Once in a while, the world sees the discovery of an ancient artifact in good condition that isn’t a forgery.  In this case, excavators near Skopje have unearthed a relatively awesome late Roman Venus pudica:

All too often, things like this turn up and prove to be clever forgeries, sometimes to the amplified embarrassment of those [...]

Art hooligans have struck again. Followers of POPaganda artist Ron English have caused a stir in Boston.  Working in a neo-Warholian mode, which both misses and reinforces whatever Warhol was on about, English has morphed portraits of Abe Lincoln and Barack Obama: Set aside the curiously Alfred E. Neumanesque effect of Lincoln’s [...]

From Patrick at Popehat, we learn of a simple but amusing deconstruction of Thomas Kinkade’s mass market landscapes. A sample:
There is an inexplicable absence of people, despite the presence of livestock, abandoned agricultural implements, raging chimney fires, what have you. …it seems as if a sort of aestheticically-directed neutron bomb had detonated, leaving standing [...]