A peculiar exhibition

Le Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Paris

107, rue de Rivoli , 75001 Paris

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from 10 December 2009 until 16 May 2010

Once upon a time there was Playmobil

An exhibition retracing the history of the toy and showcasing the work of its creator

Mr. Hans Beck

Don't you just love the little guys?

Yesterday I went to the cinema to watch Invictus.

Oh, my, I'm still crying my eyes out.

Conceptual art (figurative prices)

El Roto in El País, 18 February 2010

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New love: this Greek song

       

                                 Kenuria Agapi sung by Antique

Carnival in the Canary Islands

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Carnival Queen 2010photo by Elvira Urquijo

Carnival queen, Tenerife 2010 (Believe it or not this costume weighs 500 kg! )

photo: cortto

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 2010, candidate to Carnival queen

photo:Jonathan Andel, check out his album for a glimpse of more gorgeous costumes

Tenerife 2009, candidate to Carnival Queen

photo: Aalborg Carnival

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Carnival queen 2009

photo: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

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Tenerife, 2nd lady 2009

photo : Aalborg Carnival

Daydreaming

Places in the world where it would be great to go today

Illustration from dancing elephant studio's flickr album.

Really lovely children's illustration.

via An Indian Summer

February's quiz

Where can you find this lady?

Inspired by this post in Le Divan Fumoir Bohémien

The devil's dictionary

LEARNING, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.


PLAN, v.t. To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.


CRITIC, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.

PHILOSOPHY, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

HABIT, n. A shackle for the free.

From The Devil's Dictionary

(Hah, hah, or in Spanish, je, je)

Today's find: street art by Kurt Wenner

via creative tempest and mgwhipkey's blog.

Gallery and link to Kurt Wenner's website

Painters

Pompeii Fresco, from the house of the surgeon


Elisabetta Sirani, self portrait





Angelica Kaufmann, self portrait





Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, self portrait





Catherina van Hemessen, self portrait




Adelaide Labille-Guiard, self portrait with two pupils



From De claris mulieribus, Marcia

Sofonisba Anguisola, self portrait

Fantin-Latour, portrait of Sarah Elisabeth Budgett

Eva Gonzales by Manet

Miss Gladys M. Holman Hunt, by William Holman Hunt

( I think she's writing, but allow me the licence, doesn't she fit nicely in here?)

Medieval lady

Mary-Denise Villers, young woman painting

Rosalba Carriera, self portrait

Gabrielle Münter by Kandinsky

Judith Leyster, self portrait

Arpad Szenes, M. Hélène

Elisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun, self portrait

Mary-Denise Villers, atelier of a painter

Artemisia Gentileschi, self portrait as the allegory of painting

Rosalba Carriera, allegory of painting