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• Emily Patrick Exhibition - The English artist Emily Patrick has some impressive paintings online here. They're impressive in an understated way. The paintings are mostly small, color is used conservatively, and the subjects include things like clumps of grass, eggs, and tree leaves.
• Animal Rights Artist Angela Singer - Being an animal rights activist seems to give the artist the right to use dead animals, in the same way that a black man can make black jokes. If Damien Hirst did this work we would just think that the old British artist is just being sick again. But because there's a message behind Angela Singer's work, I feel fine about it.
• Michael Kalish License Plates - Taking the car theme of the past few days a little further, Angela has pointed out a story about an artist that uses car number plates as a medium. The license plate art of Michael Kalish sells for between $5,000 and $150,000.
• David Cerny's Saddam Hussein - Cerny is an artist that enjoys getting a reaction from his audience. He is famous for works like his "Shark" sculpture, where a model of the former Iraqi leader Saddam Husseim is suspended in a glass box filled with formaldehyde. It's a tribute to everyone's favorite bad boy, Damien Hirst and his "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living" work.
• For the Love of God but Cheaper - Damien Hirst's diamond skull "For the Love of God" might be out of your price range, but "For the Laugh of God" might be within reach. Sure, it's an appropriation and the diamonds are fake, but you'll save about one hundred million dollars on the price of it.
• Box of Love - I received a box of love in the post recently. It's a cardboard box, painted by the abstract painter Franck de Las Mercedes, with a label that says "Handle with care, Fragile, Contains: LOVE".
• Paul Ruiz Paintings - Anyone interested in expressive figurative paintings might find the work of Paul Ruiz interesting. His charcoal drawings are impressive too. Theyre very Frank Auerbach (filled with emotion and almost carved out of paper)
• New York City Rubbish Art - When I first saw Justin Gignac's New York City rubbish in a box for sale I thought it was funny. I thought some more about it and thought it was silly. But after doing even more thinking and after having a look around his website, I now think he's pretty smart.
• Stock Ticker Symbol Paintings - WOW - I think it helps to know the subject that you paint. For example, if I was a farmer I would probably paint cows and chickens because it's what I would know best. But what would I paint if I was a stockbroker in a past life?... Stock ticker symbols!!
• Bootlegs by Eric Doeringer - One of the things that I find most interesting about this blog is the comments posted by people. I like seeing different opinions, people often add to or complete a story, and I sometimes find interesting links to other art sites.
• Artist Documentaries Online - Gabriel Shaffer - Art Scene Asheville is a series of artist documentaries by Ursula Gullow, profiling working artists in Asheville. They're put together really well too, which can be refreshing after watching a bunch of artist videos on YouTube.com.
• Five Dollars Auction on eBay - A single digit painting from the Money Series by Anthony White is currently being auctioned on eBay. The $5 painting is from the US dollars series. It was originally sold by Anthony for 5 US dollars, but the highest bid is $385 at the moment (with 6 days of bidding left).
• Wacom Artist Profile of Leith O'Malley - Fellow Australian artist Leith O'Malley has been profiled on the Asian Wacom community website this month. Leith does a good job of blurring the line between paint and pixels.
• Helping Artists and Replying to Emails - Hazel Dooney has a new artist blog up and has been thinking about what it is that offends her about getting requests from artists that want help selling their own work.
• Selling Art Online - USA Today has wrote an article about how artists are taking advantage of the internet to sell their work.
• Toothpick Portraits - For those that are thinking about getting their portrait painted, but want something a little different, why not get a toothpick portrait? ;-)
• Artist Belinda Eaton Interview - I recently asked the contemporary artist Belinda Eaton a few questions about her art. She was featured on the Star Portraits with Rolf Harris television program from the BBC.
• Turkish Artists Online - Here's some more artists by country. I've gone looking for artists in Turkey this time, so I hope most of them are new to people.
• Money Series Painting - I recently received a new painting to add to my small but growing art collection. It's called 7 Euros by the Australian artist Anthony White. Seven Euros is currently worth 7 euros, including postage and handling ;-)
• American Artists Online - On my (cyber) world tour of artists by country, I've found that the most represented bunch of artists online are definitely Americans. I struggle finding artists from countries like China, India, or even Germany online, but everywhere I look I find websites by American artists.
• Canadian Artists Online - Continuing on from the Australian artists, here's some great Canadian artists with an online presence.
• Australian Artists Online - I plan to post small lists of artists by country that I come across online. I'm starting with Australian artists because I'm biased.. and Australian ;-)
• Genpets Bioengineered Buddy - I saw a story over at artful visions about these weird little cute creatures called Gen Pets. They're supposedly living toys that you have to care for.
• To Eat Crow - I haven't heard of the saying "to eat crow", but Jafabrit has used it to get back at her daughter over a minor squabble. It basically means that you have to admit that you were wrong about something.
• Money Paintings - Euro Series - The Australian artist Anthony White has started work on the Euro series of paintings. After the success of his USD, AUD, and Pound series of money, he expects similar interest in the Euros series.
• Dan Bodner Paintings from Photographs - After the discussion on painting from photographs, Karl Zipser has gone out and almost been converted into a photograph using artist ;-)
• Hazel Dooney Print - The Australian artist Hazel Dooney has a high resolution work that can be downloaded online and printed out as an original print. She will also sign the work if you send it to her, along with a stamped, self addressed envelope.
• Ron English Billboards - I watched a documentary on the contemporary pop artist Ron English recently. He is probably most famous for defacing public billboards in America. He covers legitimate advertisements on prominent billboard with his own version of pop culture.
• Caroline Magerl Artist Profile - A new artist profile has been added over at artquotes.net. The Australian painter and illustrator Caroline Magerl paints quirky, expressive works that seem to capture emotion more than the person being painted.
• Contemporary Artists Online - Here's a selection of some super-fantastic contemporary artists online. I browse the Internet quite a bit, and am always bookmarking sites in my favorites, so I thought I might share a few.
• Ben Quilty's Car Paintings - ..But the car paintings of the young Australian painter Ben Quilty are really quite impressive. Perhaps it's because he knows his subject..
• Rupert Murdoch Portrait Painting - The British portrait artist Jonathan Yeo has finished a portrait of one of the most powerful men in the media industry. The Australian born, American adopted media mogul of the News Corporation company (yes, he owns the Simpsons cartoon too!), Rupert Murdoch sat for Yeo in his London studio.
• Marc Quinn to do Kate Moss - The English artist Marc Quinn plans to imortalize the supermodel Kate Moss as the "Aphrodite of our age", with five bronze sculptures.
• Rolf Harris's Portrait of the Queen - Australian expat Rolf Harris, now based in the United Kingdom caused a bit of a stir with his portrait of the Queen.
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• Rubbish Art Given Away - Tomoko Takahashi - An installation of 7,600 pieces of junk has been given away at the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens, UK. Japanese born artist Tomoko Takahashi spent three days installing the work, titled "My Playstation".
• Marla Olmstead on 60 Minutes - I did not see the episode on 60 minutes recently, but it's interesting to see what people have to say about it. See the two previous posts on Art News Blog and the comments that people have had.
• Hitler Pop Controversy - German born American artist Walter Gaudnek has managed to upset people by holding an exhibition of Adolf Hitler, showing him in a more casual and positive way.
  
• Artist Offended - An interesting post over at The Art Life blog, where an artist gets nasty over a little criticism. Sure I have been offended, possibly even hurt by criticism before but it was unconstructive and hurtful criticism, certainly nothing as mild as this.
• 4 Year old Marla Olmstead - The so called "Child Prodigy" Marla Olmstead is in the news again, gaining more international exposure than most veteran artists. Her work is now selling for up to $15,000 each.
• More Pain = Better Art - French conceptial artist Amelia Gentleman believes that her best art comes from her lowest times. Particularly bad relationship break-ups have inspired her to create some of her best work.
• 4 year old art prodigy? - A four-year-old girl is wowing the New York art world with paintings that are drawing comparisons with Jackson Pollock and Wassily Kandinsky. Marla Olmstead, from Binghamton, in New York state, has been painting since just before she was two years old.