Juan Francisco Casas

The Spectacular ball-pen work of Juan Francisco Casas exploded all over the internet last week. It is incredibly good.

Georges de La Tour

Georges de La Tour (March 13, 1593, Vic-sur-Seille – January 30, 1652, Lunéville) was a Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which became part of France the year before his death. He painted mostly religious scenes lit by candlelight, and after centuries of posthumous obscurity became one of the most highly regarded of French 17th century artists in the 20th century.

Fortune Teller


Penitent St Jerome


Magdalen of the night light


Job mocked by his wife

Check Georges de La Tour's gallery at the ARC Museum.

American Apparel Advertising Archive

American Apparel has added an Ad Archive to their site which is great because their ads seriously rock! Sometimes blending the line between advertising and erotica, Ignoring all conventional notions of glamour and adopting a very simplistic approach. American Apparel Ads exist in a fine balance between the sublime and the familiar.

Also check their amazing models and recent ads section and of course don't forget the online store!

Alyssa Monks

Incredible photo-realistic oil paintings by Alyssa Monks.

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Smirk 48x64, oil on linen, 2009

Steamed 64x86, oil on linen, 2009

Press 50x42, oil on linen, 2008

Rain 72x48, oil on linen, 2008

Liu Bolin Hiding in the City

Awesome camouflage photography by Liu Bolin from Shandong, China. How does he do it!?

The Fantastic Mr. Fox

Wes Anderson, is set to release a stop motion animation of The Fantastic Mr Fox later this year. This trailer is simply hilarious!

Marilyn Minter - Green Pink Caviar

Introducing Green Pink Caviar, Marilyn Minter continues her interest in blurring the boundaries between fine and commercial art. Co-opting advertising genres and related spaces, she takes a new platform to direct her first video. The eight minute high definition video, Green Pink Caviar (2009) is a lush and sensual voyeuristic hallucination. Filmed with macro lenses, she captures the most minute movements of female mouths licking candy and cake decoration. Driven by her fascination with the body, Minter’s film sets the stage for chance to happen. This 60-second trailer will be screened during the midnight shows at Sunshine Cinema and a five minute version of the film will be on view at MTV’s Times Square bilboard in April as part of a three person video exhibition curated by Minter for Creative Time. Click here for a complete list of upcoming exhibitions and screenings.

"I was shooting stills of models with long tongues swirling and sucking bakery products from under a pane of glass. I wanted to make enamel paintings along the idea of 'painting with my tongue'. My makeup artist shot some short videos during the shoot just to see how it would look. The low definition videos looked so good that we made plans to do a professional high definition video. This made sense to me as I have made both billboards and produced a commercial advertising a painting show in 1989."

- Marilyn Minter