Frida Kahlo (and friend, snubbed cat in background), Salvador Dali (with his pet ocelot, Babou); Pablo Picasso (with Minou); Gustav Klimt (with Katze); Ai Wei Wei (with Lai Lai – one of his 40 cats); Jean Cocteau (with Karoun); Henri Matisse (with either Minouche or Coussi) and Andy Warhol (who once owned 25 cats, all called Sam.)
Category Archives: Art/Craft
A 20-foot long Acrocanthosaurus built by balloon sculptors Airgami, currently on show alongside a cast skeleton of the real thing at the Virginia Museum of Natural History.
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Harvested Barbie bits and pieces imaginatively and slightly alarmingly repurposed by designer Margaux Lange.
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Iconic dance scenes from film and TV captured in detail by artist Niege Borges, from his tumblr Dancing Plague of 1518.
Artist David Barton portrays characters from the Simpsons in the style of Old Masters: Rembrandt’s Homer, Groundskeeper Willie Van Gogh, Marge with the Pearl Earring and Apu Dali.
KaleidoPope is an interactive ‘visual pun’ that uses images of various popes, popery and papishness to create engaging kaleidoscopic imagery. Creator Michael Silber sez:
I composed a photo collage of historic portraits, which is then abstracted when viewed in repeated slices. The lavish textile patterns and mosaic textures provide a rich material for the abstraction.
Get your pope on here.
A new design from Donhou Bicycles in the UK that features a huge 104-tooth chainring, with a diameter of nearly 17 inches (43cm) (most road bikes have about 50 teeth in their largest ring).
Theoretically, the hand-made, ultra-low handlebarred bike – which premiered at the UK Handmade Bicycle Show in Bristol earlier this month – can reach speeds of 100mph, though it’s only been clocked to 67mph so far.
Dresses made from food by Korean fine artist Yeonju Sung.
A short feature on cartoonist Harvey Kurtzman (1924-1993), hero, radical thinker and founder of MAD magazine.
As the late film critic Roger Ebert explained, “I learned to be a movie critic by reading MAD magazine. I learned a lot of other things from the magazine too, including a whole new slant on society. MAD’s parodies made me aware of the machine inside the skin–of the way a movie might look original on the outside, while inside it was just recycling the same dumb old formulas. I did not read the magazine, I plundered it for clues to the universe.”
After MAD, Kurtzman worked with a team of artists including Al Jaffee, Jack Davis and Will Elder on a series of short-lived but influential publications, including Trump, Humbug and Help! At Help!, a fortuitous nexus of nascent sketch comedy and underground “comix,” Kurtzman worked with then unknowns Woody Allen, Gloria Steinem and R. Crumb, among many others. Terry Gilliam, who met John Cleese while working there, considered Kurtzman “one of the godparents of Monty Python.”
If you happen to be in NYC, the Society of Illustrators is hosting a Harvey Kurtzman retrospective next month.
The Art Of Harvey Kurtzman (Imperium Pictures)
(Pic: npr/©2009 The Estate of Harvey Kurtzman; The Art of Harvey Kurtzman; Abrams ComicArts)
100 Years Later: an ‘aged technology’ project by artist and childrens’ book illustrator Maico Akiba who applies fake rust and moss to simulate the aging of apparently excavated relics.