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Of Neighbors and Fences

Aug.01, 2008 in Ephemera, The Daily Decoction 2 Comments

From Patrick at Popehat comes news of a blockbuster art theft. Someone with no intention of selling the thing, and every intention of savoring it (or perhaps eliciting ransom for it), has contracted a crack team of pane-removing window climbers to…

Tags: art theft, authentication, Caravaggio, Connoisseurship

Yes, We Canvass!

Jul.08, 2008 in The Daily Decoction 1 Comment

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:…

Tags: Digital rendering, English, modeling, Politics, Pop, transgression

I’ll have a double latte

May.15, 2008 in The Daily Decoction 1 Comment

From Paul Walsh of the Star-Tribune in Minneapolis-St. Paul, we learn that a Christian group is objecting to the new logo for Starbucks.

Neo Retro Starbucks Logo

According to the article, the objection boils down to some issues in anatomical iconography:

The Resistance says the new image…

Tags: Adverts, Logo, Nudity, Sexuality
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