Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/mondays-art-notes-77 Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Monday’s Art Notes Arts Aug 15, 2011 11:05 AM EDT Danish artist Thomas Christoffersen uses Sidsel Gronvald’s pregnant stomach as a canvas during a photo exhibition in the Round Tower of Copenhagen. Twenty artists used 20 pregnant women’s bellies in a project to support Maternity Worldwide, a maternal health organization. Art photographers Marie Wengler, Marte Holten and Karoline Tira Liberkind will later exhibit the pictures of the painted stomachs at Gallery Copenhagen Art. Revenues from photo sales will be donated to the organisation Maternity Worldwide, whose purpose is to save the lives of women and children during pregnancy and childbirth in Ethiopia. Photo by Jens Noergaard Larsen/ AFP/ Getty Images * A Rembrandt drawing was stolen from an exhibition in a Los Angeles hotel on Saturday, via The Telegraph. * Susan Burns, the woman who was arrested for attacking a Gauguin painting at the National Gallery this year, returned last week to harm a portrait by Matisse, via The Washington Post. * A 1970s revision to copyright law allows some recording artists to reclaim ownership of their songs, but not without a fight from record companies, via The New York Times. We're not going anywhere. Stand up for truly independent, trusted news that you can count on! Donate now
Danish artist Thomas Christoffersen uses Sidsel Gronvald’s pregnant stomach as a canvas during a photo exhibition in the Round Tower of Copenhagen. Twenty artists used 20 pregnant women’s bellies in a project to support Maternity Worldwide, a maternal health organization. Art photographers Marie Wengler, Marte Holten and Karoline Tira Liberkind will later exhibit the pictures of the painted stomachs at Gallery Copenhagen Art. Revenues from photo sales will be donated to the organisation Maternity Worldwide, whose purpose is to save the lives of women and children during pregnancy and childbirth in Ethiopia. Photo by Jens Noergaard Larsen/ AFP/ Getty Images * A Rembrandt drawing was stolen from an exhibition in a Los Angeles hotel on Saturday, via The Telegraph. * Susan Burns, the woman who was arrested for attacking a Gauguin painting at the National Gallery this year, returned last week to harm a portrait by Matisse, via The Washington Post. * A 1970s revision to copyright law allows some recording artists to reclaim ownership of their songs, but not without a fight from record companies, via The New York Times. We're not going anywhere. Stand up for truly independent, trusted news that you can count on! Donate now