The would-be artist, who was finding international fame with his band The Beatles at the time, scrawled 18 simple sketches in colourful felt-tipped pen in a notepad he carried with him.
Korean Jee Young Lee’s Stage of Mind sees her construct scenes for her camera rather than employing the traditional method of taking photos. Her stage for these fictional scenes, which she says convey her psychological state, is her room-sized studio in Seoul, measuring just 360 x 410 x 240 centimetres. ...read
French artist Laure Prouvost was named this year's winner for her video, 'Wantee', who told the audience: 'Thank you for adopting me, for having a French one.' Prouvost’s video was inspired by the life of the late German artist Kurt Schwitters whose girlfriend was nicknamed Wantee as she repeatedly asked 'want tea?' The award, which earns the winner £25,000, was given by young Irish actress Saoirse Ronan, at a ceremony held in Londonderry, Northern Ireland last night. ...read
A photographer has come up with an unusual pet project - snapping ecstatic dogs as they hang their heads out of car windows for a new calendar. Lara Jo Regan, 48, embarked on her task for the 2014 calendar 'Dogs in cars'. The unusual shoot, which took place in Los Angeles, California, was aimed at exploring the unbridled joy experienced by pugs and huskies when a breeze hits their faces. ...read
A Banksy mural that was originally on the wall of a Hollywood gas station sold this week for more than $200,000 at auction.
It may look like a thoughtful photographic portrait of Morgan Freeman, but in fact this is a hyper-realistic finger-painting, created using only an iPad.
Monica Warhol, of Tuscan, Arizona, insists Kanye commissioned her to immortalise his fiancee but according to TMZ, the fortuitously named painter is simply grasping her chance to take her 15 minutes of fame (of this at least, Andy would be proud).
Valeriya Kutsan has used make-up rather than oil and canvas to recreate some of the world's most iconic artworks and pop-art.
This image of Springer Spaniel Archie, taken by Rachel Kemp from Colchester, Essex has made the final shortlist of the prestigious RSPCA Young Photographer Awards.
These amazing images, taken by a marine photographer off the coast of Hawaii, shed light on the fascinating world of rarely seen seahorses. In the series - which was taken over a period of four years - the incredible creatures are seen holding the hands of divers with their bony tails.
As part of the smallest species in Europe the owl, which measured about 7in from tip to tail, used its lightning-speed reactions to catch a vole hidden in the deep bank in Oulo, Finland - emerging with the creature after just 15 seconds. Photographer Jari Peltomaki, 48, captured the scene by putting up hundreds of nesting boxes in the forest and waiting until owls arrived.
Photographer Sandro Santioli snapped the intricate patterns, which were cut into the rolling plains of Namibia, Tunisia, and Morocco.
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Speculation has been rife about the identity of the bidder after the triptych made history by becoming the most expensive work of art ever to be sold at auction.
Henry Westwater, 74, of Tain, Inverness-shire, said he could understand why the image was controversial – and would have no objection if it was replaced.
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