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All Saints Day

November 1, 2012
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Once Upon A Wall

June 22, 2011

Through, from the Once Upon A Wall series by artist Aakash Nihalani. (more at Sepia Mutiny) Tweet

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Friceratops

December 24, 2010

Joseph Griffith’s The Surrender (via BoingBoing) Tweet

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The Treachery Of Images: René Magritte, 1929

October 15, 2010

I love taking pictures of this painting. Talk about recursion. Heh. Tweet

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On the Threshold of Liberty: René Magritte, 1937

October 11, 2010

I love that tongue-in-cheek Magritte and how he forces us to keep looking. Tweet

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The Earth Is A Man, Matta, 1942

October 6, 2010

I could stare at this painting in its 96 x 72 in. glory for hours. So soft, three-dimensional in its transparency and layering and mildly spooky, and thus comforting. Points for tasteful use of desi colors. The Earth may be a man, but which one? Read The Granite Controversy: Neptunism vs. Plutonism at David Bressan’s [...]

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The Key, Jackson Pollock, 1946

October 5, 2010

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“The Death Knell Of All Fanaticism”

October 4, 2010

The next few posts center on my most recent visit to the Art Institute of Chicago. Twenty years I’ve been going to this museum and it has never let me down. There is always something new and walking by the same Renoir, Matta, Rodin and 12th-century religious art is like visiting old friends. I don’t [...]

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