Calvin and Hobbes” Creator Returns With Painting: Sixteen years after ending his comic strip, saying he had “done what I can do within the constraints of daily deadlines and small panels”. Bill Watterson has debuted his first artwork since that time, a painting of Richard Thompson‘s character Petey Otterloop. Being sold to benefit the Parkinsons charity Team Cul de Sac (Thompson suffers from Parkinsons). It’s pictured above.
Massive Statue Found in Egypt: A nearly 43-foot likeness of Amenhotep II, grandfather to Tutankhamun, has been unearthed in Luxor, where it is believed to be one of a pair that flanked the entrance to the grand funerary temple. The country’s antiquities authority has stated that the headless statue was originally found in the ’70s but was re-hidden.
I have a hard time believing the antiquities authority….
Caravaggio’s “The Fortune Teller” to Tour the unites States.U.S. The painter’s circa 1594 masterpiece will be traveling from Rome’s Capitoline Museums to the U.S., first at New York’s Italian Cultural Institute on May 11-15 and then going on view at Kentucky’s Speed Art Museum until June 5. To coincide with the early painting’s New York stay, Hunter College will hold a Caravaggio symposium on May 13.
Syd Barrett‘s ex-girlfriend offered an emotional plea and a £2,000 reward for the return of of of his works that was stolen from a London art gallery over the weekend, the self-portrait was mailed bak to the gallery undamaged. FYI Syd Barrett is a legendary musician, see Floyd, Pink, and Casualty, Acid for more details.