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A short film about the art and working methods of Paul Housley. Born in Stalybridge, Greater Manchester in 1964 Paul studied at the Royal College of Art. He has an interest in observing the everyday and a penchant for humble mass-produced objects. Like a number of other young UK artists, Paul is returning to figurative painting, at a time when video, photography, installation and new media have attracted increased attention as art forms. Since the popularity of the young British artists, the rise of ?Brit Art? and the controversy of the Turner Prize, painting has taken a back seat. Damien Hurst was famously quoted as saying that painting was dead. Housley, however works with traditional materials, proving that painting is alive and has an energy and power of its own in today?s art world. His paintings plays with our notions of taste, finding novelty in cliché and lyricism in mundane, blank objects like sports bags and light bulbs.

Fine art auctions have been a tough sell this season, but some contemporary decorative pieces sold well at the recent SOFA Chicago Fair. MarketWatch's Jennifer Waters reports. (Nov. 20)

A Danish art collective N55 explores nomadic living in the 21st century,by designing a walking house, which is inspired by a Utopian idea of the future where the whole world would be free to roam. (Nov. 20)

In this tutorial I show you how to convert an RPM package into a DEB debian package using the "alien" package converter. I do this in order to install a "uniconvertor" program to convert vector drawing files, or clip art. The last leg of the tutorial involes installing the package of course, and then using the "uniconv" program, along with some shell magic to convert folders full of about 26000 clip art files from "cdr" the corel draw format, to "ps" (postscript), "svg" (a vector format used a lot in gnome for making icons), and "wmf" a format that open office can import.

http://www.michaelcarlton.co.uk Modern wall art from emerging, critically acclaimed UK artist Michael Carlton. Visit Michael's website for extensive gallery, shop and free downloads of his work

Art Buchwald was one of the great American humorists. He delighted in skewering the powerful and the pompous. (Producer: Brent McDonald Reporter: Tim Weiner)

FOR THE LOVE OF ART, copyright chuck picklesimer 2008 Thanks to all the nice people who helped so much with this project: son Paul Picklesimer, lighting, camera, feather operator, and body painting..wife Elaine Picklesimer, feather operator, curtain control, body painting.Ricky Gonzalez, body model and painter..Amy Quinn, body model..Jef Sutko, body model.Benny Gonzalez painter, feather operator..thanks to Richard Gonzales and Ellen Gonzalez for parenting Benny and Ricky and Amy (and Alisa, who had to fly home early), who helped make this such a fun, family effort. Its a pleasure of purpose a performance event With a glance from a muse, inspiration is sent. Put a brush to canvas. Shape color and sound, The art of a drama, the game of a smile. Some art is of music, or sculpture and dance, And the art of creating some creative chance To share for a moment, each artists release Of hope into action, and anger to peace. Some art is rewarding in a civilized vein. Some works are just crazy in the normal old way. Props often are judgments in the heart of our brain, So we take a close look and we look back again. A lady I knew had a habit to draw From experience shared with her lovers and all Of her pets and her family and mystery dreams. Shes an artist of opportunistic-al means. Its a pleasure of purpose a performance event With a glance from a muse, inspiration is sent. Put a brush to canvas. Shape color and sound, The art of a drama, the game of a smile.

One of the world's leading street artists, Adam Neate, is giving away 1,000 pieces of his art, estimated to cost almost $2 million. Neate and his helpers left the art on London's streets.

Documentarian Katherine Linton takes you inside the world of lesbians to explore sexuality, porn, erotica, art and fantasy in this here! Original series.

Robert De Niro and Art Linson lift the lid on Hollywood.