Tahitian Pastorals

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Fine Art Prints from $25, by Jay Fleck (USA)

We sold out of our October Dalai Lama issue two weeks early and had to do a second print run. Thanks to everyone in #Vancouver and #victoria for making this issue a record breaking success for the Megaphone vendors. #changethatworks http://ift.tt/1Xx9BuX

The company that makes Legos has landed at the center of a social-media firestorm after Chinese artist Ai Weiwei complained that it refused to supply a bulk order of the toy bricks for his art.

Ai said he wanted to use the bricks for an exhibition on free speech at Australia’s National Gallery of Victoria. The museum attempted to place an order but was told by the company that it “cannot approve the use of Legos for political works."A post on Ai’s Instagram account said:

"As a powerful corporation, Lego is an influential cultural and political actor in the globalized economy with questionable values. Lego’s refusal to sell its product to the artist is an act of censorship and discrimination.”

A free-speech advocate who was imprisoned by the Chinese government, Ai suggested that Lego was acting under pressure from authorities. The privately held Danish company recently announced that a Legoland theme park will open in Shanghai. 

In response, fans of the artist flooded Twitter and Instagram with offers of Legos, and Ai said he was setting up drop-off points for donations. He also posted a picture of Legos that had been left inside a car on a street in Berlin, where he is serving as a visiting professor at the University of the Arts.

Fans Flood Artist Ai Weiwei With Offers Of Legos

Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Café Schmus, the Jewish Museum Berlin, Germany by NOVONO

Source: Ken Lee 2010 (flickr)

Details of Judith Mosaics by Romanian Jewish artist, Lilian Broca. (Judith Meeting Bethulia Elders / Judith Praying in the Desert) 

Title: Mizrah Artist: Wolf Kurzman, American, b. Ukraine, 1865-1945                           Origin: Ukraine Date: 1903 Medium: Ink and watercolor on cut-out paper Size: 17 3/8 × 14 in. (44.1 × 35.6 cm) Description: “The creator of this masterful papercut was a watchmaker in Podolia (present-day Ukraine), who came to the United States in the 1920s with his five children. Three years after he had cut it, he added the name of his mother Pessya, and the day of her death in 1906. The work mizrah appears in a medallion on the double-headed eagle. Snakes twine around the columns Jachin and Boaz, a common motif in Eastern European Jewish papercuts. Flanking the pillars are two griffins whose origins derive from the guardian cherubim described in detail in Exodus. They were half lion, half eagle, and had human faces.“ Source: Jewish Museum

“Unrolling the Torah”, oil painting by Mané-Katz, from 1938

270- Fall Colors

Happy Inktober! I was just playing around with some of my new inks and gauche from Winsor and Newton. I love my new stuff! #art #drawing #inktober http://ift.tt/1YRYqi6

Female Bust, 1936 ~ Pablo Picasso

I’ve been making a comic to debut at SPX for the past few weeks. I finally finished it and it’s up for free on my site. It’s got some sad, possibly triggering type stuff in it, especially for fat folks that might have internalized sizeism, so proceed at your own risk. 

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