LOS ANGELES: Michael Jackson’s make-up artist warned in the 1990s that the star could die due to his drug addiction, she testified Friday, adding that people were initially lying after his 2009 death. Karen Faye, who worked for the self-styled King of Pop for 27 years, said she voiced concern ...

MIAMI ODC - Miami-based performance artist Orestes de la Paz has put his heart, soul and fat into 20 bars of special soap made with his liposuctioned blubber. The bars of human soap are available for purchase and priced at $1,000.Orestes de la Paz underwent a liposuction procedure in December of ...

LONDON: African diva Angelique Kidjo was named Best Artist in Songlines magazine’s annual world music awards on Friday, lauded for her high-energy shows and her championing of social causes. French veterans Lo’jo, who mix French folk with African and Arabic sounds, picked up the Best ...

LONDON (WO) A British artist has created a range of zombie teddy bears - just in time for Valentine’s Day. Phillip Blackman describes his ‘UndeadTeds’ as “repurposed soft toys transformed into fluffy, bloody horrors to keep you awake at night”. The 45-year-old, who ...

STOCKHOLM - A Swedish artist has been given the go-ahead to use a painted self-portrait as the photo on his driving licence after authorities thought the super-realistic picture came from a camera, not a brush. Fredrik Saeker, 29, wanted to see if his work was good enough to pass for a snapshot, so ...

SURE, this looks like a fully formed Rubik’s cube, but in fact it is a two dimensional colour drawing that tricks the brain into believing it has three dimensions.The optical illusion is called anamorphosis, which plays on how our brains make sense of the world and causes us to see something ...

HANANUMA Masakichi is one of those extraordinary artist who never really got the recognition they deserved.This Japanese sculptor created a life size statue of himself that is almost 100% identical in appearance to its maker. Although created over a century ago, the Masakichi sculpture still ...

ITALIAN artist Dito Von Tease has proved he’s rather handy with a virtual paintbrush after creating detailed portraits of famous faces on his index finger.The imaginative painter, who works under the pseudonym Dito Von Tease, has produced paintings of a wide range of celebrities from the ...

A HOLIDAY home designed by a Turner Prize winning artist, likened to Disneyland by some and hailed as “fascinating” by others, is to be built in a small Essex village.Grayson Perry’s design, which he says aims to “reflect the different aspects” of his home county, has ...

A MAN born without arms has become a world-renowned artist by painting with his mouth and feet.Tom Yendell, 50, has produced more than 500 works from his garage studio, using his lips, tongue, teeth, head, and feet to master different brush strokes.Mr Yendell was born with birth defects caused by ...

ISLAMABAD - The Interior Ministry has decided to establish Artist Welfare Fund for the financial support of the poor and deserving artists.Advisor to Prime Minister on Interior and former interior minister Rehman Malik said that artists have brought good name for the country. He said data of the ...

PARIS  - French comic-book artist and designer Jean Giraud, known as Moebius, died Saturday aged 73 after a long illness, an associate and work colleague said. Jean Henri Gaston Giraud was one of France’s leading cartoonists who also found fame in Japan and the United States. Born at ...

A French hotel commissioned a street graffiti artist to decorate half of one of its bedrooms. The eye-catching room at the Au Vieux Panier hotel in Marseille is half pristine white - and the other half covered in graffiti. One half features a rainbow-coloured palate of Tilt’s trademark bubble ...

HOLLYWOOD  - Silent movie “The Artist” crowned its spectacular awards season success by winning five Oscars including the coveted Best Picture prize at the 84th Academy Awards on Sunday.The French-directed black-and-white movie earned Oscars for best director for Michel ...

SANTA MONICA, California (Reuters) - Silent movie romance “The Artist” on Saturday won four Independent Spirit Awards, the year’s top honours among movies made outside Hollywood’s major studios, including best film and director in a prelude to the Oscars.“The ...

PARIS  - Black-and-white silent movie “The Artist” scooped up six Cesar awards including best film and best actress on Friday in France’s annual version of the Academy Awards, further raising French hopes it could do well at the Oscars this weekend.A misty-eyed flashback to ...

MADRID  - Silent movie “The Artist” won the Best European Film prize at the Spanish cinema awards, the Goyas, on Sunday while Spanish police flick “No habra paz para los malvados” (‘No rest for the wicked’) collected six gongs.The Goya adds to a growing ...

ALGIERS  - The way young Algerian artist Aghiles Issiakhem sees it, the future for many of his 20-something generation is as bleak as his charcoal portraits of them.“For a young person here, there’s nothing — you can escape abroad or flee into drugs and alcohol,” says ...

LOS ANGELES - Uggie, the trick-performing Jack Russell Terrier starring in silent film “The Artist”, was top dog at the first-ever Golden Collar awards recognising canine excellence in Hollywood films.The veteran performer beat out Cosmo from “Beginners”, Denver from ...

PARIS  - The French actor tipped to win an Oscar for his role in “The Artist” was under fire at home for a poster showing him holding a woman’s legs in the air.France’s advertising regulator ARPP requested that the film posters of Jean Dujardin — for the film ...

LOS ANGELES  - “The Artist” continued its love affair with American cinema after winning best-produced film on Saturday at the Producers Guild Awards (PGA), boosting its chances for an Oscar nod ahead of the Academy Award nominations next week.The silent black-and-white French ...

LONDON  - French black-and-white silent movie “The Artist” scooped three big prizes at the London Film Critics’ Circle Awards on Thursday — best film, best director and best actor.The honours added to growing momentum for the sentimental throwback to the ...

Cinemagoers in British city of Liverpoool demanded refunds on tickets for Oscar favourite “The Artist” because they did not realise it is a silent movie, a cinema chain said. The French-directed picture won three Golden Globes and the most nominations for Britain’s BAFTAs this ...

LOS ANGELES - Uggie the four-legged co-star of silent film “The Artist” is tipped to win his own canine accolade, to go with the growing haul of honours bestowed on the movie in Hollywood. The trick-performing terrier, who saves his master’s life in the black and white film which ...

LONDON  - Silent movie “The Artist” secured the most nominations for Britain’s BAFTAs Tuesday, just pipping “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” in a key indicator ahead of the Oscars next month.US actress Meryl Streep’s portrayal of former British Prime Minister ...

LOSS ANGELES  - Silent-era film “The Artist” and family drama “The Descendants” were the top film picks at the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday in a loose-lipped awards show that even had host Ricky Gervais walking onto the stage with a drink in his hand.“The ...

GAZA CITY  - Underground train travel to bypass a chaotic traffic system? Welcome to Gaza, one of the world’s most crowded places, where a conceptual art installation expresses this tantalising idea.Palestinian artist Mohamed Abusal erected luminous red metro signs in 50 different and ...

NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Artist, a black-and-white silent film about Hollywood, drama The Descendants, Brad Pitt, Martin Scorsese and Terrence Malick all won big on Sunday among US film critics and industry groups that doled out honours for the years best movies. The Boston Society of ...

THIS performance artist is a cut above the rest. The brave, and slightly unhinged, man placed a pair of scissors through his tongue to add to scores of other piercings scarring his face. The ghoulish spectacle formed part of the Body Paint Festival in Caracas, Venezuela on Saturday. Neon lights, ...

Her works of art sell like hot cakes at the gift store and some are even comparing her to Picasso. But there is one big difference between the famous Spanish artist and Mechi - Mechi is a one-horned, 3,500 pound rhinoceros who lives at the Mesker Park Zoo in Indiana. And not only that, but she ...