Not just…
…another pretty face.
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We may have just learned a little bit about Obama’s college transcripts
And he probably didn’t take art history. By the way, I took a few courses in art history in college, although I was definitely not an art history major, and I can tell you that art history is hard. At … Continue reading →
Trompe l’oeil
A cardboard box of money isn’t always what it seems: People are amazing, aren’t they?
Continue reading →And speaking of Camille Paglia…
…which we were doing yesterday—there’s an article about her in yesterday’s WSJ. Paglia is a curious amalgam. She prides herself on being unique and iconoclastic, and she certainly defies categorization. She seems to ally with the right on Obamacare, global … Continue reading →
The art of age
Leonard Cohen is a songwriter, and a very successful one at that. But he was a poet first. He’s old, too—if 79 can be called “old” these days. Accordingly, the style and content of his songs have changed over the … Continue reading →
Whose work is this?
Who was the artist, and when?: It’s a drawing by Albrecht Dé¼rer, made in 1493 when he was 22 years old. It seems remarkably contemporary to me, considering. I guess pillows haven’t changed all that much—except for the invention of … Continue reading →
Things in heaven and earth
Horatio: O day and night, but this is wondrous strange! Hamlet: And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Case in point, the rainbow … Continue reading →
Where are they now?
I love these painting of famous historical figures as they might look if alive today. Here’s one (there are four others at the link):
Continue reading →More Bush art
Oh, and while we’re on the subject of George Bush (which we were)—here’s another article about Bush in his new avocation: painter. Last February I wrote my evaluation of Bush as a painter. Now that I’ve looked at reproductions of … Continue reading →
The wheels of justice: the Isabella Stewart Gardner perps
It was a spectacular art heist, memorable even today, twenty-three years later: the theft of thirteen works of art valued at a grand total of five hundred million dollars, but actually priceless because they are irreplaceable. There was this rare … Continue reading →
Photos: before and after
Sometimes I don’t like to confront the fact of aging. Sometimes it’s okay with me (not that anyone’s asking). These before and after photos—a person young, the same person older, in the very same pose and similar clothing—are heartbreaking, heartwarming, … Continue reading →
Pablo Picasso, house painter
Mystery solved. That’s a relief.
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