Nobody cares about Art

[bubblesort]

I want to see John Berger analyze Jeff Bezos eating the Mona Lisa, LOL

Petition urging Jeff Bezos to buy and eat the Mona Lisa gains steam

A petition on Change.org urging billionaire Jeff Bezos to buy Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and eat it has gotten hundreds of signatures.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Khamon]

What would be involved in selling the Mona Lisa I wonder?

 

[Clara D.]

What would be involved in selling the Mona Lisa I wonder?

A really good fence.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

1. Get DaVinci to paint five of them.
2. Stash 4 somewhere safe.
3. Steal the one on display.
4. Quietly set up sales to multiple buyers, none having direct connections to the others.
5. Hope a rogue Timelord doesn't travel to DaVinci's studio and write "fake" on the blank panels so that the duplicates will be unsellable if X-Ray'd.

 

[Clara D.]

1. Get DaVinci to paint five of them.
2. Stash 4 somewhere safe.
3. Steal the one on display.
4. Quietly set up sales to multiple buyers, none having direct connections to the others.
5. Hope a rogue Timelord doesn't travel to DaVinci's studio and write "fake" on the blank panels so that the duplicates will be unsellable if X-Ray'd.

6. Make a movie with Nicolas Cage in based on the entire premise.

 

[danielravennest]

I want to see John Berger analyze Jeff Bezos eating the Mona Lisa, LOL

Petition urging Jeff Bezos to buy and eat the Mona Lisa gains steam

A petition on Change.org urging billionaire Jeff Bezos to buy Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and eat it has gotten hundreds of signatures.

www.foxnews.com

It would be somewhat chewy, as it was painted on a wood panel made of poplar. Also, da Vinci used lead white as a primer before sketching and then painting over it, and additional lead in highlight areas.

 

[danielravennest]

What would be involved in selling the Mona Lisa I wonder?

The destruction of French culture. King Francis I hosted da Vinci later in his life, and acquired the painting after his death. It is considered a national treasure, and they would no more sell it than the US would sell the original Declaration of Independence.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

6. Make a movie with Nicolas Cage in based on the entire premise.

It was a Tom Baker era Dr Who.

 

[Govi]

Antony Gormley hopes Crosby statues last 1,000 years after reset

Artist personally oversaw rescue operation for his ‘industrial fossils’ after several toppled into the mud

www.theguardian.com

The danger of gormleylessness has been averted for the time being.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Tankers and Transit vans sculpted into steel forests

Dan Rawlings has transformed a petrol lorry into a woodland sculpture with an environmental message.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

An awkward, lifeless shrine – the Diana statue is a spiritless hunk of nonsense | Jonathan Jones

The only provocative thing about Ian Rank-Broadley’s characterless sculpture is how shamelessly it plays up to mawkish Diana worship

www.theguardian.com

Evernote link because why not

We have become obsessed with this archaic art form. It is as if all our public debates fixated on scrimshaw, the madrigal or some other lost art. We demand statues of the good – and Diana was good – but sadly art has spent the last century or so forgetting how to create them.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

My goddess is Eris anyway.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Bad Blood

First issue Bad Blood issue 1. In the year 2025, an elderly John Constantine has forsaken the world of magic. The monarchy of the United Kingdom is sputtering out, and John's friend Dolly is being held captive on a reality TV show that revolves around the premise that she is the sole heir to the...

hellblazer.fandom.com

e159553

Read Hellblazer Special: Bad Blood Issue #1 comic online free and high quality. Unique reading type: All pages - just need to scroll to read next page.

readcomiconline.li

 

[Isabeau]

 

[Free]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Enjoy the restored Night Watch, but don’t ignore the machine behind the Rembrandt

The computer restoration of this masterpiece illustrates both the benefits and the dangers of AI

www.theguardian.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Faces of 850 trans people to follow anticolonial rebel on fourth plinth

High-profile Trafalgar Square site to feature work by artists Teresa Margolles and Samson Kambalu

www.theguardian.com

For her work 850 Improntas (850 Imprints), Margolles will take casts of the faces of trans people from London and around the world. These “life masks” will be arranged around the plinth in the form of a tzompantli, a skull rack from Mesoamerican civilisations that was often used to display the remains of sacrifice victims or prisoners of war.

Her expectation is that London’s weather will mean the work deteriorates and fades away, leaving “a kind of anti-monument”.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[danielravennest]

Fisheries Department:


Company that makes baskets: