I'd like to see some art today. Please post something with the #artgallery hash tag or drop a link in the comments to this post. If you have a moment to say why that particular work speaks to you, that would be even better. - s t e v e from Bookmarklet

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. - s t e v e

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. - s t e v e

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. - s t e v e

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. - s t e v e

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. - s t e v e

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. - s t e v e

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. - s t e v e

Steve, that's a perfect way of putting it. And that's definitely what I'm responding to when I look at the painting. Good idea for a thread -- I've seen some lovely works today thanks to you. - Jennifer McDaniel