Look Mom, More Twinkies!

I’m not really stuck on having Twinkies in the header.  I was just searching for continuity.  If showing the underbelly evidence of how they get the cream inside of Twinkies represented teaching art, I figured, why not have my own little trope?
The twinkie photos, BTW, were actually source material for a detour/little series of paintings [...]

For the Last Time, the Recession is Not Good for Art

The argument I keep hearing goes something like this, “Now that all the idiots aren’t blowing hedge fund (or ponzi scheme) money on idiot art, all us here good artists can ascend to our rightful place.  People will now see the bargains on quality and everything will be OK.”
First, there’s the whole “quality” debate.  Quotation [...]