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Scot sold van Gogh paintings for a pittance
Sun Jul 9, 2006 10:06am ET
By Ian MacKenzie

EDINBURGH (Reuters) - When Scottish art dealer Alexander Reid returned from Paris with two paintings by Vincent van Gogh, his father berated him for bringing such "atrocities" home and sold them to a French dealer for five pounds ($9) each.

American Gets Win in Looted-Art Dispute
Calif. Woman Gets Court Ruling in Case of Valuable Paintings Allegedly Stolen From Family by Nazis

By GEORGE JAHN Associated Press Writer

VIENNA, Austria Jan 16, 2006 — It was a seven-year legal struggle with dazzling stakes five precious paintings by Austrian icon Gustav Klimt that a California woman says were stolen from her Jewish family by the Nazis. Now, a court ruling made public on Monday will likely resolve the high-profile case against Austria's government in her favor.

That's no jack rabbit ... it's an artist in chains
Man has to hop 12 hours across desert after binding legs for realistic picture
Associated Press
Updated: 12:00 p.m. ET Jan. 5, 2006

BAKER, Calif. - An artist who chained his legs together so that he could accurately render a picture of his legs wrapped in chains hopped 12 hours through the desert after realizing he lost the key and couldn’t unlock the restraints, authorities said.

Howdy folks! I have been Wiccan for the last 8 years and regretfully confess I haven't practiced the belief for approx. 3 of them. Now I come to the table in need of assistence and (gulp) help. My fiance' has a brother who for as long as he can remember has been "haunted" by visions and dreams influenced by a being that (from my understanding) calls itself "Archaos" (Ark-a-o-is).

Artist Barney Looks to Brazilian Gods in New Film
By Fernanda Ezabella

SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - Matthew Barney has choreographed dancing girls, filmed a demolition derby inside the Chrysler Building and dressed up like Harry Houdini all in the name of art.

In his latest work, the acclaimed U.S. artist, whose work melds scultpural installations with performance and video, is delving into the heart of Afro-Brazilian culture to expound on his vision of the creative process, the destruction of nature and cycle of life.

Artist Barney Looks to Brazilian Gods in New Film
By Fernanda Ezabella

SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - Matthew Barney has choreographed dancing girls, filmed a demolition derby inside the Chrysler Building and dressed up like Harry Houdini all in the name of art.

In his latest work, the acclaimed U.S. artist, whose work melds scultpural installations with performance and video, is delving into the heart of Afro-Brazilian culture to expound on his vision of the creative process, the destruction of nature and cycle of life.

"The Museum Of Bad Art (MOBA) is the world's only museum dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition and celebration of bad art in all its forms."

This is the online virtual gallery for The Museum Of Bad Art in Massachussetts. Gracing the front page is the classic painting, Lucy In The Field with Flowers - a true example of the bad art genre. All the descriptions are amusing, as are the stories that go along with the art (when known). I thoroughly enjoyed my visit to this virtual shrine to art that should never have been.

An article that contains some interesting info on Astronomy, as well as great artwork!

http://www.space.com/scienceastrono

Fossil findings blur picture of art's birth
By Michael Hopkin

Who created the earliest artwork?

For years archaeologists have clung to the idea that only truly modern humans were artists, and that our Neanderthal cousins spent their entire evolutionary lifetime as boorish philistines. But fresh analysis of a prized set of human bones has dealt a body blow to this cherished theory.

I'm bored, so I'm making a new thread.
:-P

Any strange art I run across, I'm posting it here. I haven't decided yet how strange is too strange, but I'm sure we'll figure that one out when we get there! }:-)