Nobody cares about Art

[Soen Eber]

I would have thought a statue of Judith and Holofernes (instead of Medusa) would have made more sense, especially with the biblical reference as a shout out against male hegemony.

 

[Free]

If they don't recognise the myth, though, what are they supposed to make of the snakes in her hair?

You can keep squirming over this, Spock, but I'm done.

 

[Isabeau]

To be blunt, I think I like it so much simply because of the violence it depicts. It says to me, No more! I will chop your fucking head off. That’s it, really. Anger, retribution personified. That’s what I feel when I see it. It speaks to me.

So many possibilities to choose from, it really doesn’t matter why she was chosen. Over two thousand years of stories and myths written in which the rape of women is accepted as just reality, nothing truly strange or rare, just something to build a story around, easily believed because it’s such a regular occurrence yet STILL, we are not believed unless there are ten other women with similar stories.

How could this be? they say shocked. Obviously you must be lying or misremembering... such an upstanding man.

Anyway, I can certainly understand why some would have preferred if they had chosen another artist but I like it.

I am woman, hear me roar chop your head off.

 

[Free]

I am woman, hear me roar chop your head off.

I'd put that on a t-shirt, but I'd worry people would start coming up to me and and start asking how it's possible to hear once your head is chopped off...

 

[danielravennest]

I'd put that on a t-shirt, but I'd worry people would start coming up to me and and start asking how it's possible to hear once your head is chopped off...

I am Woman hear me roar,
My axe is too big to ignore.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Sid]

Only one conclusion possible:

Ancient aliens, right?

 

[danielravennest]

Only one conclusion possible:

Ancient aliens, right?

Or early swim goggles.

 

[Sid]

Sansar wasn't as new as LL tried to make us believe!

 

[Free]

Sort of connected to previous posts in this thread.

 

[Free]

 

[Sid]

This Monet parody made by Banksy just sold for 7.6 million pounds at Sotheby's in London.
One of the highest prices for an artwork from this world famous street artist from Bristol so far.

Title: Show Me The Monet.

 

[Free]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava obituary

The deal was good news for Lindy Dufferin: in 2008 Sainsbury’s outbid Tesco to sell organic yoghurt from Clandeboye, the 2,000-acre estate near Belfast that she

www.thetimes.co.uk

Evernote link because paywall

Posted here because she was an artist (and a great chum of David Hockney) but also because it's such a great obituary -- I love Times obituaries when they commemorate not just "the great and the good" but also extraordinary and fun people like the late Marchioness.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

A selfie set in stone: hidden portrait by cheeky mason found in Spain 900 years on

A British art historian’s painstaking study of the cathedral in Spain’s Santiago de Compostela uncovered a medieval prank

www.theguardian.com

“You find this in medieval buildings,” Dr Jennifer Alexander told the Observer. “They’re usually in dark corners where only another stonemason would find them. This one is in a bit of the building where you’d have to be a stonemason to be up there to see it. It’s tucked away in among a whole set of capitals [the top of a column] that are otherwise plain.

“It’s just such a charming connection between us and the person that carved it. It’s almost as if it was designed just for us to see it by those people working on the building. Of course, this stonemason probably had no idea that he’d have to wait so long to be spotted.”

 

[Khamon]

Who was it that said “graffiti is as old as the pyramids?”

 

[Sid]

It wasn't me.

 

[Khamon]

IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN YOU1

 

[Veritable Quandry]

I think it was chiseled somewhere in Giza.