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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
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:
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.
Camilla Parker Bowles, Prince Charles' wife, has joined the likes of Kylie Minogue, Princess Diana and Brad Pitt by having her own waxwork at Madame Tussauds in London.
The famous London tourist attraction today unveiled its latest attraction, with the life-like Duchess of Cornwall mannequin added to the collection of royal waxworks on display.
Husband Charles looks proudly on, while models of Princes William and Harry, the Queen, Duke of Edinburgh and Henry the VIII stand nearby.
Dressed in an Anna Valentine-designed cornflower blue jacket and skirt with cream suede shoes and a Philip Treacy clutch bag in her hand, Camilla takes centre stage among the royals.
Source: Camilla superstar stiff @ Brisbanetime
Camilla's wax sculpture unveiled at Madame Tussauds @ Xinhua
Klara and Edda belly-dancing (picture/photo is here), a photograph of two naked girls taken by female American artist Nan Goldin in 1998 is collected by Sir Elton John. It is one of 149 images comprising the "Thanksgiving" installation Elton John purchased the "Thanksgiving" installation from the White Cube gallery in London in 1999.
According to the Eltonjohn.com, the Klara and Edda belly-dancing photograph exists as part of the installation as a whole and has been widely published and exhibited throughout the world. It can be found in the monograph of Ms Goldin's works entitled "The Devil's Playground" (Phaidon, 2003), has been offered for sale at Sotheby's New York in 2002 and 2004, and has previously been exhibited in Houston, London, Madrid, New York, Portugal, Warsaw and Zurich without any objections of which Sir Elton John and his company/agent are aware.
But now when the installation is on loan to the Baltic Centre For Contemporary Art in Newcastle, the 'Klara And Edda Belly-dancing' depicting one of the girls sitting on the ground with her legs spread wide apart has accused of violating child pornography laws.
Northumbria Police seized the controversial photograph after they were tipped by Baltic managerson 20 September the day before it was to be viewed by the public and put on a warning in the gallery: "We would like to advise you that this exhibition contains some material of a sensitive nature. It may include explicit language, nudity, sexual imagery or violence."
From the reactions of viewers below, you can decide if you'd like to take your underaged children to see Sir Elton John's collection:
One viewer of the gallery claimed today: "Some of the images are quite uncomfortable but I saw nothing that could be construed as pornographic.
"There a man holding his penis, which is a bit odd, and pictures of people in coffins who appear to be dead but may not be."
"There are three exhibitions with very bizarre content and all carry warnings. Nan Goldin's was the most uncomfortable of the three but there was certainly nothing in any of them that I found grossly offensive."
Source: Nan Goldin Klara And Edda Belly Dancing Child Porn? Elton John Reacts @ Post Chronicle
Sir Elton owns 'porn probe' photo @ BBC
Using the Shoushan jade stone, the same material once carved a realistic braised chicken, Chinese artist Shu Yue made these stone mooncakes and showed them at Guan Yuan Jewelery Store in Beijing. Not like the pure gold mooncake which may attract common customers' interests to purchase, it is doubtful that the stone mooncakes could be sold well.
The mooncake is a traditional Chinese food people enjoy on the Mid-autumn Festival (or the lantern Festival, the 15th day of the eighth month in Chinese lunar calendar, is the third most important Chinese festival after Chinese Spring Festival and Yuanxiao Festival), which falls on Sep 25 this year.
Using LED glowsticks, flashlights, even fireworks, combined with time-lapse photography, light graffiti
artists create a unique tagging that wraps around objects dimensionally, allowing them to tag in a way they'd never be able to with spraypaint.
From Wikipedia
The Mano de Desierto is a large-scale sculpture
The sculpture was constructed by the Chilean sculptor Mario Irarrázabal at an altitude of 1,100 meters above sea level. The work has a base of iron and cement, and stands 11 meters tall.
