Review of Origami in the Garden

Flying Folds Are you fascinated by Origami? Origami is the Japanese art of folding paper into shapes that look like animals, birds, etc. I always wan…

Photo : 「フェイス・オフ」 (1997年)

by Brett Stiles

Watch :: Sesame Street Characters perform Bone Thugs classic "Tha Crossroads"

The cast of Sesame Street is at it again. You may have caught their previous ones including ‘Hip Hop Hooray’/Naughty By Nature and 'Shimmy Shimm…

"And this is my Nelson Mandela couch... with matching suit."

Brilliant. Beautiful! The ultimate in art + science.

"Finding Degas’s Lost Portrait With a Particle Accelerator." Until recently, attempts to capture the image underlying “Portrait of a Woman”…

"I have for a long time believed that a person reveals at least as much when he reports what he cannot do or has never done."

"I become confused, or even distressed, whenever I find myself among streets or roads that are not arranged in a rectangular grid. ... I have wa…

Thursday in Milwaukee.

If you're wondering about the minimal blogging today... I was in Milwaukee, watching my nephew Cliff Kresge at the U.S. Bank Championship . You m…

Does cute inspire tipping?

I think so.

"Artist Molly Soda describes her most recent series 'Should I send this?' as 'a collection of text and images I would be too scared to show you.'"

"Anyone who's tried to woo a lover via the Internet knows what she's referring to. The net artist uncovered an assortment of selfies and…

"Once a marker of a business with suspicious tax practices, the phrase 'cash only' has come to signify hipster entrepreneurialism at places like Stumptown Coffee at the Ace Hotel in Midtown Manhattan or the Emerson Bar in Brooklyn."

"... Many of the new alternative currencies have the look and feel of the regular legal tender accepted at such places. Most include anticounter…

"On the face of it, 35-year-old Ben Cnaan has painted a friend, stepdaughter and their dog all looking equally pensive in the blistering sunlight of Israel’s Jezreel Valley."

"Another way of seeing it is defiance in the face of impending tragedy. Ben Cnaan’s portrait is based on the story of Jephthah, a judge who led …

I scan 2 photographs from the 1970s.

As I told you I would in the previous post, I've searched my house for the most unusual book, and I have found a perfectly ridiculous book that w…

Without a photograph, the "by-no-means exhaustive" list in the NYT style magazine is exhausting.

"... Loewe has released a collection of four limited-edition T-shirts to honor [the artist, filmmaker, writer, and activist] Wojnarowicz, whose …

"The witches’ brew of predator-prey arms races: eye of newt, fenny snakes and resistance to a deadly poison."

The title of a lecture, one of many events here at the University of Wisconsin campus this week — in observance of the birthday of Charles Darwin. (…

"My job was simple: Paint by numbers."

"The most intricate sections required miniature brushes, sizes 0 and 00, their bristles no longer than an eyelash. The goal was to hand-fashion …

Japanese human art.

Just something I stumbled into on YouTube. Pretty cool and amusing. Watch the whole thing and don't worry about not understanding Japanese. IN TH…

Why are art critics so mean to artists?

A sensitive reader of art criticism -- "close to tears after reading yet another disrespectful, humiliating passage in this week’s paper" …

The "conceptual art" idea of having a celebrity arrive as an ordinary model for a routine life drawing class.

The traditional art-school drawing from the model — and I've been there, done that a thousand times — becomes a different kind of event — suppose…

Tiny pineapple, tiny queen.

(The queen is by Evan Izer . Other objects by Izer blogged here .)

The Obamas selected a work of art that's an outright copy of Matisse — done by an African-American woman.

Michelle Malkin shows the 2 pictures side-by-side and reprints this bilge from Art in America: A good place to begin thinking about Alma Thomas’s rav…