Gorey’s Worlds at David Owsley
You've probably seen some of Edward Gorey's work although you might not have been able to attribute it to him. He was a prolific 20th century American illustrator, writer, composer, artist, and playwright, ...
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The Death of Photography
I figure photography died somewhere around 1995. Gone. Kaput.
But wait you say, what about all these zillions of images I see floating around the web?
Well, if we define photography in ...
The Unity of the Photographer and the Photographed
What's the relationship between an artist and the subject that they're expressing? More specifically for our purposes between a photographer and the thing photographed.
In my post Photographs: Gone in a Hundredth of a ...
Modern Art: Is It Just Crap?
"Modern Art"
You know what I'm talking about - paint thrown randomly on a canvas, rubber novelty rats hung in trees, disjointed people made out of triangles and squares of colored paper, comic book ...
Leroy Neiman Exhibit at David Owsley
I remember watching Leroy Neiman create his paintings on live TV for the Munich Olympics in 1972. No wait. I can't be that old. I remember my parents telling me about it years later. Yea, that's ...
Go to a Museum Already You Lunkhead
In an earlier post I was going to tell you about the new director of the Tate museum, Maria Balshaw, and her plan to make the museum more inclusive, but I got sidetracked. Well not this ...
Copyrights Are Confusing
I began to write a post discussing the new Tate director's (Maria Balshaw) desire to make the museum more inclusive to everyone and increase attendance. I thought it would be nice to include an image from ...
Everybody Knows Vincent van Gogh
Only aliens don't know van Gogh.
If you're green and standing in the middle of the Nevada desert taking a selfie next to the ...