How a street painter from Benin got an art exhibition in Finland. Image copyright Perttu Saksa Louis Houenoude lives in the small village of Heve, just outside Grand-Popo, in the small West African country of Benin.
He used to paint barber shop signs for a living. But now he is a bona fide artist. An art gallery in Finland is exhibiting a series of portraits painted by Mr Houenoude. The portrait series, called Bad Hair Day Leaders, consists of 14 portraits of today's world leaders, from Angela Merkel to Xi Jinping. Image copyright Salon de Peinture Grand-Popo Last year, Mr Houenoude painted a portrait of the Finnish President Sauli Niinisto which was bought by the Finland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Image copyright Esa Salminen. Wearables Quiz - Can You Guess What These Wearables Do? 1.
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Brent is a 37-year-old chimpanzee who lives at Chimp Haven, a sanctuary in Keithville, La. According to popular opinion, he's also the greatest chimpanzee artist America has to offer. Brent's painting won first place in the Humane Society of the United State's Chimpanzee Art Contest, garnering the most public votes during the online voting period, which ended last week.
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Two walked out unharmed. A 911 call made not long after revealed the hazy outline of a vicious attack—one of the girls had been found by the side of the road covered in blood, having crawled there to get help. In the days and weeks that followed, details emerged that were no less disturbing: The three girls, all 12 years old, were best friends. The victim had been stabbed 19 times with a 5-inch blade and had barely survived.
After being taken into police custody, the other two girls told interrogators what had happened: They had lured their friend into the woods to kill her so that they could appease someone called Slenderman. What Novel Are You? Quiz. Someone Turned A Unicorn Drawing Into A Song And, Hey, It's Not Bad. Oscar Schwartz: Can a computer write poetry? Culture - How to look at a work of art. “Is there a right length of time to look at – or engage with – an artwork?”
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Movement-minded art lovers are now taking exercise classes in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA. ARS17+ Selfie as art at Saatchi gallery: from Rembrandt to a grinning macaque. It is a show that includes painstakingly executed self-portraits by Rembrandt, Van Gogh, and Frida Kahlo, as well as rather more spontaneous selfie portraits by Kim Kardashian, Tom Cruise and a macaque monkey from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
The images are being displayed together in London’s Saatchi gallery, and while the curators are not assigning them any aesthetic equivalence, they do argue that there is a direct line from one to the other. The gallery is staging what it believes is the first exhibition exploring the history of the selfie, from the 16th century to the present day. “In the 16th century, it was only the artists who had the skills, materials and tools to create self-portraits,” said gallery chief executive Nigel Hurst, who had the idea for the show. Culture - The urinal that changed how we think. In April 1917, everything changed.
At least, that is, in the world of art. It was then that the legendary avant-garde French artist and cultural prankster, Marcel Duchamp, conceived a work so controversial in its making and meaning that it would alter forever the way the game of art is played. The work in question was a porcelain urinal that Duchamp quizzically flipped onto its back, signed with a mysterious nom de plume, and called Fountain. Future - The hidden ways that architecture affects how you feel. “We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us,” mused Winston Churchill in 1943 while considering the repair of the bomb-ravaged House of Commons. More than 70 years on, he would doubtless be pleased to learn that neuroscientists and psychologists have found plenty of evidence to back him up.
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