Broadway Mural Vandalized

You won’t be seeing this on Broadway. Several months ago, Sound Transit commissioned the Friends of the Nib (a small art gang I belong to) to decorate a boarded-up building on Broadway. We scribbled and painted furiously to beautify a decommissioned Jack in the Box on the corner of Broadway and Denny. The artwork was [...]

The Art Gallery

“The Art Gallery” is a wonderful MGM cartoon from 1939 by the American animator and cartoonist, Frederick Bean “Tex” Avery (1908-1980). Tex Avery was a maverick who bristled at the “cartoon realism” that was popularized by the Disney Studios. He created an elastic world that followed no known laws of physics or gravity, and he [...]