[Image: Zooey Deschanel dressed in pale pink in the sunshine holding up a heart necklace] Sorry this is so long, but I have a lot to say...

Opening credits on Ugly Betty. In the past week, a woman between the ages of 40-ish and 60-ish whom I talked to while doing portraits, confi...

I stopped by Rebekah Jacob Gallery on my way home from some errand and unexpectedly viewed their new show pre-opening night. They've go...

The blog Contemporary Japanese Art has a post about Japanese musician & performer Oorutaichi that's worth a look. They describe him...

This is definitely not the first painting I ever saw (my mom had actually made flashcards with famous paintings on them that she taught me a...

This is a photo. Kerstens has a series of awesome photos of this model, who is his daughter (and judging from his portfolio, a remarkably pa...

Speaking frankly, I create because I'm sort of a chauvinist loner. Sure, I have created in teams, when I'm forced to, like group pr...

There's a post about authenticity at Thread for Thought that links lots of topics-- hipsters, Native Americans who reclaim imagery, d...

This has nothing to do with art, but... So they finally got Osama bin Laden last night. Not just "got," but killed, shot in the fa...

I am in love with this singer. Seriously: I wouldn't call this video "entertaining," so much as "enthralling." And e...

A little late with this link, but here is an interview with David Bowen , an artist who uses natural systems like wind and flies to manipula...

These may look like drippy paintings but they are collages by Conrad Guevara . The top one is called, "Rear Action," and the one o...

Check out ClinicEscort's tumblr , The Inevitable Preggobelly , showing the images that publications choose to accompany articles about a...

My husband and I drove up to Columbia to see Toro y Moi play. Since it was part of the Indie Grits Film Festival there was an accompanying ...

* My apologies for the shitty photography. Continuing what I loved about Re-Nude, here is part of Jenna Lyles' series, "Fempire / N...

I'm linking to a post from Echidne's blog about how images are used in news and media to sway public opinion much more effectively ...

It's difficult to get a grip on what an artistic era is really about, to sum it up and notice big trends until some time has passed. Whe...

Auto-Portrait. I'm pretty sure this is a photo of the original, but this is a really popular painting to copy. I can see why; she's...