A Message From The Heavens

Maurizio Catellan - The Ninth Hour, 1999

Room To Move

Rachel Whiteread's plaster cast of the interior space of a room was first shown in 1990.

Rachel Whiteread - Ghost, 1990

Dirty Deeds! Re-done Dirt Cheap!

Chapmans' Dead Guys ("The Little Artists)

Jake and Dinos Chapman - Great Deeds Against the Dead, 1994

Francisco Goya - Great Deeds! Against the Dead!, 1810s

Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back Into The Museum

'Damien Hirst’s The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991 (see below), was first shown in the Saatchi Gallery and later nominated for the Turner Prize. The work features a tiger shark in a glass tank of formaldehyde.

It was sold for nearly £7million in January 2005.'

Image courtesy of the Walker Art Gallery ("The Little Artists").

Damien Hirst - The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991

The Man Who Measured The World

William Blake - Isaac Newton, 1795


'Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.'

Isaac Newton

Marzipan Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight?: Part Seven

William-Adolphe Bouguereau - Biblis, 1884

Marzipan Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight?: Part Six

Alexandre Cabanel - The Birth of Venus, 1863

Marzipan Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight?: Part Five

Jean-Baptiste Regnault - Cupid and Psyche (1828)

Marzipan Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight?: Part Four

Pompeo Batoni - Diana and Cupid, 1761

Marzipan Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight?: Part Three

Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre - The Abduction of Europa, 1750

Marzipan Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight?: Part Two

Jacopo Amigoni - Venus Disarming Cupid, 1730s or 1740s

Marzipan Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight?: Part One

Caesar van Boetius - The Abduction of Europa, 1650

Boucher, Mon Cher: Part Seven

François Boucher - Vulcan Presenting Venus with Arms for Aeneas (1756)

Boucher, Mon Cher: Part Six

François Boucher - Venus, 1754

Boucher, Mon Cher: Part Five

François Boucher - The Rising of the Sun, 1753

Boucher, Mon Cher: Part Four

François Boucher - The Setting of the Sun, 1752

Boucher, Mon Cher: Part Three

François Boucher - An Autumn Pastoral, 1749

Boucher, Mon Cher: Part Two

François Boucher - A Summer Pastoral, 1749

Boucher, Mon Cher: Part One

François Boucher - Sleeping Venus, c. 1734

The Bling Is The Thing

Damien Hirst - For the Love of God, 2007


'Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.'

Damien Hirst