Portraits by lifelong friends Red Grooms and Walter Knestrick: Walter Knestrick, self portrait [Image: realistic, though slightly pri...

[Image description: self-portrait of slack slouching head and shoulders in marker and charcoal on white paper. Kind of cubist, kind of c...

I got really burnt out this past week or two but I'll be back blogging (and in contact with the outside world) tomorrow. I've half-w...

I was looking up the origins of "butt-hurt" on Urban Dictionary to prove a point when I ran across this: "H.L. Mencken sai...

[Images originally published in Charleston Magazine , republished here with permission from Jackson] Clement Greenberg, the famous '...

I took a look at the traffic (if you can call it that) for this blog. To the two individuals who searched for "mila kunis nude art,...

"What is art, anyway?" asks Elisabeth Axel in this video . "Is it the image in the artist's mind or the painting hanging ...

There will be no critical analysis of Harry Potter on this blog. Should this inconvenience you I refer you to the rest of the Internet .

So yesterday I wrote about Melinda Mead, who spoke with Conrad Guevara at the City Gallery at Waterfront Park . I'm quoting from memory,...

Please pardon the shitty photography (my photos of the work, not Melinda Mead's) "We all look for truth in photos, right?" exp...

Thar she blows.

[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...