Pooch paw-traits: Ever-growing collection of photographs which reveal the different characteristics of New York's dogs

Dogs

Snooker fruity: Artist goes completely potty with banana-shaped pool table

Banana-shaped pool table

New Yorkers threaten to sue artist who secretly photographed them in their OWN apartments and is selling prints for $7,500

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Constable's cathedral 'masterpiece' is saved for the nation in £23.1million Tate deal

Best of British: The Tate have announced that they bought John Constable's Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows

Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows by John Constable was bought for £23.1million in a deal arranged by the Tate museum and four other galleries around the country.

Huge Banksy mural worth £1million removed from crumbling building... so the artwork can be painstakingly restored

Crumbling: The giant Banksy artwork on a Grade II listed building in Liverpool

The giant rat, which was created by Britian's most famous street artist, has been eroding for years, with large parts having peeled off with the plaster or vanished on rotted wood.

Nice little churner! 'Vomit Painter' throws up on canvas to create Jackson Pollock-style splatter paintings that Lady Gaga loves

Nice little churner

Millie Brown, 26, drinks coloured milk and regurgitates the liquid over a large canvas or white clothing while recording the process.

Considered 'sexist' 20 years ago... yet now a 'feminist statement': Naked painting of 'Golden Girl' actress Bea Arthur sells for nearly $2million

Bea Arthur Naked - Painting AT Auction

A topless painting of the late actress Bea Arthur, famous for her role as Dorothy in the TV show 'Golden Girls', sold for nearly $2 million at a Christie's auction in New York on Wednesday night.

The graffiti that makes a garage door worth £50,000: Antiques dealer invests in 'art' sprayed following London riots by the latest Banksy

The piece of artwork was sprayed onto the garage door of a vegan community centre in Hackney in the aftermath of the London Riots

The mural appeared on the shutters of the vegan cafe in Hackney following the disturbances in 2011.

Kling-on to King Kong! Australian stunt artist hangs on for dear life 300m above Melbourne for new tourist show

King Kong

Fortunately for the population of Melbourne, the vertigo-enducing image is a publicity stunt for a new musical production of King Kong, which open's next month.

Photographer shrinks New York City's landmarks down to doll sized proportions using camera trickery

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Photographic artist Richard Silver uses a signature technique called 'tilt-shift' in order to shrink New York City and all its inhabitants into the Tiny Apple.

Who said it's the Windy City? Beautiful pictures of a very foggy Chicago as it gets blanketed by the morning mist

Windy City? Fog blankets Chicago's tallest buildings after rolling into the city from Lake Michigan

Shot from the 69th floor of the iconic John Hancock Center the spectacular snaps capture the rare sight of early morning fog rolling in from Lake Michigan shrouding the Windy City.

I painted my picture perfect man... and then married him! Artist, 31, creates oil painting of dream husband - only to wed his spitting image three years later

Chloe Mayo painted her dream husband - and then married him

Chloe Mayo from Croydon quickly dashed off an oil painting of her holding hands with a handsome, dark bearded man in 2009, three years later she married him.

'Raphael prototype of Sistine Madonna' will go under the hammer in first online auction - and bids start at £1million

The 'de Brecy Tondo' painting, which depicts the central figures of the Renaissance master's famed Sistine Madonna

The De Brécy Tondo painting of the Madonna and Child, which is believed to be one of Raphael's masterpieces and a prototype for the Sistine Madonna, will be sold in the first online auction.

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