Posts Tagged: Art and Art History
Touchy-Feely Collection
Browsing Boing Boing yesterday, I discovered Kirsten Johnson's fun oil paintings of sock puppets. Her collection covers the whole range of human emotion from cranky, to evasive, to foolishly optimistic, to rambunctious, to drunkenly amorous. Many of the pieces are already sold, but I think a few …
Pop-up Books for Big People
Everyone knows that pop-up books rule. How do the authors make those crazy things pop right off the page? Anyhow, I received a pop-up book of Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture for my birthday. It's amazing. It has the Guggenheim in New York, the Robie House in Chicago, Falling Water in Bear Run …
Worst. Building. Ever.
Wow, I thought I'd seen my share of ugly modern architecture. However, the new building for the Ontario College of Art and Design really takes the prize for the most abhorrent monstrosity to date. I saw parts of the construction when I was visiting Toronto recently, but had not viewed a conceptual …
Long Lost Relatives?
Just to be absolutely clear, I can't stand the band Nickelback and you won't be able to convince me otherwise. However, my twin brother recently pointed out the uncanny resemblance between Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger (see photo) and 15th-century German artist Albrecht Dürer (see photo …
A Day in Boston
At the moment I'm sitting in a coffee shop in Boston. As I mentioned earlier, I haven't been in Boston since I was fairly young and today I'm realizing that I should come here more often. What a great city. • This morning I went to the Museum of Fine Art, which had a fantastic and diverse …
Screaming Munch
As a few art historian friends pointed out a couple of weeks ago, I may be the last person to find this out. Apparently Edvard Munch's The Scream is in fact a self-portrait expressing his own agoraphobia. Walking with a couple of friends (they're in the painting) he fell behind and was overcome by …