Michael Jackson Inmortalized in an Etch A Sketch!

Look at that!
Etch A Sketch master George Vlosich III created this homage to the King of Pop. It took him 150 hours to create this masterpiece. George hopes to get it signed by the performers at next month's Michael Jackson tribute in Vienna, and then he'll auction it off for charity.

Seriously, I had an Etch A Sketch when I was a kid and I hated it! I couldn't draw a straight line with it! The most I could draw was city skylines. This guy is a master!

Art is in the Crapper!!!!

Literally! If you want to se art in Munich, you have to go to the toilet...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A public toilet in Munich which has been transformed into an art museum has attracted hundreds of people in the first days after opening, a spokesman for the city's tourism agency said on Thursday.

Built in 1894, the toilet house was originally constructed to serve nearby households which lacked necessary facilities.

After being in use for over a hundred years, the toilets were locked up in 1992 because they were very rarely used.

"On the night we opened, around 800 people came to see our work," initiator of the museum project, Mathias Koehler told Reuters.

He said that a toilet was a great place for artistic expression because art is a form of relief in the same way that going to the toilet is.

The art exhibited is mainly graffiti often with a political theme. Examples include images of Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel flanking a urinal in the corner of the room. Four artists contributed their work to the exhibition.

Although the 70-square meter museum is only temporary, Koehler said he could not rule out making it permanent if public interest remains high.

Some art might be crap, but this takes it to a whole new level!

Image courtesy of The Toilet Museum

Puerto Rico's foremost abstract painter dies.

Julio Rosado del Valle, Puerto Rico's best abstract artist of the 20th century, died on Saturday after a long illness. He was 86 years old.

Born in 1922 in Cataño, he showed promise as a painter since early childhood. Studied under the tutelage of Cristóbal Ruiz at the University of Puerto Rico, then with painter Mario Carreño in New York. He finished his formation in France and Italy.

He came back to Puerto Rico in 1944 where he worked at the Community Educational Division and co-founded with Lorenzo Homar, Rafael Tufiño, Torres Martinó and Félix Rodríguez Báez the Arts center of Puerto Rico.

Rest in Peace. He was the last of the great 20th Century Puertorrican painters. He will be missed.