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Pen and ink drawings I made for the @alabama_shakes poster at @acltv last weekend. This is how most of my posters are made, before I bring them into the computer to color separate and prepare for screenprint.

Get creative in a new sculpture class inspired by Picasso Sculpture. No experience necessary! 

“Amy,” Back from Black

Anthony Lane reviews the new documentary on Amy Winehouse’s life and death: 

She was wholly consumed by music, and, as she conceded, not much good for anything else—whereas this new film about her remains not only unconsumed but, to my ears, barely interested in it. It treats the songs as if they were exhibits in court—provable evidence of her emotional hunger or collapse, and nothing else. 

In Woman in Gold, Helen Mirren plays Maria Altmann — an octogenarian Jewish refugee who fought to recover the Gustav Klimt paintings the Nazis seized from her family in Vienna at the outset of World War II. On Friday, Mirren received an award for her performance at New York’s Neue Galerie, which is now home to more Klimts than anywhere else in the country.

The Neue collection includes a 1907 portrait of Altmann’s aunt, Adele Bloch-Bauer — the woman in gold. Several of Klimt’s other portraits have joined Adele Bloch-Bauer at the Galerie in an exhibit on display until September 7.

Immortalized As ‘The Woman In Gold,’ How A Young Jew Became A Secular Icon

Could The Masterpiece Be a Fake? Profit, Revenge And ‘The Art Of Forgery’

Art historian Noah Charney on what to look for in a painting: 

“It depends on the type of painting but if we’re talking about an oil painting one of the things that has to be replicated in order for it to appear old is called craquelure and craquelure is the web of cracks that appears naturally in oil paint over time as it expands and contracts and that literally looks like little webbing on the surface and you can study that and you can determine whether it was artificially induced to make it look old quickly or whether it appeared naturally. There are various tricks to try to make it appear that it was old when it was artificially induced, but that’s usually a good clue for oil paintings. … We actually have some accounts, voluntarily presented by famous forgers, for their own recipes for how to make forgeries and a handful of the forgers in the book volunteer themselves — they were never caught — because they wanted the notoriety.”

Gloria Steinem and peace activists cross the DMZ between North and South Korea

“Seventy years after the Korean peninsula was divided into two countries, 30 women peace activists from 15 countries banded together to cross the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea on Sunday. The group included Gloria Steinem, Irish Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire, and Liberian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Leymah Gbowee.

The historic march, which included two symposia on both sides of the border, was organized by WomenCrossDMZ to call for a formal end to the Korean War. In an unusual move, the governments of both North and South Korea agreed to the march, but not everyone was happy about the movement.  

The peace activists stressed that their intent was to interact with people from both sides of the 38th parallel, to spark discussions about the division, and to promote peace and social justice. Leymah Gbowee said that in many places around the world where women made their voices heard, change didn’t take one day.”  

Read the full piece here

If you missed all the fun of Lakshmi Singh finally wearing the hat (and destroying the giant piñata), the whole show is available for streaming at the Greene Space: 

Photo break: Artist recreates classic paintings with paint swatches 

A Rare Look At How Diego Rivera Turned Sketches Into His Iconic Detroit Mural