Tag: 09.26.08

“A well-known British artist is exhibiting collage portraits of President Bush and Paris Hilton he made out of porn magazine images.” (And who bought the Paris collage? None other than Damien Hirst.)

“If you put aside the city’s early grounding in Barbizon painting, it’s hard to say why Boston should have been such fertile ground for impressionism. But early critics were quick to make links between the ‘pure eye’ of Monet and a term coined by Ralph Waldo Emerson: the ‘transparent eyeball’.”