When two adolescent protestors covered a Monet painting in mashed potatoes in Germany, the continuing practice of climate activists defiling precious pieces of art continues. Two members of the group Letzte Generation (Last Generation) bathed Claude Monet’s “Les Meules” painting with mashed potatoes on Sunday at the Museum Barberini in Potsdam, Germany, before adhering themselves... 

A top British dance school has dropped ballet from its auditions after branding it an ‘elitist art form’, built around ‘white European ideas and body shapes’. The Northern School of Contemporary Dance (NSCD) reviewed the dance as part of a wider plan to ‘decolonise the curriculum’, and consider the impact of race and gender on dance. The Leeds-based school will... 

A man who shouted slogans about climate change attacked the Mona Lisa painting in Paris by smearing it in cake cream, but his efforts failed miserably due to the iconic work of art being protected behind bullet-proof glass. The incident took place at the famous Louvre art museum on Sunday. Onlookers were shocked to see what appeared to be an old woman in a wheelchair rise up and rush towards Leonardo... 

Instagram has refused to remove an image depicting two black women holding the severed heads of white people, claiming that “people may express themselves differently” and that the picture doesn’t violate community guidelines. The image, produced by an artist working under the name ‘sugarygarbage’, was shared to a page called ‘supportblackart’ and shows two obese black women posing with... 

A celebrated Italian artist, renowned for his baroque-style paintings filled with Christian imagery, was met with controversy after unveiling his latest painting of the martyrdom of St. Simon of Trento, which is a depiction of Jews ritualistically murdering a Christian child, the Algemeiner reported: Painter Giovanni Gasparo uploaded a picture of his canvas to his Facebook page on Tuesday. Titled... 

In this new age of political correctness, it’s not just modern actors, artists and performers who need to watch their words — even classic writers and world-famous pieces of art have found themselves in the PC firing line. Every other week, it seems like there’s a new case of something “racist” or “culturally insensitive” being banished from view in this fight against anything that could... 

Paintings and statues depicting nudity were covered with veils at an exposition held in the palace of Savona to avoid offending visiting Muslims, according to the artist who created them. The works of art had to be censored at the request of a visiting delegation from Italy’s Islamic Confederation because they were “too nude,” according to the report. A statue of Epaminondas, a historic Theban... 

In yet another example of the hoax that is “modern art,” cleaners at the Marco Polo Hongkong Hotel, where the “Harbour Art fair 2018” is being held, threw away one of the exhibits because they genuinely though it was trash. The exhibit, titled “Unhappy Meal” (a play on the McDonald’s “Happy Meal” menu) was a cardboard box with a “unhappy” emoji face, all in McDonald’s colors. According... 

A piece of “performance art” released by the taxpayer-funded Scottish National Portrait Gallery describes white people as “inbred spawn soon to die out.” The spoken word video, performed by Mercury Prize-winners Young Fathers and published on YouTube last week, features Aloysius Massaquoi racially insulting some of Scotland’s most iconic figures, including King James III and architect Sir... 

Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s New York office features an oil painting in which two men are preparing to eat another human. The image, which was shown during a 2015 exposè on the Clinton campaign headquarters by Politico, was lent to Podesta by his lobbyist brother Tony. The painting was specifically mentioned 9 months later in an article on Podesta by Time Magazine. “On the wall in... 

A man walks past ice sculptures at a park before the opening ceremony of the Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival in Harbin, China’s northeastern Heilongjiang province, on January 4, 2016. The legendary Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival has kicked off in China where over a million people are expected to visit the gigantic ice structures displayed in ethereal lights. The... 

The Islamic State has reportedly declared it was behind the attack in Garland, Texas, via its Al Bayan radio station. The Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) made a statement on Tuesday, claiming this was the terrorist group’s first attack on US soil. The IS added that two of its “soldiers” had attempted to carry out an attack as the exhibit was “portraying negative pictures of the Prophet Mohammed,”... 

Some fashonistas strive for sexy when it comes to clothes, but one artist from New York is taking a rather utilitarian approach with outfits — he’s about to unveil a whole line of garments designed to make the wearer nearly invisible to drones. Brooklyn-based artist Adam Harvey used to work primarily with photography, but he undertakes an entirely different medium with his newest project. He says... 

From Stalin to Steve Jobs, from Brezhnev to Berlusconi, from Hitler to Marilyn Manson: some of the world’s most recognized figures have been reinvented in a new exhibition by a young Russian artist who prefers comedy to politics. ­Kazakhstan-born Victoria Tsarkova studied icon painting, and says the heroes of her portraits could be described as “iconic” just as well. ­The 29-year-old artist... 

It is the most powerful painting in the world. The work is extremely thought- provoking with a depiction of the human brain in an abstract form, against a surreal background. The Brain, an acrylic on canvas that measures 1.5 meters by 1.2 meters, will be up on the market for GBP 333,000,000 (over 500 Million Dollars) from the 12th of December this year. Kean Hughes, a fine arts dealer from London,...