Nobody cares about Art

[danielravennest]

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

My persona in the SCA (historical reenactments) was a 13th century English mason. In my studies on the subject, it was quite common for stone-carvers to put humor into their work. They had to fill up a lot of space in a project like a cathedral.

Oh, look, Richard Stallman:

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Sid]

You always should keep your house on a 0, 90, 180 or 270 degree rotation on the Z axis.
That makes placing of an object so much easier.

 

[Free]

You always should keep your house on a 0, 90, 180 or 270 degree rotation on the Z axe.
That makes placing of an object so much easier.

Why don't you just set it to rotate and be done with it.

 

[Khamon]

Do you mean rotate physically or visually?

 

[Free]

Do you mean rotate physically or visually?

I intended to mean emotionally, but then I realized that would never really work.

 

[Khamon]

That would never work.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Just rotate on the "WHY?!" axis.

 

[Free]

Just rotate on the "WHY?!" axis.

But why?

 

[Govi]

But why?

You've slid pretty far along the "why?" axis.

 

[Free]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Why I hate the Mary Wollstonecraft statue: would a man be 'honoured' with his schlong out?

Was a tiny, silver, ripped nude really the correct way to honour ‘the mother of feminism’? Admirers like me never expected to be left contemplating whether she had a full bush

www.theguardian.com

I don't know what Maggi Hambling, the sculptor, was thinking of -- it's not worked, whatever it was.

 

[Isabeau]

Why I hate the Mary Wollstonecraft statue: would a man be 'honoured' with his schlong out?

Was a tiny, silver, ripped nude really the correct way to honour ‘the mother of feminism’? Admirers like me never expected to be left contemplating whether she had a full bush

www.theguardian.com

I don't know what Maggi Hambling, the sculptor, was thinking of -- it's not worked, whatever it was.

I do have empathy for the artists behind public works, must not be easy, but I agree with what she writes.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Isabeau]

Yes, I’ve always dreamed of having a scrotal sac...

 

[Free]

Yes, I’ve always dreamed of having a scrotal sac...

What would you do with it? Keep keys and loose change in it?

 

[Isabeau]

What would you do with it? Keep keys and loose change in it?

Of course.

And maybe a peppermint or two.

 

[Free]

Please, keep the wrappers on those.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Here is the whole sculpture

Artist behind Mary Wollstonecraft statue says critics missed the point

Artist Maggi Hambling has said critics of her naked sculpture commemorating writer and feminist icon Mary Wollstonecraft have missed the point.

www.standard.co.uk

The Standard's critic wanted to like it, but...

We should celebrate Mary Wollstonecraft, but really? A silver nude?

You might think I ought to be grateful. “Mary Wollstonecraft finally honoured,” the headlines crow. Coming hot on the heels of the first female statue (and the first by a woman) to grace Parliament Square - of the suffrage campaigner and Wollstonecraft fan Millicent Garratt Fawcett - Maggi...

www.standard.co.uk

 

[Free]

EVERY STATUE SHOULD NOW BE A NUDE STATUE.