Valentine’s Day
A heart amulet, ca. 1070–945 B.C.
Rails to Sales
A poster promoting subway advertising posters, by Otis Shepard and Dorothy Van Gorder.
Scribbles & Ink
For kids and those who think like kids: Scribbles & Ink, an online game (or drawing environment, I’d call it) to go with the PBS Kids series of the same name.
Gahan Wilson (1930–2019)
The New York Times has an obituary and a sampler of his work. The New Yorker has a reminiscence from fellow cartoonist Michael Maslin, with more Wilson cartoons.
“Pick a season”
George Bodmer has the perfect cartoon for our midwestern weather.
A September 11 mural
By Eduardo Kobra.
The small museum
Its modesty permits an intimacy of acquaintance that a big-shot museum makes far more difficult.
The Bob Rosses
The New York Times asks: “Where Are All the Bob Ross Paintings?” And there’s an answer.
Dad jokes
Oscar’s Day No. 2492.
NYT on Peter Max
Dementia and cruise-ship auctions.
Notre-Dame
I found many images more beautiful — lithographs and photographs — but this image, a photographic negative of a painting, seemed more solemn and appropriate.
Review: Bill Griffith’s Nobody’s Fool
Bill Griffith’s graphic biography of Schlitzie is a work of scholarly imagination, working with the facts of Schlitzie’s life to create an affectionate portrait of a remarkable human being.
Some Gorey rocks
Edward Gorey, “The Stones.” A card from The Fantod Pack.
D. Bill, “Folk Art”
Wood poles by D. Bill.
Valentine’s Day
“Heart Amulet.” From Egypt, New Kingdom, Ramesside, c. 1295–1070 BCE.
Ink, nibs, and Zip-a-Tone
“One by one, all th’ art supplies of my youth are disappearing!”
Roger Bradfield
The writer and illustrator of Hello, Rock, has a website for his work.
Moving to Elgin Park
The creator of an imaginary town has died.
“Welcome to Congress”
A New Yorker cover by Barry Blitt.
積ん読, Berlin
2004, 2009, 2018: it’s time to read Jason Lutes’s Berlin.
Last Seen
A podcast series from WBUR and The Boston Globe: Last Seen, an examination of the still-unsolved theft of thirteen works of art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
John Ashbery’s collages
On view now in New York.
Masks
From the Peabody Museum: “In masked dances, twentieth-century descendants of native peoples keep alive the memory of the Spanish invasion and the resistance of their ancestors to conquest.”
“Closing In”
A Barry Blitt New Yorker cover.
One tea bag, used
The artist Laure Prouvost is holding on to a fifteen-year-old tea bag.
“Thumbs-Up”
A New Yorker cover: “Thumbs-Up,” by Barry Blitt.
Wall art
“This crumbling, beer-splotched wall in the back of a sports bar on East 44th Street is one of New York’s more neglected cultural treasures.”
A film about Joe Brainard
A short film about the artist and writer Joe Brainard.
Ethel Stein (1917–2018)
Weaver and sometime-puppetmaker.
Valentine’s Day
A heart amulet from an Egyptian tomb.