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Turn YOUR living room into the world's BEST art gallery Theyve been on show at the Uffizi, the Met, the Louvre... now the greatest paintings on Earth are on display at an exciting new venue: your house.

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Theyve been on show at the Uffizi, the Met, the Louvre... now the greatest paintings on Earth are on display at an exciting new venue: your house.

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Incredible art where nude models blend seamlessly into graphic backgrounds get 500 MILLION hits online - and now artist is going to paint them live
Bali 9 death row inmate Myuran Sukumaran - who has turned to painting while he awaits his fate - is not eligible for the Archibald portrait prize because he hasn't lived in Australia since 2005
Artist, 24, creates stunning sculptures using beaches as her blank canvas just one month after picking up a rake for first time
Now there's a creative goal! Artist creates World Cup players' portraits by dribbling paint-covered football across giant canvas
Feline arty! Artist loves her pet cat so much she's added it to works by Botticelli, Dali and even the Mona Lisa
You ART what you eat! Salad arranged in the style of abstract paintings tastes better
That's what you call body art! Amazing UV pictures painted onto naked women celebrate the female form using images of sunsets, tropical oceans and mountains lit by moonlight

Incredible art where nude models blend seamlessly into graphic backgrounds get 500 MILLION hits online - and now artist is going to paint them live

Emma Hacks, 41 from Australia creates incredible images by painting nudes so that they blend into murals and wallpaper. For the first time she will paint a model live in front of an audience at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery in London. The artist is most famous for her body painting in the Gotye video, Somebody That I Used To Know that has racked up over 500 million hits on the video site Youtube. ...read

That's what you call body art! Amazing UV pictures painted onto naked women celebrate the female form using images of sunsets, tropical oceans and mountains lit by moonlight

Illuminated UV paintings on women's backs celebrate beauty of female form and spectacular scenes from nature

John Poppleton, from California, creates mindblowing works of art painted directly onto human skin using fluorescent shades. His project, called Under Black Light, consists of 'bodyscapes' of spectacular natural phenomena such as African sunsets, tropical oceans during rainstorm, and mountain ranges under moonlight. In more otherworldly, eerie designs the artist depicts cosmic scenes of stars, galaxies and shimmering auroras. ...read

That's a sweet Father's Day present for Wills! Artist creates portrait of The Duke of Cambridge and Prince George using TOBLERONE!

The perfect Father's Day present for Wills! Artist creates portrait of The Duke of Cambridge and baby George out of TOBLERONE!

A giant chocolate portrait of the Duke of Cambridge and his son Prince George has been unveiled to mark William's first Father's Day as a Dad. The masterpiece was created by food artist Michelle Wibowo from Michelle Sugar Art, using a staggering 16,074 individual triangles of Toblerone. It took more than 1,500 bars of the iconic shaped chocolate bar using dark, milk and white chunks to create depth and dimension. ...read

A Peshmerga convoy drives towards a frontline in Khazer, about 30 kilometers (19 miles) east of Mosul, Iraq, Monday, Oct. 17, 2016. The Iraqi military and the country's Kurdish forces say they launched operations to the south and east of militant-held Mosul early Monday morning. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

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Bali 9 death row inmate Myuran Sukumaran - who has turned to painting while he awaits his fate - is not eligible for the Archibald portrait prize because he hasn't lived in Australia since 2005

Passionate: Sukumaran took up painting 2010. He now runs an art studio at the jail. Here he is seen painting on a canvas at the prisoners studio

The 33-year-old has been locked up in Kerobokan Prison, Bali, since 2005 after he was convicted of heroin smuggling. He only began painting in 2010.

Now there's a creative goal! Artist creates World Cup players' portraits by dribbling paint-covered football across giant canvas

Having a ball: 'Red' Hong Yi creates paintings of World Cup stars Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar and Lionel Messi using her feet

'Red' Hong Yi produced colorful renderings of Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo, Brazil's Neymar and Argentina's Lionel Messi.

You ART what you eat! Salad arranged in the style of abstract paintings tastes better

Oxford University found people were willing to pay twice as much for a salad when it was arranged to resemble Painting Number 201 by Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky.

Fancy a Slash of milk with that? Artist creates portraits of celebrities - using cornflakes

Appetite for construction: Guns 'N Roses guitarist Slash is easily recognizable in his signature top hat and sunglasses

Illustrator and photographer Sarah Rosado used cereal to produce renderings of famous musicians, including Michael Jackson, Amy Winehouse and John Lennon.

This gives a new meaning to face painting! Make-up artist who transforms herself into celebrities, including footballers from the World Cup Squad

Maria Malone-Guerbaa, 33, from Limerick, Ireland, is able to create a perfect likeness of other famous faces including A-list stars Morgan Freeman and The Queen.

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Artist, 24, creates stunning sculptures using beaches as her blank canvas just one month after picking up a rake for first time

Chloe Dickey drew a huge floral design on a Port Macquarie beach on Saturday in under two hours. The 24-year-old from Lake Cathie, NSW, works in the wet sand at low tide meaning her drawings don't stick around for long when the waves roll in.

Feline arty! Artist loves her pet cat so much she's added it to works by Botticelli, Dali and even the Mona Lisa

A bizarre but strangely wonderful concept of classic paintings and fine art work 'improved' by a fat ginger cat, Fat Cat Art is rapidly growing its online fan base. The pieces are the work of Russian artist Svetlana Petrova who features her own cat Zarathustra in every picture.

Crumbs! Is that a Banksy? Artist trades her palette for a plate to create captivating culinary pop art

Tisha Cherry, a New Jersey-born registered nurse, takes inspiration from films, music, and celebrities, and recreates iconic images using everyday food (pictured). 'Pop culture is essentially my muse and the food on my plate is my medium,' Ms Cherry says of her unusual hobby.

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THE FLAMING LIPS

Oczy Mlody (Bella Union)

The Flaming Lips rein in recent excesses with their most mainstream move since frontman Wayne Coyne got Justin Timberlake to don a dolphin suit and guest on Top Of The Pops. Bizarre titles and experimental arrangements remain, but Oczy Mlody is tuneful and accessible, with Galaxy I Sink driven by cinematic guitars.

★★★★

FLO MORRISSEY & MATTHEW E. WHITE

Gentlewoman, Ruby Man (Glassnote)

London folk singer Flo Morrissey met American producer White at a tribute concert for the late country singer Lee Hazelwood, but this duets album confounds any preconceptions that might suggest. Warm and expansive where most similar efforts are cool and stripped-back, it finds the duo tackling The Bee Gees, Leonard Cohen, Roy Ayers and Frank Ocean with soulful guile. Gentlewoman is a rare thing a covers set that is refreshing and imaginative.

★★★★

THE XX

I See You (Young Turks)

The xxs third album sees the London trio move from shimmering introspection towards celebratory, groove-driven pop. The results are informed partly by DJ and producer Jamie Smiths dance-orientated solo effort In Colour, but the revelation here is Romy Madley Croft. Her sultry purr dominates I Dare You.

★★★★

SHAWN MENDES

Live At Madison Square Garden (Virgin EMI)

Following in the footsteps of Drake, The Weeknd and Justin Bieber, Shawn Mendes is the latest Canadian set for stardom. This digital-only live release offers a succinct career resume against a backdrop of screaming fans. Like Justin, the Toronto teenager began by posting cover versions online, but his soft-rock songs avoid Biebers fondness for dance music, looking instead to Ed Sheeran and Bruno Mars for inspiration. He tours in the spring.

★★★

NORMA JEAN MARTINE

Only In My Mind (Virgin EMI)

London-based American Norma Jean ropes in the legendary Burt Bacharach, UK singer-swingwriter Ed Harcourt and Athletes Joel Pott on this sultry debut, but her songs of bruised romance owe just as much to her own experiences. The singer, 25, adopts the husky tone of Lana Del Rey on I Want You To Want Me before evoking the Sixties girl groups on Still In Love With You. The Bacharach co-write Im Still Here has the feel of a standard, with Martines bluesy pop making her a name to watch.

★★★★

KELVIN JONES

Stop The Moment (Epic)

THIS new edition of singer-songwriter Joness spring 2016 debut had been expanded in advance of a major promotional push, and the deluxe upgrade works well for the 21-year-old from Stevenage. With blues masters such as B.B. King as his role models, his tunes put a soulful slant on the folk-pop of George Ezra and Ed Sheeran. The newer tracks, one recorded on a mobile phone, emphasise his acoustic roots, with the sincere and spirited Rollercoaster the pick.

★★★

Two Banksy originals purchased for just $60 each in Central Park during graffiti artist's NYC residency set to fetch $160,000 at auction

A stall selling original, signed Banksy art popped up near New York's Central Park on Saturday, but passersby had no idea the works were authentic

An art fan who unwittingly bought two paintings by street artist Banksy in Central Park for just $60 each is expected to receive a $160,000 windfall when the prints go up for auction.

Talk about street art! Chicago artist fills in the city's potholes - and marks each one with a beautiful mosaic

Jim Bachor scrapes away the cement to reveal his finished mosaic on a filled pothole in a Chicago street

Artist Jim Bachor has been filling holes in the road in Chicago by creating mosaics which use the colours of the flag of the city and feature a fake serial number to highlight the severity of the pothole problem.