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An Asian elephant at Whipsnade Zoo, near London, has been stunning visitors with her colourful paintwork. Karishma's style has been described as 'abstract', with dots and lines her signature motifs. A ...

It is rare enough when living artists fetch outrageous fortune for their work. But when those modern-day Matisses are Thai elephants they charge into the record books. Eight elephants in northern ...

I RECENTLY VIEWED an exhibition of abstract paintings by the artist Josef Albers in the Lewis Glucksman Gallery at UCC. As usual, when I look at abstract art I find some of the images vaguely pleasing ...