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The Sun
2 days ago
- The Sun
Moment unsuspecting painter is sent flying through air in terrifying crash after car comes out of nowhere
THIS is the terrifying moment a painter is sent flying through the air in a horrifying crash after a car comes out of nowhere. The unidentified man is thought to have been working on a property in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, on August 13. 5 5 At the start of the footage he is seen wearing a blue t-shirt and black shorts and half way up a ladder working away. His white van is parked close by and his equipment is spread out on the pavement below him. A white car passes by as he climbs down and moves out of sight of the camera. The video then cuts to him standing in the middle of the road examining his work. The painter then moves off the road and towards his van as a grey car drives along the road. While he is standing next to his van a car, initially out of shot can be heard hurtling along the road. The sound of the motor's brakes screeching then rings out on the footage. A greyish-white car can then be seen slamming into the back of the van. The parked van is pushed into the painter with immense force sending the poor man flying. The car, having collided with the van, veers across the road and spins around before coming to a halt. Moment 'worst driver ever seen' sends TWO cars flying in horror 100mph crash during police chase The painter is thrown into the air and looks to smash into the wall of a nearby building. He tumbles end over end across the pavement before finding his feet. Fortunately, the painter although seemingly a little dazed by the accident, appears to be uninjured. He is seen walking along the middle of the road and appears to mutter to himself: 'F**k me' as he heads back towards his van. 5 5 He puts a hand to his head as he approaches his van to inspect the damage done to it. Looking at the back of his now smashed up van the painter wanders out of shot as he recovers from the shock of the impact. The silver car is left wrecked in the middle of the road with parts of it strewn across the tarmac. It is unclear if the driver of the car suffered any injuries in the collision. The Sun has contacted Durham Police for comment and further information.
BBC News
10-07-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Old Dornock church could become artist's studio
An 18th Century church in the south of Scotland could be in line for conversion to an artist's Church near Eastriggs was built in 1793 but closed three years ago due to falling congregation has recently been bought by a photographer and painter who hope to use it as their studio.A planning statement said the plans would make only "minor internal alterations" and would protect the heritage of the B-listed building. Dornock Church was put on the market last year and its new owners now hope to convert sales of their work would happen from the building if the plans get approved and it would not be used as a residential pews would be removed and new partitions put in place with no external alterations planning statement said the proposals would secure the fabric of the building and ensure it had a use for the future.
Yahoo
30-06-2025
- Yahoo
What are 10 illegal baby names in the United States?
Whether you're a parent expecting or still waiting on your chance to have children, a name comes with a bit of a thrill. The world is your oyster when it comes to naming your child after all, right? Not exactly. Across the globe and in the United States there are names on a "no fly list." Certain names are forbidden across the country, even excluding some that could easily be guessed such as a certain painter from Austria. Here are 10 illegal baby names in the United States. This article originally appeared on The List Wire: 10 illegal baby names in the United States
The Guardian
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
‘A psychedelic explosion in a dental surgery' – Rachel Jones: Gated Canyons review
Rachel Jones is frothing at the mouth, baring her teeth and licking her lips. The young English painter has an oral fixation, and the result is a show that looks like a psychedelic bomb has been detonated in a dentist's surgery. For six years now, Jones has been painting teeth and mouths in thick swirls of Technicolor semi-abstraction. Gums and lips appear over and over. Incisors are twisted, snapped, broken. There are smears of red, shards of jagged white, lumps of fleshy pink, all lost in trippy hazes of endless clashing colours. She has pushed her dental experimentation further than ever here at Dulwich Picture Gallery, where she is the first contemporary artist to take over the main galleries. She veers between ultra-abstract and damn-near-figurative, neon landscapes and pastel weirdness, and manages to balance it throughout. The first three canvases are vast 3.6-metre diptychs that loom over you as you enter. It is as if you are about to get chewed up and spat out by the art. A big grin of broken pearly whites peers out beneath a brick wall in one work, a sloping smile is turned sideways on another. Smudged whites and blues on the third look like a shaky, paused VHS tape of an old cartoon. The brick walls are a new motif for her, like something Wile E Coyote is about to be smashed into, implying violence and joy at the same time. Cartoon walls, chipped teeth, static, pixelation, it's like the abstract expressionists trying to draw Looney Tunes characters. These are impressive, imposing, clever paintings, though at points their size and pleasant abstract qualities do make them feel a bit like trophy art for the mega-rich. The smaller pieces on wonky canvases in the central space are more intimate, and better as a result. Lips and teeth are stretched and manipulated, obscured and blown up. Here, you get a bit more of a sense of the emotional and conceptual drive of the works. The exaggerated lips are riffs on oversexualised femininity, nods to racial caricatures. Blackened teeth look like disease or destitution, pristine gnashers are bared angrily or flashing joyfully. Eyes might be the window to the soul in all the old master paintings in Dulwich Picture Gallery's permanent collection, but mouths have just as much to say here. They are so heavy with symbolism, meaning and metaphor that you feel Jones could paint them for ever and not get bored. Tongues start lolling out on the bigger canvases in the final room, drooping and sagging moistly and strangely, and you feel as if you have been taken on a dental journey: bright smiles giving way to drunken loss of control. It's great, fun, hyper-colourful painting. Has it evolved much over the past few years? Has it developed since Jones first painted a mouth motif in that little canvas from 2019 in the second gallery? Not hugely, and that's a bit of a shame. I've seen and reviewed her work multiple times in the past few years and a bit more progression would keep things interesting. But I guess this is what happens when you find an obsession, and a way to explore it – you have to follow it through. Besides, Jones has done something hugely difficult: come up with a unique visual language in contemporary painting. Managing that after centuries of art, decades of abstraction, is impressive. Any contemporary art at Dulwich Picture Gallery is going to have to contend with being placed next to the likes of Rembrandt and Guercino. It's a tall order, but with this retrospective of cartoon-indebted gnashers, Jones pulls it off – by the skin of her teeth. Rachel Jones: Gated Canyons is at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, from 10 June to 19 October
Yahoo
07-06-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Tintoretto's ‘Crucifixion' Is Resurrected in Venice
Conservation efforts by Save Venice restore the radiant colors and empathetic forms of the painter's monumental work.
