Mid-Morning Art Thread

Eros
Helen Frankenthaler

If Helen thinks that painting depicts Eros in any way, then Helen needs to work on her love life.

I am sure she had some grand message she thought she conveyed with this absolute mess of a painting. And I am equally sure that the critics gobbled it up, ascribing all sorts of esoteric nonsense to what is an amateurish skill with a brush. No matter how deep and complex the supposed meaning is, if the work is junk, what's the point?

Give me a skillful artist who takes pride in the task over a clown with obvious lack of skill masquerading as a serious artist. The skillful artist produces works that please the eye. The clown produces works that must be deconstructed to reveal...anything!

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 15, 2025 09:32 AM (P/ezU)

2 wut

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 15, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)

3 It's no Rothko.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 15, 2025 09:32 AM (dDmld)

4 Oh, good grief.

Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

5 Sheesh!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2025 09:32 AM (8jLWb)

6 This is ugly.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at May 15, 2025 09:33 AM (SfhV1)

7 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2025 09:33 AM (7Q7Ca)

8

Sunday Morning Underwear!

Posted by: David Hogger at May 15, 2025 09:33 AM (HRQvT)

9 The Metropolitan Museum of Art

https://www.metmuseum.org › art ›
collection › search › 486582

Title: Eros

Artist: Helen Frankenthaler (American, New York 1928–2011 Darien, Connecticut)

Date: 1988

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Dimensions: 34 3/4 × 35 3/8 in. (88.3 × 89.9 cm)

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 15, 2025 09:33 AM (gbOdA)

10 shArt

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2025 09:33 AM (7Q7Ca)

11 Why does CBD H8 us?

Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2025 09:33 AM (ypFCm)

12 Eros? It tracks. I have an erection.

Posted by: prevert at May 15, 2025 09:33 AM (Kv5Mj)

13 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around.
See today's art.
Goes back to bed.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2025 09:33 AM (8jLWb)

14 Well, isn't this just peachy.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 15, 2025 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

15 Eros and was told to sit back down right away!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 15, 2025 09:33 AM (P/ezU)

16 You made me wait two extra minutes for THIS?

Posted by: Pete in Texas at May 15, 2025 09:34 AM (BHrzb)

17 Alternate title:

"CBD's Recipe for Deconstructed Chipped Beef on Toast"

Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2025 09:34 AM (iJfKG)

18 This looks like what I scraped off my dinner plate last night.

But I would have eaten the cranberry sauce.
I like cranberry sauce.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at May 15, 2025 09:34 AM (UCKA+)

19 This piece conveys yearning.

Yearning for art leasons.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at May 15, 2025 09:34 AM (s1ZmI)

20 Alternate title:

"CBD's Recipe for Deconstructed Chipped Beef on Toast"

Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2025 09:34 AM (iJfKG)
-

Alternate alternate title:

"Where's the Beef?"

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 15, 2025 09:35 AM (P/ezU)

21 Nice but it would make more of a statement if she duct taped a banana to it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 15, 2025 09:35 AM (dDmld)

22 Jamey Gumb would hang.

Posted by: Eromero at May 15, 2025 09:35 AM (LHPAg)

23 Looks like a Hunter Biden painting after a really bad night with cheap crack!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at May 15, 2025 09:36 AM (hOUT3)

24 Not as disastrous as I was expecting. Not art, but not disastrous either.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 15, 2025 09:36 AM (jfvTO)

25 Day Inn lobby. In Newark. Floor hasn't been mopped in weeks. Reeks of spooge, cigarettes, hairspray and desperation.

Perfect spot for it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2025 09:36 AM (Q4IgG)

26 I have Crohns. I do one of those into a toilet at least once a year.

Posted by: ... at May 15, 2025 09:36 AM (af7+R)

27 Alternate title: "I Dropped My Laptop In The Portapotty"

Posted by: gKWhatever at May 15, 2025 09:36 AM (cDs30)

28 Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at May 15, 2025 09:36 AM (hOUT3)

Hey --- how you been!!

Posted by: ... at May 15, 2025 09:37 AM (af7+R)

29 Fallopian tubes on the half shell.

Posted by: With a purple postage stamp at May 15, 2025 09:37 AM (o1Z0q)

30 HONEY, THE DAMN CAT PUKED ON THE CARPET AGAIN

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 15, 2025 09:37 AM (dDmld)

31 When Hunter Biden paints better than you do, perhaps it is time to consider a new career.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 15, 2025 09:37 AM (jfvTO)

32 Fallopian tubes on the half shell.

Posted by: With a purple postage stamp at May 15, 2025 09:37 AM (o1Z0q)
-

With prostate nodules on the side.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 15, 2025 09:38 AM (P/ezU)

33 It sorta looks like a skate or a ray.

Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2025 09:38 AM (77rzZ)

34 Helen Stole this from my 2 year old grand niece's art class.

Would hang, on the side of the fridge as long as it had a gold star in the top left corner.

Posted by: Kwak! at May 15, 2025 09:38 AM (89Sog)

35 Looks like a celebration of George Floyd. Don't think I'd hang this one . Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2025 09:38 AM (2ZThz)

36 She had to call it Eros. She initially went with a more pedestrian title -- My Black Lab Threw Up A Boloney Sandwich -- and it was panned by critics in prerelease.

Posted by: red speck at May 15, 2025 09:38 AM (0Id0S)

37 It's just an overly complicated doodle.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 15, 2025 09:38 AM (yvnLa)

38 I love how they carefully and lovingly folded over the left side of the vomit. Wouldn't want the piece to look like zero thought was put into it!

Posted by: ... at May 15, 2025 09:38 AM (af7+R)

39 I believe (as I've read a few places) that modern art is at least a partial creation of the CIA to mess with the Russians.

They promoted that hack Pollock and the Russians could not figure out why anyone liked it because their art was so beautiful.

And of course, modern art is used for CIA money laundering.

This piece is utter crap.

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 15, 2025 09:38 AM (PMtkd)

40 We should rate some of these according to the volume of cocaine required to produce them.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 15, 2025 09:38 AM (Vqx30)

41 If you had this painted in the side of your FREE CANDY van business would fall off to nothing.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 15, 2025 09:39 AM (dDmld)

42 *looks at art*
*looks out window of room on 39th floor*

I'm not high enough.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2025 09:39 AM (8jLWb)

43 Hey, a Hrothgar sighting!

Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2025 09:39 AM (77rzZ)

44 Frankenthaler is no worse than any of the other terrible “artists” vomiting modern art onto canvases. I looked into her background. Tailor-made for a modern art career! Rich kid, attractive by artist standards, lots of family connections.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 15, 2025 09:39 AM (K9Eg0)

45
nope-nope-nope

Posted by: Zombie Bob Ross at May 15, 2025 09:39 AM (5hfjS)

46 When my daughter was in 5th grade doing fingerpainting, she did way better stuff than this. This looks like something Hunter Biden would have done.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2025 09:39 AM (WqXpZ)

47 Frankenthaler? I just met her!

Posted by: With a purple postage stamp at May 15, 2025 09:39 AM (o1Z0q)

48 I did that this morning after breakfast. Simple

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at May 15, 2025 09:40 AM (Flz7q)

49 Like clockwork. After a treat yesterday, we get a punishment today.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at May 15, 2025 09:40 AM (eb5mD)

50 Is she of the Palm Beach Frankenthalers?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 15, 2025 09:40 AM (dDmld)

51 Errors.

Posted by: davidt at May 15, 2025 09:40 AM (i0F8b)

52 Painting by Helen Frankengarbage.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 15, 2025 09:40 AM (cYBz/)

53 I don't get it.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 15, 2025 09:41 AM (NpAcC)

54 The fact that this "painting" was presumably sold for more than $2 at a Goodwill furthers the theory that most modern art is really just cover for a money laundering scheme. Sorta like publishing companies paying millions to politicians for autobiographies that nobody buys or reads.

Posted by: PabloD at May 15, 2025 09:41 AM (BlEzJ)

55 My Eros has never been so limp.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 15, 2025 09:41 AM (Aqu9a)

56 The only good thing about “art” like this is that when future generations toss all of it into a landfill, no one will cry about what a terrible loss it was.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2025 09:41 AM (WqXpZ)

57 Shit on a half-shell...not art.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at May 15, 2025 09:42 AM (VJc7E)

58 Some years ago I took art classes at a community college. Had an art appreciation class. Shite like this is why I had to walk away from the art world.

Pure unadulterated crap. I hate it.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 15, 2025 09:42 AM (PSEDc)

59 "Frankenthaler" might work well in a limerick.

Posted by: Hint, hint at May 15, 2025 09:42 AM (o1Z0q)

60 That looks like an exploded tin of sardines.

Eros? Just a bit outside- Late, great Bob Uecker

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at May 15, 2025 09:42 AM (GFxqL)

61 What in the wide wide world of sports am
I looking at?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 15, 2025 09:42 AM (GYlcL)

62 Eros
Helen Frankenthaler

Hmm. I'll come back when she's finished.

Posted by: t-bird at May 15, 2025 09:43 AM (IxaHo)

63 Like clockwork. After a treat yesterday, we get a punishment today.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell

Yeah, but even CBD doesn't like this one. He's using it to point out the fatuousness of much modern "art."

So we can presumably bitch about it, too, without being directed to visit the Hot Air Art Thread.

Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2025 09:43 AM (77rzZ)

64 Oh, for pete's sake.

Was just reading some Thomas Wolfe essays on modern art, lol.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 15, 2025 09:43 AM (F/B4x)

65 Eros ? He should sue...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 15, 2025 09:43 AM (VE6XX)

66 *studies painting*

Shouts, "Puttin' on the ritz!"

Posted by: Frankenthalers's Eros Monster at May 15, 2025 09:43 AM (Aqu9a)

67 I could see this in the lobby of some overpriced IP firm in a high-rise decorated with a lot of glass and marble.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 15, 2025 09:43 AM (dDmld)

68 It's no Rothko...

Posted by: Heavy Meta at May 15, 2025 09:44 AM (NgqoH)

69 Compared to a 1600 painting this person has no talent

Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2025 09:44 AM (ypFCm)

70 What is that on the right? A purple ice cube?

Posted by: dantesed at May 15, 2025 09:44 AM (Oy/m2)

71 67 I could see this in the lobby of some overpriced IP firm in a high-rise decorated with a lot of glass and marble.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 15, 2025 09:43 AM (dDmld)

I could see it in the dumpster behind it...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 15, 2025 09:44 AM (VE6XX)

72 It’s melted Orange Man. Can’t you recognize the blurred out Nazi emblem on left?

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2025 09:45 AM (mT+6a)

73
I could see it in the dumpster behind it...
Posted by: It's me donna at May 15, 2025 09:44 AM (VE6XX)

-------

Heh

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 15, 2025 09:45 AM (PMtkd)

74

Peter Bootygig's rectosigmoid flexure at the end of Pride Week!

Posted by: Damn... at May 15, 2025 09:46 AM (fNYyk)

75 I would hang this in the furnace.

Posted by: dantesed at May 15, 2025 09:46 AM (Oy/m2)

76 I could see it in the dumpster behind it...
Posted by: It's me donna

If someone had thrown it away in the trash, no one would stop to retrieve it.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 15, 2025 09:47 AM (cYBz/)

77 The kind of art that pretentious snobs can fawn over and pretend to understand while the uncouth cannot grasp it.

Posted by: davidt at May 15, 2025 09:47 AM (i0F8b)

78 Krag! What kind of animal dis is? We no need to hunt dis! Looks disgusting! Paint yummy aurochs instead!

-- Prehistoric French caveman artist supervisor

Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2025 09:47 AM (77rzZ)

79 I'm not a big fan of Abstract Expressionism.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2025 09:47 AM (nFq4j)

80 Is there a difference between abstract expressionism and piece of crap? Apparently not. And that art 'critics' think this amorphous and pretentious shit is worthy of praise is a sign of the decline of Western civilization.

Not that I have an opinion on the matter.

Posted by: JTB at May 15, 2025 09:47 AM (yTvNw)

81 I could see it in the dumpster behind it...
Posted by: It's me donna at May 15, 2025 09:44 AM (VE6XX)

I could see it ON the dumpster.

Posted by: ... at May 15, 2025 09:47 AM (af7+R)

82 Tool - Prison Sex

"I get some kind of temporary sanity.......with shit blood and cum on my hands."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2025 09:47 AM (7Q7Ca)

83 I'm not a big fan of Abstract Expressionism.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2025 09:47 AM (nFq4j)

You are one of the most abstract expressionists here.

No I take that back you are usually quite literal.

Posted by: ... at May 15, 2025 09:48 AM (af7+R)

84 Why does "Sweetdick Honeycum" pop into the forefront.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2025 09:48 AM (7Q7Ca)

85 This is the kind of painting you see on Antiques Roadshow, where some person finds it next to a dumpster, or gets it for $3 at a garage sale because they like the colors, and after decades of their family mocking them, they discover it's actually worth something.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 15, 2025 09:48 AM (F/B4x)

86 Milk milk lemonade, turn the corner fudge is made

Posted by: manerac at May 15, 2025 09:48 AM (zD0fm)

87 If any painting ever deserved a Queensryche lyric...

Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2025 09:49 AM (77rzZ)

88 77 The kind of art that pretentious snobs can fawn over and pretend to understand while the uncouth cannot grasp it.
Posted by: davidt at May 15, 2025 09:47 AM (i0F8b)

------

You do know that's all fake bullshit.

I think they've pulled pranks on these idiots, and they were fawning over garbage made by 12 year olds.

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 15, 2025 09:49 AM (PMtkd)

89 Ok.

No thanks.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 15, 2025 09:49 AM (ipfbj)

90 Amazing how you can type in perfectly suitable words and spellcheck will "fix" them to something you never intended, but when you shift midstream from typing "bologna" to "baloney," it won't stop you.

That's some first-class boloney right there.

Posted by: red speck at May 15, 2025 09:50 AM (0Id0S)

91 No matter how deep and complex the supposed meaning is, if the work is junk, what's the point?

***********

What's the Point? - a limerick

On the Left, be it trannies or "warmies"
Or radical artist "free-formies"
I think that you'll find
They have one goal in mind
And that would be "Shocking the Normies"

Posted by: muldoon at May 15, 2025 09:50 AM (HOX+I)

92 I can crank out like eight of these by lunch time.

Posted by: Helen Frankenthaler at May 15, 2025 09:50 AM (dDmld)

93 That looks like a previously-deployed orange and white parachute stuffed into a duffel bag with a rouge compact with melted contents. And a scrap of 1x8 board.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at May 15, 2025 09:51 AM (rF2iL)

94 Is this one of Hunter's shit paintings?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2025 09:51 AM (7Q7Ca)

95 well, art is supposed to bring people together, right?
How much more can the Horde be *together* in opinion than here on this piece of . . . art?
So there's that.

We all agree, this is no good. Bad. Not art.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at May 15, 2025 09:51 AM (Eo96p)

96 An Ace shelving project.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 15, 2025 09:51 AM (UBKzV)

97 muldoon, is there a med code for that painting ??

Posted by: runner at May 15, 2025 09:51 AM (g47mK)

98 I can crank out like eight of these by lunch time.
Posted by: Helen Frankenthaler

But can you do an entire apartment in an afternoon, two coats?

Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2025 09:51 AM (77rzZ)

99 Muldoon, you are a treasure.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at May 15, 2025 09:52 AM (rF2iL)

100 There once was an Helen Frankenthaler.
Who sold all her poo for five dollars.
The art whirled was stoned,
My senses were boned.
She must have been schtuping her father.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at May 15, 2025 09:52 AM (VJc7E)

101 21 Nice but it would make more of a statement if she duct taped a banana to it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 15, 2025 09:35 AM (dDmld)
----
Is that depicting Eros' erection?

Posted by: Ciampino - someone spilt the paint at May 15, 2025 09:52 AM (sPQoU)

102 “First you do everything possible to make sure your world is antibourgeois, that it defies bourgeois tastes, that it mystifies the mob, the public, that it outdistances the insensible middle-class multitudes by light-years of subtlety and intellect—and then, having succeeded admirably, you ask with a sense of See-what-I-mean? outrage: look, they don’t even buy our products! (Usually referred to as “quality art.””
― Tom Wolfe, The Painted Word

Posted by: Lizzy at May 15, 2025 09:52 AM (F/B4x)

103 Biohazard.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2025 09:52 AM (7Q7Ca)

104 Amazing how you can type in perfectly suitable words and spellcheck will "fix" them to something you never intended, but when you shift midstream from typing "bologna" to "baloney," it won't stop you.

That's some first-class boloney right there.
Posted by: red speck at May 15, 2025 09:50 AM (0Id0S)

Appreciate the word change. We know our bologna.

Posted by: Oscar Mayer's corporate lawyers at May 15, 2025 09:52 AM (Aqu9a)

105 Well, there is a vajayjay at the bottom, so theres that.

Posted by: Charlie Choo Choo at May 15, 2025 09:53 AM (3yhuy)

106 But as far as her paintings go, this is one of the better ones, IMO:

https://tinyurl.com/3js9kwnm

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2025 09:53 AM (nFq4j)

107 That looks like a previously-deployed orange and white parachute stuffed into a duffel bag with a rouge compact with melted contents. And a scrap of 1x8 board.
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at May 15, 2025 09:51 AM (rF2iL)

Very interesting.

Posted by: Hermann Rorshach at May 15, 2025 09:54 AM (af7+R)

108 The Metropolitan Museum of Art

https://www.metmuseum.org › art ›
collection › search › 486582

Title: Eros
Artist: Helen Frankenthaler (American, New York 1928–2011 Darien, Connecticut)

You know, no shame applies to Ole Helly here. If a-holes would pay me good money to paint crap like that, I'd paint crap like that.

The same here is on the Met for displaying this childish crap.

I pretty much believe that most of American culture post-WWII was just one big log-rolling club out of NYC.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2025 09:54 AM (iJfKG)

109 While touring the Columbus Museum of Art, there was a display which was nothing more than a pile of used wooden pallets.

Literally garbage.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 15, 2025 09:54 AM (cYBz/)

110 I remember this. The paint mixing table in the body shop I worked at.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 15, 2025 09:54 AM (snZF9)

111

It would be dramatically improved with a banana duct taped on top of it...

Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at May 15, 2025 09:54 AM (fNYyk)

112 I like abstract art when it forms a pleasing geometric pattern. I don’t look for meaning in paint splotches. CBD is dead on referring to this as gobbledygook. Generally speaking, I much prefer art that portrays a recognizable picture. Changing media, but when the Pieta was featured here, I found it deeply moving, even as just a photo. But it displayed something real, not just blobs and lines.

Posted by: Advo at May 15, 2025 09:54 AM (jO4mz)

113 But as far as her paintings go, this is one of the better ones, IMO:

https://tinyurl.com/3js9kwnm
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Uh, no.

I guess it's less visually offensive than the one above, but that's a very low bar.

Still no.

Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

114 This is my shocked face.

🥱

Posted by: muldoon at May 15, 2025 09:55 AM (HOX+I)

115 Helen Frakenthaler, The Pride of Darien Connecticut

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 15, 2025 09:55 AM (dDmld)

116 Yes, Helen Frankenthaler was the critics’ darling for a moment in time. I like most of her work.

Posted by: kallisto at May 15, 2025 09:55 AM (W33rP)

117 Hunter just smirks.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2025 09:55 AM (Q4IgG)

118 Cranberries, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes.

Plate scrapings following a Thanksgiving Dinner.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 15, 2025 09:55 AM (Aqu9a)

119 If any painting ever deserved a Queensryche lyric...

Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2025 09:49 AM (77rzZ)

Yeah... The Needle Lies.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 15, 2025 09:56 AM (snZF9)

120 This painting only represents "Eros" if you're an Admiral Ackbar "girl."

Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2025 09:56 AM (77rzZ)

121 Degenerate art.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2025 09:56 AM (RIvkX)

122 The....*art?*...

That purplish square looks like a smudged lipstick kiss.
There's a face at the bottom, looking up.
Eros being all about sex and desire, I suppose one could consider this a "portrait" of sorts, a depiction of desire.
That would explain the "kiss" and the face.
That curved, folded edge could be explained by any bodice ripping romance novel which always have a line such as "the sharp edge of desire soften, curling through her blood and body as she arched toward his heat."

Verdict...
It's fucking ugly.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 15, 2025 09:56 AM (2J/Lj)

123 Thought is was a open can of sardines that someone was eating after doing some LSD.

Posted by: Gdub at May 15, 2025 09:56 AM (4Corw)

124 Degenerate art.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2025 09:56 AM (RIvkX)

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You know who had a Gallery of Degenerate Art?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 15, 2025 09:57 AM (dDmld)

125 Cranberries, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes.

~~Plate scrapings~~ shart following a Thanksgiving Dinner.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Fixed for accuracy.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 15, 2025 09:57 AM (QXOBW)

126 Helen Frakenthaler, The Pride of Darien
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

Tooth gap or thigh gap?

Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2025 09:57 AM (77rzZ)

127 Needs more implied pubic hair.

Posted by: Georgia O'Keefe at May 15, 2025 09:58 AM (o1Z0q)

128 Merde

Posted by: Nicolas Poussin at May 15, 2025 09:58 AM (dDmld)

129 Meh.

I do find it more interesting than the boring landscape paintings we see everywhere all the time. At least this one is open to interpretation. I would spend more time with it than any Kincade painting.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2025 09:59 AM (dwJ0J)

130 You know who had a Gallery of Degenerate Art?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 15, 2025 09:57 AM (dDmld)
=====

Cooper-Hewitt?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2025 09:59 AM (RIvkX)

131 >>While touring the Columbus Museum of Art, there was a display which was nothing more than a pile of used wooden pallets.

Literally garbage.

Heh, at Mass MOCA we saw an installation that consisted of recyclable shopping bags filled with dirt and living wildflowers. They just dug up some poor meadow, placed the plants in these bags, and put them in the room - voila! ART

Posted by: Lizzy at May 15, 2025 10:00 AM (F/B4x)

132 70 What is that on the right? A purple ice cube?

Posted by: dantesed at May 15, 2025 09:44 AM (Oy/m2)
----
"There's a bathroom on the right"

Hey, that's OUR line.

Posted by: CCR at May 15, 2025 10:00 AM (sPQoU)

133 >> You know who had a Gallery of Degenerate Art?

John Podesta's brother

Posted by: Lizzy at May 15, 2025 10:00 AM (F/B4x)

134 Looks like a fat person sat on the artist's palette.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 15, 2025 10:01 AM (W5ArC)

135 Looks like something you would see in a car body shop.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 15, 2025 10:02 AM (n17eQ)

136 I've seen old spray paint booths and drop cloths with more artistic merit.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 15, 2025 10:03 AM (W5ArC)

137 Hitler painted better than this.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 15, 2025 10:03 AM (n17eQ)

138 That painting? Artist's impression of the remains of the person in the car, after car compression in a scrapyard.

Posted by: Ciampino - Cosa Nostra of NJ at May 15, 2025 10:03 AM (sPQoU)

139 Muldoon, you are a treasure.
Posted by: Emmie

************

That's what Mom said when I was born.

Dad said, "Yeah, let's bury it 10 paces east of that oak tree!"

Quite the wag, my dad!

Posted by: muldoon at May 15, 2025 10:04 AM (HOX+I)

140 What is the thing I’m supposed to be outraged about today?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 15, 2025 10:04 AM (GYlcL)

141 🤣🤣🤣 This is definitely something. We have to see bad to know good?

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 15, 2025 10:04 AM (PcTds)

142 I just had to get far enough away from that painting before I ate my cream-of-wheat with peanut butter. A guy can only stand so much, right Hrothgar?

Posted by: Eromero at May 15, 2025 10:04 AM (LHPAg)

143 Needs more implied pubic hair.
Posted by: Georgia O'Keefe

We need common sense pubic hair control!!

Posted by: Tonypete at May 15, 2025 10:05 AM (cYBz/)

144 Crusty jazz rag?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 15, 2025 10:05 AM (tXZnU)

145 That's what Mom said when I was born.

Dad said, "Yeah, let's bury it 10 paces east of that oak tree!"

Quite the wag, my dad!
Posted by: muldoon
-----------------------

I'll allow it

Posted by: Zombie Rodney Dangerfield at May 15, 2025 10:06 AM (5hfjS)

146 I like the color palette she uses here. I would need to see it IRL to deliver final verdict though.

I think people are getting hung up on the word she used for title. Sometimes an artist srtarts with the title, and paints what they think matches it. Sometimes they complete a work, take a step back, and ask themselves: ‘what am I going to call this thing?’
A word pops into their head and that’s what they roll with.
Sometimes they are just messing with you.

Posted by: kallisto at May 15, 2025 10:06 AM (Gp8EK)

147 An IUD with a blanked out element square?

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 15, 2025 10:06 AM (PcTds)

148 Oh, honey...that's just not how it's done.

Posted by: Georgia O'Keefe at May 15, 2025 10:07 AM (kgE5c)

149 140 What is the thing I’m supposed to be outraged about today?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 15, 2025 10:04 AM

Let's go with Qatar Airlines objectification of women by only hiring petite comely ones and dressing them in sharp maroon outfits with snazzy little hats.

Posted by: The Internet at May 15, 2025 10:07 AM (o1Z0q)

150 Alternate title: The World as Viewed by a Dental Hygienist

(If we are trying to make it representational.)

Posted by: muldoon at May 15, 2025 10:07 AM (HOX+I)

151 sore.

Posted by: cmeat at May 15, 2025 10:08 AM (8HmRF)

152 Eros
Helen Frankenthaler

I looked thru her wikiart library of 142 titles. I can see that she is very meticulous about cleaning her brushes and scraping her palette. That means there HAVE to be paintings hidden in her studio somewhere, right?

Posted by: t-bird at May 15, 2025 10:08 AM (n9MHj)

153 From the Bee:

U.S. - Now that the country has celebrated bleeding birthing people of all genders on Birthing Person's Day, families are gearing up for Lawnmowing Person's Day.

"Ah, I love lawnmowing person's day," said Dale Polski, a local family lawnmowing person who identifies as male. "It's a great day to put some meat on the grill, open this year's pair of new socks, and enjoy a nap."

Posted by: rickb223 at May 15, 2025 10:08 AM (QXOBW)

154 Posted by: kallisto at May 15, 2025 10:06 AM (Gp8EK

I didn't actually see the title till after I looked at the picture.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2025 10:08 AM (P5l/0)

155 The World as Viewed by a Dental Hygienist

*********

"Nice palate!"

/art critic, stroking his chin.

Posted by: muldoon at May 15, 2025 10:09 AM (HOX+I)

156 143 Needs more implied pubic hair.
Posted by: Georgia O'Keefe

We need common sense pubic hair control!!

++++

Trimming once a month ought to be enough for anybody.

Posted by: Your neighborhood Karen at May 15, 2025 10:09 AM (o1Z0q)

157 143 Needs more implied pubic hair.
Posted by: Georgia O'Keefe

We need common sense pubic hair control!!

Posted by: Tonypete at May 15, 2025 10:05 AM (cYBz/)
----
Does it apply to Rastafarian pubic hair?

Posted by: Ciampino - Island in the Sun at May 15, 2025 10:09 AM (sPQoU)

158 King Harv’s ads are starting to look like AI fever dreams

Posted by: kallisto at May 15, 2025 10:09 AM (Gp8EK)

159 No, just no. Ugly.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 15, 2025 10:09 AM (2NHgQ)

160 The art looks like a bad putty job on a car door.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 15, 2025 10:09 AM (jbnUc)

161 Chad Pergram@ChadPergram
Schumer says what the Members were doing in Newark was “peaceful protest”

-
It was a mostly peaceful invasion and riot.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now For a Limited Time Only! at May 15, 2025 10:09 AM (L/fGl)

162 Walmart is playing a neat trick right now. It’s saying the tArIFFs are about to create price increases. Sont blame us blame the OrangeMan.

Oddly enough I predict record quarterly profits for Walmart for the rest of 2025.

The gop will of course reward this behavior with a $20M tax cut for the CEO.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 15, 2025 10:10 AM (GYlcL)

163 160
Did I guess right?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 15, 2025 10:10 AM (jbnUc)

164 My 3 yr old grandson does better work.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 15, 2025 10:11 AM (t/2Uw)

165 147 An IUD with a blanked out element square?
___

Ah, it's the no-no square. Now it's starting to make sense.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2025 10:11 AM (Dv3i1)

166 I read it as the aftermath of Planned Parenthood, once they've taken the profitable parts away for sale.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 15, 2025 10:11 AM (2ocoG)

167

Frankenthaler was dyslexic: Eros backwards = SORE

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 15, 2025 10:12 AM (x0n13)

168 166 I read it as the aftermath of Planned Parenthood, once they've taken the profitable parts away for sale.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 15, 2025 10:11 AM (2ocoG)

Aftermath or afterbirth . . . Now I am going to hell.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 15, 2025 10:12 AM (x0n13)

169 I'm not a fan of Kincaid - too sweet, if you know what I mean - but I would take a Kincaid over this.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 15, 2025 10:12 AM (PcTds)

170 This is the Emperor's New Clothes of the art world

Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2025 10:12 AM (ypFCm)

171 Frankenthaler was dyslexic: Eros backwards = SORE
--------------
Its best to include a lubricant.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 15, 2025 10:12 AM (n17eQ)

172 My 3 yr old grandson does better work.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 15, 2025 10:11 AM (t/2Uw

My six week old grandson could puke up or poop out something better than this!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 15, 2025 10:13 AM (2J/Lj)

173 Walmart is playing a neat trick right now. It’s saying the tArIFFs are about to create price increases. Sont blame us blame the OrangeMan.

Yeah, there are a lot of companies claiming tariff price increases but the actual increases are far beyond the amount specified by the actual tariffs. Real price gouging, but the usual people who scream about that are silent.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 15, 2025 10:13 AM (2ocoG)

174 167
‘Frankenthaler was dyslexic: Eros backwards = SORE’

Just like the DaVinci code!

Ok. My PC’s updated. Back to work.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 15, 2025 10:13 AM (jbnUc)

175 Former NY Gov Cuomo Ahead In NYC Mayoral Race by Double Digits

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Mom always said stupid is as stupid does.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now For a Limited Time Only! at May 15, 2025 10:13 AM (L/fGl)

176
Let's go with Qatar Airlines objectification of women by only hiring petite comely ones and dressing them in sharp maroon outfits with snazzy little hats.
Posted by: The Internet at May 15, 2025 10:07 AM (o1Z0q)

This past Christmas vacation I had a flight attendant on Delta that was absolutely gorgeous. Asian chick, body, the face, the smile, the works. And I thought wtf are you doing here? You’re way too hot for this job.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 15, 2025 10:13 AM (GYlcL)

177 You know I have to say I’m pretty satisfied with Trump and his people so far. And I haven’t been able to say that about a President in years and years. Thanks be to The Lord.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 15, 2025 10:15 AM (kzHlT)

178 Those who can't do, do this.

Posted by: Don Black at May 15, 2025 10:15 AM (AOsQT)

179 175 Former NY Gov Cuomo Ahead In NYC Mayoral Race by Double Digits
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Well, he has pierced nipples. Big crowd pleaser.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 15, 2025 10:15 AM (n17eQ)

180 173 Walmart is playing a neat trick right now. It’s saying the tArIFFs are about to create price increases. Sont blame us blame the OrangeMan.

Yeah, there are a lot of companies claiming tariff price increases but the actual increases are far beyond the amount specified by the actual tariffs. Real price gouging, but the usual people who scream about that are silent.
Posted by: Ian S.
_____

Ok Walmart, show me your wares of US made stuff, there should be no price increases on these.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2025 10:16 AM (Dv3i1)

181 120 This painting only represents "Eros" if you're an Admiral Ackbar "girl."
Posted by: Bulg

I'd hit it.

Or, more likely, make a similar piece of "art" by passionately making love to Lena Dunham and Stacey Abrams on a large canvas drop cloth covered in edible paint.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 15, 2025 10:16 AM (JCZqz)

182 This past Christmas vacation I had a flight attendant on Delta that was absolutely gorgeous. Asian chick, body, the face, the smile, the works. And I thought wtf are you doing here? You’re way too hot for this job.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

She was flying Mrs. Airlines.
Looking for Mr. Pilot.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 15, 2025 10:16 AM (QXOBW)

183 Lol...forgot to change to the Ackbar nic lol

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 15, 2025 10:17 AM (JCZqz)

184 177 You know I have to say I’m pretty satisfied with Trump and his people so far. And I haven’t been able to say that about a President in years and years. Thanks be to The Lord.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 15, 2025 10:15 AM (kzHlT)

Trump definitely learned lessons on who to hire from the first time. There are a couple of meh selections like Bondi. But Bondi is still 1000X better than Sessions.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 15, 2025 10:17 AM (GYlcL)

185 I really don't understand "modern "art. Sometimes I understand the technical aspect. How it took talent to produce the piece. I just don't understand why anyone actually likes it and plays money for it.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 15, 2025 10:17 AM (t/2Uw)

186 If someone had thrown it away in the trash, no one would stop to retrieve it.

****
Unless they wanted a free canvas to paint on.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 15, 2025 10:18 AM (PcTds)

187 She was flying Mrs. Airlines.
Looking for Mr. Pilot.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 15, 2025 10:16 AM (QXOBW)

1977 called and wants its memes back. 😀

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 15, 2025 10:18 AM (GYlcL)

188 Long ago I lived back East, and one day found myself at a modern art museum in downtown Wash DC.

There was an art display that consisted of a stack of pies. A tower of porcelain pies.

Posted by: Don Black at May 15, 2025 10:18 AM (AOsQT)

189 Ok Walmart, show me your wares of US made stuff, there should be no price increases on these.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

I'm so old, I remember when almost everything in WM had a Made in America flag by its price label. Back when old Sam Walton was still alive.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 15, 2025 10:18 AM (QXOBW)

190 161 Chad Pergram@ChadPergram
Schumer says what the Members were doing in Newark was “peaceful protest”

J6ers have entered the chat.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 15, 2025 10:18 AM (N39Ws)

191 This is a perfect example. How did this piece of dreck end up in a prestigious museum?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 15, 2025 10:19 AM (t/2Uw)

192 30 HONEY, THE DAMN CAT PUKED ON THE CARPET AGAIN
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 15, 2025 09:37 AM (dDmld)

Hearing it is one thing. Stepping in it barefoot is an entirely different ordeal.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 15, 2025 10:19 AM (N39Ws)

193 I'm so old, I remember when almost everything in WM had a Made in America flag by its price label. Back when old Sam Walton was still alive.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 15, 2025 10:18 AM (QXOBW)

For a while their marketing campaign was Made in the USA. That was not THAT long ago.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 15, 2025 10:20 AM (GYlcL)

194 I'm still going to say thanks for the art thread CBD 😊

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 15, 2025 10:20 AM (PcTds)

195 Schumer says what the Members were doing in Newark was “peaceful protest”
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Odd, if you do anything like peaceful protest around Schumer's office its off to Pelosi Prison with you.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 15, 2025 10:20 AM (n17eQ)

196

Happy Birthday, to me. Smash gave me Nordic war hammer. It has a nice pointy spike and a four knobbed hammer head on an 18" hardwood handle sheathed with stainless steel straps. I asked where she got it and she said she went to Kult of Athena which is where I got my 1865 Cavalry Saber.

Me likey.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at May 15, 2025 10:20 AM (MsrgL)

197 Schumer says what the Members were doing in Newark was “peaceful protest”

Show him the bodycam footage and demand an explanation.

"Is everything gaslighting with you?!?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2025 10:21 AM (Zz0t1)

198 Posted by: BifBewalski - at May 15, 2025 10:20 AM (MsrgL)

Happy Birthday! What's it like to share one with JJ?

Oh wait.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2025 10:21 AM (Zz0t1)

199 The tin of sardines packed in tomato sauce finally exploded after being left in the hot sun for a week?

Posted by: haffhowershower at May 15, 2025 10:22 AM (144I4)

200 Hard to bitch about the art selection after being assaulted with Nekkid Lardass on Ottoman.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 15, 2025 10:22 AM (kzHlT)

201 Schumer says what the Members were doing in Newark was “peaceful protest

Schumer says a lot of stupid things. He's trying to save his job.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2025 10:23 AM (s8j++)

202 Jon Voight, Hollywood Studios and Unions Pen Letter to Donald Trump Calling for Expanded Incentives to Save Hollywood

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Saving Hollywood ranks below McRib availability on my priority list.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now For a Limited Time Only! at May 15, 2025 10:23 AM (L/fGl)

203 178 Those who can't do, do this.

Posted by: Don Black at May 15, 2025 10:15 AM (AOsQT)
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Those who can't, doodoo this.

Posted by: Ciampino - put the lime at May 15, 2025 10:23 AM (sPQoU)

204 Former NY Gov Cuomo Ahead In NYC Mayoral Race by Double Digits

NY'ers are perpetually stupid, it seems.

He straight up murdered old people with his disastrous decisions, yet HE'LL BE A GREAT MAYOR!!!!.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2025 10:24 AM (Zz0t1)

205 The Left can't meme, real world, part #934.

The DNC trolled President Donald Trump by flying a banner that read “Welcome to Qatar-a-Lago” over Mar-a-Lago Wednesday. DNC Chair Ken Martin said that Trump is “using the presidency to personally enrich himself while he bankrupts working families...His corruption is a slap in the face to the millions of Americans who are struggling to get by and put food on the table,”

He added: “Today, the DNC is highlighting what foreign autocracies around the world already know: Trump has no loyalty to the American people, national security, or the Constitution – his only allegiance is to his bank account and his billionaire buddies.”

Even Ted Cruz, usually a staunch supporter of Trump, joined a number of his Republican colleagues in expressing concern. It just dawned on him that he's Canadian-born, with a Hispanic name, making him more likely to wind up in an El Salvador gulag than most.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 15, 2025 10:25 AM (JCZqz)

206 189 Ok Walmart, show me your wares of US made stuff, there should be no price increases on these.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

I'm so old, I remember when almost everything in WM had a Made in America flag by its price label. Back when old Sam Walton was still alive.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 15, 2025 10:18 AM (QXOBW)
Me too on that one, old man Sam was an American. I can’t say much for his heirs.

Posted by: Eromero at May 15, 2025 10:25 AM (LHPAg)

207 113 But as far as her paintings go, this is one of the better ones, IMO:

https://tinyurl.com/3js9kwnm
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Uh, no.

I guess it's less visually offensive than the one above, but that's a very low bar.

Still no.
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

Seriously, my daughter did stuff like that at age 3.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2025 10:25 AM (uWKK8)

208 I still think it looks like some weird sea creature. You know, one of those super-ugly things that live way down in the darkness of the deep.

Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2025 10:26 AM (77rzZ)

209 Frankenthaler was dyslexic: Eros backwards = SORE

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 15, 2025 10:12 AM

That's it...Sefton broke the code. We're done here.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 15, 2025 10:27 AM (kgE5c)

210 Looks like my luggage after a trip to DisneyWorld

Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2025 10:27 AM (RHGPo)

211 Happy Birthday 🎂 BifBewalsk

Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2025 10:27 AM (ypFCm)

212 Seriously, my daughter did stuff like that at age 3.
Posted by: Tom Servo

My son was a great drawer when he was a kid. His stuff was way better than this.

Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2025 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

213 Nope.
I’m leaving.
I’ll be back yesterday.

Posted by: RI Red at May 15, 2025 10:28 AM (HHYLs)

214 I still think it looks like some weird sea creature. You know, one of those super-ugly things that live way down in the darkness of the deep.

Sponge Bob?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2025 10:28 AM (s8j++)

215 CBD, I randomly had a video pop up in my YouTube feed called "This Might Just Be The Most Remarkable Painting Ever Made", and it wasn't some modern dreck, but didn't look like something I'd seen in a morning Art thread before. Maybe I just don't remember it, because it didn't seem that remarkable to me, but thought I'd share.

https://tinyurl.com/4bh6cffr

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 15, 2025 10:29 AM (JCZqz)

216 196

Happy Birthday, to me. Smash gave me Nordic war hammer. It has a nice pointy spike and a four knobbed hammer head on an 18" hardwood handle sheathed with stainless steel straps. I asked where she got it and she said she went to Kult of Athena which is where I got my 1865 Cavalry Saber.

Me likey.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at May 15, 2025 10:20 AM (MsrgL)
Stay away from Yellow Tavern.

Posted by: Eromero at May 15, 2025 10:29 AM (LHPAg)

217 Me likey.
Posted by: BifBewalski

***********

Did it include a concealed carry holster?

Posted by: muldoon at May 15, 2025 10:29 AM (HOX+I)

218 You hate the painting yet you post it.

Dogs Playing Poker next!!!

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Th33 at May 15, 2025 10:30 AM (LJ3iK)

219 Frankenthaler was dyslexic: Eros backwards = SORE

Posted by: J.J. Sefton

SSA Eros.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 15, 2025 10:30 AM (QXOBW)

220 You hate the painting yet you post it.

Dogs Playing Poker next!!!
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Th33 at May 15, 2025 10:30 AM (LJ3iK)

Misery loves company.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2025 10:30 AM (Zz0t1)

221 Foot Locker shares erupted in premarket trading Thursday after The Wall Street Journal reported that Dick's Sporting Goods has agreed to acquire the struggling sneaker retailer for $2.4 billion, offering $24 per share in cash or stock—a nearly 90% premium to Foot Locker's pre-announcement price. Shareholders will have the option to receive either cash or 0.1168 shares of Dick's common stock for each Foot Locker share they own.

Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2025 10:31 AM (RHGPo)

222 Frankenthaler was dyslexic: Eros backwards = SORE

Posted by: J.J. Sefton

You get used to it.

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at May 15, 2025 10:31 AM (Zz0t1)

223 733 moves to win
Spider solitaire is evil

Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2025 10:31 AM (ypFCm)

224 BifBewalski - at May 15, 2025 10:20 AM (MsrgL

Happy Birthday and God bless you. I don’t really know what a Nordic War Hammer unless it’s like those things people through in Olympic Games , but I’m glad you enjoyed her gift.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2025 10:31 AM (b3nj2)

225 From your lips to God's ears.

MAGA-Supporting Brother Says New Pope Not Woke

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now For a Limited Time Only! at May 15, 2025 10:32 AM (L/fGl)

226 Germany Wind Power Firms Face Millions In Losses As Wind Speed Drops To 50-Year Low

Germany's wind lull is slamming electricity production

Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2025 10:32 AM (RHGPo)

227 This is not promising. I had hopes that Youngkin would provide a strong challenge to Vance. It would have sharpened both of them, and that I might avoid another Dem reign of terror in the Old Dominion. Abigail Spanberger is the worst.

https://is.gd/zpuU98

Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2025 10:33 AM (s8j++)

228 Dow jones down 160.
Everyone light your hair on fire….. now.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 15, 2025 10:33 AM (GYlcL)

229 224- throw not through.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2025 10:33 AM (b3nj2)

230 Abigail Spanberger is the worst.
---------------
She is Deep State. See Sen Tim Caine for the details.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 15, 2025 10:34 AM (n17eQ)

231
This looks like something Hunter Biden would have done.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2025 09:39 AM (WqXpZ)

Yup. And something he would have painted, too.

Posted by: Hermann Rorshach at May 15, 2025 10:34 AM (af7+R)

232 Germany Wind Power Firms Face Millions In Losses As Wind Speed Drops To 50-Year Low

Germany's wind lull is slamming electricity production
Posted by: SMOD

You'd have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Bwahahahahahahaha!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 15, 2025 10:34 AM (QXOBW)

233 I've seen better art hanging in cheap motels.

Whoever thinks this is 'serious' or 'important' art is a complete paste-eating moron who probably likes carrots in their chili.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at May 15, 2025 10:34 AM (5yPwX)

234
I don't much care for abstract art myself, but this Purple Drank shooter with an oyster in it looks appealing.

Posted by: Auspex at May 15, 2025 10:35 AM (j4U/Z)

235 Robert De Niro Slams Trump In Cannes Honorary Palme d’Or Speech: “We Are Fighting Like Hell For The Democracy We Once Took For Granted”

Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2025 10:35 AM (RHGPo)

236 206 189 Ok Walmart, show me your wares of US made stuff, there should be no price increases on these.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

Americans, and the governments they elect, DJT notwithstanding, are extremely hostile to business, and wish to punish business with excessive regulation and taxes on the state and local level. These are costs that factor into production and are passed on to the consumer.

And you say there should be no price increases on American made goods. There will be. And the Bucks of this world will insist you MUST pay them with a big smile on your face as your patriotic duty.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Th33 at May 15, 2025 10:35 AM (LJ3iK)

237 Robert De Niro Slams Trump In Cannes Honorary Palme d’Or Speech: “We Are Fighting Like Hell For The Democracy We Once Took For Granted”
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2025 10:35 AM (RHGPo)

We're a constitutional republic you stupid f*ck.

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at May 15, 2025 10:36 AM (Zz0t1)

238 235 Robert De Niro Slams Trump In Cannes Honorary Palme d’Or Speech: “We Are Fighting Like Hell For The Democracy We Once Took For Granted”
----------------
Who will rid me of this demented dwarf?

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 15, 2025 10:36 AM (n17eQ)

239 Robert De Niro Slams Trump In Cannes

Piss off you little garden gnome.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 15, 2025 10:36 AM (QXOBW)

240 235 Robert De Niro Slams Trump In Cannes Honorary Palme d’Or Speech: “We Are Fighting Like Hell For The Democracy We Once Took For Granted”
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2025 10:35 AM (RHGPo)

If he means a democracy like the German Democratic Republic, sure.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Th33 at May 15, 2025 10:36 AM (LJ3iK)

241 @PeterSchiff

Republicans are taking flak from Democrats over fake Medicaid cuts in the Big Beautiful Bill that will likely be repealed before cuts that don't begin until 2029 actually kick in. So if Republicans are going to take heat for cutting Medicaid, they might as well actually cut it.

Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2025 10:37 AM (RHGPo)

242 No sir, I don't like it.

Posted by: Mr. Horse at May 15, 2025 10:37 AM (O7YUW)

243 Virginia is a deep blue state. Youngkin was a fluke, right place at the right time kind of thing. It last voted Republican for president in 2004.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 15, 2025 10:37 AM (GYlcL)

244 227 This is not promising. I had hopes that Youngkin would provide a strong challenge to Vance. It would have sharpened both of them, and that I might avoid another Dem reign of terror in the Old Dominion. Abigail Spanberger is the worst.

https://is.gd/zpuU98
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2025 10:33 AM (s8j++)

Youngkin was never much a R firebrand.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Th33 at May 15, 2025 10:37 AM (LJ3iK)

245 De Niro is why I look at those begging Trump to 'save Hollywood' and say: "Yeah, nah. We're good."

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at May 15, 2025 10:37 AM (Zz0t1)

246 240 235 Robert De Niro Slams Trump In Cannes Honorary Palme d’Or Speech: “We Are Fighting Like Hell For The Democracy We Once Took For Granted”
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2025 10:35 AM (RHGPo)

Fighting like hell for the Tyranny we once took for granted

Posted by: It's me donna at May 15, 2025 10:38 AM (VE6XX)

247 243 Virginia is a deep blue state. Youngkin was a fluke, right place at the right time kind of thing. It last voted Republican for president in 2004.
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Yankee Refugees + Imports = Shithole.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 15, 2025 10:38 AM (n17eQ)

248 Well f*ck.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2025 10:38 AM (Zz0t1)

249 Fuck. Way to ruin a good gag Hermann.

Posted by: ... at May 15, 2025 10:39 AM (af7+R)

250 Omfg they’re playing the pass bill today, increases are immediate, but cuts start in 5 years game again?

The gop is beyond salvation.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 15, 2025 10:39 AM (GYlcL)

251 232 Germany Wind Power Firms Face Millions In Losses As Wind Speed Drops To 50-Year Low

Germany's wind lull is slamming electricity production
Posted by: SMOD

You'd have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Bwahahahahahahaha!
Posted by: rickb223 at May 15, 2025 10:34 AM (QXOBW)

I put money that Germany will be buying power from France. By the way, France gets something like 70% of its power from icky nukes. You know, the icky source of power the Germans dumped?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Th33 at May 15, 2025 10:39 AM (LJ3iK)

252
Republicans are taking flak from Democrats over fake Medicaid cuts in the Big Beautiful Bill that will likely be repealed before cuts that don't begin until 2029 actually kick in

2029 ? Seriously ?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 15, 2025 10:39 AM (VE6XX)

253 South African Government Releases Chilling Statement Regarding Fleeing White Afrikaners

https://is.gd/eORRf9

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Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now For a Limited Time Only! at May 15, 2025 10:39 AM (L/fGl)

254 De Niro is why I look at those begging Trump to 'save Hollywood' and say: "Yeah, nah. We're good."
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The scorpion asked the frog to save him and the frog obliged.

Posted by: ... at May 15, 2025 10:40 AM (af7+R)

255 235 Robert De Niro Slams Trump In Cannes Honorary Palme d’Or Speech: “We Are Fighting Like Hell For The Democracy We Once Took For Granted”
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2025 10:35 AM (RHGPo)
Who cares what idiots say at Golden Pineapple awards.

Posted by: Eromero at May 15, 2025 10:41 AM (LHPAg)

256 253 South African Government Releases Chilling Statement Regarding Fleeing White Afrikaners

https://is.gd/eORRf9

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Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now For a Limited Time Only! at May 15, 2025 10:39 AM (L/fGl)

The (hot) Canadian documentarian Lauren Southern has an awesome documentary on the goings on in the RSA available on YT for free.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Th33 at May 15, 2025 10:42 AM (LJ3iK)

257 BifBewalski - at May 15, 2025 10:20 AM (MsrgL

So no Yankees who are conservatives move somewhere other than their “blue shitholes”?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2025 10:42 AM (b3nj2)

258 Who cares what idiots say at Golden Pineapple awards.
Posted by: Eromero at May 15, 2025 10:41 AM (LHPAg)

De Niro appears to me to be one of those guys that prefer the pear of anguish up his ass rather than a pineapple.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2025 10:42 AM (Zz0t1)

259 Wind Speed Drops To 50-Year Low
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LMAO climate change strikes again!!!

Wait I thought the weather was going to get more violent?

Posted by: ... at May 15, 2025 10:43 AM (af7+R)

260 I've seen better art hanging in cheap motels.

I wasn't looking at the art.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 15, 2025 10:43 AM (QXOBW)

261 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2025 10:42 AM

Sorry, Bif. Mispost. That was for Pudinhead.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2025 10:43 AM (b3nj2)

262 Wait I thought the weather was going to get more violent?
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2025 10:43 AM (af7+R)

Every single climate prediction made by these idiots has been wrong for the past 50 years.

Yet they keep f*cking that chicken.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2025 10:44 AM (Zz0t1)

263 BARNES, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
ESTATE OF BARNES, DECEASED v. FELIX ET AL.

KAGAN, J., delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court. KAVANAUGH,
J., filed a concurring opinion, in which THOMAS, ALITO, and BARRETT, JJ.,
joined

Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2025 10:44 AM (RHGPo)

264 De Niro appears to me to be one of those guys that prefer the pear of anguish up his ass rather than a pineapple.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2025 10:42 AM

The line to administer said pear would be long and distinguished.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 15, 2025 10:45 AM (kgE5c)

265 Even Ted Cruz, usually a staunch supporter of Trump, joined a number of his Republican colleagues in expressing concern
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There's a shock. There's a real Fighter that Ted. I'd love to know what he said, not that I actually care since I know what he is.

Posted by: ... at May 15, 2025 10:45 AM (af7+R)

266 Looks like TX State Rep Ken King (RINO-Canadian) is about to screw over conservatives by not allowing key legislation to go forward as the chairman of the State Affairs Committee.

Dude needs to be primaried in the worst way.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Th33 at May 15, 2025 10:46 AM (LJ3iK)

267 This is our penance for yesterday, isn't it?

Posted by: Farquad at May 15, 2025 10:46 AM (Zc0lW)

268 Germany Wind Power Firms Face Millions In Losses As Wind Speed Drops To 50-Year Low

They can make it up in volume if we send them all of our windmills.

Posted by: t-bird at May 15, 2025 10:46 AM (uREkD)

269 Watching Benny Johnson’s livestream. He talks about Pope’s invitation to warring parties to Vatican to negotiate peace.

Posted by: kallisto at May 15, 2025 10:46 AM (Gp8EK)

270 An "honorary" award? Well that's almost as good as becoming president. Really doing a bang up job DeNo-one.

Posted by: ... at May 15, 2025 10:47 AM (af7+R)

271 A Mexican social media influencer was shot dead during a TikTok livestream, authorities said. Valeria Marquez, 23, who had nearly 200,000 followers on social media, was working at a beauty salon in Zapopan, Jalisco, central Mexico, before the incident on Tuesday. On her TikTok livestream, Marquez was seen seated at a table holding a stuffed toy in front of her. She was heard saying, "They're coming," before a voice off-screen asked, "Hey, Vale?" "Yes," Marquez responded before muting the sound on her livestream. She appeared to be speaking to someone off-camera when she was shot once in the head.

Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2025 10:47 AM (RHGPo)

272 Economy suffers staggering blow!

1,000 Starbucks Baristas Go On Strike – Over New Dress Code

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now For a Limited Time Only! at May 15, 2025 10:47 AM (L/fGl)

273 Lol...forgot to change to the Ackbar nic lol
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 15, 2025 10:17 AM (JCZqz)

Already suspected it.

Posted by: ... at May 15, 2025 10:48 AM (af7+R)

274
1,000 Starbucks Baristas Go On Strike – Over New Dress Code
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now For a Limited Time Only! at May 15, 2025 10:47 AM (L/fGl)

Good. Reap what ye sow, libtards.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2025 10:48 AM (Zz0t1)

275 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now For a Limited Time Only! at May 15, 2025 10:39 AM (L/fGl)

Dry good essay from “RedState” on this. Thanks for it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2025 10:49 AM (b3nj2)

276 1,000 Starbucks Baristas Go On Strike – Over New Dress Code
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now For a Limited Time Only! at May 15, 2025 10:47 AM

Oh, no!

Anyway....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 15, 2025 10:49 AM (kgE5c)

277 Trump signed EO with the intent of reducing federal crimes that could result in jail time. It's an attack on the 'unknowingly commit 3 crimes before breakfast' executive branch in decades of rule making. Bravo.

From insty -

A few bullet points:

What does this do? The most important part is that every agency has 365 days to list out all the regulations that have a criminal penalty and then that report has to be made public.
All future regs have to state criminal offenses clearly. Mens rea is back on the menu! The default will be to require mens rea.
This EO is tremendously important and will have direct, and hopefully immediate, affect on more or less everyone in America. And did you hear anything about it? Anything at all?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2025 10:50 AM (Dv3i1)

278 Watching Benny Johnson’s livestream. He talks about Pope’s invitation to warring parties to Vatican to negotiate peace.
Posted by: kallisto
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Wouldn't one of the orthodox patriarchs be a better choice?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 15, 2025 10:50 AM (UBKzV)

279 Democrat Rep. Summer Lee to Introduce “Reparations Now” Resolution Demanding TRILLIONS from U.S. Taxpayers for Slavery That Ended 160 Years Ago

... there should be reparations for all living (former) slaves, and Social Security too.

Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2025 10:50 AM (RHGPo)

280 The Qataris gifted America a plane that Trump accepted.

And in return, Trump allowed them to invest billions of dollars in America.

Boy, they sure showed him.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 15, 2025 10:50 AM (KbCG3)

281 Benny has good footage of Trump in Saudi Arabia and UAE. They gave him ceremonial welcomes as only they can deliver.
Trump walked through a gauntlet of long haired women swinging their locks to and fro

Posted by: kallisto at May 15, 2025 10:53 AM (Gp8EK)

282 what's the thinking on how SCOTUS feels about universal injunctions from the arguments today?

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at May 15, 2025 10:53 AM (V6W16)

283 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May

Very, not Dry. Gosh, I hate autocorrect.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2025 10:54 AM (8gvb8)

284 [ii]Wouldn't one of the orthodox patriarchs be a better choice?

None seems to have expressed interest so far.

Posted by: kallisto at May 15, 2025 10:54 AM (Gp8EK)

285 Morning monkey has arrived.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 15, 2025 10:54 AM (2UnvF)

286 G'morn, y'all.

Not sure what I'm looking at in this "art" work, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it in a First World Problems thread!

Posted by: mindful webworker - electrical junction box? at May 15, 2025 10:54 AM (0Es1u)

287 I'm a fan of the Ashcan School. This one belongs in an ashcan-period.

Posted by: Waste Management, Inc. at May 15, 2025 10:57 AM (G5+As)

288 221 Foot Locker shares erupted in premarket trading Thursday after The Wall Street Journal reported that Dick's Sporting Goods has agreed to acquire the struggling sneaker retailer for $2.4 billion.
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A dick move?

Dick Locker?

Posted by: Ciampino - put the lime in the coconut at May 15, 2025 10:57 AM (sPQoU)

289 I didn't know it was a secret.

CNN Panelists Lose Their Minds After Kevin O’Leary Calls Kamala Harris a “Loser”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now For a Limited Time Only! at May 15, 2025 10:57 AM (L/fGl)

290 auto correct doesn't know what word you meant to type

it only knows the word closest to the word you typed
proofreading before posting is your friend

Posted by: Don Black at May 15, 2025 10:58 AM (AOsQT)

291
Sorry, Bif. Mispost. That was for Pudinhead.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke

I was all 'what'd I do?'.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at May 15, 2025 11:00 AM (MsrgL)

292 Dick Locker?
Posted by: Ciampino - put the lime in the coconut at May 15, 2025 10:57 AM (sPQoU)

That is one fetish I will never understand.

Posted by: ... at May 15, 2025 11:00 AM (af7+R)

293 I've seen better art hanging in cheap motels.

I wasn't looking at the art.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 15, 2025 10:43 AM (QXOBW)

Another in a string of tawdry, third-rate romances, low-rent rendezvous?

https://youtu.be/a1KtIJq5s4g

Posted by: Sammy Kershaw via Amazing Rhythm Aces at May 15, 2025 11:00 AM (Aqu9a)

294 OK I have determined my impression of the art

it looks like some sort of cocktail in a glass with no stem, viewed thru a window in the rain

Posted by: Don Black at May 15, 2025 11:00 AM (AOsQT)

295 Actually I think SwiftKey (unfortunately acquired by Microsoft) uses the context of what you are writing to autocorrect you. It's the least bad version of autocorrect I've encountered.

Posted by: ... at May 15, 2025 11:01 AM (af7+R)

296 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2025 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)

297 Foot Locker shares erupted in premarket trading Thursday after The Wall Street Journal reported that Dick's Sporting Goods has agreed to acquire the struggling sneaker retailer for $2.4 billion.

Really? That means I won't be shopping at Foot Locker ever again as well.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2025 11:02 AM (Zz0t1)

298 Looks like something you would see in a car body shop.
Posted by: Pudinhead

I knew I recognized it! From the Just Rolled In videos!

Posted by: mindful webworker - should have got the undercoating at May 15, 2025 11:08 AM (0Es1u)

299 I've seen stick figures drawn better.

Posted by: Ghost of the Tsar at May 15, 2025 11:17 AM (dweVS)

300 Tapeworms in Intestines by Iam Hip

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 15, 2025 11:26 AM (NFX2v)

301 I've pulled rotten placentas out of mares that looked exactly like that.

Posted by: El Borak at May 15, 2025 11:42 AM (BSNnK)

302 Title: Helen's Retainer from Seventh Grade Found Under a Rusty 12 Inch Adjustable Wrench in the Third Drawer of the Old Dresser Out in the Garage.

Posted by: Minuteman at May 15, 2025 11:52 AM (47/pr)

303 It's something that the Ferengi would try to dish to the Pacleds.

Posted by: Ries Gorthanes at May 15, 2025 12:13 PM (TaWok)

304 The "no dog, not art" rule definitely applies to this pile of poo.

Posted by: BonnieBlue at May 15, 2025 12:26 PM (ly05Q)

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