Cultural Aficionado Gifts

Irish Jig Saws

"Hava Nagila" go-round.

Before they were largely wiped out by European diseases, the Timuca Indians had a highly evolved society, built around dance, poetry and the world's first mobile phone.

Ballydrum Morris Men, "We're excercising our historic right to dance to dance in your pub yard."

"Why? Because without documentation, this would be lost to history."

"Everyone thinks these have some sort of mystical significance. Let's not tell them it's just a bunch of garden gnomes."

"I want you to meet What's-His-Name, the much-misunderstood writer."

The Origins of Sloganwear

"Yes, I drank this Poland Spring water I bought here...but I still have no idea 'what it means to be from Maine.'"

Russian nesting dolls play pinata with nesting pinatas.

'Champagne corks ! I like a man with class.'

'Bosnia, Serbia, Macedonia, Kosovo, South Ossetia -- Sooner or later, they're going to notice us here in Luxembourg.'

Park Service: Men/Women/Hunter Gatherers

Dreidel Breakdance

Broken artefact in the museum

Meistersinger

You're my Mona Lisa.

Louis Armstrong

Copycats

I've been teaching art history for decades. Students today ask new kinds of questions. No, I doubt a gluten-free menu option was available that evening. Nope, the artist was not making a statement about climate change. No, despite the umbrellas, this is not about sun exposure safety. Well, yes, I suppose you can say it's a selfie.

Great Chinese Dynasties

"I think that's one of his early 'blank canvases'. I think there are some bigger ones in the next room."

Madonna of the Pukes.

"I call it 'Bad Dog.'"

Paul Klee

Wolf Danny With "Random""The work must be tantamount to mayhem. Making an insatiable public confused, indifferent, annoyed—this is the premise on which rests my deliberately vacuous oeuvre."

Cariactures

Doctor examining Easter Island statue.

'The way the eyes follow you is uncanny.'

Omara Portuondo

Fabrique en Francais (Made in France).

(Camel paintings)

World Tour.

"Will you have a Sphinx?"

"Welcome to Off-Off-Off Broadway."