Pretty much actual size, neater too
Another drawing.
Pretty much actual size
A missing eraser cap, pretty much actual size.
“Elaine Stritch Arrives in Heaven”
A drawing by Bill Madison.
Bruce Nauman’s Clown Torture
The Art Institute of Chicago has no qualms about requiring one of its guards to stand watch over Clown Torture, listening to tape loops of screams, crashes, and nursery rhymes. That seems to me like torture itself.
At the Art Institute of Chicago
The most exciting things at the Art Institute of Chicago right now: not the big Magritte exhibit but the photographs of Josef Koudelka and the weavings of Ethel Stein.
“No One Was Like Vermeer”
By Jonathan Richman.
Tim’s not Vermeer
“What’s missing is a consideration of the artist’s imagination.”
Whitney, yecch
Jeff Koons, yecch.
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Watts House Project sign
A produce-crate-art-inspired sign by Tina Villadolid.
Watts Towers
Three views.
Watts tiles
Details of the Watts Towers.
Darger and Maier
“I can imagine Maier walking up to Darger, microphone in her hand, and Darger shuffling away and muttering.”
Strunk and White and Kalman
Celebrating the cheerful eccentricity of The Elements.
Impressionist France
At the St. Louis Art Museum. The exhibit explores the role of nineteenth-century painters and photographers in the construction of French identity.
Old Blue
A bull’s head from Sumeria. Mighty but plaintive.
Gauloises Bleues
By Robert Rauschenberg.
“Greenwich Village Today” (Naked City)
I’m confident that the man in the white shirt is the show’s producer, Herbert B. Leonard, in beatnik drag.
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The American Folk Art Museum will be demolished after all.
Oscar's Day, no. 500
Draw on, George.
How to draw a duck
Without pencil leaving the paper.
Canned Heat and Cooper-Hewitt
Cooper-Hewitt’s Object of the Day today: a 1968 concert poster for Canned Heat at the Fillmore West.
An Aldine House title page
Art by R. W. A. Rouse.
A Bodley Head title page
Art by E. H. New.
Bodley Head catalogue
Art from an 1897 catalogue.
From El espíritu de la colmena
A Vermeer-like scene from a painterly movie.
Alex Katz, painter, eater
“American cheese on white is the ultimate. To me as a kid it represented the straight world.”
Art by Javier Pérez
Beautiful and punny.
Kurt Vonnegut, advice for students
“Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.”
Matisse in Indianapolis
“The exhibition includes more than one hundred works from Baltimore’s Cone Collection, the gift of sisters Claribel and Etta Cone, art collectors extraordinaire, who assembled more than five hundred works by Matisse.”