“The Alf Files”
Did Mulder or Scully ever own a cat? If so, its mysterious disappearance would be explained and the culprit caught in this illustration by Tim Tomkinson. (Via Don’t Stand There Gawping.)
Skeletor’s Valentine
I always knew there was erotic subtext to He-Man.
Watercolor and colored pencil illustration by Christopher Tupa (available for purchase at the artist’s Tumblr).
What’s Kitsch?
In order to discuss the meaning of kitsch, you first need to know it’s definition. So I grabbed my copy of Kitsch, The World of Bad Taste, by Gillo Dorfles (with contributions by John McHale, Karl Pawek, Ludwig Giesz, Lotte H. Eisner, Ugo Volli, Vittorio Gregotti, and Aleksa Celebonovic; and essays by Hermann Broch and [...]
Pop Art: Pop Culture Defined
I dated a musician, once upon a time; a jazz musician. He was often put off by my love of certain music, deriding it as ‘pop music.’ I had to remind him that the ‘pop’ stood for popular, and that meant that a large body of folks had to like it to make it ‘popular’. [...]
Michael Jackson: King Of Commissioned Kitsch
We keep hearing how poor MJ was, but the dude spent a fortune commissioning art — of himself. And while he was one helluva a musical artist & entertainer, he didn’t have a clue about art.
Just unveiled, Kehinde Wiley’s monumental commissioned portrait of Michael Jackson:
And here’s a 1990 painting of Jackson by David Nordahl:
Now [...]
