People share their bizarre life hacks including painting toe nails to disguise holes in socks

Where there’s a will, there’s a way! People share their bizarre life hacks including painting toe nails to disguise holes in socks and using a laptop charger to heat up a sausage roll Shareably rounded up a selection of hilarious life hacks that have gone viral  One photograph shows an old keyboard and USB cable … Read more

Queen’s Zulu painting is given ‘colonial’ warning

Queen’s Zulu painting is given ‘colonial’ warning: Image depicting the Battle of Rorke’s Drift has description updated to acknowledge its links to imperialism It is among 62 works in the Royal Collection to be amended after BLM campaign  The painting depicts the Battle of Rorke’s Drift that saw 141 British soldiers die Eleven Victoria crosses won … Read more

Deborra-lee Furness teams up with an artist to auction off a painting for charity

Deborra-lee Furness teams up with an artist to auction off a painting for charity – as her proud husband Hugh Jackman announces the partnership By Alisha Buaya For Daily Mail Australia Published: 20:07 GMT, 24 November 2020 | Updated: 20:10 GMT, 24 November 2020 Actress and director Deborra-lee Furness established the non-profit organisation Hopeland, which … Read more

Californians gathered in a cave 500 years ago to get high under painting of a hallucinogenic plant

Native Californians gathered in a cave — underneath a painting of a hallucinogenic plant — to get high some five centuries ago, a study has concluded. Researchers from the UK and the US found that a spiral artform daubed on a wall of a cave south of Bakersfield resembled the intoxicating flower known as ‘sacred datura’. … Read more

I’m A Celebrity 2020: Viewers claim ‘creepy’ jester painting sounds like Salad Fingers

I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here viewers had an unexpected surprise during Thursday’s episode after they were introduced to a ‘creepy’ jester portrait. The painting was used to give Ruthie Henshall and Russell Watson prank tasks to complete in order to win luxury items for the camp. However some fans of the hit … Read more

Rare painting by Winston Churchill fetches nearly £1million at auction

A rare painting by Winston Churchill featuring the British World War II leader’s favourite brand of whisky fetched nearly £1 million at auction in London yesterday. The 1930s oil painting, of a bottle of Johnny Walker’s Black label whisky and a bottle of brandy with a jug and glasses, sparked a bidding battle before it … Read more

Ed Sheeran donates rare painting to the Made In Suffolk Legacy auction for charity

Ed Sheeran has donated one of his paintings to his parents’ Made In Suffolk Legacy auction, it was revealed on Monday. The singer, 29, has decided to give a colourful abstract painting titled Dab 2 2020, which he made for his father John as he refers to him by the nickname Dab. According to the auction, … Read more

New painting of Sarah Forbes Bonetta goes on display at Queen Victoria’s home on the Isle of Wight

The enslaved African princess who was Queen Victoria’s goddaughter: New painting of Sarah Forbes Bonetta goes on display at late monarch’s home on the Isle of Wight Portrait of Sarah Forbes Bonetta is displayed at Osborne House on Isle of Wight Sarah was an orphaned princess who became goddaughter to Queen Victoria  She took the … Read more

Mona Lisa: Hidden marks reveal da Vinci ‘traced’ the iconic painting from an earlier sketch

Hidden marks beneath the Mona Lisa reveals Leonardo da Vinci ‘traced’ the outline of the iconic painting from an earlier sketch By Ian Randall For Mailonline Published: 12:23 BST, 2 October 2020 | Updated: 12:23 BST, 2 October 2020 We may never know the secret behind the Mona Lisa’s inscrutable smile — but Leonardo da … Read more

Historians urge Warwick Castle owners to put back 17th century painting of ‘black servant’

Historians urge Warwick Castle owners to put back 17th century painting of ‘black servant’ after it was removed amid fears it would be linked to the slave trade Historians Aaron Manning and Adam Busiakiewicz want the portrait put back Nick Blofeld, divisional director of Warwick Castle, said it was removed after a review  The 17th … Read more