Above: "Look at me! I'm Johannes Vermeer!"

My local supermarket carries gouda featuring Johannes Vermeer photo paintingbombing The Milkmaid.

Cheesy, indeed.

The Onion goes for the low-hanging fruit of coffee shop art. Hilarity ensues:

Isabel By Herself, which sells for $150 and is currently hanging next to an untitled black-and-white photograph of an old Guatemalan man, has [ READ MORE ... ]

Untitled from VJ Peter Rand on Vimeo.

VJ Peter Rand asks: “whens the last time art made you feel like this?”

Donald Judd’s work doesn’t make me howl (I get it, but I had to [ READ MORE ... ]

According to a new blog – Marina Abramovic Made Me Cry – “some people couldn’t handle the heat” of sitting across from (and staring at) the artist during her show “The Artist [ READ MORE ... ]

» Standalone headline from recent The Onion print edition.

My wife and I watch The Daily Show via the Comedy Central website and, as such, have been inundated with commercials for the network’s new show Ugly Americans. No idea if [ READ MORE ... ]

This week’s Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling is doubly awesome: it’s an edition of the recurring “Super-Fun-Pak Comix” (a favorite of mine; mostly hysterical meta-jokes about comic strip cliches) and [ READ MORE ... ]

“Founded on the belief that everything in life would be better with a little more Nic Cage”, Nic Cage as Everyone presents the National Treasure: Book of Secrets star as, well, everyone.

Here we [ READ MORE ... ]

Struggling Museum Now Allowing Patrons To Touch Paintings

“You can’t grasp the brilliance of a great painting just by looking at it,” said Phil Brehm, 32 [...] “To truly appreciate fine art, you need to [ READ MORE ... ]

Improv Everywhere recently turned a New York City subway platform (23rd Street station – nice n’ close to Chelsea) into an art gallery opening, complete with tuxedoed champagne service.

All of the stuff (advertisements, [ READ MORE ... ]

Mark Allen’s Art Follies at WFMU’s Beware of the Blog.

Gotta love a good poke at the canon!

(by Richard Cowdry, via Vice)

Is it just me, or does the portrait of Rineke Dijkstra in the premier issue of Time Out Amsterdam share some of the awkward yet fascinating angularity of the poses from her
Beach Portraits?
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