Artist sells an invisible sculpture for £13,000 and gives buyer a certificate of authenticity to prove it’s real Artist Salvatore Garau, 67, sold the invisible piece, titled ‘I am’, earlier this month Unidentified buyer received a certificate of authenticity, to prove the art is real Intended for display in a 5ft by 5ft square, private space, without … Read more
Artist sells an invisible sculpture for £13,000 and gives buyer a certificate of authenticity to prove it’s real Artist Salvatore Garau, 67, sold the invisible piece, titled ‘I am’, earlier this month Unidentified buyer received a certificate of authenticity, to prove the art is real Intended for display in a 5ft by 5ft square, private space, without … Read more
A 108ft long concrete vagina sculpture embedded on a hillside sparks fury in Brazil ‘Diva’, a scarlet sculpture of a vagina on a hillside in Brazil, has polarised opinions ‘One of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen!’ one critic of the artwork said Others praised the sculpture for its ‘beauty’ and ‘elevation of feminism’ By … Read more
Quite a tail to tell! Train crashes through barrier at Dutch station – and lands on giant whale sculpture 25ft in the air The train ran through the station buffer at 30 minutes past midnight last night, at De Akkers metro station The train shot through the end of the track and came to rest … Read more
A quick snap! Tourist accidentally breaks the toes off a 200-year-old sculpture at Italian museum while lying on it for a selfie The tourist leaned on the ‘Paolina Borghese Bonaparte as Venus Victrix’ artwork He accidentally broke off three of the toes of the 200-year-old sculpture Police say they have identified the man as a 50-year-old … Read more
Tourist snaps the toes off a 200-year-old sculpture at Italian museum while lying on it to take a selfie The tourist leaned on the ‘Paolina Borghese Bonaparte as Venus Victrix’ artwork He accidentally broke off three of the toes of the 200-year-old sculpture Police say they have identified the man as a 50-year-old Austrian tourist By … Read more
Bristol council have removed a statue of a Black Lives Matter protester around 24 hours after it was secretly raised on a plinth where a memorial to Edward Colston once stood, before it was dumped in a nearby harbour by demonstrators last month. Pictures from the scene show workers at the site at around 5.20am … Read more
Edward Colston statue is replaced by unofficial sculpture of Black Lives Matter protester who helped topple monument to the slave trader in Bristol in secret dawn installation by activists A figure of BLM protester Jen Reid was erected on Edward Colston’s old plinth Ms Reid was recently photographed on the plinth in Bristol with her … Read more
‘Are they worried about Jane Austen fans?’: Statue defenders draw scorn as they stand in front of sculpture of writer George Eliot during Black Lives Matter protest The ‘defenders’ surrounded a statue of George Eliot in Nuneaton, Warwickshire The writer was a known critic of slavery and she strongly opposed anti-semitism Statue defenders have been … Read more
Not fur real: Armed police swoop on sleepy Kent village after a ‘tiger’ is spotted on the loose… but turns out to be a 20-year-old sculpture made by a local grandmother Sculpture mistaken for a tiger in woodland in Ightham, near Sevenoaks, in Kent Kent Police sent ten armed officers to cope with the perceived … Read more