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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's staff have altered a reproduction of a famous 18th-century painting by Giambattista Tiepolo to cover an exposed breast. The picture was in the press room in the Palazzo Chigi, the prime minister's palace.

According to The Villager, all artist Arnie Charnick wants to do is transform that cube in Astor Place – a kinetic sculpture called “The Alamo” – into a giant craps table. Charnick’s vision would temporarily turn the big cube into a die with[...]

Neatorama reader David Nakamura saw our post of the pop culture Mona Leia painting and sent us a photo of this drawing made by his art school friend: a rendering of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring with Lisa Simpson! Thanks David!

The Strib today ran an AP story about efforts to beautify Baghdad's concrete blast walls with painted murals. [Photo by Mike Ferner] Here's a section the truncated version left out: Remarkably, none of the designs appear to have suffered any...

I am away at the SALI Convention this week, so will not be posting until I return. I brought my camera, but forgot the cord that atta ches the camera to my laptop, thus preventing me from uploading any photos!...

AP - Workers of the art exhibition hall install the painting "Grand Slam" by Robert Rauschenberg in an exhibition in Rostock, northern Germany, Wednesday, July 23, 2008.

Custom shoe-painter SweatShop Clothing sent me the link to a pair of Heath Ledger Joker shoes he made for some chick in New Zealand that wanted them to wear to the movie or something. Here they are. Hit the jump to see a ton of pictures, including several[...]

AP - Anish Sahu, 4, a blood cancer patient, and his mother Anita, 30, look on after a painting workshop for children afflicted with cancer organized by The Indian Cancer Society (TICS) to mark its 57th year, in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, July 16, 2008. [...]

I love this painting by Barnaby Furnas but I doubt Meg would let me hang it anywhere in the house. Perhaps if we had a dungeon. Furnas has done several paintings in this style, including one I saw at the Whitney in aught-four. (link)

Acrylic on canvas, cityscape, decorative Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:17