Just like what the Flickr user mandalariangirl who took this ancient Egyptian female sculpture picture in an undisclosed museum, we are also speculating if Michael Jackson got some ideas for his [disastrous] plastic surgeries.
It's uncanny. Maybe Michael saw this and told his plastic surgeon, "make me look like this!"
Jonathan Salvo commented on the photo:
Michael Jackson [is] down to the nose!!
Below is a real Michael Jackson, The King of Pop!
(Image credit: PR Photos)
via Neatorama
Daria Zhukova, an ex-model, clad in a bikini (source: Metr.co.uk)
According to reports, Daria Zhukova, Roman Abramovich girlfriend, has offered the troubled British singer Amy Winehouse a lot of money up to 1 million pounds for a private concert this summer.
Contemporary Art Lovers: Daria Zhukova and billionaire boyfriend Roman Abramovich (Picture source: First Post)
Daria Zhukova, a 25-year-old former model, currently is transforming a 1920s Russian bus garage in Moscow to a contemporary art gallery which will be named the Center for Contemporary Culture. So she lined up the drug-addicted Rehad singer for a launch-night performance. Source: SMh
Aliza Shvarts is a 2008 graduate majoring in art of Yale University. Next Tuesday April 22, Aliza Shvarts is going to present her senior art project--a documentation recording the process Aliza Shvarts impregnated herself repeatedly and induced abortions on herself using abortifacient herbs.
Art major Aliza Shvarts ’08 wants to make a statement.
Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself “as often as possible” while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. Her exhibition will feature video recordings of these forced miscarriages as well as preserved collections of the blood from the process.
Of course, Aliza Shvarts' abortion art project will spark the controversies.
The goal in creating the art exhibition, Shvarts said, was to spark conversation and debate on the relationship between art and the human body. But her project has already provoked more than just debate, inciting, for instance, outcry at a forum for fellow senior art majors held last week. And when told about Shvarts’ project, students on both ends of the abortion debate have expressed shock — saying the project does everything from violate moral code to trivialize abortion.
But Shvarts insists her concept was not designed for “shock value.”
“I hope it inspires some sort of discourse,” Shvarts said. “Sure, some people will be upset with the message and will not agree with it, but it’s not the intention of the piece to scandalize anyone.”
The “fabricators,” or donors, of the sperm were not paid for their services, but Shvarts required them to periodically take tests for sexually transmitted diseases. She said she was not concerned about any medical effects the forced miscarriages may have had on her body. The abortifacient drugs she took were legal and herbal, she said, and she did not feel the need to consult a doctor about her repeated miscarriages.
Shvarts declined to specify the number of sperm donors she used, as well as the number of times she inseminated herself.
Art major Juan Castillo ’08 said that although he was intrigued by the creativity and beauty of her senior project, not everyone was as thrilled as he was by the concept and the means by which she attained the result.
“I really loved the idea of this project, but a lot other people didn’t,” Castillo said. “I think that most people were very resistant to thinking about what the project was really about. [The senior-art-project forum] stopped being a conversation on the work itself.”
Although Shvarts said she does not remember the class being quite as hostile as Castillo described, she said she believes it is the nature of her piece to “provoke inquiry.”
“I believe strongly that art should be a medium for politics and ideologies, not just a commodity,” Shvarts said. “I think that I’m creating a project that lives up to the standard of what art is supposed to be.”
The display of Schvarts’ project will feature a large cube suspended from the ceiling of a room in the gallery of Green Hall. Schvarts will wrap hundreds of feet of plastic sheeting around this cube; lined between layers of the sheeting will be the blood from Schvarts’ self-induced miscarriages mixed with Vaseline in order to prevent the blood from drying and to extend the blood throughout the plastic sheeting.
Schvarts will then project recorded videos onto the four sides of the cube. These videos, captured on a VHS camcorder, will show her experiencing miscarriages in her bathrooom tub, she said. Similar videos will be projected onto the walls of the room.
School of Art lecturer Pia Lindman, Schvarts’ senior-project advisor, could not be reached for comment Wednesday night.
Few people outside of Yale’s undergraduate art department have heard about Shvarts’ exhibition. Members of two campus abortion-activist groups — Choose Life at Yale, a pro-life group, and the Reproductive Rights Action League of Yale, a pro-choice group — said they were not previously aware of Schvarts’ project.
Alice Buttrick ’10, an officer of RALY, said the group was in no way involved with the art exhibition and had no official opinion on the matter.
Sara Rahman ’09 said, in her opinion, Shvarts is abusing her constitutional right to do what she chooses with her body.
“[Shvarts’ exhibit] turns what is a serious decision for women into an absurdism,” Rahman said. “It discounts the gravity of the situation that is abortion.”
CLAY member Jonathan Serrato ’09 said he does not think CLAY has an official response to Schvarts’ exhibition. But personally, Serrato said he found the concept of the senior art project “surprising” and unethical.
“I feel that she’s manipulating life for the benefit of her art, and I definitely don’t support it,” Serrato said. “I think it’s morally wrong.”
Shvarts emphasized that she is not ashamed of her exhibition, and she has become increasingly comfortable discussing her miscarriage experiences with her peers.
“It was a private and personal endeavor, but also a transparent one for the most part,” Shvarts said. “This isn’t something I’ve been hiding.”
Source: Yale Daily News
George Clooney can be eaten?
A likeness of the 46-year-old Oscar nominee with 10,000 jelly beans has been created. It will be on display at the Style Hollywood Magazine Red Carpet Suite in the Luxe Hotel in Beverly Hills during the Oscar week.
The mosaic masterpiece will be donated to a charity of George's choosing after the end of the week. Link
Pictures of US President George W. Bush clutching a clapboard with a date of his "arrest" - a day (1/28/2003) when he made "incriminating" statements regarding the Iraq war - were displayed on the New York Public Library's exhibit named "Line Up". The political satire art exhibit is a creation of artists Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese. Source: NYDaily Tags:
Photocopy of Soliloquy VII by Sam Taylor-Wood, found at Artnet
On Nov. 5 at the Woodley Park home of D.C. lobbyists Tony and Heather Podesta, Soliloquy VII (picture above), British artist Sam Taylor-Wood's eight-foot-tall color photo of a nude man lying on his back, one of collectibles worth of $250,000, was taken down at Hillary Clinton Fundraiser tea party where 250 women were invited to attend. While some guessed that politically correct Clintonites had demanded that the naked guy disappear, the Democratic elite Podestas said the picture was taken down a year ago for "conservation reasons." Click here to read the full Washington Post story. Tags:
The smallest teapot in the world which weighs only 1.4g was showed by a Chinese porcelain artist Wu Rui-shen on Nov 15, 2007.
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A doodle on a napkin by Damien Hirst fetched an incredible £18,000 at auction on November 8, reported Dailymail.
The ink sketch, on a square of linen from London's The Ivy restaurant, depicts Hirst's diamond-encrusted skull, which sold for £50million in August.
The artist donated the doodle, featuring steaming cups of coffee in the skull's eye sockets, to MacMillan Cancer Relief for its "coffee art" auction.
Damien Hirst is the world's priciest living artist for his artwork Lullaby Spring， a 10-foot wide steel cabinet containing 6,136 hand-crafted and individually-painted pills, which grabbed 19.2 million dollars. Tags:
Meng Jie, a Chinese man, spent two months to create the unique bicycle in the form of the Olympic rings in Yinchuan, capital of North China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. He plans to ride the Olympic ring-shaped bicycle around the China country. Link
This rare pair of vases took a local private enterprise two and half years to complete, through more than 50 procedures such as modeling and polishing. Link
Aya Tsukioka, 29, a Japanese fashion designer, has come up with a new skirt as a disguise to make the wearer look like a Coca Cola vending machine for helping the women who fear of crime.
Tsukioka says the vending machine shirt will help women to hide behind it to outfox a potential attacker if she walks alone.
The experimental clothes designer says this idea was inspired by a trick used by Japanese ninja assassins, who cloaked themselves in black blankets so they couldn't be seen at night.
Aya Tsukioka has already sold 20 of the £400 hand-sewn vending machine skirts and it hoping to market the design worldwide.
Source:The Japanese ninja skirt that turns into a Coca Cola machine to ward off attackers @ DM
Do you have any wacky creation with pumpkins for the upcoming Halloween Festival? No? If you are living in Surrex in UK, pumpkin expert Sally Duguid's pumpkin bras may be your good choice:
Pumpkin expert Sally Duguid from Tully's Farm hopes the range of wearable food will be a hit at the farm’s two-week long Halloween festival.
"We usually sell loads of pumpkins and I think this quirky bra will be a great addition to the range of costumes and props we offer in the farm shop.
"We'll be modelling the bras and showing visitors how they can make their own. They’ll be great fun at any Halloween Party.“
And best of all, the bras come on a whole host of sizes. So, whether you're an A cup or a DD, pumpkins and squashes come in all sizes, so you will be able to find one that's a perfect fit!"
Source: theSun
Pascal Cotte, a French engineer and inventor, claimed to have found Mona Lisa's eyebrows, using an extremely sophisticated scanner built by himself.
Pascal Cotte announced at a press conference Wednesday that he has found definitive proof that when Leonardo da Vinci painted the original portrait he included "Mona Lisa's" lashes and brows.
Cotte examined the world's most famous painting using a high-definition camera of his own design.
The device scanned a 240-million pixel image using 13 light spectrums, including ultra-violet and infrared.
The resulting ultra-high resolution photograph of 150,000 dots per inch yielded a reproduction of the "Mona Lisa's" face magnified 24 times. And there Cotte found the evidence he sought -- a single brushstroke of a single hair above the left brow.
Pascal Cotte's other finding includes:
Sources: High resolution image hints at 'Mona Lisa's' eyebrows @ CNN
New Technique Shows Mona Lisa Had Eyebrows But Incomplete Left Hand @ CityNew.ca
Link to Lumiere-Tecnhnology.com where detailed Pascal Cotte's scanning works.
Stelios ‘Stelarc’ Arcadiou
, a Cypriot-born, Australian-based philosopher and performer artist, has had an cell-cultivated ear surgically implanted in his left forearm. He plans to have a tiny microphone connected to a bluetooth transmitter implanted near his new ear so his audiences can listen to what it "hears".
The 61-year-old Stelarc shows his unique third ear at the opening of Dott 07 Festival at the Newcastle Centre for Life in England. Stelios Arcadiou originally wanted the ear grown on his head but abandoned the idea after doctors said it is too dangerous.
Sources: Aussie artist grows a third ear - in his arm @ Stuff
The artist who can lend an ear @ Telegraph UK
Links: Stelios Arcadiou on Wikipedia, Official Website
，a student University of North Texas (UNT) John Bramblitt paints beautiful works of art in vivid colors, despite the fact that he's been blind for years. I am totally moved by John Bramblitt's Blind Amibition! Keep up, John!
A gang of four to five drunk people intruded the Orsay Museum in Paris through a back door early Sunday and punched a 10-centimeter long hole in Le Pont d'Argenteuil by renowned 19th century Impressionist painter Claude Monet.
Claude Monet led the 19th century Impressionist movement, experimenting notably with light and color in works now deemed priceless.
Le Pont d'Argenteuil shows a view of the Seine at a rural bend, featuring a bridge and boats.
Even though the painting could be restored, the damage was deplored.
"It's always a heartbreak when an art object that is our memory, our heritage, that we love and that we are proud of is victim of a purely criminal act," French Culture Minister Christine Albanel said. Link
Daniel Edwards, the controversial New York-based sculptor who has created half nude Hillary Clinton, Autopsy Paris Hilton, stirred the pot again, by bringing his latest artwork Dead Prince Harry. Edwards said "Prince Harry's spirit must have died the day they told him he couldn't serve."
The sculpture shows 'Prince Harry' laid out in front of the Union Jack with his head resting on a Bible and a bloodied Welsh flag in his hands while his gun remains holstered.
Iraq War Memorial featuring the Death of Prince Harry, the Martyr of Maysan Province also shows a desert vulture resting on the boots of the 'corpse' which is holding a cameo locket of Diana, Princess of Wales.
The finished artwork, which will feature the second-in-line to the Windsor throne laid out on a slab with pennies on his eyes and his ears cut off, will be unveiled at the Bridge Art Fair at the Trafalgar Hotel in London next Thursday on October 11. Link
(1925-1996), an artist best known for his lifecast realistic sculptures of people, is one of the most accomplished hyper-real sculptors. Thanks to humemes.com's post, I got the chance to see some of his surreal masterpieces. Posted here is Hanson's sculpture called Tourist II finished in 1988.
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