Hubert and Jan Van Eyck’s famous ‘Ghent Altarpiece’, and the results have received a very mixed reaction.
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You Know There Was ANOTHER ‘Mona Lisa’ Hanging Above Someone’s Fireplace, Right?
17 Oct 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
Caribbean tax havens, a mysterious international consortium, and a famous art detective are all involved in the mystery of the second ‘Mona Lisa’.
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Family Googles Painting In Their Home – Discovers That It’s Worth R21 Million
16 Oct 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
A painting that had hung on the wall since 1971 turned out to be the work of a famous artist, which was recently auctioned for a tidy sum.
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Hidden Secrets In Seven Of The World’s Most Famous Paintings
14 Oct 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
Some of the world’s most famous works of art are hiding interesting details that you might not have noticed.
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This Guy Used His Penis To Paint Steve Hofmeyr
26 Sep 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
Pricasso has applied his talented penis to a portrait of our very own Steve Hofmeyr, ahead of his appearance in Pretoria.
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They Figured Out Where That $450 Million Da Vinci Painting Is Being Hidden
11 Jun 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
Since buying ‘Salvator Mundi’, Prince Bader bin Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Farhan al-Saud has been keeping its whereabouts under wraps.
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Is The Owner Of The World’s Most Expensive Painting Embarrassed It Might Be A Fake?
27 May 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
‘Salvator Mundi’ won’t be part of this year’s Leonardo da Vinci show in Paris, and the owner isn’t all that keen to let too many people have a look.
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This Exhibition Lets You Walk Through Van Gogh’s Most Iconic Paintings [Images]
15 Apr 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
Instead of simply viewing Van Gogh’s paintings in frames, this exhibit in France invites you to walk through detailed digital renderings of his greatest works.
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Turns Out We’ve Been Misinterpreting One Of The World’s Most Famous Paintings
22 Mar 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’ is one of the most famous images in the art world. Now historians and art buffs are saying we have it all wrong.
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Chilled: Man Strolls Into Art Gallery, Steals R13,7 Million Painting, Leaves [Video]
29 Jan 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
A man walked into an art gallery in Moscow, casually removed a painting from the wall, and strolled out. He didn’t enjoy a happy ending, though.
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Controversial ‘Mandela Autopsy’ Painting Back In The News
22 Oct 2018 by Carrie / No Comments
In 2010, Yiull Damaso unveiled his painting ‘The Night Watch!’, drawing death threats and accusations of racism. Some people remain fans, though.
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You Gotta See This Picture Of Trump Hanging In The White House
15 Oct 2018 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
We’ve all had a good look around the Oval Office, thanks to photo ops and Kanye West’s visit, but what paintings hang in some of the other rooms?
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People Think The World’s Most Expensive Painting Might Be A Fake
15 Oct 2018 by Carrie / No Comments
When the unveiling of Leonardo Da Vinci’s restored ‘Salvator Mundi’ was cancelled last month, people began to suspect that the painting was a fake.
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Let’s Talk About Ayanda Mabulu’s Controversial New Mandela-Nazi Artwork
11 Sep 2018 by Carrie / No Comments
Ayanda Mabulu may have finally gone too far with his latest artwork, depicting Nelson Mandela as a Nazi, saluting in front of a Nazi flag.
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REVEALED: The Buyer Of That $450 Million Leonardo Da Vinci Painting
07 Dec 2017 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
After the record-breaking sale of the controversial Salvator Mundi went through last month, everyone’s been wondering exactly who snapped it up.
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How Can These Not Be Photographs?
19 Oct 2017 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
We often feature the results from various photography competitions around the world, because who doesn’t like looking at beautiful photos. Here’s something different.
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