I don’t usually reblog random artwork, but I just love this idea: movie stars wearing Frank Lloyd Wright architecture. Also, it’s from my other tumblog, so I can’t help but share it with my other followers. Enjoy! Architect Frank Lloyd Wright surrounded by female icons wearing his buildings: Judy Garland...
For thousands of years a small town in Japan has grown lots and lots of rice, but it wasn’t until 1993 that the town turned the rice into public art. Seen as a clever way to draw in tourist revenue, the people of Inakadate started their project with a simple...
Once upon a time I told you guys about the Paint By Number Museum, an online archive of over 6,000 paint by number artworks dating back to the 1950s. In 2008 a private collector in Massachusetts began buying pieces from eBay and other American collectors to create his archive. In...
Actor Kirk Douglas, star of the 1956 film Lust for Life, posing with a Vincent van Gogh self-portrait at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Made the mistake of watching some Royal Wedding highlights on the television. The media kept making dress comparisons between Duchess Katie and Princess Grace. That made me think of Monaco and how I’ve never covered a museum from there before…until today. There’s literally thousands of dolls and automatons (meaning the...
Continuing with yesterday’s presidential theme, today is the 40th anniversary of LBJ’s death. He was only 64 years old, which is insane because he looked about 75 when he was JFK’s VP about 15 years before. He was actually only 9 years older than JFK. Crazy, man. But I guess...
After Georges Seurat’s A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte and Grant Wood’s American Gothic, easily one of the best-known paintings on display at the Art Institute of Chicago is Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks. I once wrote about how the constant parodying of American Gothic has resulted in...
There are a lot of Communist-related museums out there from the Terror Háza Múzeum in Budapest to the Soviet Lifestyle Museum in Tatarstan. Well, you can add another one to the list, this time in Amsterdam of all places. It’s called the Totalitarian Art Gallery. One of the most expensive...
I always loved the ubiquitousness of Georges Seurat’s painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, from the reproduced handbags and umbrellasto whatever this is supposed to be, a random mural in the otherwise bleak town of Hammond, Indiana. But nothing beats staring at your own Discover...
Sorry for the nearly two week absence. I’m sure no one noticed…or even cared. I think I might be getting sick of the internet. Sometimes it’s good to step away for periods of time, which I might be doing more and more in the months to come. Anyway, on my...
