Steve is older than ever

ROFL I love your kids! - Anika

practicing with your brother? ew. - DJF

I love those guys! - josh neff, Fun Dip of FF

BURN! - Rochelle Rochelle

I completely understand this sentiment. Once, when we were teenagers, my sister took a swig of my soda while she was smoking. When I took a drink from the can, I got a big mess of nastiness from her nicotine-laced backwash. Just one more reason I never took up smoking. - Katy S

Your kids are too funny. Love them! - Daenel Vaughn-Tucker

Gotta love little boys! - Jennifer McDaniel

I should just turn all my accounts over to the boys. - Steve is older than ever

exactly - VAL D.

Rico suave, even! - Rochelle Rochelle from fftogo

you look a little older in that hat..... - Joe....

You need a trench coat. - cecily

You're going to need a whip. And a passion for archeology. - lris

NICE HAT. I approve. - Jason Huebel

I was thinking the same thing Iris - Mitch

No time for love, Dr. Lawson! - josh neff, Fun Dip of FF

Excellent hat. I am suitably jealous. - ha3rvey (doink doink)

*glares at wife* - ha3rvey (doink doink)

I love the way the color you added to the tree makes it look both like a tree and like one of its leaves. It's like an optical illusion. - lris

Oooh. Yes. I planned that. - Steve is older than ever

I knew it. :-) - lris

I'm in awe of people who can draw. - marthalib

Me too, marthalib. - Derrick

Whoa. Way like. - Derrick

I love Kara Walker's work. - cecily from iPhone

She makes me feel really white, like I have to work extra hard to see beyond the surface of what's going on in her work, and that I'm missing something important to "getting" her. - Steve is older than ever

I feel like I have to work really hard to get to the layers of meaning in most art, and that isn't grounded in my racial makeup. - cecily from iPhone

True, and it may not be racial here either. I just feel like there may be layers that are more accessible to African-Americans than they are to me. Perhaps I'm also expecting her art to say something more specific and pin-downable given its grounding in American history, and perhaps (likely) that is foolish of me. - Steve is older than ever

it depends on the artist. there's also an academic aspect to Kara Walker's work that limits its accessibility. - jbrotherlove

I'd never say that it was foolish. She's an American artist, and this particular collection is her interpretation of a specific moment in American history. I think coming into it with that expectation isn't all that far-fetched. - cecily

I just watched a clip of Kara Walker on PBS's art 21 program. The following quote resonated with me and I think can be applied here: "A lot of my work has been about the unexpected. Kind of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time." Clip is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Derrick

I may need to learn how to oil paint just to do this. - Steve is older than ever

IMAGE NOT AVAILABLE. But I guess I probably saw the original. - laura x

Yeah, I love that! I NEED an oil painting that says "IMAGE NOT AVAILABLE" in Helvetica. (Actually, that's not Helvetica in that image, but mine would be.) - Steve is older than ever

I spent my time in the grocery store line this evening looking for Arial vs. Helvetica. The former won. (I am a Verdana fan, myself, if you're going to go with sans-serif, but anyway.) - laura x

steve, have you looked at Richard Estes before? http://www.artnet.com/usernet... all paintings...reminds me some of Hopper and Ruscha, but he does photojournalism to the extreme - Sir Shuping

Andrew, I don't think I have seen his work before, but we have two of his books up in folio that I'm going to get right now. Thanks! - Steve is older than ever

His stuff freaking blows me away. He seems to be doing more oils now, but used to do absolutely gorgeous watercolors. Check out Chuck Close to. His stuff from the 70's will blow your mind (in a good way) - Sir Shuping

Gah! Estes is a painter! I thought they were photos! GAAAAAA! (And I like the Close I have seen, but don't know him very well.) - Steve is older than ever

This is Andre Kertesz's "Chez Mondrian," and it brings together one of my favorite photographers and one of my favorite painters. I love the play between the artificial and the organic, light and shade, straight lines and curves. - Steve is older than ever

http://ff.im/1cx9U Re: Picasso's Guernica - "I hadn't even heard of this painting until I went to art school, and when I found out the story behind it, I was moved in a way that I hadn't been since I read Toni Morrison's Beloved. It really connected life and art for me in a way that I hadn't thought about before." - Derrick

Guernica and Chez Mondrian were created within 11 years of each other in Europe and both use a limited palette. Other than that, they could hardly be more different. Which is wonderful. - Steve is older than ever

The second painting on this page lives at my college, and my housemates and I had a print of it in our apartment my last couple of years, so my attachment to it is largely sentimental, but I've also always loved the effect of light filtered through leaves, which is so hard to capture, and this painting adds another dimension to that by having the leaves represented mostly as shadows. Sorry the image is so tiny! http://fllac.vassar.edu/collect... - laura x

Laura, I love that. - Steve is older than ever

I'm a fan of photography, and this photo of the Holland House Library is a favourite of mine. I've got a print of it hanging in my office: http://www.englishheritageimages.com/low... - DJF

WOW! I'm totally co-opting that for Librarian Bomb stationery. - Steve is older than ever

You've never seen that before? It appears in Alberto Manguel's History of Reading, which is a wonderful book. - DJF

http://www.sculpturegallery.com/sculptu... Someday I will remember to buy myself a reproduction while I actually have money to spend on such. :) - D0r0th34

Sad. . . the site DJF linked to is timing out for me. - laura x

laura, just google [holland house library] and look at the images. It's a photo from 1940. - DJF

Oh, wow. - laura x

DJF, I probably had seen it (I own the Manguel book but haven't read it. Ahem.) but had forgotten about it. - Steve is older than ever

I highly recommend that book. It's very readable, and well illustrated. I particularly like the section on "gendered" reading: girls can read the pink books or the blue books, but boys better not be caught reading a pink book. - DJF

http://www.junekellygallery.com/eccles... -- Alvin Ailey Dance as captured by Andrew Eccles. Stunning. - Jennifer McDaniel

Jennifer, I'd like to see this one full-size: http://www.artnet.com/artwork... There is something so compelling about dancers, even in simple and relaxed positions. - Steve is older than ever

The light on that backdrop with the solitary dancer is nice. Great composition. - Derrick

@Steve @Derrick Yeah. Now paintings inspired by Alvin Ailey: http://www.blumenfeldart.com/dance.... Saw them in DC a few months ago and I guess that, for me, is what makes the paintings and the photographs so compelling, i.e. I can just imagine the leap or spin they're about to do. - Jennifer McDaniel

Kara Walker's exhibit at the Whitney: http://ff.im/b2z7v - Derrick

Jennifer, that's awesome. I too can feel the tension and weight in their movements. - Derrick

Wow! Now that looks like some powerful stuff, Derrick. I would have loved to see that in person (just noticed the date). - Jennifer McDaniel

Jennifer, one of the things that's cool about that painting is the way it celebrates the chorographer's art and the dancer's art--both of which tend to be too ephemeral--in visual art. - Steve is older than ever

This is beyond awesome. - Derrick

Mad skillz - Chris Greene

New to you, Derrick, or just awesome to see it here? Do you know his "Every Building on the Sunset Strip?" http://collections.walkerart.org/item... - Steve is older than ever

directeur, you are new around here, aren't you? ;) - Steve is older than ever

Steve, well, yes, why? :) - directeur

Dude. You are inviting so much trouble with that strategy. - cecily

Dude, I'd listen to Cecily if I were you. Derrick = trouble. (Or so I've heard) - ha3rvey (doink doink)

Cecily, that thought crossed my mind as well. directeur, just joking because I have posted a fair number of devil/pitchfork photos recently. - Steve is older than ever

Derrick = the best kinds of trouble. - cecily

ZOMG. LOL. I just spit out my birf control pills. - Derrick

*searches desk for birf control pills* - Steve is older than ever

Steve's KitKats are much smaller than Derricks *chuckles* - Katy S

It's the pills, Katy. They do terrible things to a man. - Steve is older than ever

Steve is older than ever because today is his birthday! Happy birthday to my one and only (former) child! Love you. - Judy Lawson

Hi Steve's Mom! You should read this: http://ff.im/aWPxr :-) - lris

Thanks so much, Iris. How did I miss that? - Judy Lawson

Obviously there is a little devil behind your left ear telling you what to do, is there an angel on the right side out of frame? - Ed Millard

It's interesting to know that Mr. 6 & Mr. 3 have the same sense of humor as Dr J. - Kendra K

My brother-in-law felt the same way when he first showed that video to me...at 25 years of age. Betcha' he'd get along very well with Misters 6 and 3. - David Rothman (☤)

Mr. 6 is still so worked up about it, I don't know that he'll be able to get to sleep. - Steve is older than ever

oh my - marthalib

Peanut Butter Jelly Time! It's a mitzvah! - Alex Scoble

I am so glad Barracuda (also 6) is in bed right now or I'd be doomed like we were with the badger badger badger a few years back. - Nikki D.

I just want to point out that it is *still* Peanut Butter Jelly Time chez Lawson. - Steve is older than ever

If my older son didn't have nut allergies, I'd share this with him. Suspect it would bum him out that he couldn't share fully in the PB&J experience. - Stephen Francoeur

I have that in my head now, thanks. - Jennifer Parsons

is it peanut butter jelly time again? - JSNFLMNG

Damn, Jason. Been time traveling? - Steve is older than ever

haha, been trying to find another post and came across this one ;) - JSNFLMNG

now i think it's friday! gah! (a facebook friend of mine posts this *every* friday.) - ~Courtney F.