wonder if a jailhouse series is next
you’d think the guy like thomas kinkade “painter of light” would be a pretty mellow guy. for sure, you either have one of his paintings in your home (supposedly 1 in 20 homes have some form of his art), in a hotel, or at the mall (my mall had a whole thomas kinkade store). the [...]
gnomes get in trouble
gnomes are pretty funny looking characters to begin with so when i saw the photo of gnomes doing the hitler salute, i had to laugh. unfortunately for ottmar hörl, the artist who created them, not everyone thought they were as amusing.
the german police in nuremberg launched an investigation into the “art” last week after prosecutors [...]
the naked truth about the burka
in a major policy speech, our favorite doll, nicolas sarkozy talked about how france needed to outlaw the burka. in his address to french parliament, he asserted that the burka is a sign of subservience and that it wouldn’t be welcome in french territory (forget the vaca in st. barth’s ladies) “we cannot accept to [...]
all that without copy and paste…
artist jorge colombo created the cover of the new yorker using an iphone application called “brushes”. we here at sacredbird think the gadget is pretty cool but know that some people think it’s a little too cool. one of the consistent complaints about the iphone is the ability to copy and paste things like urls [...]
with friends like that, you don’t need enemies
remember in art appreciation class in 5th grade or so when you learned about the crazy but talented artist vincent van gogh? remember being fascinated about how he was so depressed he cut off his ear and walked the lopped-off ear down the street to a brothel and gave it to a hooker as kind [...]
hitler in your home
before he became a dictator and decided to take out millions of people, hitler gave it a go as an artist. 15 paintings and sketches believed to be his earlier works sold for $143k at a british auction house recently. although the works are signed a. hitler but cannot be 100% authenticated, the historical documents [...]
breaking the mold
what is it with female body parts this week? jamie mccartney, an artist in the united kingdom is 20 women away from meeting his goal of making 200 plaster casts of vaginas into a sculpture (the first 180 vaginas belong to women between the ages of 18 and 64). the art project called “design a [...]
