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Italian PM's Aides Cover Painting's Exposed Breast

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.

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Artist Would Transform Astor Place into Giant Casino

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 white Velcro dots, drop in a second giant die next to it, paint the Astor place island like a craps table, add some manhole-sized chips (one of which would actually be a manhole!) and string a 17-foot-high banner between two lampposts, depicting a ...

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Girl with a Pearl Earring, Drawn with Lisa Simpson

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!

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Painting Blast Walls and Papering Over Chaos.

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...

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Charleston SC Decorative Painting Convention

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!...

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Workers of the art exhibition hall install the painting "Grand Slam" by Robert Rauschenberg in an exhibition in Rostock,...

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.

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Why So Serious?: Custom Joker Shoes

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 of the painting process. Great job SweatShop. Now how about some polos, but instead of a crocodile or guy on horseback, a little "Why so serious?" Joker face. Oh hell yes. Just let me know if you need any help in the factory, I'll send the nei...

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Anish Sahu, 4, a blood cancer patient, and his mother Anita, 30, look on after a painting workshop for children afflicte...

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.

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I love this painting by Barnaby Furnas but I doubt Meg

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)

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