Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 18, 2020

That’s because his sketches of the thieves aren’t much help.

Waud Magner got her first tattoo where (not location on her body, but rather from where she obtained it)?

What’s so special about Piblo Pacasso’s paintings compared to Gincent van Vogh’s?

RBIoN must have gotten ahold of the book 101 Fun Facts About the Art World.

“Pollock has embedded nails, tacks, buttons, keys, coins, a torn cigarette, matches, and paint-tube tops into the surface – witnesses of the accidental nature of the ‘painting’ process and of the legitimacy of the trouser-pocket paraphernalia – as three-dimensional textural agents to amplify the signifying potential of the image.”

Picasso did say “good artists borrow, great artists steal.” (Or, did he steal that saying?)

I’ll never understand the fascination for Pollock. Or Bansky…

And like a bad penny those Picassos just keep coming back.

Probably the most overrated artist of the last century!

Full Fathom Five used to be my favorite brand, before I quit.

Take care and gesundheit.

I understand that if they catch you stealing a Picasso, they put you in a small, barred cube.

Nowadays, you can go to most bars and see chicks with way more tattoos.

Ms. Wagner seems to have been her own best customer!

And that is why Pollock’s “paintings” are so easily forged. Personally I feel he was just a person with a dynamic personality the was able to con a wealthy sponsor, not really a artist.

That’s because Pablo had an insane amount of work.

A twofer – what constitutes art?

First known? No doubt women have been tattooing in the Americas since long before Columbus.

Artists are hard to steal.

Actually, in North American native tribes who practiced tattooing (quite a few), it was often the women who did the tattooing.

Lydia, oh Lydia, oh have you met Lydia? Lydia the tattooed lady.