Can you tell which was done by whom? I scored 100%, but then I’ve had the art training. Hint: It’s in the subtleties.

We were in the city during the holidays, got a glimpse of the spider at the Embarcadero. I’ve written about her before, and am very glad her works can be seen locally.

She is 95 years old.

After enduring the ad, you will meet the artist, who creates her own world of hybrid animal creations.

I didn’t know what else to call it. Here’s the article from The Times, which links to the actual painting, or repainting by Lluis Barba of Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights.

There were 6,000 stuffed animals by a self-taught taxidermist, placed in domestic situations such as card playing and taking meals. The auction house sold it off in lots for 336,000 pounds, although an artist, Damien Hirst, offered a million pounds for it all. The owner of the collection is now suing the auction house.

You can see samples of the collection here.

Should any aspiring taxidermist, self-taught or professional, wish to recreate some of these scenes, he is welcome to begin trapping from nature’s bounty of small animals on my property. They are currently in their prime, fat and sleek of coat after a mast year in the oaks. Haste is urged, because they are reproducing at record rates.

Images using polaroids and other photos, influenced by the likes of Corot, Titian, Vermeer, Caravaggio and Picasso.

From his series: ‘Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of America’s Mass Consumption’: Cell Phones.

Some of her work can be seen here.

He sculpted children in various poses - reading, crying, playing - and then he took photographs of the sculptures. When the works became public, the artist was overwhelmed by the praise and attention, and packed the sculptures away for 30 years.

Through the efforts of an art dealer, they were found again in 1993. But Bartlett was primarily a photographer. A dedicated collector set about trying to locate slides of the sculptures, and found them via eBay.

A NY Times article examines possible reasons why Bartlett chose to sculpt such lifelike children, and in the process, compares him to Lewis Carroll, Joseph Cornell and a group of photographers who specialized in setup photography.

Stuffed works you probably don’t want your kids to see. But ones that family members and I appreciate.

One of his sculptures was featured at various news sites’ picture galleries this week. Enough to pique my interest.

Be forewarned, some of his work can be described as grisly and disturbing.

The former is said to have influenced the latter, whose current exhibition of art and photographs contains disturbing images.

Which probably comes as no suprise to anyone familiar with Lynch’s films.

A painting in her husband’s collection from Bacon’s Pope series will be up for auction this week. Christie’s expects a tidy sum to be raised.

At Banksy’s LA exhibition, an elephant painted like wallpaper is angering animal rights activists, who have demanded that Tai (the elephant) be repainted with child-safe paint.

Elephants, some of them anyway, know a thing or two about art. So far, no report on what their thoughts on the Banksy business might be.

Her works are a combination of photos and painting. You can see samples here. More can be seen here, click on ‘artists’, then on ‘Catherine Feric’.

An Aboriginal artist, Davidson combines drawings of Australian animals with computerized images. The juxtapositions can be striking indeed.

The weather did not cooperate, and many galleries aren’t open on Sundays and Mondays. But we found a few on Post and Sutter, and even encountered a very informative owner, who took the time to explain the technique of a particular artist.

Hang Art, where the picture was taken, is one of our favorite spots.

From the deYoung Museum.

We knew many would be closed today, but found Cohen-Rese open.

The main site is here, and a good place to start would be ‘mixed media’, then to ‘topography of an unknown land’.

The best approach is to lose yourself at his site. For starters, click on ‘portfolio’, from there, click on ‘(plug’. After that, you’re on your own.

He tripped, and as he fell down the stairs at Fitzwilliam Museum, he broke three vases on a windowsill.

They were 300-year old Qing vases. Stars of the museum’s collection.

He doesn’t understand why they were so exposed. The museum head has asked him not to come back.

The police do not see a case. Speaking of which, why weren’t the vases in a protective one?

His palette is made up of the stuff of nature - fog, wind, tornadoes, turbulent fluids - and frequently involve the viewer’s participation. Fog works can be seen here. Click on ‘Portfolio’ for lots more.

Architect, engineer, artist. His work can be seen at his site.

The human subjects seem to be from another era, and the situations to be from a parallel universe that collided with ours.

A series of old-time portraits gone horribly wrong can be seen here. To get the full effect, click for the larger size.

His website, which includes sculpture, is here.

Last year, faber-castell turned 100. At this site, you can see sculptures made from sharpened castell 9000 pencils. Chairs, tables, and lamps bristling with extremely well-sharpened pencils.

A gallery of her work can be seen here, and in the section on research, she discusses the intriguing process through which she arrives at a finished piece.

Such notables as Newton, Einstein, Berlioz, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Michelangelo, Turner, and Warhol all exhibited signs of disease such as autism, gout, stroke, myopia, depression, cataracts, bipolar disorder, epilepsy, and dementia.

Researchers say that the work of certain famous authors, artists, composers, and scientists have been influenced by their conditions and their adaptations to these disorders.

In his photographs, contemporary figures occupy a space eerily like those in old paintings.

Evolution (Quicktime required) as seen through the eyes of the artist who created Manimals.

My kids left some interesting toys behind when they went off to college. The Tangle is based on a work called the Infinite Sculpture by Richard Zawitz.

Strapping a helmet web cam on a tarantula, a scorpion, a sheep, an armadillo, and a buffalo yields a perspective most of us have never seen.

I heartily recommend the armadillo, and in the plant category, the dizzying worldview of a tumbleweed. Quicktime required.

He is an associate professor of art at the University of Georgia, and is influenced by early storage pottery from the southeast U.S. and country pottery of Japan.

Click on his name at this site, and you will jump to some of his works.

After studying da Vinci’s complex drawings of the workings of the heart, a surgeon devises an improved approach to mitral valve operations.

Some of her work appeared in New York in 2001. Here is another view of spiders and a fly.

Some of his graceful weather vanes and other works can be seen here.

A Thai art student creates realistic body parts from bread dough, then paints them with lifelike colors. His parents own a bakery.

Either they are very proud, or very appalled, or a mixture of both.

She takes ordinary supplies like pencils, day planner pages, photo corners, and envelope clasps, and turns them into something else entirely.

The sea, the shore, the mist, the glare.

Many of his works are half human, half machine. Be sure and check the ‘Sculptures’ and ‘New Work’ links.

A few of his street scenes.

The Sta-Puft Lady, The Piano Bell, The Nebulous Entity, Temporal Composition, Das Ammoniten Projekt, and others.

You will no doubt have a very happy dog. Cats wouldn’t mind either. But a sofa made of jam strains the imagination.

However, Jello furniture might be doable, if you could forego heating. Very colorful too, if they could eliminate the stickiness. What’s that? Sugar-free Jello?

One is painted to look like a black stretch limousine. Unfortunately, no picture is available.

Banksy braved gunfire to create views of a beach scene, a mountain landscape, and a horse on the Palestinian side of the wall. A prank-loving artist, he’s the guy who smuggled paintings into the Tate and the Metropolitan Museum.

On the 4th floor of El Camino Hospital, this is the quilt seen as you step off the elevator. One of my sons took the shot, because at my angle, ceiling lights were reflected in the glass. I’ll find out the artist’s name tomorrow.

The unique playspace located in Sapporo is the vision of sculptor Isamu Noguchi. It must be great fun to go down his Black Slide Mantra.

The Cool Cows. More here from Gilles Tran.

Very comprehensive, illustrated with examples of falconry in art.

Some of his works have an unsettling quality. Frankly, feeling a bit unsettled is kind of fun.

These are live pigs, and they are also for sale, either live or (this is a bit hard to picture) after they have died, and have been separated from their skins. Hmm. And how would one frame these - on a special pig-shaped rack? Would there be an odor?

From the Beaufort County Public Library site. Don’t miss the Swinescraper and the Hamlich Maneuver (blue face).

What’s Big Pig Gig? Artists paint models of pigs, which bring tourists. Then the pigs are auctioned off for charity. Everyone wins.

Here are the five, including Pigtoria’s Secret and Phantom of the Slopera.

An artist presents a thought-provoking look at genetic engineering. Check the featured works ‘We are Family’ link . I’ve tried looking at some of the others, but Firefox keeps crashing.

From the PBS series Art:21.

Gloria comments:

I would like to know about janine antoni’s thoughts on the non physical ties of rope, that is mental ties which I find interesting. ties to family, religion,friends all of which are included in mental ties. I would like to include her thoughts in my dissertation.

He was engaged to the niece of his powerful patron, but he loved Margherita, a baker’s daughter. In a portrait of her, he painted a ring on her finger. After his sudden death at 37, his students painted over the ring to avoid a scandal. Now, centuries later, the complex story begins to emerge.

Depending on your setup, this site may be slow to load, but be patient. It is well worth the effort, if you like the combination of science and art. Click on the image to begin.

Theremins inside cuddly, poufy, brightly colored objects (’Nervous’), ooooh .

From the World of Wearable Art in NZ, winners in several categories, including one for children. My favorite is ‘All Buttoned Up’, which would make a great Halloween costume if you have three children of stair-step heights. But because only the tops of their hair (and lower legs and feet) are visible, you couldn’t let them out of the house.

Taking the data from twenty-seven GPS satellites, and turning it into a kind of music .

An electronic brush by Kimiko Ryokai of MIT takes the colors and textures of everyday objects, such as fruit and plants, and puts them on a screen. It can copy movement (a blinking eye, for example) and make it part of the composition. Do I want one? I want one. Brief description and movie here .

Taking as inspiration a quote from Frank Lloyd Wright, ‘architecture is frozen music’, the group incorporates strings on a building-sized scale, video, dance, and vocals.

A chemist and an artifact conservation specialist uncover the secrets behind its color illustrations.

His art has a disturbing quality, but it is this very edginess that makes it hard to stop looking.

Wonderfully detailed macaws, cockatoos, and kites by a British artist.

From Bhimabetaka, India, a depiction of a giant boar showing the bristly hair along its spine.

From animals, of course. Baskets, bowls, teapots, and other works made from organic materials such as fish skin and fins, beef hearts, fruit peels, and kelp.

A selection of hats and shoes from Fiber Scene includes my favorite by Candace Kling, the cobra headwear.

Bruno Pelassy teamed up with Natacha Lesueur to produce this original concept for a unisex shoe.

A sampling of her work can be seen here. She discusses her background in this interview .

From Artdaily, glimpses into the artists’ sometimes quirky lives.

CowParade is a popular traveling exhibit of realistic cows adorned with paint and other finery. Funds raised from their sale to collectors and other admirers benefit a South African children’s cancer charity.

Made of fiberglass, the cows don’t leave a mess behind. An enterprising Chicago artist saw a need, and created piles of colorful dung designed to match their respective bovines.

He makes creatures from unusual combinations of materials, and enlivens them with movement. In one work, a pale pink fish-like object of silk, crystal, and silicon glides about in an aquarium. Another is draped in sequins, glitter, and a python skin, and dances to jazz.

In a contest open to students and faculty at Princeton, entrants were asked to submit images from research and related scientific pursuits.