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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Viola Beach (Fuller Beans)
Coldplay¿s touching cover of Viola Beach¿s Boys That Sing was a highlight of last month¿s Glastonbury, and this posthumous album offers another glimpse of what might have been for the young band, tragically killed in a car crash in February. Bookended by Boys That Sing and charming debut single Swings And Waterslides, its guitar lines recall Vampire Weekend and Arctic Monkeys, suggesting that they could have gone far.
★★★★
The Fruit Of Life (Ingrooves)
Traditional reggae is the forte of Bob Marley¿s second son Stephen, but this album ¿ the second and final installment of his Revelation series ¿ also embraces hip-hop and mellow, acoustic soul. Rappers Pit Bull and Iggy Azalea guest, and there is a sampled monologue from Charlie Chaplin¿s film The Great Dictator. His father is referenced on The Lion Roars. Music Is Alive and Revelation Party are feel-good anthems.
★★★
Finding Dory (Walt Disney)
Already the year¿s biggest film Stateside, the sequel to 2003¿s oceanic adventure Finding Nemo arrives in the U.K. this weekend accompanied by veteran Hollywood composer Thomas Newman¿s engaging score. Short, expressive pieces dominate, with orchestral strings and twangy guitars adding light and shade, while Australian singer-songwriter Sia Furler delivers a typically poised rendition of Nat King Cole¿s Unforgettable.
★★★
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.
★★
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