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You gotta love Grandpa Elliot.

Thanks for the head's up Lisa!

Exquisite Corpse

Remember when you were a kid and you would accordion fold up a piece of paper then one person would draw the head, the next the shoulders and arms all the way until the feet were drawn? When finished, you would unfold it and have this wonderfully imagined creature!

Christian Marclay does that in his own unique way with album covers as his medium! In these. Marclay explore the way music functions socially. Notions of nostalgia and sexual stereotypes are revealed in the visually powerful album-cover collages from his Body Mix series. He kind of Frankenstein sews the album covers together to create these new visages. Several of these are a part of the Sympathy For The Devil show at the MCA Chicago.

Marclay is also known for his surreal musical instrument sculptures and spaces filled with albums.

Sympathy For The Devil: The Art of Rock & Roll since 1967

A new show at the MCA Chicago shows how music has influenced art and art has influenced music. I saw the show this past Saturday and remembered how much I really like Robert Longo's work, especially his "Men in the Cities" series. As I have recently discovered looking back at many of the artists whose work I am drawn to, they all have a very graphic feel and aesthetic to them.

Longo studied sculpture, but drawing remained his favorite form of self-expression. His sculptural influence invades his drawing technique, as his "portraits" have a distinctive chiseled line that seems to give the drawings a three-dimensional quality. Longo uses graphite like clay, molding it to create images like the writhing, dancing figures in his seminal "Men in the Cities" series.

It is a pretty interesting show and if in Chicago, worth seeing. The MCA is celebrating it's 40th anniversary with 40 days of free admission!

Daft Punk* Money!

Safer, Smarter, More Secure!

They are at it again! Tinkering with our money! This time we get purple with our $5 bill. Many of the same security features are being worked into the new fives, holograms, watermarks, soft color and all.

See all the features of the soon to be released notes at the Money Factory

* Daft Punk's latest song is Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger sampled liberally by Kanye West in his recent release Stronger