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T-Mobile’s Royal Wedding Dance celebrates the marriage of William and Kate with the help of a host of royal look alikes and music from East 17! T-Mobile wishes William and Kate a long and happy marriage.

>Crop Circle at Innage, nr Chepstow. Gwent Wales. Reported 22nd April 2011.

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Well done to Olivier Morel and Francine Blake’s group for photographing this aerial shot of the formation at Innage, nr Chepstow. Gwent. Wales. Reported 22nd April. We know this was a long and expensive flight due to this there was great reluctance by other photographers to take to the air.

via Crop Circle at Innage, nr Chepstow. Gwent Wales. Reported 22nd April   2011..

>Vampire woman Maria Hose Cristerna gets ‘horns’ implanted

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She was a trained lawyer from a deeply religious family who married at the age of 17.

But Maria Hose Cristerna, a 35-year-old mother of four from Mexico is known as vampire woman after becoming a tattoo artist and taking her body art to the extreme.

She says she turned to body art after suffering years of domestic abuse. …

She has tattooed almost 100 per cent of her body, had titanium ‘horns’ implanted into her skull and dental implants that give her ‘fangs’.

‘The horns I have are a symbol of strength and were implanted without anaesthetic.’

I had the fangs done because I loved vampires as a little girl and I changed the colour of my eyes so they were how I really wanted them to be,’ she told the Sun.

via Vampire woman Maria Hose Cristerna gets ‘horns’ implanted | Mail Online.

>Gauguin painting in Washington DC attacked by woman

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A woman who attacked a painting by Paul Gauguin hanging in the National Gallery in Washington DC said the French artist was “evil”, court records show.

Susan Burns pounded Two Tahitian Women and tried to rip it from a gallery wall on Friday, officials said.

The 1899 painting, which depicts two women’s bare breasts, was behind a plastic cover and was unharmed.

She was charged with attempted theft and destruction of property and is being held pending a mental evaluation.

On Friday afternoon a woman slammed her hands against the plexiglass cover between the canvas and the frame… A museum security officer intervened and restrained and detained her.

Ms Burns later told police she thought the painting should be burned, according to court records viewed by the Associated Press.

The 94cm by 75.4cm (37in by 30in) oil-on-canvas painting is on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It is expected to go back on display on Tuesday morning, National Gallery spokeswoman Deborah Ziska told the BBC.

The work depicts two serene, golden-skinned Tahitian women offering a bowl of flowers.

“The painting captures Gauguin’s mythical idea of Tahiti as a paradise of beautiful, mysterious women,” museum curators write.

The incident was the first act of vandalism at the museum since the 1970s, when over the course of about five years, one man destroyed a Renaissance-era chair and another defaced 25 works, including by Renoir and Henri Matisse, with a “sharp object”, Ms Ziska said. …

via BBC News – Gauguin painting in Washington DC attacked by woman.

Screaming “This is evil,” a woman tried to pull Gauguin’s “Two Tahitian Women” from a gallery wall Friday and banged on the picture’s clear plastic covering, said Pamela Degotardi of New York, who was there. “She was really pounding it with her fists,” Degotardi said. “It was like this weird surreal scene that one doesn’t expect at the National Gallery.” Gallery spokeswoman Deborah Ziska said no damage to the 1899 painting was immediately apparent after the 4:45 p.m. incident. But she said a more thorough examination will be conducted Monday. In the painting, both breasts of one woman are exposed, as is one of the second woman’s breasts. The woman who allegedly attacked the painting was “immediately restrained and detained” by the museum’s federal protection ser vices officers, who charged her with destruction of property and attempted theft, Ziska said in a statement. The painting’s alleged attacker was “tackled by a guy who was visiting the gallery,” Degotardi said. She described him as a social worker from the Bronx. …

According to the police report obatained by the folks over at the Smoking Gun, the 53-year-old, who was at the museum to celebrate her birthday, told police: “I feel that Gauguin is evil. He has nudity and is bad for the children. He has two women in the painting and it is very homosexual. I was trying to remove it. I think it should be burned. I am from the American CIA and I have a radio in my head. I am going to kill you.” … Read more: http://wendyista.blogspot.com

Weird:  Notice that Susan and the woman on the left in the Gauguin painting have strikingly similar facial structures.

>Imaging the paintings under the paintings of the Old Masters

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Gaze upon Rembrandt’s The Night Watch, The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, or one of the great Dutch master’s famous self-portraits. Contemplate Caravaggio’s Boy with a Basket of Fruit, Supper at Emmaus, or the famed Italian artist’s Seven Works of Mercy. Admire Peter Paul Rubens’ Prometheus Bound, Portrait of Władysław IV, or the Flemish baroque painter’s The Exchange of Princesses.

Speaking at the 241st National meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society, an international team of scientists today described use of a new technique to see the paintings under the paintings of Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Rubens, and other 17th Century Old Master painters. The report by scientists in Belgium, The Netherlands and the United States was among almost two dozen studies presented as part of a symposium on chemistry and art titled “Partnerships and New Analytical Methodologies at the Interface of Chemistry and Art.”

“The underpainting was the first and most important step in creating a work of art,” explained lead scientist Matthias Alfeld, who is with the University of Antwerp in Belgium. “It was the sketch that guided the artist through the creative process. The Old Masters generally used to roughly indicate light, shade and contours. Observation of the underpainting would allow us to see the first execution of the artist’s vision of the painting. It’s a more detailed look over the shoulder of the artist at work. But the underpainting has virtually escaped all imaging efforts. So far, our methods to visualize the underpainting, except in localized cross sections, have been very limited.”

Alfeld and colleagues described use of a powerful new technique called scanning macro X-ray fluorescence analysis that allows more detailed imaging of the composition of underpaintings. It is portable enough for use on-the-scene in museums and does not harm priceless artwork. The technology already has provided new insights into the nature of the paint that some Old Masters used in their underpainting.

An analysis of paintings from the workshops of Rembrandt and Caravaggio, for instance, led them to the conclusion that the Old Masters were more frugal than fussy about the paint used for the underpainting. The analysis suggested that this brown pigment mixture in underpaintings actually consisted of recycled leftovers from the artist scraping his palette clean.

“Using the new technique, we hope to disperse doubts about the authenticity of several paintings or to confirm that these paintings were not by the painter they have been attributed to,” Alfeld said. “It is nice to show that the world of art can intersect with chemistry. Chemistry is such an all-encompassing science. Imagine, chemistry isn’t just about molecules and reactions, but it also involves also the study of something as beautiful as great works of art.” …

via Imaging the paintings under the paintings of the Old Masters.

>Imaging the paintings under the paintings of the Old Masters

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Gaze upon Rembrandt’s The Night Watch, The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, or one of the great Dutch master’s famous self-portraits. Contemplate Caravaggio’s Boy with a Basket of Fruit, Supper at Emmaus, or the famed Italian artist’s Seven Works of Mercy. Admire Peter Paul Rubens’ Prometheus Bound, Portrait of Władysław IV, or the Flemish baroque painter’s The Exchange of Princesses.

Speaking at the 241st National meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society, an international team of scientists today described use of a new technique to see the paintings under the paintings of Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Rubens, and other 17th Century Old Master painters. The report by scientists in Belgium, The Netherlands and the United States was among almost two dozen studies presented as part of a symposium on chemistry and art titled “Partnerships and New Analytical Methodologies at the Interface of Chemistry and Art.”

“The underpainting was the first and most important step in creating a work of art,” explained lead scientist Matthias Alfeld, who is with the University of Antwerp in Belgium. “It was the sketch that guided the artist through the creative process. The Old Masters generally used to roughly indicate light, shade and contours. Observation of the underpainting would allow us to see the first execution of the artist’s vision of the painting. It’s a more detailed look over the shoulder of the artist at work. But the underpainting has virtually escaped all imaging efforts. So far, our methods to visualize the underpainting, except in localized cross sections, have been very limited.”

Alfeld and colleagues described use of a powerful new technique called scanning macro X-ray fluorescence analysis that allows more detailed imaging of the composition of underpaintings. It is portable enough for use on-the-scene in museums and does not harm priceless artwork. The technology already has provided new insights into the nature of the paint that some Old Masters used in their underpainting.

An analysis of paintings from the workshops of Rembrandt and Caravaggio, for instance, led them to the conclusion that the Old Masters were more frugal than fussy about the paint used for the underpainting. The analysis suggested that this brown pigment mixture in underpaintings actually consisted of recycled leftovers from the artist scraping his palette clean.

“Using the new technique, we hope to disperse doubts about the authenticity of several paintings or to confirm that these paintings were not by the painter they have been attributed to,” Alfeld said. “It is nice to show that the world of art can intersect with chemistry. Chemistry is such an all-encompassing science. Imagine, chemistry isn’t just about molecules and reactions, but it also involves also the study of something as beautiful as great works of art.” …

via Imaging the paintings under the paintings of the Old Masters.

>RIP Elizabeth Taylor

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YouTube – ELIZABETH TAYLOR DEAD AT 79.

>Mysterious Tiny Doors Appearing Around San Francisco

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San Francisco artist Jeff Waldman has begun installing little doors around the city. He started by building and installing a small, elaborately locked (from the outside) red door on Fern Alley in the Tenderloin. Additional doors will be built by other artists and sent to Waldman for installation around the city.

…. The idea is to install small doors, unexplained portals, throughout the city. To start, in San Francisco. These doors would be scaled down to a size that is cognitively possible but whimsically improbable. Tiny ones. Like, Alice Through The Looking Glass, maybe 15-25 inches or so. I don’t imagine them to be operable, but the more detailed in appearance the better.

Mysterious Tiny Doors Appearing Around San Francisco.

>Mysterious Tiny Doors Appearing Around San Francisco

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San Francisco artist Jeff Waldman has begun installing little doors around the city. He started by building and installing a small, elaborately locked (from the outside) red door on Fern Alley in the Tenderloin. Additional doors will be built by other artists and sent to Waldman for installation around the city.

…. The idea is to install small doors, unexplained portals, throughout the city. To start, in San Francisco. These doors would be scaled down to a size that is cognitively possible but whimsically improbable. Tiny ones. Like, Alice Through The Looking Glass, maybe 15-25 inches or so. I don’t imagine them to be operable, but the more detailed in appearance the better.

Mysterious Tiny Doors Appearing Around San Francisco.

>Artist Michael Kalish Creates Portrait of Muhammad Ali Using Punching Bags

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This artist’s tribute to Muhammad Ali floats like a butterfly and swings like a … punching bag.

Using about 1,300 speed bags, five miles of stainless steel cables and two miles of aluminum tubing, artist Michael Kalish has strung up a massive homage to boxing’s biggest legend.

The installation — titled “reALIze” — uses punching bags to form a 23-foot-tall portrait of the famed fighter’s face.

From nearly every angle, the giant work looks like a mess of poles, wires and hanging speed bags.

But from one perspective, it all comes together to form Ali’s face.

via Artist Michael Kalish Creates Portrait of Muhammad Ali Using Punching Bags.