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Artist responsible for "Piss Christ" guest of Pope in Vatican This week the Pope welcomed artists to the Sistierne Chapel, reminding them that true beauty inspires the desire for God, and renders glory to Him, for the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of the Vatican Museums’ Collection of Modern Art by Pope St. Paul VI.One of them was Andres Serrano. There is nothing beautiful about his work.He is notorious for "Piss Christ", a photo of a crucifix submerged in his own urine which was destroyed by protestors in 2012, only for the a restored/or replaced version to be sold at...

Police raid recovers stolen Munch artdEight young men and a woman were in custody on Tuesday, suspected of stealing two lithographs and a watercolour by famed Norwegian artist Edvard Munch from a luxury hotel just 20 hours earlier. The stolen artwork was also in the hands of police, seized after a dramatic raid in Oslo Monday night.Quick police action and tips from neighbors led to the raid on a flat in Oslo's Kampen district. Several of the nine persons arrested have police records, mostly involving robberies of mobile telephones and local stores.Police stressed to newspaper Aftenposten that none of those...

Three Munch works stolen from hotelOSLO (Reuters) - Thieves have stolen three works by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch from a hotel in south Norway overnight, adding to a list of missing paintings including "The Scream", police say."Three Munch paintings were stolen," police spokesman Paul Horne told Reuters on Monday after the discovery of the theft from the Refsnes Gods hotel near the town of Moss late on Sunday night. He declined to identify the works, saying that police would publish more details later in the day.On August 22, gunmen stole a version of Munch's most famous masterpiece, "The Scream", showing...