South African artist Paul Emsley's portrait of Kate Middleton. [Image: Squarish painting of the head and shoulders of Kate Middleton p...

Fashion illustration by Katie Henderson. [Image: a full-body semi-realistic drawing of a Black woman wearing a vanilla-beige dress, strapp...

[Video: black & white film of a cat spoofing French existentialist films. Henry the cat (a serious sounding adult male voice) narrates...

The Mural Arts Program in Philadelphia is still trying to figure out why and by whom this mural was obliterated. It was apparently a job by...

I just remembered, I have a blog. Sorry for the lack of posts; I've been on vacation in a place so remote it evades the clutches of the ...

Jack-o-lantern party. I made the big one in the middle; husband made the one on the right with the pentagram eye. My inspiration was Lelan...

This is a great essay. Kelsey Elisabeth Nelson discusses Zadie Smith's writing in which she compares two approaches to art (and writing...

I. Though my guilt-fear, rendered humdrum through bad habits, dictates this day I'll purge from My Big Binge, I am on strike for a b...

"Being seen": passive. "Appearing": active. Dove Promises chocolate wrapper reading, "You're gorgeous. Love...

*Durer's name has an umlaut over the U but I can't be troubled to type it in. Durer, self-portrait at 26. Durer, self-portr...

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...