William Shakespeare: ”You Sirrah that ball was fair!” Yogi Berra: ”That ball was foul!” William Shakespeare: ”So Fair a Foul I Have Not Seen!” Thus, a foul ball of fate that henceforth became commonly known as ” the long and testy relationship between one Bard of Avon and the Batsman of Broadway.” As baseball broadcaster [...]
Fini from SPC in Canada is an acrylic water-based fast dry glaze. Fini is appreciated by decorative painters due to exceptional results and time saving advantages. Fini is used in place of water as it combines properties of an extender, blending medium, control medium, stroke medium, and faux glazing medium all in one application. Fini [...]
Stanley ”Mouse Miller” is one of a select few surviving , legendary graphic artists of the West Coast Hippie era. With the recent death of friend and associate Alton Kelley the genre is fading and Kelley’s passing may define the end of a long strange trip. The Mouse Studios production was an eccentric blend of [...]
Just where is the tipping point when the avant garde loses credibility and becomes ridiculous? With the ”Imagine” exhibition in Montreal opening in conjunction with the 40 th anniversay of ”Bed-In” you do not have to be an art gumshoe to smell a whiff of hoax in the difference between real art and ”Imagine(ary)”. By [...]
DecoArt Glass Stain is a new American contribution to the faux-glass craft painting industsry. Glass Stain has no artistic pretensions though accomplished results were achieved with some imaginative stretching of the users guide Starting with a suggested retail of 1,50$ per bottle the product is clearly affordable and there are only 10 colors available. The [...]
A recent publication of a sampling of collage art from musician Louis Armstrong opens a new chapter on the artistic accomplishments of this cultural icon. Backstage to the public image of black american ambasador , an African American ragtime to showtime Horatio Alger was a visionary artist who experimented in other mediums. The Armstrong art collages [...]
Vimy Ridge Day on April 9 th is a remembrance and elaboration of a national myth that resonates in a powerful and meaningful way into the psyche of a flexible Canadian identity. Vimy is so ingrained with Canada it is irrelevent to what it actually commemorates.The myth controls history which inturn defines identity.Vimy Ridge appears to encompass a [...]
Hang-ten sized waves have been E-Reaming over the starboard side of the two blogs posted on April Fool’s on this site. It is not mere coincidence that Feynman was attracted to visual representation of beauty due to his imagination and comprehension of the creative process. The details about Feynman in the blog are considered accurate [...]
Controversy and heated debate over interpretations of the Dead Sea Scrolls has boiled anew with a recent leak that pinpoints the precise locations of King Solomon’s cache of fine art and sculptures amassed during his reign. The Dead Sea scrolls are considered to have been written over 2000 years ago by the Essenes, a renegade [...]
An intimate journal from the pen of deceased Nobel price winning physicist Richard Feynman may serve as mythbuster to many of the enigmas surrounding the Leonardo Davinci painting ”La Giaconda” . This unpublished study by Feynman was found accidentally in a recessed corner of his former California home by the present owner’s six year old [...]
