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GRAFFITI OF THE DAY: Going off the Rails on a Gravy Train
Only in Toronto would a graffiti artist made famous by painting the mayor’s face on public property be given a gallery to showcase his work. Such is the case of SPUD, a local tagger whose paintings,...
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Old Spanish woman gets Darwin’s revenge on Jesus…
A shoddy Spanish painter in the city of Zaragoza has become a worldwide laughingstock after turning her church’s portrait of Jesus Christ into something resembling “a crayon sketch of a very hairy...
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Had Carr painted a rodeo, it surely would’ve fetched a higher sum…
It seems that the Group of Seven isn’t such a big hit in Calgary, where an Emily Carr painting sold at auction for roughly half its asking price, The Globe and Mail reports. As per the Globe, “Emily...
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Now you too can own your very own Giménez!
Cecilia Giménez, as you may recall, is the 80-year-old Spanish woman who turned a painting of Jesus into “a crayon sketch of a very hairy monkey in an ill-fitting tunic.” After suing her church for...
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FRENCH WORD OF THE DAY: Dessein
Dessein: An intention, a goal or a project. As seen in: « David Dulac, un jeune homme de 24 ans de Saint-Georges de Beauce et ex étudiant à l’Université Laval, avait le dessein d’enlever des enfants...
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I don’t believe in modern art! (But, y’know, the old stuff ain’t bad…)
Being that it was also a rather short walk from my hotel in New York last weekend, I decided to pay a visit to the Museum of Modern Art. After the first couple floors, I was sorta scratching my head...
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