Read more artist stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/9051/artist.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 18:53:58 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74425/artist-jeanne-claude-wife-of-christo-dead-at-74.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJeanne-Claude, the artist who with her husband, Christo, traveled the globe creating massive works of public art, died yesterday in New York at age 74 after a brain aneurysm. Christo and Jean-Claude first caught the public eye in the 1960s and '70s in Europe wrapping landmark buildings and bridges in...http://www.newser.com/story/74425/artist-jeanne-claude-wife-of-christo-dead-at-74.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 19 Nov 2009 12:29:52 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71726/nazi-gnomes-invade-german-town.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSome 1,250 controversial German gnomes giving the heil Hitler salute will greet visitors to the center of the German town of Straubing beginning today. The artist behind the gnome blitzkrieg says the installation, Dance With the Devil , is designed "to get people to think, to react," and to draw...http://www.newser.com/story/71726/nazi-gnomes-invade-german-town.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 15 Oct 2009 3:21:50 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71682/damien-hirst-paintings-shockingly-bad.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tag“Bad boy of British art" Damien Hirst decided to put his headline-grabbing, conceptual art projects aside and return to painting. Critics, however, are not impressed with the exhibition of 25 new paintings, which opened today: “There are many painters in evening classes much worse than Hirst,” writes Tom Lubbock in...http://www.newser.com/story/71682/damien-hirst-paintings-shockingly-bad.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 14 Oct 2009 13:09:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65339/jackson-couldnt-face-man-in-the-mirror.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMichael Jackson was always trying to be somebody else: he "was most himself when he was someone other than himself,” writes Hilton Als in the New York Review of Books . The need to redefine himself emerged in his thirst for fame that would let him “wrest from the world what...http://www.newser.com/story/65339/jackson-couldnt-face-man-in-the-mirror.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 27 Jul 2009 11:27:06 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65085/german-court-oks-nazi-gnome.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGerman prosecutors have decided a Seig-Heiling garden gnome doesn't violate the country's tough laws against Nazi imagery, the BBC reports. Artist Ottmar Hörl's creation, on display in a Nuremberg gallery, is intended to mock the Nazis rather than glorify them, officials decided. Prosecutors warned, however, that the stiuation has "certain...http://www.newser.com/story/65085/german-court-oks-nazi-gnome.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 23 Jul 2009 3:48:25 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64093/hope-artist-cops-plea-in-vandalism-case.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagStreet artist Shephard Fairey plead guilty today to three counts of vandalism for displaying stickers and posters around Boston without permission, the Globe reports. He must pay a fine and is prohibited from carrying the tools of his trade—like wheat paste and brushes—in the county for 2 years....http://www.newser.com/story/64093/hope-artist-cops-plea-in-vandalism-case.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 10 Jul 2009 14:04:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63672/dumped-by-girlfriend-artist-sells-everything.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJasper Joffe isn’t taking his breakup well. When his girlfriend of 5 years walked out on him, the painter, who’s sold work to such heavyweights as Charles Saatchi, decided to sell not just paintings, but all his worldly possessions, the Independent reports. Every single paint brush, keepsake, doodle, appliance, and...http://www.newser.com/story/63672/dumped-by-girlfriend-artist-sells-everything.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 06 Jul 2009 14:21:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62282/met-bares-1st-work-by-michelangelo-12.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA work believed to be Michelangelo's first painting has made its American debut at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Times reports. St. Anthony Tormented by Demons , a customized copy of a German print, is thought to have been painted in 1487 when Michelangelo was a 12-year-old apprentice...http://www.newser.com/story/62282/met-bares-1st-work-by-michelangelo-12.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 19 Jun 2009 1:30:24 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61888/whats-up-doc-cawwot-bombs-in-sweden.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSwedes got a scare this weekend after an artist wrapped bunches of carrots with black tape to make them look a bit like dynamite, attached clocks and wires and placed them around the southern city of Orebo. Police received several concerned calls from the public about the "Bunny Project: Bombs"...http://www.newser.com/story/61888/whats-up-doc-cawwot-bombs-in-sweden.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 15 Jun 2009 3:17:04 CDT