Gallerist's Friend Gifts

Jerry's 'culture-vulture' persona was plunged into jeopardy when he mistook a light switch for a modern art installation.

Larry's used art

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

"I call it 'Bad Dog.'"

"Lautrec or Gary? Hmmm... We'll take Gary."

'It's a Joan Biro.'

"Well....I could've done this!"

Nothing like traveling hundreds of miles to immerse yourself in art for the sole purpose of killing time between meals.

'Wow...Your work is amazing!'

'Some days I just feel so stuck in a rut that I wish I'd never been invented!'

"His mother had a great influence on him. She always made him eat his fruits and vegetables."

'I could do that.'

'I had no idea Ikea had been around so long.'

Rodin's Browser

Cats at private view

"I condensed my painting to the pure essence of the message. What helps me a lot is the fact that I've got nothing to say at all."

Children's Art Show.

Jackson Pollock: abstract; Picasso: cubism; Bobby: eight year old

The Rise of Modern Art

'I just love this work from his macaroni period,'

"I was going to call it 'Empty Plinth', but then I settled on 'Winter's Smile'...I wanted to capture the 'nothingness' of an 'absence of anything'..."

The signing of Ben Franklin's non-disclosure agreement.

"Now this I get."

'Number two. That's the art that offended me.'

A sign that reads "ART...and plenty of it!" hangs above the entrance to a museum.

'Wow, talk about genius!'

'Miss Donahue would give him an F.'

"A wise choice sir! Aah. . . Da Vinci - a genius of the Renaissance and a man who changed the face of art forever! Would you like that as a bookmark, a pencil sharpener or a fridge magnet. . . ?"

'It's the same model... he painted the second one eight months after the first painting.'

'It's not easy painting hummingbirds.'

'What do you suppose he's trying to say?'

Baby vandalizes an art gallery.

Rodin's Cattle-Grid

I love Museum Shops