Archive for category: Art

Lathe    (2017.10.15)

Brendon McNaughton’s marble pawn looks better when the lathe that cut it is part of the artwork

Astonishing art object    (2017.10.05)

At one level, simply an orange firetruck

Vision first, texture second    (2017.08.18)

Eric Kandel brilliantly explains how we see first, then perceive texture second. This explains why I like a lot of things I like, but nobody’s really taking me up on that knowledge, are they, now

Not Russell Tovey’s bulldog    (2016.01.09)

Russell Tovey has no culture, let alone gay culture, and his poor snoutless hound is an abomi·fucking·nation

“The Most Powerful Artwork I Have Ever Seen”    (2015.01.30)

Jerry Saltz: “I understood that paintings weren’t only things to be looked at but are objects that do things”

Gran Fury’s artwork for ACT UP    (2013.04.24)

Seemingly every ACT UP artwork created by Gran Fury on the Flickrs

Another article to remind you how famous General Idea was    (2011.05.22)

Instead of actually dissecting A.A. Bronson’s baseless “copyright” claims, the Toronto press runs yet another profile of the art supergroup that was always fabulous

What, if anything, did ‘Lola’ teach us?    (2008.06.22)

I came across a cache of old Lolas