paintings + drawings

There's Something About Warren

All were girlfriends of Beatty.

Now On Blue Note Records

...Wu-Tang. (via Greg Mills)

Get Out Of Here, You Shameless Vixen

Happy Halloween

The top ten ghost written books.

Make Your Collection Halloweenie-ish

A few easy tips from Nayland Blake (via MAN) on how to "Charlie Brown" an object in your painting collection for the holidays. Let me just add if you want the true loser look, remember Charles had more than twenty eye holes cut into his sheet.

photo credit: B.I.Y. 002 “Art Ghost”

He Was Hung Where It Counts

Isn't Bernard Sumner Looking Kinda Truman Capote-ish

This Just In

On Obama's Noebl Prize, from the Borowitz Report:

"As the world responded with a mixture of surprise and amazement to the announcement of President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel insiders revealed that the President's "beer summit" at the White House put him over the top.

"The committee was definitely split down the middle right up until the end," said Agot Valle, a Norwegian politician and member of the five-person Nobel committee. "Some of them were still quite upset about that nasty business with the Somali pirates."

But, according to Ms. Valle, "someone brought up the beer summit, and we all agreed that that was awesome."

Ms. Valle said she hoped that Mr. Obama's victory would be seen not only as a victory for him, but "as a tribute to the healing power of beer."

Ms. Valle acknowledged that the President's win was widely considered an upset, with most pundits having expected the prize to go to Mad Men or 30 Rock.

Elsewhere, NASA bombed the moon, saying it was the one spot President Bush missed."

Are Hirst and Johanson The Same Person

You never see them together.

Just wondering.

On The End Of Thinking

Does anyone read artist statements with the hope of garnering insight into the art you are about to behold?

With that in mind, The Market-O-Matic (with a few phrases added by the participant) will quickly (and quite hilariously) create a totally BS statement for you. Like this one it did for me: "Timothy Buckwalter's work investigates the nuances of modulations through the use of slow motion and close-ups which emphasize the Artificial nature of digital media. Buckwalter explores abstract and sucky scenery as motifs to describe the idea of imaginary reality. Using blighted loops, non-linear narratives, and allegorical images as patterns, Buckwalter creates meditative environments which suggest the expansion of time..."

Right on. It reads like I went to grad school without having to blow $60K.

While over at PixMaven, The Instant Art Critique Phrase Generator can pump out pieces of brilliance that can be used to comment on others: "As an advocate of the Big Mac Aesthetic, I feel that the reductive quality of the gesture verges on codifying the essentially transitional quality."