Debbie Reynolds to Auction Off Marilyn's Subway Dress and Chaplin's Bowler Hat

Debbie Reynolds was pretty cute and here she is posing with a ukulele in the 50s (her website: LINK). Who knew she played? Probably for a film role. "Reynolds has amassed a large collection of movie memorabilia and, according to wikipedia, beginning in June and continuing into December 2011, she will auction off this collection. Among the more than 3500 costumes, 20,000 photographs, and thousands of movie posters, costume sketches, and props to be sold are Charlie Chaplin's bowler hat and Marilyn Monroe's white subway dress (skirt is lifted up by the breeze from a passing subway train in the film The Seven Year Itch). The latter is expected to fetch between one and two million dollars."

A mysterious face drawing and how it came to be

What is this? Some kind of face or something? Yes, that's right. It's a mysterious, recurring birthday cake face drawn by the father of Steve (of The Sneeze ). That's my summary of part 1. I'm going to skip ahead to part 2 of the story and, if you have a few minutes, I hope you will read part 2 and part 3 because it's a hilarious story of how this "face" came to be.

(Thanks, Drawn! twitter via Julia Wertz twitter)

New Interview with Daniel Clowes

Wild-girl Suzanne G. of Wurzeltod did a new interview with artist Daniel Clowes (Fumetto 2011)!

Here ya go- LINK

Faber Books

The Doll Who Came Alive by Enys Tregarthen, a photo by Faber Books on Flickr.

Faber Books' photostream on flickr
is fun to look at. For instance, this book
cover, "The Doll Who Came Alive", from their set of classic children's books.

Drawings of Butterflies by Nabokov

The author’s own copy of Lolita. [via the Nabokov Museum]

Photograph of a young Nabokov with butterfly doodles by the man himself.

A drawn inscription in his final novel, Look at the Harlequins! To Véra, of course. [via Cornell]

Flavorwire posted some of Vladimir Nabokov's drawings of butterflies in honor of his birthday next week (April 22). He adored butterflies from a young age. Nabokov used the title pages from some of his books and inscribed them to his wife, Vera, and other family members. Follow link to see more:

LINK

Marie-Therese Walter, Picasso's Blonde Muse

Photos by Béatrice Hatala, courtesy Gagosian Gallery. © 2011 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Gagosian Gallery in NYC (522 West 21st) opened another Picasso exhibit last night. This time, the public will be able to experience stunning portraits of Marie-Therese Walter, Picasso's blonde, athletic muse & lover. (The exhibition is curated by Picasso biographer John Richardson together with Diana Widmaier Picasso, granddaughter of Marie-Therese and daughter of Maya Picasso.)

The portraits of Marie-Therese are some of my favorite works by Picasso. I had not seen these two beautiful drawings before. They have a wonderful sense of calmness about them.

This show will be up until June 25th, 2011. Gagosian Gallery

Read more here: LINK: Marina Cashdan article at Huffington Post

The Art of Amy Crehore

Beautiful Musical Pierrot Costume with Cats

My friend Will from 50 Watts pointed out this interesting blog to me and I am grateful.

Have a look at "Airform Archives Blog".

There I found LINK to image above (amazing cat/pierrot outfit from 1900).
The blog is authored by Steve Roden, a Pasadena artist who has a current art exhibit here (SUSANNE VIELMETTER)

called "Stone's Throw"(until April 23, 2011).

The Art of Amy Crehore