M.C. Escher [Guardian]

Famous artists design dinner [This Is Colossal]

ASCII art [faqs.org]

A Lutheran pastor is melting down purity rings to make a vagina sculpture. [ChurchLeaders]

Thanx to Avedon's Sideshow.

I don’t care what anyone says; I like Manolo’s alleged art. [Artnome]

Thanx to andrewducker

Once again, Neil deGrasse Tyson, who once said that science can do anything philosophy can, only better, demonstrates Richard Feynman’s remark that a scientist outside her area of expertise can be as wrong as anybody else. John Scalzi discusses,

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Video game about mathematics and Islamic art.

Thanx to Metafilter

The cool kids of the art world always laughed at Norman Rockwell because he was so square and representational. He kept painting that way and presumably cried all the way to the bank, but he also did something else. With The Connoisseur he did to abstract expressionism what postmodernists always want to do to their predecessors. (Something I learned only recently: Rockwell always worked from models, so in order to do this painting he first did his own Jack the Dripper “painting” and copied it.)

Sam Spratt has painted nine pictures of African-Americans in the style of the master. This is not an expert opinion, but I think he is a worthy successor.

Van Gogh was a mad scientist.

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