Australian penis artist bids for top art prize
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A cheeky artist who uses his penis as a brush has entered a racy self-portrait for Australia's top art prize.
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Art collector Charles Saatchi is offered Â£6.25 million for Damien Hirst's famous 14-foot tiger shark.
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A video tour of Texas has won British artist Jeremy Deller the Turner Prize, one of the art world&#39;s most contentious awards. Deller, hot favourite with bookmakers to land
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The art centre at Titjikala south of Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory, says one of its artists, Johnny Young, has been invited to show some of his works at an exhibition in New York.
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Comic book hero Tintin has finally made it to Australia, with the company which controls the use of his image giving a Sydney artist the go-ahead to use the Belgian character in political cartoons.
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A Valentineâs Day charity auction at Sothebyâs in New York raised more than $42.5 million to benefit H.I.V./AIDS relief programs in Africa, far above the presale estimate of about $29 million, The Associated Press reported. Organized by Sothebyâs, Bono, Damien Hirst (whose âWhere Thereâs a Will Thereâs a Way,â above, was among the works sold) and the Gagosian Gallery, the event set sale records for 17 artists, including Howard Hodgkin, Marc Quinn and Keith Tyson, and included pieces by Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons and Ed Ruscha. Proceeds will go the United Nations Foundation and will support programs run by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
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Claude Monet's masterpiece Nympheas is expected to fetch up to Â£15m at auction.
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Jeremy Deller, the London-based artist who describes himself as âpart alchemist, part social anthropologistâ, is the winner of this year&#39;s Â£25,000 Turner Prize.
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An auction organised by U2's Bono and artist Damien Hirst raises $42.5m (Â£21.6m) towards the fight against Aids.
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An X-rated exhibition featuring a pornographic fresco from a Roman brothel and a fig leaf used to hide the private parts of Michelangelo's David is to be staged at one of London's top arts centres.
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A three-canvas painting by the figurative artist Francis Bacon is to be auctioned in London next month, where experts estimate it will break the record for the sale of any British or Irish work.
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Sydney hosts the world's largest HIV/Aids forum, which confirms that male circumcision can cut infection.
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The first major paintings to have been commissioned from Jack Vettriano appear at auction.
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The hottest new abstract artist may only be four years old, but she has reason to celebrate.
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The four artists competing in the 2006 Turner Prize will find out who wins the Â£20,000 award tonight.
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Controversial Australian comedian Brendon Burns wins the Edinburgh Fringe Festival's top comedy prize.
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Aboriginal art in  Australia is booming and improving the lives of poor black  communities, but unscrupulous dealers are ripping off artists  and fraud from China and India is undermining the industry.