Common drinking facilities and common decency

Sexuality in the arts posts a review of Bob Dylan and Barry Feinstein’s Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric that also serves as a response to California’s vote to ban same-sex marriage.  It includes some images of drinking fountains and bars.

Some blogs about art

Portrait of a Princess of the House of Este, Pisanello

Portrait of a Princess of the House of Este, Pisanello

Art Blog by Bob” has some good pictures and intelligent commentary.  The picture above illustrates his discussion of Pisanello.

Drew Andreson

Drew Anderson

Descending Ashtray” sometimes strays off into its owners’ personal lives, but is worth a look most of the time.  Above is a drawing they featured there early last year.

Sexuality in the Arts” is a good one; while it usually stays pretty close to the subject in its title, sometimes it goes into some fairly non-sexy art.  For example, they provide a very nice treatment of Samuel Morse’s The Old House of Representatives.  For some reason, all their pictures are bitmap files, so I can’t give you any examples.