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An amateur metal detector unearthed 1,500 pieces of gold in central England, including weapons, trinkets and coins Read the original post on Guardian Arts & Architecture

Private collector’s felt-tip sketch by Pablo Picasso thought to have taken seconds to produce A doodle of a horse in felt-tip pen that must have taken no more than seconds to produce is expected to sell for more than £20,000 at auction. The sketch by Pablo Picasso appears on a ripped-out page of a book [...]

From following a stranger to Venice to burying her mother’s jewellery at the north pole, Sophie Calle is France’s foremost artist of the unexpected One day, a journalist from Le Monde interviewed Sophie Calle. He sat down in her studio and asked her her date of birth. She said: “October 9, 1953.” He said: “Go [...]

This is a picture of one of the worst things on the planet: the Athabasca oil sands in Alberta, Canada. Oil is extracted from the sands here, leaving this residue. What you’re looking at is essentially poison and pollution, yet the shot has great beauty. If you look closely to the middle right, you can see bits [...]

The UK’s largest haul of Anglo-Saxon gold artefacts is found buried beneath a field in Staffordshire. Read the original article on the BBC

London’s Hackney Empire is to close for several months “for a period of reflection,” the company says. Read the original article on the BBC

Olympia, a portrait of the artist’s wife, taken in raid on former home of the Belgian painter, now an exclusive museum A painting by the Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte was stolen from a Brussels museum today in a daring daylight raid by two armed men who rang the doorbell before putting a gun to [...]

In conjunction with Ludovico Aversion Therapy—his debut solo exhibition in the United States, on view from September 12 through October 10 at Jonathan LeVine Gallery—D*Face has painted additional off-site murals on the shutters of three empty storefronts in downtown New York City as well as a wall in the meat packing district, using imagery to [...]

Ludovico Aversion Therapy / All Your Dreams Belong To Us Show Runs from Sep 12 thru Oct 10, 2009. Any sales enquiries please contact bee@stolenspace.com Read the original post on Stolen Spaces

Digital Fabrications : Architectural and Material Techniques (Amazon USA and UK) Publisher Princeton Architectural Press says: Architectural pioneers such as Frank Gehry and Greg Lynn introduced the world to the extreme forms made possible by digital fabrication. It is now possible to transfer designs made on a computer to computer-controlled machinery that creates actual building [...]