A friend on Facebook sent me the link to these images altered by Mike Wellins who asked, "Anyone else notice weird stuff happening to the historic art in the White … [Read more...]
#ArtDept: Georges Seurat’s “Bathers At Asnières”
Georges Seurat is famous for the painting techniques known as Pointillism, although he falls under the label of French Neo-Impressionist. He is best known for the iconic A Sunday On La Grande Jatte (1884), so fascinating that Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine wrote a … [Read more...]
Fan Art Friday: RuPaul’s Drag Race Fan Art
Here at World of Wonder we’re fans of everything RuPaul and RuPaul’s Drag Race, … [Read more...]
#FriezeWeek: Artist Laurie Rosenwald Charms Us Into Her Rosenworld
Laurie Rosenwald is "Jill-of-all-Things-Visual"... that's the feminine for "Jack-of-All-Trades". I've known her for decades from the magazine world, where I would hired her to do her fab, poppy graphic drawings and collages. You may have seen them in The New Yorker, the New York … [Read more...]
Jean-Michel Basquiat Painting Sells for $29 Million
Jean-Michel Basquiat's untitled work (above), painted in 1982 when the onetime street artist was just 21, sold last night at Christie's in London for $29 million, bought by Amy Cappellazzo, Christie's New York chairman of contemporary art, for an undisclosed client on the … [Read more...]
Three New Paintings by Sham Ibrahim
Tan Mom, Amanda Bynes, and Honey Boo Boo Child. The wowlebrity artist has a show up right now at the Space Ghetto gallery at 333 South Boylston, in downtown Los Angeles. The opening is tonight at 8. … [Read more...]
Dame Maggie Smith Gets Her Portrait Did
A new painting of the Downton Abbey favorite went on show today at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Forty-two-year-old artist James Lloyd said Dame Maggie Smith, 78, had been reluctant to sit for the … [Read more...]
Brushing Up on David Bailey
British photographer David Bailey will always be worshipped for the iconic [Read more...]