Damien Hirst, Dead Cows and Cradles of Hope

“I have a really good business manager,” said Damien Hirst. “He told me a long time ago ‘You’d better make sure that you’re using the money to chase your art ideas rather than the art to chase your money ideas.’ Which is a very important thing to never forget.”
That is sound advice coming from Mr. [...]

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Hitler Paintings Sell At Auction

A British auction house sold a series of 13 watercolors on Thursday, April 23, 2009, painted by Adolph Hitler during the years 1908 and 1914, when the young man lived in Vienna. Richard Westwood-Brookes, of Mullock’s Auctioneers, speculated that had Mr. Hitler been “accepted into the Vienna Academy, which was where he wanted to be, [...]

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Nazi Looted Art Returned on Holocaust Remembrance Day

Max Stern did not live to see the day. In 1937, the Jewish art dealer was ordered by the Nazis to sell his collection of 228 paintings. He then fled to England and later moved to Canada.
One of the paintings from Dr. Stern’s collection was a 1632 Dutch Old Master called “Portrait of a [...]

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Going Green with Wombat Poo Paper

In the city of Burnie, Australia, in Northwest Tasmania, a handmade-paper company is putting some very unusual material in the paper pulp: marsupial droppings. Read about it in Art Right’s sister site, CritterBlog:
CritterBlog » Blog Archive » Going Green with Wombat Poo Paper.

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Journalist Arrested Covering Katie Couric’s Journalism Award

On the surface it looks like the ultimate irony. Documentary filmmaker and journalist John Ziegler was detained by police and threatened with arrest just for showing up at the University of Southern California and doing the thing that journalists are supposed to do: asking questions. Mr. Ziegler was covering an awards ceremony honoring CBS Evening [...]

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A Little Do-Re-Mi on Tax Day

A friend sent along this YouTube video today. It should put a smile on your face. (Turn up the volume!)
Centraal Station Antwerpen gaat uit zijn dak!

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Happy Birthday to David Gilhooly

On any given April 15th, many Americans are sweating out last minute tax returns. But my thoughts always turn to my good friend David Gilhooly. He was born April 15, 1943, in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California. A sculptor, painter, printmaker and all-around fine artist, David rose to prominence in the 1960s as a [...]

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Returns California’s Nazi Loot

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was on hand on April 10, 2009, when two paintings belonging to the state were returned to the grandchildren of their original owners. Jakob and Rosa Oppenheimer, who owned a gallery in Berlin, fled to France in 1933 to escape Nazi persecution. The Nazis auctioned off 100 paintings from the [...]

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What if they created a crisis and nobody came?

On Wednesday there was a very funny post at Exurban League: Obama Reaches Out to ‘Moderate’ Pirate Community. Well, why not?
If, like me, you are concerned about the path to perdition that is the Obama administration’s foreign policy (and domestic policy), you can still find an abundance of very dark humor (no pun intended) [...]

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Hazel McCallion- Hot Child in the City

Hazel McCallion, the 88-year old 11-term mayor mayor of the financially solvent Canadian city of Mississauga, easily won her last election with 92% of the vote. A former hockey player, who is still called upon to drop the puck, has been described as a “small-c” conservative. She runs the government of Canada’s sixth-largest city on [...]

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