For nearly a decade, Judith Ann Braun has dipped her magical fingers in graphite and made enormous, imaginative patterns and even detailed landscapes of trees and waterways on wall-sized canvasses.
A huge fire has destroyed paintings by Stone Roses guitarist John Squire, pictured. The blaze, at the musician's home in Macclesfield, Cheshire, also claimed his art studio. Police and the fire brigade are investigating the cause of the blaze, which is thought to have been an accident. ...read
The irreversible damage to the work of art, which will take up to 18 months to repair, was revealed as Russian artist Wlodzimierz Umaniec, appeared in court charged with the attack today. Umaniec, who also calls himself Vladimir Umanets, calmly signed his name in ink and wrote '12 A potential piece of Yellowism' on the Rothko canvas in front of horrified art-lovers at the South Bank gallery. ...read
Kate, who is a keen photographer, took the shots on her own camera during a visit to the Danum Valley Research Station during her Diamond Jubilee tour to South East Asia and the South Pacific with the Duke of Cambridge. The pictures capture the couple's awesome surroundings in the jungle and include pictures taken on their private walks through the Borneo forest as well as images captured while the Duke and Duchess were flying to the Solomon Islands. ...read
This painting is the first image of the Stars and Stripes recorded - flying on the stern of an American ship attacking a British merchant vessel during the War of Independence in 1779
These intimate portraits by California artist Robyn Twomey show marijuana users smoking the plant not because they want to, but for medicinal reasons.
The toy company's festive offering has 108 Lego branches and 450 Lego baubles. It was built at Manchester's Trafford Centre at the beginning of the month.
Asian elephant Karishma, a 14-year-old female, paints colourful artworks using a tiny brush gripped in its trunk at Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire.
Featuring in Hockney's Winter Timber (pictured) the tree, which he labelled Totem, caught his eye after he stumbled across it in Woldgate, near Bridlington, East Yorkshire.
These are the amazing models of animals that are so intricate they can sell for up to £2,200 - despite being made of just paper. Bernard Peyton, 62, from California, has been making origami ever since his mum took him on an inspirational trip to Bronx Zoo when he was just nine years old.
Each individual image shows one abstract flesh-coloured shape which has been created by the naked subject.
The one-room hotel is located on an island inside a 30 acre arts park in Antwerp, Belgium where guests are lining up to spend £96 a night inside the gut. For those who are able to stomach the less than inviting exterior, the inside of the hotel is much easier to digest, as it offers a comfortable double-bed and all the mod cons.
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Plastic mini-me dolls invariably look nothing like the characters or celebrities they are based on - at least not until Filipino repaint artist Noel Cruz has taken his intricate paintbrush to them.
William Turnbull was a key figure in the post-war art world and his works feature in galleries across the globe. Turnbull, the son of a Dundee shipyard engineer, was also widely recognised for his paintings and drawings.
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Show is well acted, well lit, well staged, with cracking music
The Magistrate: This vintage comedy's a real corker of a Christmas show
Timothy Sheader’s production creaks at the margins a little
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The Effect, at the Cottesloe Theatre, is immersive
The Seagull: Charity shop clothes make this Chekhov look shabby
An occasionally sparky new version written by Anya Reiss and featuring Matthew Kelly
The Dark Earth and the Light Sky
Do not be deterred, this tale of sacrifice is one to remember
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Carmichael’s plaintive, plain Sonya is one of the strengths of Posner’s starry but disappointingly lacklustre revival.
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