Rex Ryan's now-famous tattoo of what appears to be his wife wearing nothing but a Mark Sanchez jersey seems to have at least been inspired by the work of illustrator Robert Ullman.

Among other things, Ullman specializes in pin-up art of ladies wearing sports jerseys, socks, and nothing else. You can see examples of his work at Atom-Bomb Bikini, as well as in this Google search.

We asked Ullman if the tattoo was based on his work, and the artist said he wasn't sure.

"Maybe," Ullman told us, "any rate, he should've asked me to recommend a better [tattoo] artist!...She appears to be missing a hand."

Even with the crude rendering, there are some key similarities between Ullman's work and the tattoo. In addition to wearing nothing but a sports jersey, she appears to be in a sitting pose with one hand near her head. This is a common theme in Ullman's work (see above).

Either way, it is clear that Ryan is not the first person to have his wife rendered in a sports jersey of his favorite team.

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Small Moons is an art installation by SuttonBeresCuller, a collective of three artists (John Sutton, Ben Beres, and Zac Culler), that was displayed at the Land of Tomorrow gallery in Louisville, Kentucky last fall.

The artists also made a time-lapse film that showcases what went into the building of Small Moons on Vimeo, and it's weirdly relaxing to watch.

The three-minute video follows the progress of the four sculptures from their wire frame beginnings to the completed, chaotic exteriors. To create the appearance of a jumped sphere of "garbage," the three artists attached everything from bicycles to teddy bears onto the original frame.

Only after watching the video does one realize how carefully constructed each globe's exterior actually was.

See the time lapse video below (via TrendHunter):

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Artists Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman are the brains behind an intriguing photography project that starts simply by finding interesting tweets that have location data attached to them.

It's called "Geolocated." They visit these tagged locations, photograph them, and display the picture alongside the text of the tweet.

With the context of the location to supplement the tweet itself, the result is a unique piece of art, and they were kind enough to share some with us.

"Amy is Dying @HighlandHospital"

"One thing I've come to recognize is you can't assume your feelings are more profound than that of others. Everyone feels. Differently."

"Love hiding in the back at work because I have a 35 year old creeper. #scared #help"

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Frank Gehry — one of the most celebrated and prolific architects living today — has a thing for fish. He's been quoted as saying, "The fish is a perfect form," and previously devoted an entire gallery to showcasing hollow Fish Lamps he created himself back in 1984.

And now he's doing it again in two brand new Fish Lamp exhibits that are concurrently on display in Larry Gagosian's Los Angeles and Paris galleries.

For the latest exhibit, Gehry decided to create a brand new group of Fish Lamps rather than re-display the 1984 originals. The sculptures range from life-size to out-size, and use ColorCore, a type of material used for outdoor signs, for the jagged scales attached to the wire-molded fish frame.

The designs are whimsical, sometimes arranged individually or in groupings of two or three, and the softly-lit fish seem to swim throughout the Gehry-designed gallery layout.

The joint exhibit will run until February 14, 2013 in LA, and March 9 in Paris. See preview images for the Fish Lamps below.

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A painting by German abstract artist Gerhard Richter that's owned by "king of hedge funds" Steven Cohen is going on the auction block in New York City.

Christie's said "Prag 1883" is estimated to sell "in the region of $15 million" on Nov. 14.

The title of the painting depicting swirling bright yellow, blue and red colors refers to the birthplace and birth date of Franz Kafka. Kafka was one of Richter's favorite authors.

Before it was acquired by Mr. Cohen, the monumental 1983 work was owned by the Duke of Bavaria.

Mr. Cohen is a self-made billionaire with a world-renowned collection of modern and contemporary art. He's the founder of SAC Capital in Stamford, Conn.

The current Richter auction record is $21.8 million for his "Abstract Picture (7938-3)."

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It is a face known throughout the world, but the public will see a different side of the Queen today as a portrait banished for 61 years goes on display.

The controversial painting was once banned from Liverpool town hall because it looked nothing like the Queen and her neck was "too long”. Embarrassed council chiefs ordered it to be hidden from public view in the vaults.

But now the artwork, which councilors have tried to hide for more than half a century, will hang in the city’s St George's Hall.

The painting was rejected when it was commissioned for the Queen's Coronation but has been salvaged to commemorate the event’s 60th anniversary.

Even the artist John Napper, who created it in 1952, famously said it was "a beautiful painting of a queen, but not this Queen".

Originally the Liverpool Corporation refused to hang it in the Town Hall. It hung briefly in the Walker Art Gallery instead, but has spent much of the last 61 years in storage.

But today, trustees at St George's Hall announced that the portrait will be permanently shown there to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee.

Liverpool's deputy Lord Mayor Gary Millar, a trustee of the hall, said: "We are very proud that Liverpool now has the original first painting hanging in St George's Hall, which has been rehung to celebrate the anniversary of the Queen's Coronation.

"It will be the first thing people will see if they come to get married or have a civil partnership or attend a citizenship ceremony."

The painting is Napper's second portrait of the Queen to be put on display in Liverpool.

After his first version was rejected by the council, he painted a second with a smaller neck, which was finally accepted by Liverpool town hall and still hangs there today.

Cllr Millar said: "It strengthens the link between the city's two civic buildings.

"The second version of the John Napper painting is hanging in the town hall and we have the original here.

“It is an honour for us to work with the friends of the hall, the staff there and the city council to rehang this beautiful painting."

The controversial portrait was unveiled just days after the Duchess of Cambridge's first official portrait by Paul Emsley was unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery to mixed reviews from the art world.

A spokesperson for Buckingham Palace said: "We do not comment on any of the portraits of Her Majesty The Queen."

Mr Napper’s widow Pauline said today: “I remember the painting well. He was disappointed with the angle at which he painted it, he only had one sitting.

“I was due to be hung up high so that you would look at it from below. If you looked at it from that angle it looked normal.

“Then when they showed it they didn’t put it up high and then it didn’t look like the Queen.

Speaking from the home they once shared in Ludlow, Shropshire, she added: “It is a beautiful painting, obviously he would have been pleased that it is going on display. I am pleased too, it is a beautiful portrait.”

Mr Napper, who died in 2001 aged 84, painted both the Queen and Lady Churchill during the 1950s.

Prince Charles, whose portrait he painted in 1996, was an established fan and collector of his works

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When artist Paul Emsley unveiled his official portrait of Kate Middleton, the world was surprised to see the beautiful Duchess of Cambridge's not as attractive painting.

The press was somewhat harsh, calling Middleton's first official portrait "ghostly" and "an aesthetic disaster."

There have even been countless internet memes dedicated to making fun of the portrait >

But now, for the first time since the much-hyped portrait's unveiling, the 65-year-old artist is speaking out against what he calls were "vicious" criticisms.

"Some of the words written about it were so personal. I'd be inhuman if I said it didn't affect me," the award-winning artist told Hello!"When you take on commissions like this, it is hazardous and you expect a bit of flak, but I expected nothing like the criticism I have received. I didn't expect it to go to the levels it did."

While Prince William described the piece as "absolutely beautiful” and Middleton herself said it was "amazing" and "brilliant," Emsley said the backlash was like a "witch hunt" and "circus" that took an emotional toll on his two daughters and his wife.

"At first the attacks were so vicious that there was a point where I myself doubted that the portrait of the duchess was any good. But now I've had time to reflect, I am still happy with it and am getting on with my life. There is nothing I would have changed," said Emsley, who spent four months on the portrait.

But Emsley says that perhaps his painting just isn't photographing well, and he suggests you visit it in the U.K.'s National Portrait Gallery before knocking his work.

After sitting for Emsley on two occasions, in May and June of last year, the artist says of his royal subject:

"She struck me as enormously open and generous and a very warm person. After initially feeling it was going to be an unsmiling portrait, I think it was the right choice in the end to have her smiling—that is really who she is."

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is planning its first major expansion since it opened in 1971 as a "living memorial" to President John F. Kennedy, with new features including pavilions to house rehearsal halls and classrooms, a memorial garden and a floating stage on the Potomac River.

The plans unveiled Tuesday call for a $100 million addition that would create a more lively outdoor space for gatherings and performances, with a pedestrian bridge connecting the center to the river. Architect Steven Holl drafted the initial concept and was hired from among several contenders to design the expansion.

New marble pavilions — made from the same Italian Carrara marble as the original building's walls — would rise from a new garden situated beside the center, and the pavilions would be connected underground. Most of the new facility, totaling about 60,000 square feet of usable space, would be buried below the surface to help preserve the silhouette of the center's primary building.

Officials plan to raise private funds to build the project. To kick off the capital campaign, Kennedy Center Chairman David Rubenstein is giving $50 million to fund half the cost. The center aims to raise an additional $75 million to complete construction and establish a programming fund. Officials hope to open the new space in 2018.

Kennedy Center President Michael Kaiser said the new pavilions would have windows to allow visitors to look in on rehearsals of opera, theater or dance.

"We're giving a great improvement in public access to the Kennedy Center, to our art making," Kaiser said. "It's going to allow us to engage our audience in new and different ways."

The new space for rehearsals and education programs also is desperately needed as the center has grown since 1971, Kaiser said. The center now includes a national arts education program and houses the Washington National Opera as a permanent affiliate.

In an interview, Holl said he is honored to work on a memorial to a president he saw inaugurated in 1961 and respected so much.

"The Kennedy Center is a living memorial. It's active, open to the public for performance, the arts, which he really believed in," Holl said.

Preliminary plans call for a memorial garden to honor Kennedy. It could include 46 Gingko trees to note the number of years Kennedy lived, 35 lavender rows for the 35th president, and a video wall for projections of performances from inside the Kennedy Center.

"The idea really is that the landscape is activated," a fusion of architecture and landscape features, Holl said.

It could include a reflecting pool the exact length of the PT-109 boat that Lt. John Kennedy commanded during World War II. Holl envisions a deck along the pool made from the same mahogany wood as the boat. It could also include inscriptions of Kennedy's words.

The biggest challenge in the design concept could be winning approval for a performance stage that would float on the Potomac River, Holl said. Still, he said he has successfully negotiated with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for a past project that fell inside a flood plain.

"I'm ready for the fight," he said.

Open-air performances were once held on a floating river stage nearby at the Lincoln Memorial in the 1930s.

The new expansion plans come more than 10 years after the Kennedy Center announced a major project to build two new buildings and a plaza over a nearby freeway to connect the center with the National Mall. The $650 million project was essentially canceled in 2005 after budget constraints forced Congress to eliminate $400 million in federal funding for the project.

Kaiser envisioned a museum of the performing arts as part of that project. Now, he said, the center can plan future exhibition galleries in its main building as education programs and rehearsals move to the new facilities.

Rubenstein, a billionaire businessman and a former vice chairman of New York City's Lincoln Center, said the Kennedy Center has been limited by its building over the years. So he wanted to plan a realistic project that could be privately funded without relying on Congress. As the federal budget tightens, Rubenstein said more Americans should consider supporting nonprofit federal entities like the center.

Rubenstein's gift is the largest in the center's history. Combined with previous gifts, he has donated $75 million, making him the center's largest donor.

Adding a garden and outdoor pavilions will make the center more inviting, Rubenstein said.

"Rarely do people say in Washington, 'I'm going to go over and spend a couple hours at the Kennedy Center,'" Rubenstein said, noting it's often an evening destination for shows. But that will change, he said. "What we wanted to do was to remind people that this is a living memorial to a president."

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A picture is worth 1,000 words, but the pieces by young artist Rubén Belloso Adorna may be worth even more than that.

Born in Seville, Spain, Belloso is trained in the fine arts from the University of Seville. His primary medium is pastels, and now his name is becoming legendary in the art world for his realistic-looking portraits of both real and fictional characters in a style of art known as hyperrealism.

Belloso, who also teaches classes on how to work with pastels, shared some of his beautiful masterpieces with us. They're so lifelike, you might forget they're only drawings.

Elia Vázquez Díaz — Belloso created this portrait of Elia, his maternal grandmother.

"Ernst VII"— Belloso's portrait of Ernst VII. To give you an idea of the scale of his work, this piece is 185 cm by 122 cm, over six feet tall.

"Estudio Portugal 4" ("Portugal Study 4") — This piece was done from an original photo by Belloso's favorite photographer, Javier Pardo.

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Let's face it, food can be fickle.

How many times have you taken a picture of whatever delicious dish you're eating to post on Instagram—probably to the chef's dismay— and your photo made the food look like an unappetizing mess?

It happens to the best of us. 

But professional food photographers have an army of tricks for making a ripe tomato or slice of blueberry pie look like a work of art.

Food photographer Karen Wise shared some of the secrets of her profession with us, along with some of her gorgeous work.

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"Lighting is key when it comes to creating beautiful food still lifes," said Wise. She prefers using natural daylight, when possible.

She suggested placing a small, rectangular table by a window, or setting up a unique surface on saw horses, as a basis for the photograph.

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To commemorate the 25th anniversary of "Die Hard," Fox has installed a giant mural of Bruce Willis as John McClane on its studio lot in Century City.

The 35-foot mural was installed on the side of Soundstage 8 by muralist Van Hecht-Nielsen and painter Fernando Cepeda.

At the celebration, Fox Filmed Entertainment chair Jim Gianopulos' said the reasoning for the mural was simple.

"If you look around the lot, there’s Star Wars, The Simpsons, The Sound of Music, all classic properties that have defined the studio’s history,” said Gianopulos. “This is another iconic film with a singular and enduring legacy."

Here's a better look at the mural. 

Apparently, the unveil caused quite the commotion.

You can check out a 30-second time-lapse of the work of art being made below:

And, here's Hecht-Nielsen discussing what it was like to work on the mural of Willis:

The fifth installment of the franchise "A Good Day to Die Hard" comes out in theaters Valentine's Day.

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Jeff Koons' giant steel sculpture "Tulips"sold to an anonymous buyer for $33.7 million during Christie's post-war and contemporary art sale last fall.

It turns out the buyer was hotel mogul Steve Wynn, who unveiled the three-ton sculpture in the rotunda of the Wynn Theater in Las Vegas last week, The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.

Wynn is a prolific art collector. He was rumored to have spent $40 million on Dale Chiluly's glass-blown masterpiece "Fiori di Como, which hangs from the ceiling of the lobby at the Bellagio, and spent a record $12.8 million on a pair of Chinese vases to display in his Macau resort.

He also notoriously put his elbow through Picasso's "Le Rêve," for which he paid around $60 million.

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As Christie’s prepares to raise an estimated £100 million in one evening, Alice Vincent visits the auction house to find out how the rich buy art.

Christie's has all the hallmarks of one of London’s smartest establishments: doormen in tails, a St. James's postcode and a whiff of French polish in the air. It also has an open door policy. “We love children coming here!” enthuses Jay Vincze, the auction house’s International Director of Impressionist and Modern Art.

On Wednesday, Christie’s expects to make up to £145 million at its bi-annual Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale which includes The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale each February.

Many of the pieces haven’t been on public display for decades, but during the five days before the auction the artwork is on show to the public for free.

The star of the sale is Amadeo Modigliani’s 1919 portrait of his wife Jeanne Hébuterne (au chapeau), which is listed for £16-22 million. A pensive painting, Hébuterne’s graceful demeanor belies the trauma in the couple’s relationship: just six months after it was created, Modigliani’s premature death from tuberculosis led Hébuterne to commit suicide the next day. She was pregnant with their second child. Vincze, who is in charge of Wednesday’s sale, explains the painting’s appeal: “It’s very elegant and yet there’s a power to it. There’s often this power in Modigliani’s portraits of Jean which you don’t get from the other portraits he did. You can really sense this passionate relationship they had.”

While the Modigliani went on sale to its current owner in 2006, it hasn’t been on display in a museum since 1953. It’s not the only one: the majority of work coming from private collections, 60 per cent of the art up for sale on Wednesday has never appeared at auction, and others haven’t gone under the hammer for three generations. Vincze explains that it makes them all the more appealing: “There’s an incredible freshness to the sale - it tends to cause quite a bit of excitement when works come up that are so fresh.”

Another highlight of the evening sale is a mysterious Wassily Kandinsky painting, Balancement. Created in 1942, it dates from Kandinsky’s post-Bauhaus period when the artist was living in Paris, perfecting his influential Abstraction and struggling to find large enough canvasses in the midst of war. Most from this era hang in New York’s Guggenheim gallery or the Pompidou Centre in Paris, leaving very few in private hands. “It’s a pretty exciting piece, they’re very rare to the auction market”, says Vincze. He won’t let on who the anonymous seller is, but Balancement is valued between £5-8 million.

Another exciting prospect is a portrait of Picasso’s last great muse, and later wife, Jacqueline Roque, which was completed on Valentines Day 1960. Displayed just once in New York in 1962, the figure ripples with femininity.

There’s also a Renoir up for grabs. Last auctioned 25 years ago, L’ombrelle is a painting Vincze reckons will be at the centre of a bidding war on Wednesday; it’s estimated to reach between £4-7 million. The 1878 painting is quintessentially Impressionist - Renoir’s rich impasto celebrates a fashionable Parisienne, and the use of color in shadow is one of the earliest examples of the influential technique. L’ombrelle was originally owned by one of the earliest American collectors of Impressionism, Erwin Davis, who donated two Manet pictures to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1889.

Of course, it’s not by chance that these 76 exclusive works are on sale all at once. “This auction has probably taken 30 years to compile”, Vincze says, “we try and edit the sale. You want to keep the quality high and offer good pieces to buyers.” Christie’s manage it by nurturing good relationships with valued collectors. Sales of this size have a gathering period of six months. But before that begins, some potential sellers have been involved in a process of discussing the best time to sell for many decades.

Vincze says there’s a sense of stability in the market for Impressionist and modern art. However, the demand for it is increasing. Last year 20 per cent of all buyers at Christie’s were first-time purchasers, and that number doubled to 40 per cent in 2012’s online auctions, which started in 2006, with online-only auctions launching in December 2011. There are over 30 online only auctions planned for 2013. While recent art sale news has focused on Chinese buyers bailing on agreed sales and a struggling market in India, Christie’s seems to be bucking the trend. “Partly it’s accessibility, partly it’s that art and people’s interest in art is really burgeoning”, Vincze explains. “There seems to be growth in the whole art market, the museum side too. The interest and passion for it translates very well into our sales.”

If you’re one of the few who has a couple of million to spend on art, then the process is surprisingly transparent and simple - regardless of if you’re spending £200 or £22 million. Buyers must register before they bid to show they have the funds, but Christie’s doesn’t take deposits. Once the auction catalogue has been unveiled to people a few weeks before the sale, buyers can bid online or over the phone well in advance. Meanwhile, these valuable works are on a complex shipping schedule to exhibitions in New York, Hong Kong and Tokyo, as well as to prospective buyers who can’t make it to London.

At 7pm on Wednesday night, 600 aspiring buyers will cram inside Christie’s two main salerooms to bid for works, and an increasingly global audience will participate through commission and telephone bids. “It’s a refreshing sign of the market”, says Vincze, “our buyers aren’t confined to one area of the globe.” He says there’s been a great deal of Russian and Asian collecting over the past few years, which shows “no sign of abating.”

Over 100 members of Christie’s staff will join auctioneer Jussi Pylkkanen, the Christie’s President EMERI. Once the hammer comes down, the auction house then takes its buyer’s premium, which is charged on top of the amount bid. For lots up to £25,000, this is 25%. But at an auction like this, an additional 20% is charged on the amount over £25,000. For items over £500,000, an additional 12% is charged.

And then, from Thursday, the auction house will start the process all over again. Christie’s next big sale is in just a week’s time when work by Francis Bacon, David Hockney and Damien Hirst and others are estimated to generate between £50-70 million. Another Impressionist and Modern Art evening sale follows in June. While few people will be able to indulge in a Paula Rego painting the price of a family home, the opportunity to see it on display for the first time ever, and for free, is something art fans can genuinely get excited about.

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A hacker named Guccifer apparently got access to private emails and photos from the Bush family, and has sent them along to The Smoking Gun. 

The cache includes several photos of paintings allegedly made by former President George W. Bush and sent to his family and friends. (It was reported late last year that the former president had picked up painting as a hobby.)

The Secret Service is investigating the hack, according to ABC News. 

Check out the Bush paintings below, courtesy of The Smoking Gun:

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For busy vacationers who want to do it all, it can be hard to pack in tours, museums, landmarks, restaurants, nightlife, and shopping.

Sometimes you have to give one up. But why not cut some corners by combining your museums and hotels?

Some hotels have art worthy of museums, and some museums are works of art themselves. Here are 20 hotels around the world that double as museums.

21c Museum Hotel, Louisville, Ky.

The 21c hotel is named for the 21st century, despite the fact that it consists of former 19th century tobacco and bourbon warehouses.

21c is home to a $10 million dollar collection of contemporary art owned which includes works by Brazilian artist Vik Muniz, who is known for creating multimedia pieces from materials like chocolate syrup or garbage and taking pictures of them.

When guests check in, they receive preloaded iPods with a narrated tour of the collection.

The Anse Chastanet Resort, St. Lucia

The gallery at the Anse Chastanet Resort features paintings, sculptures, and other handmade pieces by local St. Lucian artists. Some visiting artists also contribute St. Lucia-inspired works to the small collection, and stay on the island while they complete it.

The art at the Anse Chastanet is intended “to highlight the eco-luxury resort’s commitment to preserving the island’s culture and shunning invasive technology,” according to Oyster.com.

The Bellagio, Las Vegas, Nev.

The Bellagio routinely features works by various artists; some of whose pieces that have lived in the hotel include Roy Lichtenstein, Edouard Monet, Andy Warhol, and Frank Stella. 

Warhol's work is on display again starting February 8 and admission to the gallery is very reasonable: $13 for Nevada residents, $16 for non-residents, $11 for students, teachers, and members of the military.

The Bellagio also houses the restaurant Picasso, which has its own original Picasso paintings.

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Phivos Lampros Istavrioglou, Moncler's head of international relations is accused of stealing Salvador Dali's 'Cartel Des Don Juan Tenorio 1949' from a New York art gallery in 2012.

French fashion brand Moncler’s head of international media relations was arrested at New York’s JFK airport on Saturday night after allegedly stealing a $150,000 Salvador Dali painting from an Upper East Side art gallery last year.

Phivos Lampros Istavrioglou, 29, was handcuffed by detectives at 1.15pm after stepping off an American Airlines flight from Milan following a sting operation to lure him back to the city, New York Post reports.

Istavrioglou is accused of stealing the ‘Cartel Des Don Juan Tenorio 1949’ from the Venus Over Manhattan gallery last June in a crime that made international news.

Sources confirmed that Istavrioglou has admitted to the theft, claiming he did it because “there was a lapse in security at the gallery and he wanted to point it out.”

Bail has been set at $100,000 by the Manhattan Criminal Court following a charge of larceny in the second degree.

The accused allegedly snatched the Dali painting off a wall in the exhibition area during business hours, dropped it inside a shopping bag and strolled out of the gallery, police said.

The following week he posted the painting back to the gallery from Greece inside a cylinder, and police were able to lift his fingerprints following a separate arrest for stealing a steak from Whole Foods, New York last January.

Undercover detectives posed as representatives from a up-market art gallery offering Istavrioglou a lucrative consultancy contract to entice him to return to New York.

A spokesman confirmed that Istavrioglou has left Moncler, which is famous for its luxurious, down-filled puffa jackets.

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Visitors to a special after-hours showing of an exhibition based on the theme of “naked men” were encouraged earlier this week to shed their clothes.

"Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life", Oscar Wilde wrote and it's more than likely Wilde himself would have admired the nudes on display at the Leopold Museum on Monday - both on the wall, and in the flesh.

Visitors to a special after-hours showing of an exhibition based on the theme of “naked men” were encouraged yesterday to shed their clothes in a a goose-bump raising instance of life imitating art.

Not only did museum goers leave their coats and bags at the entrance to the museum, but they also checked-in the rest of their clothing.

The occasion Monday at Vienna's Leopold Museum was a special after-hour showing of "Nude Men from 1800 to Today"— an exhibit of 300 paintings, photographs, drawings and sculptures focused on the bare male.

The exhibition blurb states that: 'Previous exhibitions on the theme of nudity have mostly been limited to female nudes. With the presentation “naked men” in the autumn of 2012 the Leopold Museum will be showing a long overdue exhibition on the diverse and changing depictions of naked men from 1800 to the present.'

Though, doubtless the art will have captured the imagination of visitors some were distracted by the distinctly chilly temperature in the museum: "I can't say I'm sweating," said office worker Herbert Korvas, as he stood in the atrium with other young men wearing no more than socks and a smile and waiting for the tour to start. Still, he said he was drawn to the idea of naked museum viewing "because it was something different."

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There's a press release making the rounds on the internet this afternoon saying that London police have arrested famed graffiti artist Banksy and revealed his identity.

Don't believe it — the whole thing seems to be a hoax.

We just placed a call to London's Metropolitan Police, who confirmed that the Banksy is still safely under cover.

And there are no reports about the alleged arrest on BBC or CNN, which both supposedly covered the story according to the press release on PRLog.

Tellingly, the contact address for the release is an email address at the domain name www.iywib.com, a humor site (it's currently down).

We have to give the writer some credit, though — the details in the press release are pretty specific. It claims that Banksy is Paul William Horner, a 39-year old male born in Bristol, England.

And it says that he's "currently being held without bail on charges of vandalism, conspiracy, racketeering and counterfeiting."

While the press release seems confined to Twitter for the moment, a few publications seem to have fallen for the hoax.

Complex wrote earlier this afternoon:

While the rumor swirls around often, this time it may be true. Banksy was supposedly arrested yesterday in London under charges of vandalism and counterfeiting. He has been revealed as Paul Horner, a 39-year-old male born in Bristol, England.

He is said to be currently held without bail. We will report more details as they are revealed.

Jezebel also seem to have taken the bait, though they swiftly added a caveat acknowledging it may be a hoax.

Some screenshots of the release:

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Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955. He would have been 58 today.

Although he is gone, he will never be forgotten, if his loyal fans have anything to say about it.

And they do.

Here's a great collection of artwork depicting Jobs.

Many of these fans are artists with a sense of humor.

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Steve Jobs is such a doll.

Let me give you my card.

The sum of his parts.

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Hedge fund legend Michael Steinhardt is selling his private collection of Jewish ceremonial art at auction on April 29th, says WSJ. The collection is valued at around $11 million and will be sold at Sotheby's.

Steinhardt, a Wharton grad, is known for amazing returns and pioneering the idea that down days in the market are no excuse for poor performance.

He told the WSJ that he's felt strong ties with this art because of his Jewish identity, even though he's atheist, and that he's selling because his kids and grandkids have no interest in continuing the collection.

From WSJ:

Sometimes I would say to myself—and mean it—'I'd like to die broke.' Meaning that I don't have any particular desire to leave all sorts of things when I'm gone. I've a desire to leave things to my loved ones, but my kids and grandchildren have at the moment zero interest in my collecting, so it wouldn't be for them. The idea that...you died having consumed or spent or given away most of the assets that you had—I find that an appealing concept, albeit unrealistic.

Steinhardt's wife wants him to keep some of the pieces, so he's probably right about that last point.

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