McRob’s art gallery
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Read moreOn a lark, a colorblind artist contacted Tom Cruise’s management team to see if the Top Gun star wanted to keep a portrait he had made of him. Wilf Elliott, who hails from the east England town of Clacton, is colorblind and has made charcoal drawings of celebrities like Gareth Bale,…
Read moreA town council in Scotland has been given the go ahead by a local court to sell a marble bust found propping open a garden shed, and turn the proceeds into a multitude of good for the community. The bust was purchased by the Invergordon Town Council in 1930 for just…
Read moreThese white dots arranged in five clusters against a black background simulate an extraterrestrial signal transmitted from Mars and deciphered by a father-daughter team on Earth after a year-long decoding effort. The project was organized by some of the world’s top astronomers to run the scenario of a citizen science response…
Read moreArtists come from all corners, in all shapes and sizes, and from every race and religion; John Pavart and his painted coconuts are a perfect example. The former opal miner turned painter from Australia’s state of New South Wales has been painting coconut husks for years, leaving them around the beaches…
Read moreA painting that was found in a basement signed with the name “Picasso,” but that was dismissed, thrust into a cheap frame, hung in the family house, and then in a restaurant, has finally been recognized as an authentic piece by the Spanish artist. The value is already estimated to be…
Read moreA two-foot-tall bronze statue of the Greek goddess Diana that once adorned the fireplace mantle onboard the Titanic was found during a recent expedition. Described as like finding “a needle in a haystack,” it was one of a variety of fine art pieces that have for years been the targets of…
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