Gallery Gawker Gifts

"As a politician I talk meaningless stuff all day long, nobody has noticed in years that I don't have a clue, and I get paid a lot of money for it. Basically I'm also an artist."

Larry's used art

"I call it 'Bad Dog.'"

Culture Saturday

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

'It's a Joan Biro.'

"Mr. Right!"

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

bird interprets modern art

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."

Misunderstood artist

Schools of Art - A Rough Guide.

'I could do that.'

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

Cats at private view

"I don't know anything about art, but this is a damned good Martini."

Rodin's Browser

The Rise of Modern Art

"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."

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

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

"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'..."

Children's Art Show.

Dynasties - Ping, Ching, Ming.

"Now this I get."

'From an aesthetic perspective, it has heart, beauty and intrigue, but is it a viable process design?'

'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!'

"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. . . ?"

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