To publicize their idiotic cause of “no more oil production,” protestors have been targeting art treasures in museums in Europe almost non-stop since the beginning of this year. At the start, their strategy…
This painting of a stolen kiss between the most famous star-crossed lovers of them all was voted the “most romantic artwork in Britain” by readers of London’s The Daily Mail. It was painted in oil by Frank…
When I was living in DC, I spent a fair amount of my weekend time at the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Gallery. It always had something worth looking at. Currently, they’re featuring Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese…
“Tailleur pour dames” (1957) by Remedios Varo After a decades-long fascination with abstract geometrics, the art world is, once again, warming up to Surrealism. Last week, for example, two important museums…
Getting drunk, behaving badly, and then apologizing for it is as old as civilization. In Dunhuang, China, a thousand years ago, it was so common that the municipality’s Bureau of Etiquette came up with an…
