You gotta fight for your right to be arty!
Let’s take the famous song “Fight For Your Right” by the Beastie Boys, and make it about art.
Art
Why you should always carry carrots in your pocket during winter
A good habit on snowy days might also result in a healthy snack for later.
Creating joyful urban snowmen: making the most of found materials
Forget rolling snowballs, transform found materials into a unique and joyful urban snowman by utilizing existing snow chunks and materials from the city’s trees and curb. Bring a touch of whimsy to the cityscape by placing your creation on a bench for all to see and enjoy.
How to celebrate the five Illinois Poet Laureates
Did you know that each U.S. State has its own Poet Laureate?
Pause and sit on a bench
Five reasons to adopt this simple lifetime habit of sitting on a newly encountered bench.
My new gallery—a large flat stone in the Park District
Thinking about what artwork I can leave on this rock
Making Xerox selfies at home with your inkjet printer
Today I learned my inkjet has a copy feature—like a Xerox machine! Of course, the first thing that I do…
Staffordshire Pottery Houses in a major art museum
If you ever wanted to own artwork from a major museum for just $51, here’s your chance.
19th century chair as a Transformer
I might have gone too far. I have come up with three different Transformer names for this 19th century armchair in the Art Institute’s collection.
Rough pigs by Charles Émile Jacque
The roughness of how these pigs are drawn seems to be more accurate for how they are in real life.
That random piece of art history would make a great coloring page
You can be the person who loves to color random artwork that was never meant to be colored.