Slate has a great slideshow right now on Lucien Freud at MoMA. Freud became one of my favorite painters when I was in college, and began working in a realist style. He considers himself an autobiographical artist, frequently painting the people in his life.
He’s been the center of two recent-ish scandals. In 2002 the […]

214 years ago yesterday, Marie Antoinette was beheaded. Mental Floss has a great article about her and her official portrait painter, also regarded as the most famous woman painter of the 18th century.

Website of Laura Keeble, artist behind the Damien Hirst skull prank, and now a graveyard installation. You can read more about the installation on the Wooster Collective website.

Interview with legendary illustrator and hot rod artist, Coop. He also has a blog (NSFW.)

A tampon chandelier. Why not?

Some college officials are trying to create a design district in Cleveland. While I think this is a fantastic idea, I don’t know how well such a thing would pan out. A lot of great designers have come from Cleveland, (Michael Beirut anyone?) agencies are springing up everywhere, and a lot of interesting design is […]

Wednesday night Alana and I watched the first episode of LA Ink. On these tattoo reality shows you have to take everything you see with a grain of salt, there’s a lot going on behind the scenes. For example, I’m fairly certain TLC actually puts up the money for these shops and owns them, which […]

From Wikipedia:
The Modern Rogue Taxidermy movement differs from traditional taxidermy in that Rogue Taxidermists share the mandate to “advocate the showmanship of oddities, espouse the belief in natural adaptation and mutation, and encourage the desire to create displays of curiosity”.

Tonight is the series premiere for TLC’s latest trainwreck, LA Ink, a spin off of Miami Ink. The show is certain to make me roll my eyes and groan with irritation, but I’ll probably watch anyway out of morbid curiousity. Other things the show is certain to contain:

Mediocre black and grey work.
Kat Von D spreading […]

If you didn’t know already, my girlfriend tattoos. Because of this, people have a lot of questions for me, and I’d thought I’d take this opportunity to address them, so this is not directed at any one particular person. Additionally I find a lot of people aren’t really aware of what the tattoo experience entails, how they should be prepared, how they should expect to pay, and how they should interact with the artist. Hopefully this will help you and your artist or future artist have a good relationship.

Jason Adams breathes some fresh air into a tired art form. It’s a rare occasion that stencil art even registers on my radar when every kid with an ironic haircut has a can of spraypaint, and Urban Outfitters uses it to sell us overpriced thrift store tees. Jason breaks the mold with his illustrative style, recalling Andy Warhol without being cliche or unoriginal. (Originally by way of Drawn)

The Sartiorialist has become one of my new favorite daily reads:

I always felt that there was a disconnect between what I was selling in the showroom and what I was seeing real people (really cool people) wearing in real life.
Thoughtful critiques of Racist and classist advertising. Good to know I wasn’t the only one a […]