The Dollypop Guild
Paul Richmond (whose upcoming exhibit, Cheesecake, will be opening in June at the Center on Halsted in Chicago) explores the path of his own identity and sexuality in his paintings.
Prints and original paintings available at Etsy — and there’s a book of his works, with text, titled Ins & Outs: A Collection. (Via A [...]
Can You Remember My Dream?
In Can You Remember My Dream?, by artist Julia Hepburn, lanterns of diorama dreams surround a nested bed.
Hepburn’s work was exhibited as Come Up To My Room, the annual alternative design event held at Toronto’s Gladstone Hotel.
See Also:
The artist’s own blog is Collection Hepburn.
An interview with the artist about the installation.
Antique Painting On Glass DIY
From the March 1831 issue of Atkinson’s Casket (aka The Casket), tips and information on the art of painting on glass:
Found after reading this post at A Tad Too Tan For Taupe.
I Know It When I See It
There are two broad semantic categories in our society that are defined largely by intuition. One is ‘What is Art?’ and the other is ‘What is Obscenity?’. And the two are related in that anything deemed to be art, is generally excused from being suppressed as obscenity. Indeed this very relationship is [...]
2009 Art Sales May Not Have Been Bad For Auction Houses, But Was It Good For Art?
Antique Week, Vol. 41, Issue No. 2112 (January 11, 2010) has a report in the national section on art sales in 2009.
In the article, two things stood out for me.
First:
Auction houses started slashing pre-sale estimates by as much as 50 percent to stimulate sales. When Sloans & Kenyon of Chevy Chase, Md., gave a [...]
Print Temps By Mister M
I believe this work by Marc Brunier aka Mister M is a print made from a woodcut; I love how the lines define the musculature, defining the anatomy as well as sense of direction, if not action.
The artist recently had a showing of his works in Poland — and I’m utterly intrigued with the [...]
