A famous painting has been hanging upside down for 77 years

October 28, 2022 at 10:36 am

At least one art critic thinks it looks better that way. The piece is by abstractionist painter Piet Mondrian. It is unfinished and unsigned. I have actually put arrows with directions on my work to avoid this very problem. Maybe Mondrian just wanted to confuse people. I wonder if he […]

‘Battle to save quirky house that nobody knew about until owner’s death’

September 10, 2022 at 5:06 pm

“I think that is what attracts me to outsider art: you feel like you’re seeing art in a purer, more primal form. An environment takes it to a different level. There’s a complete, one hundred percent commitment to whatever vision they’ve got because they’re sleeping it. They’re eating in it. […]

Summer is finally here!

June 22, 2022 at 3:19 pm

I am thankful that the cold of April and May is behind us. Summer was just waiting for the 21ˢᵗ to make it official.

A self-taught artist gets national attention, and won’t let a disability stop him

June 5, 2022 at 3:52 pm

“A 35-year-old self-taught artist, in 1990 Rayed Mohamed immigrated with his family from Yemen to the United States. While his primary language is Arabic, he speaks some English. However, he best expresses himself through his art.” His art is being featured at The Museum of Modern Art in New York […]

Nuts!

October 26, 2021 at 4:13 pm

This made me laugh, so I just had to share it. A man in Fargo, North Dakota recently discovered that a squirrel had been stashing away walnuts for the winter — around his truck’s engine. And not just a few, but 180 pounds! That is a lot of walnuts. I […]

‘A dreamer, a searcher, an ever-changing mindful being’

July 30, 2021 at 12:42 pm

Carol Ann Hiller (1947-2021) “What I am is a daughter, a sister, a cousin, an aunt, an artist, a grandmother, a partner, a photographer, a poet, a writer, and a lover of all ideals.” -Caroline Ann Hiller