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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This Is Where I Live (Stax)
Returning to the label that first signed him in 1961,William Bell shows that age is no barrier to soulful expression. The Memphis singer, 76, reprises his own Born Under A Bad Sign, a blues standard, and impresses on newer, self-penned material. A beacon of youthful yearning when he sang Private Number back in 1968, he is now a voice of mellow experience.
★★★★
Ellipsis (14th Floor)(Stax)
With a Reading Festival headline slot on the horizon, Scots trio Biffy Clyro are now members of rock¿s major league. This seventh album sticks to familiar strengths. Tracks such as Wolves Of Winter and Animal Style revisit the band¿s grunge-rock roots, while ballads Small Wishes and Re-arrange remind us that they can do tender as well as tough
★★★
Wildflower (XL) (Stax)
Melbourne duo The Avalanches became critics¿ darlings with their 2000 debut album Since I Left You, a stitched-together patchwork of plundered samples and bedroom beats. Not a lot has changed in the intervening 16 years. This sequel is a jumbled collage of Seventies soul strings and street sounds, with calypso single Frankie Sinatra a highlight. It¿s easy to admire the painstaking attention to detail, but harder to love the outcome.
★★
Crossroads Revisited (Reprise)
With guest appearances from B.B. King, Ronnie Wood and John Mayer, this three-disc selection from Eric Clapton¿s Crossroads guitar festival is a bona fide Who¿s Who of the blues. Susan Tedeschi and Sheryl Crow, female musicians every bit as capable as the boys, prevent the exercise from becoming too blokeish, while Clapton himself provides some of the best moments, a swaggering Layla among them.
★★★
Soul Eyes (Blue Note)
Impressed by her take on Sam Smith¿s Stay With Me, Prince once invited Nashville singer and pianist Kandace Springs to play with him, and some of the Purple One¿s sponteneity has rubbed off. Backed by simple production, live instruments and a focus on Springs¿ precise phrasing, Soul Eyes is a mellow, jazzy affair with shades of Norah Jones and some funkier touches on a cover of U.S. band War¿s 1973 hit The World Is A Ghetto.
★★★★
Strange Little Birds (Stun Volume)
An unlikely combination of Edinburgh vocalist Shirley Manson and three good old boys from Wisconsin, Garbage strike a deliciously dark tone on this sixth album. With churning guitars to the fore, Shirley hints at serious heartbreak on Empty, while If I Lost You finds her fearing the worst ¿ `I see you talking to other girls, and I feel insecure¿. Despite the gloom, this is a comeback crafted with power and intelligence.
★★★
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