Pick of the Week

“Despite looking svelte Christina has spoken out saying she loves that after years of being stick thin that she now has curves.”

“She proceeded to show the radio hosts a photo of a friend who recently donated her hair to charity and joked, ‘This is when I shaved my bush.’ She then announced a toast ‘to our hairless vaginas.’”

“Ladies sporting masses of bling at the Cannes Film Festival 2013 may want to hold on to it rather tightly. This follows news reports of a jewellery heist, in which over a $1m worth of Chopard bling is believed to have been stolen.”

“RiRi, 25, is said to be furious that UK laws mean the photographer, rather than the person in the shot, owns the rights to the image.”

“MY MOTHER fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.”

“The tape, Stodden tells us at the Shekhar Rahate fashion show in Los Angeles Thursday, is ‘not out in the media’ nor is it on her computer, and she advises wannabe hackers not to get their hopes up.”

“As for what’s on the tape, it’s ‘just me,’ she claims, adding that it wasn‘t shot too long ago. ‘I turned 18 in August, so you do the math.’”

“The sale of the bikini Farrah Abraham wore for the cover of her sex tape has hit a snag … eBay has pulled the listing down because it hasn’t been washed since she wore it.”

“The Burlesque star’s act is so racy BGT bosses decided to censor her explicit moves, despite showing it on the spin-off show after the 9pm watershed.”

“The survey found that more than half of women admitted to being attracted to fictional bad boys—with one in ten feeling more intensely for a make-believe male than their own partner.”

“The most obvious benefit is that the majority of publishing requires digital input whether for print or online. When translating traditional drawings to digital formats there's a lot of work which needs to be done in terms of colour correction and cleaning up errors or imperfections. When working directly into digital those problems are largely lost….”

“Vice is best know for its vitriolic, spittle-flecked (and often very funny) articles attacking the political and cultural mainstream—and its love/hate relationships with hipsters—but over the years it's output has grown increasingly serious…”

“The 1991 painting by artist John Currin, called ‘Bea Arthur Naked,’ was expected to fetch as much as $2.5 million in the post-war and contemporary art sale at Christie’s. It went to an anonymous bidder.”

“I still see Sarah [Lucas] from time to time but life goes on. I’m in London making work, and she’s in Suffolk making work. It’s just time passing.” He pauses for a moment, suddenly reflective. “I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.”

“‘They [Pussy Riot] walked into the heart of Russia and took a shit,’ is how a hostile observer characterises their actions in new feature documentary Pussy Riot—a Punk Prayer….”

“The biggest hurdle to wide-open photo policies is the issue of copyright. Museums often do not hold the copyrights to the works they display, which creates legal problems when visitors start snapping away … a photograph of an artwork could be considered a ‘derivative work,’ which is ‘potentially a violation of the copyright holder.’”

“Q Boyer, a spokesman for porn filmmakers Pink Visual, said: ‘Obviously a device that allows you to shoot high-quality video in a truly hands-free fashion will make shooting point of view (POV) porn that much easier.‘”