“Being painted by Alexa Meade goes way beyond just sitting in a comfy chair, but at least you don’t have to look like an oil painting – she does that bit. Meade takes a unique approach to her portraits by making her models a part of the artwork, as well as its subject. She turns their bodies into living and breathing canvases, brushing paint directly on to them. Her props and surroundings are liberally coated with acrylic paint to make them part of the experience. When photographed together, the model appears to become one with its surroundings, as though they are a two-dimensional part of the canvas. The effect is so striking that some people find it hard to believe the photograph is not a conventional paint-on-canvas work.” w/ photos

“Times Square used to be known for its seedy peep shows. There was skin on display again on Friday, but this time in the name of art. Painter Andy Golub caused a stir when he had 23-year-old model Marla Mera undress, and began slathering paint on her body. Mr Golub and Ms Mera showed up just before noon on Broadway near West 43rd Street, in the center of the city’s glittering theatre district. It is legal for women to go topless in New York City. But the New York Post reports that police stepped in and asked Mr Golub to do something about the large crowd of photographers, reporters and ogling onlookers surrounding the pair. The woman put on a sports bra, prompting the majority of the 150-strong crowd to disperse.” w/ photos

“Some people would spend $100,000 on a new car or a down payment on a home. Others would convert it to $1 bills and use them to completely cover the walls of a room. Those latter people are artists. German artist Hans-Peter Feldman won the Hugo Boss Prize in 2010 and decided he’d like to do something a bit different with his $100,000 in prize money. Feldman managed to have the money converted to circulated bills, ones which have already been used as currency rather than crisp, freshly-minted dollars. Like any great artist, Feldman left the grunt work of the project to his assistants, whom he tasked with using metal pins to attach the money to the walls of the installation room at the Guggenheim. The notes overlap partially, making them really blanket the walls, as well as two columns, and it’s striking to see just how much 100,000 dollar bills really is.” w/ photos

“I’ve seen some pretty amazing banana artworks since I started Oddity Central, like the banana wall, or Jacob Dahlstrub’s banana boats, but Jun Gil Park’s oxidation art just makes me go bananas. Using a simple toothpick he scratches the designs into the banana, and the harder he presses/scratches, the darker the bruised part gets. It usually takes about five minutes for the oxidation to start showing, and after a day or two it gets really dark. You’re probably wondering how Jun Gil Park came up with this simple-yet-impressive technique of turning bananas into organic works of art. It was pretty simple actually…” w/ photos

“Michael Jackson was known as the King of Pop having sold over 750 million records worldwide and is recognized by Guinness World Records as the most successful entertainer of all time. The American, who died in June 2009 aged 50, produced Thriller in 1982, and it has become the best-selling album of all time. But in case you thought news about the star had gone flat recently, American Seaton Brown has produced a 144 square foot portrait of Jacko with plenty of bubbles (and we’re not talking about chimpanzees). Using 1,680 fizzy drink cans and with tongue firmly in cheek, the University of Wisconsin-educated artist has unveiled his work, named ‘A Tribute to the King of Pop’ – and it has an uncanny resemblance.” w/ photos

“Swedish artist Michael Johansson likes tight spaces and effective use of any available area; so much so, that he collapses computers, cars, furniture, trailers (you name it) into artistically arranged cubes – structures that are equally infuriating and pleasing to the eye. You can’t order this futuristic apartment from IKEA, but something tells us, this is indeed the future.” w/ photos

“The 12-foot-tall floating artwork was designed in three pieces by artist Oliver Voss, advertising executive and head of the advertising academy Miami Ad School. The sculpture is intended to resemble a woman bathing in the picturesque lake and will be on show for the next 10 days.” w/ photos + video

“I couldn’t find a record for the most complex dot-to-dot drawing, so I decided to set one myself. I created an A0 poster with dots numbered from 1 to 6,329 and took a time lapse video of myself linking them all up over 9 hours.” — Thomas Pavitte

“You don’t want it to be popped art… the amazing copies of ‘serious’ famous paintings made from balloons. From the Mona Lisa to Whistler’s Mother, all have been recreated in surprisingly accurate balloon form. The amazing artwork – dubbed ‘Airigami’ – is the fun creation of artist and former street magician Larry Moss from New York. Larry, 40, said his Master Works series was a whimsical portrayal of the world’s most famous, more ‘serious’ art. His popular designs can make hundreds of thousands of dollars. His portfolio also includes a massive 10,000 sq ft haunted house made from a staggering 100,000 balloons.” w/ photos

“500 liters of waterbased environmentally-friendly paint on asphalt spread by 2,000 cars on Rosenthaler Platz Berlin.” — IEPEart