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  1. headscratcher4

    Aliens and UFO Art....

    http://www.wiolawapress.com/ Hmmmmmm....
  2. UndercoverElephant

    Modern art critics. Oh dear...

    I always suspected modern art was up it's own backside and that the critics hadn't got a clue. Now I'm sure: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/5081744.stm
  3. E

    Are video games a form of art?

    What about games in general?
  4. E

    Art theft, museum collections and payoffs

    This has been brewing for some time: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/04/arts/04muse.html In essence, the Met bought a Krater (a vessel for mixing wine and water) that is probably the finast of it's type. The Italians suspected that it was stolen from a site in Italy and now, the Met has agreed...
  5. sophia8

    11 year old art prodigy

    Akiane She's immensely skilled and talented for one so young. But I feel sorry for her - her family sound like the worst sort of New Agers (she's an Indigo Child!) And her pictures, although very well executed and composed, are nearly all the same sort of gluitinously 'spiritual' fantasy...
  6. Piscivore

    Art or Not

    What is your definition?
  7. RandFan

    The Dark Art of Interrogation

    Outstanding show. I recommend anyone interested in this issue to watch the program. I don't know when it will be televised again but it is for sale. The Dark Art of Interrogation DVD Some points (as I remember them) from the movie: Contrary to claims made torture and murder occurred at the...
  8. phildonnia

    Elephant's paintings sell for thousands

    Thousands of Thai Baht, that is; that's how much Mrs. Phildonnia valued a "still-life with flowers" painted before our eyes by a pachyderm with some encouragement and paint-selection from his trainer. This was during my recent trip to Thailand. The elephant training center produces many...
  9. S

    The Art of Puppetry

    I'd like some of you to tell me why the art of puppetry (the sophisticated, adult kind) fascinates me so much. ---SherryA.
  10. C

    Art challenge: Monet, "Snow at Argenteuil"

    During TAM3, I was fortunate enough to lure MoeFaux to the Monet exhibition at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. We came across one painting, where we profoundly disagreed on the sentiment of the painting. http://www.jimloy.com/arts/monet06.jpg Moe said that this gave her the impression of a joyous...
  11. L

    Thought Reading: The Art Possible to All.

    Chapter 12 Thought Reading The Art Possible to All It is really curious and astonishing to observe the readiness some persons display in ridiculing anything and everything they fail to understand. Thought reading is one of these, and people who fail to understand it simply put it down as...
  12. J

    Four year olds paintings sell for thousands

    A four-year-old girl is wowing the New York art world with paintings that are drawing comparisons with Jackson Pollock and Wassily Kandinsky. Marla Olmstead, from Binghampton, in New York state, has been painting since just before she was two years old. Using brushes, spatulas, her fingers and...
  13. P

    Art in the Ghetto

    I grew up in a ghetto in Ohio, and attended school there. My fifth grade teacher was Mrs. Carmody. My older brother had had her as his fifth grade teacher, and said everyone knew that she used to be a stripper. Must have been a long time before that, because she was sort of old. Mrs. Carmody...

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