Art Controversy
High art offends customs officials, works of Souza & Padamsee deemed obscene
In March, Francis Newton Souza’s painting “Lovers” set a record for a South Asian artist when it sold for ₹40 crore at a Christie’s auction of South Asian and Modern Contemporary Art in New York.
Back home in India, though, Souza’s art is making news for an altogether different reason. In April last year Mumbai Customs seized a folio of four erotic drawings (one of this is called “Lovers”) by Souza, citing obscenity.
Art Controversy
Dramatic moment art collector’s son is arrested for stabbing family maid he believed was a demon
Dramatic footage shows the moment the son of a wealthy art collector was arrested after he stabbed the family’s maid who he believed was a ‘demon’.
Maximillian Bourne, 26, attacked Joselia Pereira Do Nascimento with a kitchen knife at the family’s five-bedroom, £20million home in Justice Walk, Chelsea, on February 25 last year
Police are appealing for information after the theft of two high-value paintings from a house in Penzance.
The paintings by west Cornwall artist Gill Watkiss were taken from an “empty but secure” home in Morrab Road between 1 February and 13 February, according to Devon and Cornwall Police.
The oil paintings, titled Sunday Walkers, Hayle, and Autumn Days, Penlee Park, were worth £6,000 each, the force said.
Both canvases are sized around 70cm by 50cm (27 ins by 19ins).
Art Controversy
Sarah Cunningham: Body found on tracks at London Underground station after search for missing artist
Police say the family of a missing artist have been informed after a body was found on the tracks at a London Underground station.
The last sighting of Sarah Cunningham, 31, was on Jamestown Road, in Camden in north London, at 3am on Saturday.
