4 Grams of Trans Fat, 10 Grams of Sugar, and Caffeine from Two Cups of Coffee

Imagine your Krispy Kreme glazed donut amped up on caffeine. Here's the article. Here's the nutritional information on Krispy Kreme's donuts. I think I'm developing an arrhythmia just thinking about it.

Thinker Recovered

From Artinfo.com....

Rodin Thinker Found After Dutch Heist

THE HAGUE, Jan. 22, 2007—A Rodin Thinker, one of seven bronze statues stolen from the garden of the Singer Laren Museum near Amsterdam last week, was found badly damaged on Jan. 19, police said.

The statue, the only one of the seven yet to be recovered, will be returned to the museum as soon as it is allowed by the authorities conducting the investigation.

Dutch police arrested two men on Jan. 18 in connection with the theft of the statues a day earlier. The thieves smashed through the museum's garden fence with a vehicle Wednesday and ignored iron statues, indicating they may have been after the bronze for their value as metal.

The museum said the statues cannot be sold on the commercial art market as they are well documented. It did not disclose their value.

The museum is in the former home of late U.S. artist and steel heir William Singer.

Copyright 2007 Agence France-Presse

Obit: Ruth Bernhard

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Classic Torso with Hands. 1952
Gelatin Silver Print

Obit: Robert Rosenblum

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Butt PainterWarning: Might Be Offensive to Some

Here's an interesting story. Be sure to watch the attached story and share what you think.

Kevin Bacon Wants The Gross Clinicto Stay in Philly???

Now there's one degree of separation between Bacon and Thomas Eakins' famous painting. I'm glad he's an art lover, but dang, what's up with people not wanting art to go to Arkansas???

Possible New Crystal Bridges Museum AcquisitionGenerates Controversy Once More

Last time, New York didn't want to give up Asher Durand's Kindred Spirits painting to the new (will be completed in 2009) Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, Arkansas. Check out the articles on Philadelphia not wanting to give up Thomas Eakins' The Gross Clinic. What do you think? Is it just me, or do the writers have something against sending art/culture to Arkansas?

The painting in question....

Bold Move by Greece

They want their art back.

Famous Mural Mysteriously Painted Over

This is an outrage. I hope someone figures out who did it. There is a photogallery of the artist's other works on this article's page.

Guernica

Here's an interesting article at the New Yorker on Picasso's famous painting.

Lascaux Cave Paintings in Danger

I'm Starting to NOT like Dale Chihuly

This is ridiculous. Can you imagine if Caravaggio sued his various copiers-of-style, or Rembrandt, or Rubens? You can definitely tell we are living in the 21st century. People can be such babies. Chihuly could just step down from his ivory tower for just a minute and make BETTER work than anybody if he is the 'master' that he proclaims to be. Whatever happened to just being happy with being better and flattered that people wanted to copy you? Now artists have to sue each other? It's very unbecoming. A house divided against itself cannot stand--and we artists have to stick together. Sad.

Fox News Faux Pas

The morally righteous and upstanding Fox News made yet another among a myriad of communication errors with a recent report on a serial killer--lest we forget that visual art and media are a form of visual COMMUNICATION. Just what is Fox News communicating with this video clip that is lambasted on The Daily Show? They usually offend me on a political level; now I am once again offended on a moral and aesthetic level. Could they have possibly showed a sketch of the suspected killer, pictures of the victims asking if anyone can identify them, crime scene shots of yellow tape, a written verbal description of the man or written, verbal instructions on how to avoid encountering him, or any other possibly related information to the subject at hand? Instead, Fox News chose to show the flesh fair that is Daytona Beach during spring break. I don't think I have to tell anyone the millions of things wrong with this. Someone should explain the concept of juxtaposition to their video editor. Thumbs way down, Fox News--you bastion of innacuracy and moral bankruptcy.

(incidentally, while Fox News pretends to come off morally righteous, they NEVER miss an opportunity to show flesh--it's the typical hypocrisy of the people who show you the flesh and then say, 'look! isn't this disgusting!' It is a ridiculous channel and barely above Star magazine, The National Enquirer, or Inside Edition in terms of being defined as news and possessing any truth whatsoever -- yellow journalism and the tackiest of aesthetics indeed)

It's Been 25 Years....

since Mark David Chapman took a great man, musician, and artist from our lives.

R.C. Gorman 1931-2005

Andy Warhol portrait of R.C. Gorman

About 11 years ago, I worked for a frame store that also sold numbered fine art prints. That year, R.C. Gorman was very big. I could see the decorative appeal of the work, but I didn't know much about him as a person or an artist. His nickname was "The Picasso of American Indian Art." I'm not sure what that nickname is referring to-- his style of art or his prolific art-making. He died Thursday, November 3.