James Rosenquist F-111
So hey, I’m back from New York! On an artistic level my visit to the MoMA was unquestionably the high point, not only because they have a number of my favourite modernist art works on display, but for the current…
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Gary Taxali
Born in India, raised in Canada, famous all over the place: Gary Taxali. He’s won a Grammy, and his work has been in Time, Newsweek, and Fortune. He’s even designed a series of quarters for Canada’s national mint. One of…
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Wolfgang Beltracchi – Master Art Forger
La Forêt (1927), Max Ernst. Well, not quite. This forgery by Wolfgang Beltracchi was part of the collection of the Max Ernst Museum in Brühl, Max Ernst’s birthplace. It sold for 7 million euros in 2006. Der Spiegel recently published an…
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Nude Painting of Canada’s PM has Some Folks in a Tizzy
There’s been some buzz in the air as of late up here in Soviet Canuckistan; it seems that nudity is still “a thing”. Granted, it’s a nude painting of the Prime Minister riffing off the whole “Emperor has no clothes”…
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Cindy Sherman
Cindy Sherman is probably the most popular living American photographer. Sherman is best known for her staged self-portraits, particularly the “Untitled Film Stills” series, officially 1977-1980 but some work from the series is dated 1975-1981. In these staged self-portraits, Sherman changes…
