Nelson Shanks is an artist who got the incredible opportunity to paint former President Bill Clinton's official presidential portrait for the National Gallery of Art.
That's quite an honor. So, naturally he decided to stick it to Clinton.
Here in Grand Rapids there's an annual art contest called ArtPrize.
It's a 19-day city-wide art exhibit in which artists display their work for everyone to see. People and a juried panel then vote on which pieces they think are the best and the winners receive $560,000 in cash prizes. There are many mediums, including paintings, drawings, sculpture and even performance art.
One piece was titled
Maybe 'Airheads' is your favorite movie. Maybe you really loved 'Maude' and 'The Golden Girls.' Or maybe you just love oil paintings of nude older ladies. If any of these are true, and you've got at least $2 million to spare, this painting of Bea Arthur (note: she didn't actually pose for the painting) by artist John Currin is up for auction.
It's expected to go for $1.8-$2.5 million bucks. Here's
We've been mourning the sad loss of 'Calvin and Hobbes' ever since cartoonist Bill Watterson stopped producing the beloved comic strip in 1995. But apparently the strip hasn't gone completely forgotten, since a piece of original 'Calvin and Hobbes' artwork recently broke a record at auction by selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Mastodon is already known for being kind of a weird. Their music can be categorized as something you may have on your play list while you are "trippin balls". Well, you better get a helmet because their new video will blow your friggin mind...
When I'm out in the woods chasing critters, I like to make a fashion statement. Behold, my official Stripclub KC hunting rifle. Take a bunch of nekkid lady silhouettes and arrange them in a camo pattern and voila "morning wood camo". My Brother does this really awesome magic trick called hydrographics
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