Female pirates, Leonardo DaVinci’s mother and cross-dressing, the sex lives of kings. Robin Maxwell writes about the parts of history that don’t air on PBS specials.
Lena Reynoso’s website is a museum of the artist-and-academic’s original work, including portraits of forty-four presidents and a collection of found treasures, ephemera, research and illustrations that reflect her fascination…
The hapless, plank-toothed, rubberband men of Jeff Ladoucer‘s art are beaten by clouds, tangled in knots, burned, and carried away by an elephant in Do The Apocalypse, his latest exhibit.
An artist who usually works in porcelain, Liu Jianhua stacks poker chips and dice for “Unreal Scene,” a stunning model of Shanghai, where gambling is forbidden. (via BoingBoing.)
Still warm in her grave, Bettie Page’s mid-century pinup appeal is unlikely to cool off anytime soon. Artist Lauren Bergman puts pinups like Bettie on a pedestal,
I’m fascinated by cultural cross-pollination when it comes to art. The Beatles dug Buddy Holly, the psychedelic bands of San Francisco dug the Beatles, the Britpop bands of the nineties…
Apple seeds and the parted pages of books, fleshy fingers and bald heads are among the symbols Alexi Worth uses to conjure a sometimes sinister sexuality. In “Head and Shoulders,”…
Now that our government has finally conceded that we are in a recession (depression?) it is exciting and lovely to find brilliant artwork that you can actually afford.