Hi all, I have been pretty sick over the 24 hours, so I haven’t posted on Brown Paper Bag (obvi­ously). I am tak­ing a break today and tomor­row, so I will see you all for 2011! Happy New Year! Sara ...

Max Ernst was a painter, sculp­tor, and graphic artist active dur­ing the early 20th cen­tury. A pio­neer of the Dada move­ment and Sur­re­al­ism, he grew up with­out a for­mal art edu­ca­tion and served in the first World War. It was after the war that Ernst’s career started to blos­som. He returned home with new ideas, con­nected ...

Hey folks, sorry but no entries today. Check back tomor­row for your reg­u­larly sched­uled programing! ...

Aus­tralian artist Mark Whalen cre­ates work using ink and acrylic on paper mounted to wood, and coated in resin. I love look­ing at Mark’s work. It’s com­prised of envi­ron­ments and imagery that touch on shame, glut­tony, as well as inter­ject­ing both humor with the absurd. The land­scapes are both con­fus­ing and grounded in their metic­u­lous nature. ...

Today is Labor Day in the States, and that means most places are closed (Happy Labor Day!). I too will be observ­ing the hol­i­day and be back tomor­row — in the mean­while slav­ing over this desk: If you’d like to see some more pho­tos from my Ver­mont trip, you can view them here. ...

I tweeted about this yes­ter­day, but I will be spend­ing the next two weeks in John­son, Ver­mont at the Ver­mont Stu­dio Cen­ter, mak­ing work, meet­ing other artists, and enjoy­ing the land­scape. Dur­ing this time, I’ll still be blog­ging, but only writ­ing one entry per day, to allow myself advan­tage of all the time I have ...

image by Danny Sturgess As those who fol­low me on Twit­ter already know, I am leav­ing for upstate New York this week­end to be in a wed­ding. Dur­ing that time I won’t be mak­ing any new posts. But, you can check out my favorite entries in the meantime! Thurs­day Round Up: Off­beat Tattoos ...

A friend (and for­mer room­mate!!), Jaime Bennati’s news­pa­per instal­la­tion and sculp­ture is some­thing that is to be mar­veled, both in its con­struc­tion and presentation. Jaime’s con­cept came from her dis­cov­ery of an aban­doned build­ing in a working-class Bal­ti­more neigh­bor­hood. After some explo­ration and research on the ware­house, she retrieved some of the items left over ...