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Friday, August 28, 2015

Ink stink: why Chris Brown's Venus de Milo tattoo might end in a Greek tragedy

Lawyers aren’t shouting for the rapper’s scalp just yet – but they do have form when they think Venus is being dissedExciting times for the Venus de Milo, whose famously unfixed gaze has finally alighted somewhere tangible. That place is the right ear of Chris Brown, after the R&B star this week had her image tattooed on the back of his head. Thus, madam’s 2,000-year search for renewed focus comes to an end, as she proudly takes her place as a member of #teambreezy.Or does it? Lost in Showbiz feels obliged to warn Chris that his tattoo may end up the first piece of body art subject to a cease-and-desist order. You may or may not recall that in 2011, a German magazine doctored a cover image of the Venus de Milo to show the sculpture giving the finger, confirming that journalists seeking to illustrate the financial crisis are the most shameless plunderers of Greek artefacts since Elgin. Continue reading...


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