Pygmania

According to MoMA's online shop, customers like Rachel also liked the following 2 items: ...Just when you thought tofu stickers and art nouveau had nothing in common!

Mother. Of. God. We can all die happy now, because I finally located Meryl Streep in an Italian Renaissance painting.  She walks!

http://www.vulture.com/2013/06/saltz-on-the-mets-new-european-paintings.html

Mapplethorpe's 1986 portrait of Patti Smith recalls Dürer's 1500 self-portrait... ie, this happened.

Rolling Stone gave 5/5 stars to Dylan's latest effort .  I have yet to listen, but the cover looks to be a good start: He had me at Bernini.

The "real" Mada

Francisco de Zurbaran, la Santa Apolonia

La Santa Isabel de Portugal, Francisco de Zurbarán

Just in time for the 150 year anniversary of Klimt's birth(death?), we can buy our own tiny plastic Adele Bloch-Bauers. I promise I won't cut the hair off of this one http://www.barbiecollector.com/shop/doll/barbie-doll-inspired-gustav-klimt-v0443

Art courtesy of Spencer Tunick

So... I had come across the Egon Schiele one a while ago, without knowing what it was, who had done it and that it was part of a series.  I love this. Degas Vermeer Schiele Sargent Homeboy Modigdig Homeboy Gustav Klymy

http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2012/steins-collect Let's do it let's do it!!

by Young-Kyun Kim, sculptor [front] [side]

by Young Kyun Kim, sculptor [front] [angle] [back]