Recently in Art Category

A few weeks ago, I blogged about a creative Facebook meme that quickly took the internet by storm for forty-eight beautiful hours before flaming out in typical cyber fad fashion. I'm talking, of course, about the create-your-own-album-cover craze which had users combining random quotes, Wikipedia entries, and Flickr pics into one wonderful mashup of potential Indie band art. The results were often hilarious, and even though making the images took a little bit of effort, it was always worth it. Anyway, I told people to send in their best pics, and now I'm happy to present all the submissions as well as a few from the Internet that I found amusing.

Pics after the jump...

A study in Chenpressionism.

Julie Chen turned up in quite the surprising location today: a New York Times article about self-commissioned celebrity portraits. Our favorite hostess and her husband, CBS bigwig Les Moonves, are profiled as some of the many people who've had artists recreate their visages for the sake of art. I won't get into the various details of the article, but needless to say, all that's really important is that we now have our first officially sanctioned ChenPortrait! Yay!

Next stop? THE LOUVRE. (Just putting it out there)

• Enough About Me. Like My Portrait? [The New York Times]

Thanks to Jash for forwarding me this article.