Spanish Artist Creates Obama Sand Sculpture Visible From Space 11-05-2008 7:02 am   -  AP

AP: Using 500 metric tons of sand, gravel and white, brown and black pebbles on a beach in Spain, a Cuban-American artist has created an image of Barack Obama that's big enough to be seen from space.

Beijing Artist Strips Naked for 10-Day Cage Protest Over Women’s Roles in China 10-16-2008 11:43 pm   -  MSNBC

The cage is symbolic of a seated woman trapped inside her home.

Ohio Artist Teaches Kids With Bush Sculpture Made ‘Entirely of Bull****’ 10-12-2008 7:11 am   -  YouTube

"We are looking at me next to our President Bush."

British Artist Known for Dead Animals in Formaldehyde Hauls in $200M at Auction 09-17-2008 9:28 pm   -  ITN

New York Times: Sotheby's said the total broke the record for a single-artist auction, set in 1993 when a Picasso sale with 88 works brought $20 million.

The B-Cast: Artist Could Face Porn Charges for Nude Pictures of Her Own Daughters 08-21-2008 1:11 am   -  Breitbart.tv/Hot Metal Media

Also on today's show: The secret page on Obama's website that offers Denver speech tickets to big dollar donors & David Zucker talks about his new movie "An American Carol."

Arizona Artist Under Fire for Exhibiting Nude Pictures of Her Daughter 08-17-2008 12:40 pm   -  KPHO-TV

"Where else do you draw inspiration?"

Shock Contemporary Artist Paul McCarthy Performs ‘Painter’ 08-11-2008 7:50 pm   -  YouTube

Wikipedia: His work evolved from painting to transgressive performance art, psychosexual events intended to fly in the face of social convention, testing the emotional limits of both artist and viewer. An example of this is his 1976 piece Class Fool, where McCarthy threw himself around a ketchup spattered classroom at the University of California, San Diego until dazed and injured. He then vomited several times and inserted a Barbie doll into his rectum. The piece ended when the audience could no longer stand to watch his performance.

Program Empowers Artists With Autism 08-11-2008 4:15 pm

For many people, creating art is not just a way to make a living, but a way to indulge their passions. For people with developmental disabilities, it is no different.

Con Artist Tricks People Out of Big Money by Posing as Sinatra’s Grandson 07-27-2008 9:11 am   -  KVUE-TV

"He is going up to people in fancy hotels. People he believes have a lot of money, gaining their confidence."

Assassination Artist Speaks About Controversial Exhibit 06-04-2008 2:03 pm   -  WXTV

YouTube caption: Artist discusses the censoring of his two exhibitions, The Assassination of Hillary Clinton & The Assassination of Barack Obama, at the Leah Keller Gallery and the Naomi Gates Gallery in Manhattan.

Graphic: Artist Sets Up Obama/Clinton ‘Assassination’ Show Now Closed by Cops 06-04-2008 11:41 am   -  YouTube

NY Times: This morning, a Boston-born performance artist, Yazmany Arboleda, tried to set up a provocative art exhibition in a vacant storefront on West 40th Street in Midtown Manhattan with the title, “The Assassination of Hillary Clinton/The Assassination of Barack Obama,” in neatly stenciled letters on the plate glass windows at street level. By 9:30 a.m., New York City police detectives and Secret Service agents had shut down the exhibition, and building workers quickly covered over the inflammatory title with large sheets of brown paper and blue masking tape. (See "Related Links" for more images from each of the exhibits.)

‘Freedom Rock’: Iowa Artist Paints Annual Memorial Day Roadside Tribute 05-26-2008 8:22 am   -  DarynKagan.com

"Every year I go out there, paint it completely white, start fresh."

Man At Work: Pop Artist Robert Rauschenberg Remembered 05-13-2008 11:57 am   -  OvationTV

OvationTV: One of the most important American artists of the twentieth century, since the mid-1950's Rauschenberg has continued to pioneer new approaches to an extraordinarily diverse range of media. The many aspects of his prolific creativity are explored in this film, which draws on the ideal resource of a major retrospective of his work at the Guggenheim Museum, New York. At his studio on the island of Captiva, Rauschenberg gives a relaxed and candid interview and is seen at work.

Indian Artist Endures Nausea as He Paints Masterpieces With His Tongue 04-26-2008 7:07 pm   -  Reuters

"I always go for something different."

China Vows Curbs on Foreign Artists After Bjork Sings for Tibetan Independence 03-07-2008 9:48 am   -  YouTube

"We shall never tolerate any attempt to separate Tibet from China and will no longer welcome any artists who deliberately do this."

NEW VIDEO: Skateboard-Hating Baltimore Cop Kicks Street Artist’s ‘Moving Box’ 02-16-2008 7:40 am   -  WMAR-TV

"I suggest you start moving."

Erie Artist Makes Masterpieces Out of Fruit Stickers 01-28-2008 10:40 am   -  KWGN Denver

"That's a big part of the fun for me is having people I've never met in my life send me stuff in the mail cause they've heard about me, so that makes me feel a little special."

Anarchic Artist Dumps Half-Million Balls Down Rome’s Famed Spanish Steps 01-16-2008 12:16 pm   -  Sky News

Graziano Cecchini said each of the plastic balls "represented a lie told by a politician."

Street Art by British Graffiti Artist Sells for More Than $400,000 01-15-2008 12:57 pm   -  Press Association

"Big white wall..it's a good canvas."

Graffiti Artist on the Loose in Bethlehem 12-23-2007 2:53 pm   -  Sky News

Graffiti artist Banksy has taken his subversive style to the Holy Lands. His work is infamous for appearing overnight on many of London's streets. Now he's daubed Bethlehem's walls with images.