Lego My Art

A couple of artists have made a career of copying some of Brit Art's most famous works... in Lego. "After experimenting with a Lego take on Damien Hirst's formaldehyde shark, the pair have now graduated to their own mini-exhibition of modern art at the Walker gallery in Liverpool. Among the interpretations on display are Tracey Emin's knicker-strewn bed, Salvador Dalí's surreal lobster phone, and a rendering of the Turner Prize-winning transvestite potter, Grayson Perry, in one of his trademark doll outfits.
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10,000 Year Old Abstracts

Engravings dating back to the end of the Ice Age have been discovered at a cave in Somerset, southwest England. The University of Bristol said three abstract squares discovered in a cave in Cheddar were from the Mesolithic Period, 10,000 years ago.
As yet, experts have not been able to determine the meaning of the engravings but say they are extremely important and one of only three examples discovered in Britain.
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