Emma Hacks, 41 from Australia creates incredible images by painting nudes so that they blend into murals and wallpaper. For the first time she will paint a model live in front of an audience at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery in London. The artist is most famous for her body painting in the Gotye video, Somebody That I Used To Know that has racked up over 500 million hits on the video site Youtube. ...read
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That's what you call body art! Amazing UV pictures painted onto naked women celebrate the female form using images of sunsets, tropical oceans and mountains lit by moonlight
John Poppleton, from California, creates mindblowing works of art painted directly onto human skin using fluorescent shades. His project, called Under Black Light, consists of 'bodyscapes' of spectacular natural phenomena such as African sunsets, tropical oceans during rainstorm, and mountain ranges under moonlight. In more otherworldly, eerie designs the artist depicts cosmic scenes of stars, galaxies and shimmering auroras. ...read
That's a sweet Father's Day present for Wills! Artist creates portrait of The Duke of Cambridge and Prince George using TOBLERONE!
A giant chocolate portrait of the Duke of Cambridge and his son Prince George has been unveiled to mark William's first Father's Day as a Dad. The masterpiece was created by food artist Michelle Wibowo from Michelle Sugar Art, using a staggering 16,074 individual triangles of Toblerone. It took more than 1,500 bars of the iconic shaped chocolate bar using dark, milk and white chunks to create depth and dimension. ...read
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Artist, 24, creates stunning sculptures using beaches as her blank canvas just one month after picking up a rake for first time
Chloe Dickey drew a huge floral design on a Port Macquarie beach on Saturday in under two hours. The 24-year-old from Lake Cathie, NSW, works in the wet sand at low tide meaning her drawings don't stick around for long when the waves roll in.
Feline arty! Artist loves her pet cat so much she's added it to works by Botticelli, Dali and even the Mona Lisa
A bizarre but strangely wonderful concept of classic paintings and fine art work 'improved' by a fat ginger cat, Fat Cat Art is rapidly growing its online fan base. The pieces are the work of Russian artist Svetlana Petrova who features her own cat Zarathustra in every picture.
Crumbs! Is that a Banksy? Artist trades her palette for a plate to create captivating culinary pop art
Tisha Cherry, a New Jersey-born registered nurse, takes inspiration from films, music, and celebrities, and recreates iconic images using everyday food (pictured). 'Pop culture is essentially my muse and the food on my plate is my medium,' Ms Cherry says of her unusual hobby.
LATEST ALBUM RELEASES
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Clean Your Clock (XL)
Motörhead frontman Lemmy once said that if his band became your neighbours, your lawn would die. Few green shoots would survive the snarling power of this cracking live album, recorded in Munich just a month before the singer's death in December. Despite failing health, Lemmy pulls no punches on a spirited Ace Of Spades and a brace of forceful blues numbers. Played hard and fast, it's a fitting epitaph.
★★★★
The Ride (Island)
With their surging choruses and songs of smalltown escape, Welsh rockers Catfish & The Bottlemen share the bloke-ish charm of the Stereophonics. This second album - their first since winning a Brit - builds on the swagger of their debut: Oxygen is a crunchy, Oasis-like singalong; the acoustic Glasgow is heartfelt and vivid; the closing Outside adds welcome texture to their meat-and-potatoes indie-rock.
★★★
Stranger Things Have Happened (EMI)
Tipped for stardom five years ago, Clare Maguire slipped into alcoholism when her patchy debut album flopped. Now older and wiser, the Anglo-Irish singer, 27, returns with the record she should have made first time around. Intimate and confessional where her debut was overly dramatic, its piano-led torch songs make better use of her rich voice. As a cheerleader for bruised romantics, she is in the Adele class.
★★★★
Smash The Clock (Basstone)
The spectre of Foxton's original band, The Jam, looms over this solo effort. Together with new bandmate Russell Hastings (a singer in the Paul Weller mould), the bassist has been revisiting old hits on tour, and there is a pleasing familiarity to the blue-eyed soul and nostalgic, suburban vignettes of his own material. Wilko Johnson guests, and Weller himself adds psychedelic touches on Pictures & Diamonds.
★★★
Everything At Once (Red Telephone Box) MUDCRUTCH
2 (Reprise)
Tom Petty rolls back the years by reconvening his original, pre-Heartbreakers quintet for the second time since a 2007 reunion. Opening number Trailer finds him harking back to his high-school graduation in Florida, while Dreams Of Flying rekindles the jangling crunch of American Girl. Petty regulars Benmont Tench and Mike Campbell feature on a string of bar-room rambles, but 2 feels like a sidestep.
★★
Dangerous Woman (Republic)
Pop princess Ariana Grande makes good use of her breathless falsetto on this third album. The 22-year-old has been likened to her heroine Mariah Carey, and the comparisons don¿t seem far fetched on soft ballad Moonlight and the slow-burning title track. With detours into reggae and soul, plus cameos by Nicki Minaj and Macy Gray, former Broadway starlet Ariana has a versatility that sets her apart from her peers.
★★★★
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