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If You Haven’t Watched ‘BEEF’ On Netflix, What Are You Even Doing With Your Life?
17 Apr 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
‘BEEF’ is so good, but the art in the Netflix road rage series is even juicier.
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Local Storage Auction Company Has Found Some Weird Stuff
03 Apr 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
One man’s junk can be another’s treasure, and sometimes it can be a real treasure.
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No More Woof – The Device That Let’s Your Dog Talk [Video]
06 Mar 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Whether your dog would want to walk around with a crazy device like this strapped to his head is doubtful, but what I do know is that if my dog could talk, I wouldn’t tell him anything.
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SA Startup Helps You ‘Forge’ Paintings By Pierneef, Irma Stern And Van Gogh
21 Feb 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
I’m wondering how long it will take Grandma to notice I swopped her Pierneef for a paint-by-numbers replica.
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Don’t Talk To Me, Talk To My AI – World’s First Lawyer App Goes On Trial
11 Jan 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Legal history is being made as an AI lawyer auditions for Megan’s replacement in ‘Suits’. Minus all the drama.
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London Police Break Down Door To Save Art Installation Of A Dying Woman
14 Dec 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
On the evening of Friday, November 25, police knocked down the doors to a Soho art gallery to save a woman slumped over a desk who turned out to be a piece of art.
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Banksy Managed To Get Into War-Torn Ukraine To Do Some Murals
14 Nov 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
The anonymous artist confirmed an artwork as his by posting Instagram pictures of a gymnast on a destroyed building.
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Watch This Artist Completely Cover His Mansion In Doodles [Video]
19 Oct 2022 by Jacqui / No Comments
This artist had a dream to not only live in his ideal home but to decorate it with his unique seal of approval.
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Today’s WTF Moment: Superstar Artist Burns Millions Of Dollars Of Artwork, Converting Them To NFTs [Video]
12 Oct 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This week, Damien Hirst began burning hundreds of his own artworks after selling a series of non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
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Brad Pitt Is A Sculptor Now
20 Sep 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Pitt is showing his art in public for the first time in a group show with musician Nick Cave and artist Thomas Houseago, which opened on September 18 at the Sara Hildén Art Museum in Finland.
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Secret Van Gogh Self-Portrait Uncovered
15 Jul 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
During a routine examination of the Dutch artist’s ‘Head of a Peasant Woman’, completed in 1884 or 1885, conservators came across the hidden gem.
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Idiot Wrecks Priceless Museum Artefacts After Woman Problems
07 Jun 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
The Texas man smashed through the museum’s glass front entrance with a metal chair. He then used a hand sanitiser stand to break the glass display cases holding a couple of priceless, rare artefacts.
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Man Disguised As Old Lady Throws Cake At Mona Lisa [Video]
30 May 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
The man attempted to break through the bulletproof glass that protects the painting and threw some roses in the air before security came to escort him out of the building.
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The Rise And Fall Of One Of The Art World’s Greatest Swindlers
26 May 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
His charms and talent were overshadowed by what one of his art-deal victims described as “a toxic mix of arrogance and alcohol”.
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There’s A Wordle Spinoff For Art Lovers Now
23 May 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Every day, ‘Artle’ gives players an opportunity to identify the creator of four works of art in four guesses.
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Ultra-Realistic Robot Can Paint Better Portraits Than You [Video]
06 Apr 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
With her bionic hand, robotic arm, the mind of artificial intelligence, and a face as real as any other, she is the world’s first ultra-realistic humanoid robot to paint.
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They Reckon This Will Become The Most Expensive Photo Ever Sold
22 Feb 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
“Le Violon d’Ingres” has always been considered Man Ray’s most famous masterpiece, and an influential piece in the art world.
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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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One Of The Most Audacious Art Heists In History Was Carried Out By Students [Video]
26 Jan 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Chas Allen was one of four college students who trained their thieving eyes on the Transylvania University Private Collections Museum in Kentucky, famous for housing some of the rarest (and most valuable) books and paintings in the world.
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Most Expensive House In The World (Ever) Misses R8 Billion Target
19 Jan 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Imagine a massive Roman villa, poised to be the most expensive home ever sold, complete with artwork from some of the greats of the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries, completely flopping at an auction.
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There’s No Making Sense Of The Most Expensive NFTs Sold In 2021
17 Jan 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Since the first NFT was created back in 2014, the trend has made a lot of artists on the internet really, really rich.
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Miami Art World Went Nuts Over This 10-Year-Old Boy
03 Dec 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
A 10-year-old boy, known for his large, dramatic, and colourful figurative paintings, has already sold his artworks to some big Hollywood names.
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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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Danish Artist Deserves Round Of Applause For “Take The Money And Run” Piece
30 Sep 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
Danish artist Jens Haaning was given $84 000 (around R1,3 million) by the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art to recreate some prior works of his. He had a different idea.
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WATCH: Incredible Art Installation Sees Arc De Triomphe Completely Wrapped [Video]
20 Sep 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
Paris’s famous war memorial, the Arc de Triomphe, is currently completely wrapped into a new art piece.
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Looks Like Banksy’s Been Busy On His “Spraycation” [Images]
10 Aug 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
Eight fresh Banksy-esque images and messages have popped up along England’s East Anglian coast. They have not yet been confirmed as works by the anonymous artist, but authorities are looking to preserve them.
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Why Would Someone Pay R48m For A Fake Mona Lisa?
28 Jun 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
The Hekking Mona Lisa is arguably the most famous reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece, and was recently bought by a European collector for a whopping price.
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$450 Million ‘Salvator Mundi’ Painting Opens Pandora’s Box Of Controversy
01 Jun 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
A Russian oligarch and a Swiss art dealer are caught in the middle of a controversy that is shedding light on the dark side of the art world.
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Bruised Banana Art Is A Thing Now
23 Apr 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
This woman went bananas in lockdown, and her form of artistic expression has really made an impression.
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Meet The SA Art Duo Taking The World By Storm
31 Mar 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
When phenomenal artists like Teresa Kutala Firmino and Blessing Ngobeni emerge, the world can’t help but take notice.
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