Jul 14, 2012 | news
Today Google’s homepage is “The Kiss,” commemorating the 150th birthday of Austrian painter Gustav Klimt. My sister actually gave me a print of this painting for my birthday last year, but I hung it horizontally on accident and all my friends made fun of me. But I ended up liking it better that way, because I’d rather the couple be cuddling and laying down than on a hillside that ends after her feet for no reason. I don’t think Klimt would have minded that I hung it the wrong way. But they do look better standing on Google’s page.
Check out some Klimt history in the Christian Science Monitor’s article on this 150th celebration.
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Jul 12, 2012 | news
Vomiting, sculpture-scaling, toddler attacks, and worse have happened to artworks inside museums.
And they’re worried about my flash being on.
Check out this list of art-atrocities posted by Mental Floss.
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Jul 10, 2012 | news, street art
Faif, a Barcelona-based street artist, has been making some pretty great stuff lately, poking fun at how seriously we take art and society in general.
I really like the “roped off” “framed” pieces along the wall in the second picture below. The ropes block us from seeing that line of the piece, which makes sense because they’re meant to keep us back and away from them anyway.
Like walking into a snarky cartoon full of meaningless labels that point out how stupid all labels actually are.
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