Haha I love Slate's Explainers sometimes...

Quoted: Last Sunday, an art museum in Zurich, Switzerland, was robbed of four paintings worth $160 million. The crooks managed to overpower the staff at gunpoint shortly before closing time and make off with a Van Gogh, a Monet, a Degas, and a Cézanne, which were easily visible in the trunk of their fleeing car.

This is awesome...

Quoted: Shopdropping is the practice by anti-consumerist artists of leaving fake products with political messages on shelves.

My friend Anh's Web site (still under construction)... includes his art, comics, and t-shirt designs.

Quoted: Jenky is the jenky spelling of janky. It means makeshift, messed up, ghetto, busted, beat, jury-rigged, jerry-built, etc.

I really want to see this exhibit in December. I love William Steig (author of 'Shrek' and other classics like 'Sylvester and the Magic Pebble') and I had no idea his work was so influenced by his Yiddish/Jewish background.

Quoted: Hailed as the "King of Cartoons," William Steig had a long and acclaimed career as both a brilliant cartoonist and an award-winning author of children’s literature, including his 1990 picture book Shrek! ("fear" in Yiddish) .

Fascinating paintings by an artist from the 1920s who was essentially 'predicting' what NY and other metropolises would look like in the future. All the buildings look a little like the Chrysler building and some of these are weirdly accurate.

Quoted: Pick up a reprinting of a 1929 book by Hugh Ferriss titled 'The Metropolis of Tomorrow.' Ferriss was the preeminent architectural draftsman of his time who, through moody renderings of skyscrapers, virtually invented the image of Gotham.

A beautiful Slate/Magnum slide show of images from Georgia O'Keefe's life and the natural objects/scenes that inspired her.

Quoted: Born on this day 120 years ago, Georgia O’Keeffe was one of the most renowned painters of 20th-century American art. O’Keeffe’s provocative, organic work has become an inextricable part of American visual culture and identity. Magnum and Slate present the artist, her husband Alfred Stieglitz, and images reminiscent of her notable themes and works.

A Slate/Magnum slide show celebrating MoMA's 78th birthday. Some great photos in this one.

Quoted: The Museum of Modern Art in New York City opened on this day in 1929. Today the museum houses an astonishing share of some of the world’s most important works of modern art.

Interesting piece on Frida Kahlo from the New Yorker.

Quoted: There are so many ways to be interested in Frida Kahlo, who was born a hundred years ago and died forty-seven years later, in 1954, that simply to look at and judge her paintings, as paintings, may seem narrow-minded.

Sean was in my children's book class at the School of Visual Arts in NY - I seriously can't get over how beautiful his art is. I'm happy to see he's making it in the children's book world!

Quoted: This image is of Lauryn Hill. It also got me the contract to illustrate Powerful Words. At the time I used mostly gouache and tempera.