I know where you can purchase a high-tech 3-D replica of a Van Gogh painting that is "pretty indistinguishable" from the original. The interesting thing? It's the Van Gogh Museum who is selling the replicas.
High-quality fake Van Goghs
I know where you can purchase a high-tech 3-D replica of a Van Gogh painting that is "pretty indistinguishable" from the original. The interesting thing? It's the Van Gogh Museum who is selling the replicas.
Good Art and Marginal Utility
One study suggests that we appreciate good art more with repeated exposure, but we appreciate bad art less with repeated exposure. It must be true--or at least scientificish--because it's in The Economist.
Mo' Money
Oh, so this is what "labels" are for. I know I've shared a number of art works dealing with cash, but I don't remember which ones, or when. Anyway, here's another cool cash artist: Mark Wagner makes very intricate collages out of bills.
Amazon.com Art
No matter if you applaud, condemn, or shrug off the commodification of art, there's no longer any use denying that art has become a commodity: it's got an Amazon.com store. It launched in beta form about a week ago. Happy shopping!
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1. You may have seen this contemporary painting on the web, but I got to see
the glorious original, along with some counterparts.
2. Seeing Chris Burden's television commercials from the 1970s. Why was I never made aware of these before? "Leonardo Da Vinci. Michelangelo. Rembrandt. Vincent Van Gogh. Pablo Picasso. Chris Burden." Brilliant!
I'll bet the Whitney has very fancy ketchup
The Whitney Museum has a new logo, and you won't be the first person to say it looks familiar.
Kinda related: for years and years I have wanted a t-shirt with the message "When I am empty please dispose of me properly," taken from the Whataburger drink cups. If you run across one please get it for me--I'll pay you back.
Follow-up on Picasso attack
The Houston artist vandal who spray-painted a work by Picasso at the Menil Collection was sentenced to two years in prison. He's already served five months, and expects to get parole soon and go back to UH to finish his degree. Put in context of college antics and not art or vandalism, this is actually pretty good.
"Duuuude, I went to Florida and got so wasted! What did you do?"
"I made a criminal and misguided artistic statement that resulted in damage to a Picasso. I was in the national news. I then fled to Mexico, turned myself in through international diplomacy, and sat in jail for a bit before getting a BA. That's what I did."
"Duuuude, I went to Florida and got so wasted! What did you do?"
"I made a criminal and misguided artistic statement that resulted in damage to a Picasso. I was in the national news. I then fled to Mexico, turned myself in through international diplomacy, and sat in jail for a bit before getting a BA. That's what I did."
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