Verismo Aficionado Gifts

I Pagliacci

Robots search for people's personal information in the cloud.

You're my Mona Lisa.

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.

Madonna of the Pukes.

"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.'"

Paul Klee

"There's smart phones and smart cars, so why can't there be smart rooms that clean themselves?"

Doctor examining Easter Island statue.

"Meet the author"

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

'First you forget logarithms. Then you forget how to do long division. Then the multiplication table begins to go...'

"He's taught himself work-life balance."

'The way the eyes follow you is uncanny.'

"Welcome to Off-Off-Off Broadway."

(Camel paintings)

"I need a deeper access to his brain. Only google has the records."

"Will you have a Sphinx?"

'Of all the nerve!...Making us sit through the whole of their Bayeux Tapestries!!'

German Expressionist Breakfast

'...and in 1/100000 of a second, it can compound the programmer's error 87,500 times.'

"Mr. Right!"

"If you're smart enough to design a robot to do your homework, then you're certainly smart enough to just do your homework."

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

Horti-Culture

Distractions Of The Great

"Honey! Where are my lucky Incredible Hulk board meeting socks?!?"

"An unfortunate museum gift shop." "Banksy activity set." "Jackson Pollock coloring book." "MC Escher building blocks." "Claes Oldenburg miniatures." "Marceau Marceau CDs." "Seurat's connect-the-dots aaAAAAA."

'It's one of Larry King's earliest shows.'

"Hey, remember a few days ago, when all this was unacceptable?"

Baroque Peacock

Great works I plan to complete during the lockdown.