Penniless artist auction makes £2m: He spent his youth in a hostel for the elderly and his adulthood living in warehouses with alcoholics and an embalmed tramp. He was fascinated by metaphysics, death and green linoleum, and painted jealousy, orgasms and still life. When the impoverished artist died of a heart attack in August 2002, he had only £12 to his name and owed the Inland Revenue millions more. He was 60 years old, with a mistress and 11 children from seven partners. He had no bank account. [Times]
A Japanese craftsman’s one-man Olympic boycott: The maker of iron shots favored by elite shot-putters refuses to produce any for the Beijing Games to protest China’s Tibet policy. [LA Times]
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