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Through the ages all manner of art has been treated as criminal, but I'm thinking of a specific example here. For all manner of reasons I have recently taken an interest in graffiti. Like many, I feel a bit ambivalent about it: on the one hand, I want to lock away the young punks who take it...

These Paintings Reveal How the Dutch Adapted to Extreme Weather During the Little Ice Age https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/these-paintings-reveal-how-the-dutch-adapted-to-extreme-weather-during-the-little-ice-age-180983671/

Studio Ghibli sold the West a fantasy https://unherd.com/2023/12/studio-ghibli-sold-the-west-a-fantasy/ ---------------- In my own ever-so-humble opinion, once you have seen the better examples of Japanese animation, you will never bother with Disney and Pixar's drearily "child-friendly"...

Nude painting row at French school sparks teacher walkout https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67691484 Note to StLukesGuild: Perhaps you should show this same painting to your own 11- and 12-year-old students. America is after all a bastion of liberty, so I'm sure there won't be any issues...

Were Medieval Artists Ahead Of Their Time? https://medium.com/counterarts/were-medieval-artists-ahead-of-their-time-6f1a943be61c

Woman with a Watch: Picasso masterpiece of 'golden muse' sells for £113m https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67364579

Why artist David Shrigley has pulped 6,000 copies of The Da Vinci Code https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67218454

Noticed this on Unsplash: Birmingham Museums Trust’s Digital Image Resource shares thousands of images that span decades of Birminghams vibrant past. https://unsplash.com/@birminghammuseumstrust There's a whole collection there of photos, artworks and artifacts; reasonably decent reproductions.

Museum Employee Stole Paintings and Replaced Them With Forgeries https://www.artandobject.com/news/museum-employee-stole-paintings-and-replaced-them-forgeries

Stolen van Gogh Painting Worth Millions Returned in an Ikea Bag https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dutch-art-detective-recovers-a-van-gogh-stolen-in-2020-180982896/

On another forum, someone posted this: I'm sure it wasn't considered bad at the time. :-) Anyway, this is a thread for posting the worst of album cover art (and perhaps book covers?). From the cringeworthy to the creepy, what puts you right off the idea of listening to an album, or reading a...

So, what have you been doing? Or seen or witnessed? What's the weather like where you live, or what does it look like, or what have you bought or sold (not necessarily art related), or what are your pets doing? A thread for general stuff that doesn't fit in anywhere else. Me, I have been paying...

Saw this quote by H.P. Lovecraft: Makes sense to me!

Found this article rather interesting: Why editorial illustrations look so similar these days https://qz.com/quartzy/1728767/why-editorial-illustrations-look-so-similar-these-days And if you have time, also look through this one: The age of average...

For "artsy" kind of photography, I sort of prefer a humble P&S or cell phone camera - they have no technical stuff to struggle with, and it forces you to look for interesting patterns or compositions, or the beauty of the everyday world around you, rather than triumph through technology. :-)...

A few years ago I was gifted a basic introductory DSRL, a camera I could never afford for myself. Perhaps somewhat strangely, for "artsy" kind of photography I still prefer the simplicity of a P&S or cellphone camera. I never really could get into highly technical stuff or get much out of the...

How Alice Neel's portraits put people first https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-alice-neels-paintings-put-people-first-180977358/

HOW MICROBIOLOGISTS CRAFT STUNNING ART USING PATHOGENS https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-microbiologists-craft-stunning-art-using-pathogens-180977261/ Next up: the Covid pandemic as a piece of performance art... :D

Saw this video on YouTube: The narrator claims that all art falls into one of these seven styles. Seems to me there are whole vistas of art that don't really, and the seven styles as proposed in the video are not very well thought through. But this creates a challenge for us: if we have to...

And more rock art... 17,000-Year-Old Kangaroo Painting Is Oldest-Known Australian Rock Art https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/17000-year-old-kangaroo-painting-oldest-known-australian-rock-art-180977079/