The National Portrait Gallery in London endeavors to purchase the newest work of Marc Quinn for a lofty £200,000. The work, a "blood portrait," is composed of 10 pints of the artist's blood, cast into the shape of his head and frozen. Quinn creates a new version every five years, which he claims is the most frequently his body can produce enough blood for the task. He plans on having the final version created after his death, with blood drained from his body. Join discussion...

The British artist Damien Hirst has sold a single piece of art for the record price of 100 million dollars. This piece of art is a human skull embedded with real diamonds. It was titled "For the Love of God". The skull is made of platinum and is imbedded with 8,601 diamonds. Join discussion...

In Britain, there are many statues in public parks. They have been criticized to be revolting and ugly by art critics as well as others. People from magazines said that the statues are infesting public areas and are causing a problem. The critics have also been criticized for criticizing, though. A spokesman of a union which had a statue built for memory of the construction workers said that the art critics should focus more on what the art stands for. Join discussion...

Classical scultpre is often characterized by sleek, white marble - magnificent in its austere beauty; a shocking new conception of Greek and Roman sculpure, however, has been unearthed by scientific examination: one a little more colorful. Original research began with the excavation of the Temple of Aphaia on the Greek island Aegina in 1811, where archeologists encountered aincient Greek statues plastered with traces of red paint. Since then, archeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann and his associates have examined multiple works, using chemicals and utlaviolet light. They have reconstructed the orginal statues - each one colorfully painted from head to toe. The recreations are on display, with the originals, at the Sackler Museum in Boston, allowing the public to reshape their own notion of aincient sculpture. Join discussion...

A study finds that people have become so overwhelmed when they go to see michelangelo's David that they get dizzy and disoriented. They are so intoxicated by its beauty that they literally feel a dsense of ectasy and heart palpitations. Join discussion...

In the middle of a cypress forest at Presidio National Park in San Francisco, Andy Goldsworthy has constructed a 100-ft spire out of logs from that forest. The Monterey cypress trees were felled as part of a reforestation project- Presidio Trust officials plan to plant 25,000 trees on the 150 acre land over 30 years. This project is slightly more monumental in scale than much of Goldsworthy's work, but the intention is no less organic. He hopes that as the new forest grows around the towering spires, they will fade into the trees, becoming part of the landscape. The artist plans to erect 3 spires total. Join discussion...

Copenhagen’s waterfront sculpture, The Little Mermaid, is to be moved from Denmark to China. Edvard Eriksen’s sculpture was based on the Hans Christian Andersen story and one of Copenhagen’s principal tourist attractions. It has been proposed to be the centerpiece of the Danish Pavilion at Expo 2010 in Shanghai. This proposal was made by Copenhagen-based architects who won a competition to design the pavilion. Join discussion...

Artist and doctor Owen Williams first began his career as an artist while working as a dentist and sculpting very small and detailed works of art out of left over silver from people's fillings. His art, though changing in media, continued to show his love for detail until his death on October 14th. Join discussion...

This article is by Luci Scott and was published in the Arizona Republic on November 6, 2007. The city of Chandler, Arizona is launching a public art project building 6.5-foot-tall fiberglass ostriches located throughout the city. Just as Chicago has cows and Seattle has pigs, Chandler now has ostriches; more than 20 painted and decorated birds. In the beginning of February, the a few ostriches were set up throughout the streets, a month before the city’s 20th Annual Ostrich Festival. This project was organized by the Chandler Arts Commission. The ostriches will be on display for the Downtown Chandler Art Walk this Wednesday from 5 to 9. Several Businesses located there have agreed to sponsor the ostriches and they plan to allow people to offer their own ideas for designing the birds. The art commission is donating supplies and $10,000 in prizes for winning designs. Each ostrich has a plaque recognizing the sponsor and the artist. They will be on display through November 2008. However, after that the sponsor has the choice to purchase the bird for a cost to $4,000 and either keeping it on display in its current location or moving it to another site. Other birds will be auctioned for the general public. Join discussion...

Iván Navarro amazes audiences with his electrifying artwork, and I mean electrifying. Navarro prefers to use neon lights as his median. These colorful sculptures are not only beautiful, but dangerous. There is electricity flowing through the neon lights. Navarro even named one of his pieces “You Sit, You Die.” The brightly colored lounge chair is his version of the electric chair. If you thought there couldn’t be more hidden meaning in this sculpture, you were wrong. Iván Navarro also puts political meaning into his artwork. On the seat of his “electric chair” are pieces of paper with the names of every person executed in Florida by the electric chair. Also, the joints are fastened with shoelaces, which were confiscated from prisoners to keep them from hanging themselves. Navarro’s work never fails to make people look twice. Join discussion...