Top Art jokes

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Renoir's rheumatism

The French artist Pierre Auguste Renoir suffered from rheumatism. This made painting (which he did in a chair)...

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Banksy: Portrait of Mother Teresa

By the second day of Banksy`s “Barely Legal” exhibition in Los Angeles in 2006, many animal-rights activists were...

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Russian gallery directors appeal after unfair prosecution

In 2005, two art museum directors appealed to the European Court of Human Rights after they were prosecuted when vandals...

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Banksy's Pranks

Banksy.. is both a lefty and a tweaker of lefty pieties. At a London antiwar demonstration in 2003, he distributed signs...

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Banksy: Southeby's Auction

In February 2007, Sotheby’s presented seven works by Banksy in a sale of contemporary art. “Bombing Middle England”...

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Luis Bunuel on the audience reaction to Un Chien Andalou

Luis Buñuel the surrealist was more interested in artistic than political revolution, yet he mocked purely aesthetic...

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Devilish Duveen

One day a rival art dealer sent an Old Master painting on a religious theme to one of Joseph Duveen`s clients - a...

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Banksy's Turf War Exhibit

In July 2003, Britain`s "most celebrated graffiti artist" Banksy, famed for leaving such subversive images as riot...

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"Hello Mr. President"

In 2002, Johannes Gees staged an unusual artwork during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Gees`s Internet...

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Paul Cezanne: Great Ego

Paul Cezanne once owned a parrot. Did the painter teach his bird to speak? Of course. Among its favorite phrases? "Cezanne...

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