The shirt carries two lines of distressed capital letters and one left-pointing arrow: TWEEDLE DEE above, I’M WITH DUM below, the arrow set at the […]
Continue readingThe Ghost Who Refuses to Say Boo: Reading the ‘This Is Some Boo Sheet’ Shirt
The printed artwork on this shirt reads THIS IS SOME BOO SHEET in orange and cream retro lettering, with a grumpy ghost, folded arms, and […]
Continue readingThe Heart-Shaped Nose: Reading the Jack-O-Lantern Face Shirt
The graphic on this shirt is an orange jack-o-lantern face: two round eyes, a heart-shaped nose, and a smiling mouth. That is the whole design. […]
Continue readingThe Notification You Can Wear: Reading the ‘There Is Motion at Your Front Door’ Shirt
The printed design is a white rounded notification banner with a bell, reading There is motion at your front door. Below it sits a circular, […]
Continue readingThe Arrow Points Right: Reading the Tweedle Dum ‘I’m With Dee’ Shirt
The shirt prints two lines of text and one arrow: TWEEDLE DUM above, I’M WITH DEE below, and a right-pointing arrow set beside the second […]
Continue readingThe Cat Between the Letters: Reading the Cat Daddy Shirt
Editorial note: This publication and Quirky Cotton Collective share an owner. This is not an independent review. The Cat Daddy Feline Father Lover Pet Owner […]
Continue readingThe Smallest Word on the Shirt: Reading the Lowercase ‘meh.’
Editorial note: This publication and Quirky Cotton Collective share an owner. The garment preview for the Meh Funny Sarcastic Introvert Minimalist Saying shows a dark […]
Continue readingThe Salted Butter Shirt: A Wrapper You Can Wear, and the One Word It Refuses to Say
Editorial note: this publication and Quirky Cotton Collective share an owner, so this is not an independent review. The graphic is a butter-stick wrapper turned […]
Continue readingThe Wolf Is a Shadow: Reading the Chihuahua Boxing Shirt
Editorial note: This publication and Quirky Cotton Collective share an owner. The garment image shows a cream-colored shirt printed with the words I GOT THAT […]
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Rubles per Square Metre: Why Market Prices Do Not Measure Artistic Value
A market price is a dated fact about a transaction. It records what one buyer paid one seller, in one currency, under one set of […]
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How to Criticize a Painting Without Reducing It to Its Subject Matter
How to Criticize a Painting Without Reducing It to Its Subject Matter Subject-matter criticism describes what a painting depicts, judges the depiction, and stops. It […]
Continue readingHow the Soviet Thematic Painting System Taught Painters to Plot Before They Painted
The Teksty Requirement: A Painting’s Narrative Argument Before Brush Meets Canvas The Soviet thematic painting system — tematicheskaia kartina — demanded that a painter submit […]
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