I tell you Leaguers, it’s tough being the sole guardian of high culture, but someone’s gotta do it.
[image_with_animation image_url=”6039″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Trouble reading the tiny text? Here’s the script:
Calvin – “How unoriginal! How jejune! Stupid kid. If you don’t have anything to say, just keep quiet! Well, this is certainly shocking! Face it, kid, provoking a reaction isn’t the same thing as saying something significant! Look, pal, there’s no point expressing ideas if you can’t make them understood! You’re just babbling to yourself! And aren’t we all bored with the irony by now? You just THINK you’re above it all, kid! I tell you Hobbes, it’s tough being the sole guardian of high culture.”
Hobbes – “Talent like ours carries such enormous responsibility.”
Before I start talking about this painting, before I analyze it all over the up and down, telling you this thing and that thing about the colors and shapes, take a long moment to enjoy and experience this painting above by Susan Lichtman. I’m about to talk about it in a way that will prevent …
Steamroller Printmaking Party Saturday Aug 24, 10:00-4:00 We have a great banjo player, a food truck serving falafel, and a 2.6 ton steamroller. We’re closing down 103rd Street for a printmaking block party! Come cheer as League printmakers make giant prints with a steamroller. Possibly the most funnest thing ever! Kids will get to make …
Today is the 3rd straight day of record heat in Seattle, up to 108 degrees. It got me wondering what it would look like to draw “hot.” What does “hot” look like? How do you draw heat? Here are some fun digital ideas from young artists for how they might draw heat, from Draw Something. …
Dallas Contemporary’s digital exhibition EVERYTHING HURTS opened yesterday, June 16, 2020. In response to the recent murder of George Floyd, Dallas-based artist Jammie Holmes, with the support of Library Street Collective, initiated a public demonstration across-five U.S. cities on Saturday, May 30 between the hours of 11:30am and 9pm EST. Airplanes with banners highlighting Floyd’s …
The sole guardian of high culture
I tell you Leaguers, it’s tough being the sole guardian of high culture, but someone’s gotta do it.
[image_with_animation image_url=”6039″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Trouble reading the tiny text? Here’s the script:
Calvin – “How unoriginal! How jejune! Stupid kid. If you don’t have anything to say, just keep quiet! Well, this is certainly shocking! Face it, kid, provoking a reaction isn’t the same thing as saying something significant! Look, pal, there’s no point expressing ideas if you can’t make them understood! You’re just babbling to yourself! And aren’t we all bored with the irony by now? You just THINK you’re above it all, kid! I tell you Hobbes, it’s tough being the sole guardian of high culture.”
Hobbes – “Talent like ours carries such enormous responsibility.”
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