‘Breaking Bad,’ ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Walking Dead’ and more reimagined as old VHS covers
French artist Julien Knez has whipped up a handful of delightful VHS covers for popular post-DVD-era TV series and movies like The Walking Dead or…
Art Archives: 05/2015
Palettes of Picasso, Matisse, Degas and Van Gogh are works of art unto themselves
Vincent Van Gogh Some years ago the inventive German photographer Matthias Schaller who specializes in what he calls the “indirect portrait” was in the studio…
Ten years before Disney, Lotte Reiniger made breathtaking animated features before fleeing the Nazis
The popular history of animation starts with Walt Disney–a tragic oversight and a considerably US-centric misconception. In addition to the pre-Disney animation in America, the…
‘Poorly Drawn Album Covers’: Your Facebook time waster for the day
I have a big weakness for injudiciously liking and joining extremely narrow-purpose Facebook pages and groups, and as such I’m a proud member of “Staring…
Lydia Lunch’s sexy ‘Fashion Calendar,’ 1978
This “fashion calendar” featuring Lydia Lunch, queen of New York’s no wave movement of the late 1970s, was executed by Julia Gorton for a class…
The communist art of René Mederos, Cuban propagandist for Vietnamese revolution
“Como en Viet Nam,” ca. 1970 Retrospectives on communist art and design are often dominated by some pretty inaccessible (and sometimes downright godawful) aesthetics. For…