Intricate Tapestry Designs

Design based on Jan Snellinck the Elder, Michiel Coxie, Netherlands 1652

Hans Kneiper Design Denmark 1585

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The Metropolitan Art Museum recently had a special exhibition of baroque tapestries. Here are two amazingly intricate examples from long ago. To view more of the exhibit click here : Threads of Splendor
Thanks to Marshall Sponder for hiking all over NYC to art galleries and museums to blog about these shows for the rest of us who don't happen to live there :
Art New York City .

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Bloody & Beautiful Vintage Theater Posters from Paris

Grand Guignol means "big puppet show". Here are some posters from the Theatre of Grand Guignol. They are gory, but graphically interesting! "In 1897, the French playwright, Oscar Metenier, bought a theater at the end of the impasse Chaptal, a cul-de-sac in Paris' Pigalle district, in which to produce his controversial naturalist plays." read more history here.

View more posters here:

Grand Guignol Posters

Thanks boingboing via

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Paintalicious!

Bee by Trevor Brown (Check out his wacky blog)
Blackbird & Blackbird Detail - Giclee print on paper by Ray Caesar (buy his upcoming book )
La Robe Rouge by Mike Worral ( Beinart surreal collective)

If you like these, and I do, do, do, you must check out:
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My New Website

"The Creature" by Amy Crehore 2006

I thought I would post my "Creature" painting again for all of the ukulele fans out there. (Actually it's not mine anymore, it's the Frauenfelder's.) Hey, my new website is looking pretty good now finally. I had to rebuilt it all because the webhost updated their template program. It's just as well because my old sight was sort of cluttered. This one is clean, but I'm sure I will clutter it up eventually, too. Just like my house. Sometimes I think I'll have to move to a new house in order to throw stuff away and start over with a clean slate.

Anyway, I have a few new things happening in a couple of weeks that I'm excited about. Check out the January "news" section on my homepage for a hint of what's to come.

And have a look around. (Still working at fine tuning it, though.)

I even have a music player with a Hokum Music ditty.

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Cat on Bottles

Here is one irresistible image of "17 year old Bianca Passarge of Hamburg dressed up as a cat, complete with furry tail dancing on wine bottles, June 1958. Her performance was based on a dream and she practiced for eight hours every day in order to perfect her dance."

via Cannibol . Thanks, Vince! :)

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Johnny Depp's Brother, Gustave Courbet

Yes, it does look like Johnny Depp! It's Courbet's self-portrait, a "Desperate Man". You can view the current Courbet exhibition in Paris in a video tour (including "Nude Woman Reclining" ) here:

Art News Portal

Gustave Courbet’s sensuous “Nude Woman Reclining” is now hanging at the Grand Palais in Paris. It was previously thought to be lost. Read the story here. The Courbet show heads to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in February! You can also see the painter’s most infamous work, “The Origin of the World" in this retrospective show. Might be worth a trip to NYC.

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NOSLO Cartoons and Games

This little dog eats marshmallows (click on image)...and follow the link below for more

"sacks of joy" like this one.

NOSLO Cartoons and Games
(Thanks, STWALLSKULL)

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