The Metropolitan Museum's Timeline of Art History. Wonderful interactive art history timeline, navigable by dates or geography. Very dense and full of cross-linked goodness.
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The American Museum of Beat Art. Featured artists include Jackson Pollock, Ed Ruscha, and Franz Kline. And a slide show! With bongos!
Art therapy on PC helps patients, counselors click. Nice to see art therapy in the news. Interesting idea of using art therapy over the web to initiate counseling - sounds like a good way to break the ice with a counselor.
Gerald's Jeepney Gallery and short history of the Jeepney. A more thorough description and anatomy of a Jeepney. Brings the terms "art car" to a whole new level.
Outsider art : popular art :: alternative music : popular music.
Is it really "outsider" anymore when the whole phenomenon was co-opted by the museum/gallery machine the minute people started buying it? (Refer to alternative music analogy.) Can an "outsider" artist become an "insider"? Or does this term now refer more to an art brut style, and less about the connections the artist has to an established art market?
Great index of outsider art sites around the world.
Treasure map in a Poussin painting? Or convoluted conspiracy theory?
Dennis Hopper: actor, director, art collector, and accomplished photographer. I knew he was into art collecting and such, but I wasn't aware of his acclaimed photography talents.
The Advertising Art Work of Dr. Seuss. Wonderfully whimsical illustrations for clients ranging from GE to Standard Oil. I think my favorites are the ones for Gilbert & Barker.
There's something about Wayne Thiebaud's pictures that cause some kind of weird sensory cross-over...I can almost taste the paint with my eyes. I've come dangerously close to drooling, even standing in front of one of his landscapes. I suppose it has a lot to do with his impasto technique and his candy-colored palette. Mmm tasty paint.
Rain is falling like giant loogies from the sky. Oh summer.
We're off to Maine Maine Maine, soon soon soon, to eat lots of lobster lobster lobster! The size of your head head head! And he has an assignment on brewpubs in the greater Portland, Maine area, so we will also be drinking much beer beer beer with our crustaceans crustaceans crustaceans (that doesn't have such a nice ring to it, does it?). Got any places in Maine (near Portland/Orchard Beach) that I should check out? I've never been up there, so let me know.
Talk about life imitating art.
Got a cat? Looking to give it a name? How about Shazbot? How about Dammit, The Slut Cat of 330 Lytle? Or El-Ron Hubbard Squash?
Playing Right Wing:The bizarre phenomenon of anti-soccer conservatism. I woke up early early early to watch the US-Germany game (snif), and have long wondered why soccer isn't a more popular sport in the media. (I mean, aside from the fact that it's not as commercial-friendly as, say, basketball or football, with the frequent time outs and subs. I was surprised to see no digitally-superimposed ads on the field, like they do for the starting yard line in football. Maybe it's just a matter of time.)
Wow. In the realm of unusual art, this takes the cake. The artist, Edgar Lissel, made this image by populating a petri dish with light-sensitive bacteria, and then projecting a photographic negative of an abandoned submarine bunker onto it. The bacteria slowly migrated to the light areas of the projected scene, forming this image. It's beautiful. (via Harper's Magazine)
Peanut butter jelly! Peanut butter jelly! Peanut butter jelly with a baseball bat!
Plague Domes - for the apocalyptic tchotchke collector in all of us.
The older I get, the more I...I...hmmm. I forgot.
