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Inspiration Nation: Gilded Age
Age ain’t nothin’ but a number. Wrinkles on the other hand do their darndest to plaster that number all over our faces, hands, just about everywhere. But why the shame in showing our age?
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Movie Real-Talk: When the Apes on Screen are Better People than the Ones in the Theatre
I may jaded and dead on the inside, but going out to the movies these days, even the stupid-expensive, brand-new, nice-area theatres, really is the worst, isn’t it? By that I mean people are
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The Blurred Lines Between Scientific Illustrations & Art
True story: I had to have plastic surgery on my ears and during the process I asked my surgeon what her passion was (besides chopping up the human body) and she said “art”. It
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Katy Perry On View At National Portrait Gallery. Seriously.
Cupcake Katy, an oil-on-linen work by New York based artist Will Cotton, will go up in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington this summer. As part of a rotating display of acquisitions, Cupcake Katy
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Norman Rockwell’s Red Sox Painting Sells for $22.6m
A Norman Rockwell painting depicting Red Sox players in a locker room sold for $22.6 million at a Christie’s auction on Thursday. The final bid was actually on the low-end of estimates that ranged
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Art for All: Sci Fi Nerds
Welcome back to Art for All, wherein I make my best attempt at bringing artists and their work to the forefront of a subculture that might not already be aware. This Sci Fi Nerd
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So…What’s The Difference Between Art & Craft?
What makes art fine? What makes craft…not? It could be a matter of opinion, could be a matter of timing, could be a matter of location. Here’s a great little video from TEDEd that
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Art For All: Mathletes
Welcome to a new series I like to call Art for All. You all know that The Junkyard’s mission is to bring art to everyone because we believe that it’s for everyone. Thing is,
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Children’s Massacre Site Monument is Facing Criticism in Norway
Memorial sites are bitter-sweet. Using art, usually the beautiful or elegant kind, to commemorate a spot in which people were murdered or otherwise experienced some other unsavory deeds, is not a job for the
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Inspiration Nation: Michael Borremans
In honor of his next major retrospective at BOZAR, in collaboration with the Dallas Museum of Art, we give you some of our favorite paintings by Michaël Borremans. Bozar / Michael Borremans
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