Snappy newsletters. Simple Facebook sharing. Spirited comments. Sweet features are waiting… GET THEM NOW!

Hot on Facebook

'Serpent Pastor' Dies of Snake Bite Mack Wolford believed faith compelled him to face the risk »

Dumped by Girlfriend, Artist Sells Everything

By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff

Posted Jul 6, 2009 2:21 PM CDT

(Newser) – Jasper Joffe isn’t taking his breakup well. When his girlfriend of 5 years walked out on him, the painter, who’s sold work to such heavyweights as Charles Saatchi, decided to sell not just paintings, but all his worldly possessions, the Independent reports. Every... Read full story »

COMMENTS

Read the comment policy

You need to Log in to Newser to comment. Don't have an account yet? Sign up now!

6 comments

A snapshot of the day's best news stories.

View Larger Grid

All Today Yesterday Pick a Date

What's Popular Now on Facebook

'Serpent Pastor' Dies of Snake Bite

Miami Face-Eater Identified

Independent (UK) (Source Grid »)

Lifestyle • Health

art • modern art • artist • women's issues • Jasper Joffe

More Newser Stories

Vatican Gets Back in the Art Biz

Project aims to revive church's role as a sponsor of the arts

(NEWSER) - The Vatican was the world's biggest buyer of modern art in the days when modern art meant Michelangelo, but its influence on art has ebbed in recent centuries. The church now plans to put itself back in the forefront of the art world, Newsweek reports. A commission of critics and clergy will search for artists able to put a new twist on ancient spiritual themes. More»

Museum Keeps Burning Art to Protest Italy Budget Cuts

'This is war,' says Antonio Manfredi

(NEWSER) - It's an incendiary protest. More than a month after an Italian museum director first burned art to protest budget cuts, Antonio Manfredi is still regularly incinerating works at his Casoria Contemporary Art Museum. "This is war for the arts," Manfredi explains. "We want the institutions in Italy and around the world to understand that culture is very important. It's not possible when there is an economic problem in the world that the first that the government destroys is art." More»

Young Van Gogh Watercolor Unveiled

Showcases darker tones of earlier work

(NEWSER) - For the first time in five years, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has added a new piece to its collection—and it looks a little different from your standard Vincent van Gogh. This one is an 1882 watercolor whose tones are much darker than those the artist later adopted. The painting shows what van Gogh called a "lonely and melancholy" dead willow leaning over a pond near the Hague. The young artist immediately wanted to paint it: "I'm going to attack it tomorrow morning," he wrote to his brother. More»

To Protest Budget Cuts, Museum Torches Art

It calls burnings 'political, necessary, and compelling'

(NEWSER) - An Italian art museum is so mad about the budget cuts coming its way that it has begun burning art works in protest. The Casoria Contemporary Art Museum's eccentric director, Antonio Manfredi, set fire to a painting by French Artist Severine Bourguignon yesterday, the BBC reports, and let it burn until it was completely destroyed. He's promising to do the same thing to three paintings a week until funding improves, in a protest he's dubbed "Art War." More»

Iron Man Made of Urine Wins $13.5K Prize

Wong Tin Cheung takes home $13,500 for rancid masterpiece

(NEWSER) - When Wong Tin Cheung started peeing blood, he was inspired, and not in the time-to-go-to-the-hospital kind of way: A big Marvel comics fan, Wong realized that by combining the red urine with the normal yellow-hued sort, he could create a portrait of Iron Man, the unfortunately nicknamed Golden Avenger. The resulting masterpiece won the Taiwanese grad student top honors in a major competition from the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Bleeding Cool reports, and with it $13,500. More»

NEWS FROM OUR PARTNERS

What is Newser?

Face it: there's too much news. At Newser, we choose the most thought-provoking and entertaining stories from hundreds of US and international sources and reduce them to a headline, picture, and two paragraphs. And we do it 24/7—you can come back morning, noon, night (and in between) for something new that matters. Read less, know more.

Learn more »

Partnering with: Slate

View Newser on the mobile website

Dumped by Girlfriend, Artist Sells Everything

art • modern art • artist • women's issues • Jasper Joffe

MOST POPULAR STORIES

[ By Views ]

[ By Comments ]

More Newser Stories

Vatican Gets Back in the Art Biz

Project aims to revive church's role as a sponsor of the arts

Museum Keeps Burning Art to Protest Italy Budget Cuts

'This is war,' says Antonio Manfredi

Young Van Gogh Watercolor Unveiled

Showcases darker tones of earlier work

To Protest Budget Cuts, Museum Torches Art

It calls burnings 'political, necessary, and compelling'

Iron Man Made of Urine Wins $13.5K Prize

Wong Tin Cheung takes home $13,500 for rancid masterpiece

About Us

Site

Community

Site Maps

Tools

More News

What is Newser?