The Art Thread

CCTV camera showed the decidedly unsmooth criminals using explosives to gain entry to MPV Gallery in the wee hours of the morning, and then exiting to their getaway car. … [T]he robbers managed to abscond with portraits of Queen Elizabeth II of the UK and former Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, while those of former Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and Ntombi Tfwala, known as the Queen Mother of Eswatini, were left behind. … According to Artnet News, which cited a local news report, the blast woke neighbors and sent the gallery’s door handle flying 160 feet.

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“I want to tell the museums and whoever is holding the stolen artefacts: Just return our gods!” he says. “You can have your art.”

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The Austin Creek Show was really short this year :confused: maybe 5 installations. I managed to get good pics of two with unrecognizable people

The Waller Creek School was a bunch of fish that changed colors through the rainbow. You could go under them.

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Just look at 'em!

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Behind the scenes…

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Cryptocurrency entrepreneur

“In the coming days, I will personally eat the banana as part of this unique artistic experience, honoring its place in both art history and popular culture,” he said.

Says it all really.

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Bill Woodrow
Car Door, Armchair and Incident, 1981

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Went to Italian Renaissance Drawings at Buck House


Annibale Carracci, A landscape with a lobster (c.1590)

For some reason doesn’t mention the dirigible.

Also Dada Fountains

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Ah, three of them!

So then aren’t they Dadada fountains?

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I’m familiar with this one by Duchamp

But who did the trio?

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I expect it was Ol’ Big Ears himself. Handy posts to put one’s crown.

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Ah, that explains it. Well, not really.

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I’d guess that means Duchamp, but goggling doesn’t produce photos in which his audio receivers seem especially large. :person_shrugging:

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King Charles aka Ol’ Big Ears – looks like a trophy (the kind you hide in a downstairs cupboard)

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