More hair-pulling and retinal damage

Stooges found in a Manly Shed. That's Manly, Australia:

There was great rejoicing, according to Film historian Paul Brennan:

Only five million? Of course, that's the hardcore Stooge-fan contingent.

I really don't want to google "hardcore Stooge fan," so I'll leave the definition up in the air. There are probably many more casual Stooge fans, although a lot of people say they're Stooge fans because they remember the eye-pokes and Curly saying "woo-woo-woo." When I was a kid I never liked the Stooges. They seemed unhappy, stupid, and mean to each other.

I know, I know, minority opinion. I'm sure they were really an anarchic protest against the economic deprivations of the 30s, in the meta-critical sense. Speaking of which:

ART Three hits:

1. The Brits are sniffing at an exhibition of Australian art. There's a stunner. Well, sniffing isn't the right word, if you believe the URL.

The article says Malevich provided "the most enraging examples of I-don't-get-art for generations of Philistines to come." Oh, I get it. The first few times you reduce painting down to a simple shape and two colors, well, yes, that's different. In context it's revolutionary. It's also a dead end. Take, for example, Red Square: Painterly Realism of a Peasant Woman in Two Dimensions. Ready for some painterly realism of a woman? Go. It's totally different than the black square series. It's red! Brilliant!

3. I like Malevich's Suprematist work, but he wasn't any Norman Rockwell. "I'll say," the Rockwell haters say. "Thank heavens for that."

Really? It's okay to enjoy Rockwell. Not even ironically. The Smithsonian mag says:

And that's okay. Really, it is. Commercial art is where the visual traditions of Western Civ went to hide when abstraction took over, just as movie soundtracks were the refuge of the Classical tradition after the rise of atonalism. In both cases the products were mostly inferior to the work of the great masters, but there are pleasures to be found in a good score and a fine piece of illustration. There are Jell-O ads that almost look like Gaugin. If Gaugin could have drawn glistening translucent hoof-powder dessert.

INTERNET CHANGED Oh no, the Internet is over. Daily Dot:

Says someone in the comments:

Remarks like that certainly help identify who spends too much time online, don't they? Yes, that's the future. Bitcoin. People who want to see cat videos will set aside some time to mine some Bitcoins so they can enjoy the internet without a six-second pre-roll. I wonder what the exchange rate will be for Flooz.

In the meantime, who wants to be Blinkwashed? Taxi says:

No. This: no.