You can read the Part 1 of my art trip to Atlanta, about Richard Misrach's photos, here . On this day I was attempting to go see a per...

Thanks to the workers who built this country! Here's a little bit of US history regarding Labor Day and the labor movement: During...

It rained here Tuesday or Wednesday, quite a lot. By coincidence my brand new waterproof beach/running shoes had just arrived the day before...

Bic has released a new pen for women: Bic Cristal For Her Ball Pens. I'll let that sink in for a second. The Amazon reviews for this...

Wangechi Mutu, Mask , 2006. [Image: A collage involving two photographic images, roughly the same size. If they're both the size of no...

Go check out this post on Gurney Journey about portrait artist Valentin Serov . Quoth the Ruskie, "For my part, each time I appraise ...

A church lady picks up some brushes and attempts to "restore" a 19th century fresco of Jesus. Hijinks ensue.

Secretaries Of The Cabinet, by Sir John Stanton Ward. National Portrait Gallery, Britain. Something about this portrait is really humorous...

Double portrait by Lucien Freud Eli and David by Lucien Freud The Artist's Mother by Lucien Freud. [Image: Head and shoulder...

Braids [portrait of Helga Testorf] by Andrew Wyeth, 1979. Tempera. [Image: head and shoulders of a young white woman turned to the left a...

A few months ago I sketched these copies of Sargent portraits while working at the Farmer's Market. They took an hour or so each. I freq...

A few weeks ago, having reached a point of constant irritation and general stagnation, I decided to stop haunting the comments sections of b...

Video of a 1981 performance by experimental sound artist Laurie Anderson. It's not exactly "not safe for work," but your co...

 "If one more person tries to talk to me about Bravo’s new reality show Gallery Girls I’m going to punch them straight in the face, ...

Prince William of Wales and Prince Henry of Wales by Nicola Jane ('Nicky') Philipps. National Portrait Gallery, Britain. Image des...

Infinite are the shits I do not give to concupiscent tycoons of public space, to God, to Country, to the crocodiles, to freshly mint...

Sir David Hare by Paula Rego. National Portrait Gallery, Britain. [Image: vertical full-body painting of a middle aged white man sitting i...

This ever-popular post has been updated in 2017 to make my writing more clear and understandable, and to include a few extra examples from ...