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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

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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.

MUST READS...Art stories from around the world

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 WANDERING HEARTS

Wild Silence (Decca)

Theres an appealing rawness to this debut. A male-female quartet with a folk-rock penchant, their harmonies will elicit comparisons with Fleetwood Mac, but the acoustic instrumentation looks more to country, with Fire And Water a lively hoedown and Burning Bridges a nostalgic ballad.

★★★

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Fifty Shades Freed (Island)

The final instalment of the film trilogy has yielded an uneven but entertaining soundtrack. It mixes new material from stars such as Sia and Dua Lipa with pop newcomers. The most intriguing inclusions come from emerging Californian singers Kiana Ledé, Sabrina Claudio and Julia Michaels, who steal the show.

★★★★

THE SKIDS

Burning Cities (No Bad)

Scottish punk pioneers The Skids show a real sense of urgency on this bracing comeback, their first album in 37 years. They race through the first ten songs without pausing for breath, slowing the pace only on the atmospheric closer Desert Dust. Singer Richard Jobson is a galvanising presence, while Bruce Watson wisely avoids trying to emulate the angular guitar sounds of the late Stuart Adamson. With the band now back on tour, this is a distinguished return

★★★★

THE ROLLING STONES

On Air (Polydor)

'Our policy is to produce an authentic Chicago R&B; sound, said the Stones to the BBC in 1963, and these early radio sessions are steeped in the blues. With Brian Jones on superb slide guitar, they tackle Bo Diddley and Muddy Waters, making On Air a distant cousin to last years Blue & Lonesome. The rough and ready originals also catch the ear, including Satisfaction and a forceful The Spider And The Fly. >
★★★★

JEFF LYNNES ELO

Wembley Or Bust (Sony)

Recorded at Wembley Stadium in June, this CD/ DVD celebrates ELOs flawless blend of pop and classical. Rockaria has some suitably operatic flourishes, while the overblown 10538 Overture was the template for Oasiss Be Here Now. Lynne is more of a craftsman than he is a showman, but its hard to resist the melodic sweep of Mr Blue Sky, Xanadu and the Traveling Wilburys Handle With Care.

★★★

FOY VANCE

Live In London (Gingerbread Man)

Mentored by Elton John and Ed Sheeran, the Irish singer-songwriter is in excellent voice on this solo show at Londons Union Chapel. He spends as much time talking as singing, but the simple setting suits his informal approach. He augments Van Morrison-like originals with piano and ukulele and adds rambling anecdotes to a cover of Tom Pettys Free Fallin>
★★★

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.

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