Antique graffiti in Montreal
Here’s a photo I took the other day around the corner from where I live. Yeah, you read that right. Sgraffito from 1943. It would seem that the owners of this home decided to parge their foundation wall in 1943…
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The Allure of Enigma
Long before the days of Pinterest and Tumblr I would save images that I found compelling to my computer so that I could peruse them at my leisure. The folder now contains a few hundred images. I use them as a…
![Dali's Mustache - photo by Philip Halsman, 1954](https://greynotgrey.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/salvador-dali2-121x150.jpg)
The Redemption of Salvador Dali
One of my personal favourite artists is Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marqués de Dalí de Pubol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), more commonly known as Salvador Dalí. Or even more often, as Salvador Dali…
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Is the Art Market About to Crash Again?
The prices being fetched for fine art at auction these days are, to put it frankly, mind-boggling. According to Artprice, a French company that tracks the global art market, the total value of all works sold June 2012 to June…
R.I.P. David Bowie, 1947-2016
RIP David Bowie, one of the great artistic geniuses of our time. We all know him as a musician, actor, and erstwhile painter, but he was also a very astute cultural observer. Here he is in an interview from 1999,…
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