Comments on: How I Found America’s Most Wanted (painting, that is)

By: Navigating New York – Map or App? « The Dabbler

Navigating New York – Map or App? « The Dabbler — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 07:02:25 +0000

[...] I browsed the shelves a name caught my eye. Joseph Bueys, the very artist whose work I had dissed in my last Dabbler Dispatch! There were over three shelves full of books about him; he obviously was a very important [...]

By: Rita

Rita — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:17:33 +0000

You can view the Most and Least Wanted paintings for a selection of countries at this site:

http://awp.diaart.org/km/painting.html

Holland and Italy are especially interesting.

By: David

David — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:25:55 +0000

Also, Rita may have explained the enduring appeal of Mt. Rushmore, which has everything an ideal work of art should have, carved into the face of a mountain with dynamit.

By: David

David — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:24:51 +0000

I highly recommend to any in the vacinity the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MOCA), which has displays to convince us that conemporary art is not a contradiction in terms, and displays that make clear why that is a real question.

By: Worm

Worm — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:14:35 +0000

The UK’s most wanted painting is a Beryl Cook portrait of some fat women falling out of a fish and chip shop

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:54:40 +0000

I’ve been told the UK’s most wanted painting is a beautiful landscape that recalls the ideal habitat of their hominid ancestors with a soldier in the corner bayonetting a Hun at Ypres.

By: malty

malty — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:32:14 +0000

Say what you like about Beuys, when it came to sculpting in lard he was the cat's whiskers, the envy of local butchers throughout Germany, bit of a prima donna, he and Richter circled each other for many years after some initial contact, Beuys teaching and Gerhard learning, at Düsseldorf. Richter muttering "wally," Bueys muttering "tosser." In mitigation, anyone born in Krefeld in the early twenties was bound to end up slightly ga-ga. The biggest art joker of all was that Russian bloke whose name escapes me as it was written in a forest of other names, he who painted white squares on white backgrounds as he intoned "attempting to represent the unrepresentable." Listen, mush, if it's unrepresentable wot you doing with that brush in your hand. Anyone requiring a good larf, go see the Andreas Fischer Maschinen exhibition, currently at the Ludwigsmuseum and entitled 'your time is my rolex', little bits of stuff held together by little bits of wire while little bits of music play in the background. Nice picture of Washington admiring Loch Lomond, cue for Daniel Day Lewis?